 In August 2008, he appeared on the BBC Northern Ireland television show "Sesame Tree" with his band, having also written the theme music for the show.Later in 2008, he won the Meteor Music Award for Best Irish Male.In 2009, he played on the O2 stage at Oxegen and between September and December 2009 appeared on stage at the Royal National Theatre in London as part of a new production of Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children, for which he wrote music for a number of songs.