Fretless / harp guitarist Tim Donahue (Madmen & Sinners) has checked in with the following announcement:

"For friends in the Tokyo / Shizuoka area of Japan: at 6:00pm on Saturday June 13th, I'll be on fretless guitar with my band Noise Machine (Shigeru Nimura on bass and Akira Yamazaki on drums) at Rakujuen in Mishima-Shi. We'll be playing tracks from the Madmen & Sinners and Voices In The Wind albums as well as some new music written just for this night. Come rock the flies with us! (fireflies that is...)."

Donahue released his self-titled Madmen & Sinners debut in 2004 featuring Dream Theater vocalist James LaBrie. He recently spoke with BraveWords scribe Carl Begai about the record and the album that could have followed:

“I love the heaviness of the tunes. There are a lot of heavy bands out there and I’m certainly not the heaviest guitarist, but the songs and the actual writing, I think that’s why the music hits you in the heart even though some of the songs are really heavy.”
“You should hear the stuff I wrote after that,” he continues. “I could have released the second album through EMI but the harp guitar kind of called me and took me away. There is a second Madmen album written and I like it better than the first one. I love the first album; I don’t like the way the recording sounds but I love the music. The second album is deeper but… maybe in another life.”

LaBrie’s participation on a second Madmen & Sinners album was never written in stone, but there is unreleased material with his vocals on them. Four tracks to be exact, albeit incomplete.

“I have these extra tracks with James singing on them,” Donahue confirms. “He really wanted to do them and I said that if we had enough time after we finished the first album, we would. We were in the studio and he really pushed to do those other four tracks.”

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