The intimate living room concert was recorded in front of about 30 friends. Featured on the album are violinist Lorcan Cosgrave, singer Clare Finglass and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist David Geraghty (appearing courtesy of Island Records). 

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Some reviews for "Wax & Seal", released in 2005... 

Tadhg Cooke's solo debut crisscrosses so many terrains that your musical compass may quiver with the sheer magnetic challenge of Wax & Seal. It's the sleight of hand in his wordplay that charms. A computational linguist, Cooke gets his kicks by applying a distinctly poetic sensibility to the music: placing the right words in the right order. George's St Arcade is the stuff of magical maudlin bedsitland; Sparks is drawn from the same word well as Arthur Riordan's Improbable Frequency. Eminently likeable, utterly enviable. **** - Review of Wax & Seal - The Irish Times, 18th March 2005

Cooke's voice immediately grabs you. Soft yet strong, it's got that Jeff Buckley quality to it that most vocalists crave. - HWCH Festival Review - Hot Press, 21/09/2005 

'One of the finest singer/songwriters in this country to not receive the plaudits that he deserves, Tadhg has something a little special about him. His ability to mould together sensitivity and elegance with his remarkably distinctive voice casts him high above similar artists. His album ‘Wax & Seal’ is a great example of just how good he is.' - CLUAS.com 

his highly assured debut album "Wax & Seal" sounds as far removed from the beardy brigade of po-faced strummers as Pablo Aimar's deft touches are from the journeymen footballers of, say, West Brom. Thankfully, it's also a refreshingly cliché-free zone. Take album standout "I Know You Hate Me", a post break-up song par excellence, where far from lamenting the loss of his one true love, our hero is rubbing her nose in the fact that he's moved on, with a chorus that most would-be troubadors would trade their broken hearts for: "I got a new love breaking me in / helps me forget about the way I've been". Unlike many songwriters, Cooke can do happy as well as melancholy: the joyous "Live What You Feel" wangles free from the stranglehold of earnestness to soar into seriously celebratory airspace. "Wax & Seal" is a confident, impressive debut. - "Wax & Seal" review - HotPress 

"Our favourite new singer/songwriter" Miriam O'Callaghan, RTE 1 

The problem with Irish singer-songwriters today is that many of them seem to have a vocabulary of about fifty words (four of them being 'my', 'girlfriend's', 'left' and 'me'). Tadhg Cooke is thankfully a little different. The young Meathman’s soft dreamy compositions are driven by lyrics that are consistently arresting and thought-provoking. And instead of being yet another dreary exercise in introspection, Wax & Seal is a vibrant album with a poetic sensibility and a keen eye for life’s absurdities. There’s more than enough fine songs on this impressive debut to suggest that he’s got a big future ahead of him. **** Album review - Andrew Lynch, Entertainment.ie