http://static.flickr.com/80/234383105_ae3fa10b7c_o.jpg
They didn't like my camera.
Irish trad's better than Scottish. There's a bald statement I won't be single defense for...
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I only said it to get a response. I posted my Pogues diss as a means of expressing my displeasure at my initial (well, initial recent) Pogues experience, and knew that I'd get a right load of people suggesting new and enhanced ways of 'getting' them. Please, don't take it personally. The fact that I chose this thread was purely due to the coincidental fact that I found it now, just after that experience. I do not and never will mean to propose that the Pogues are amongst the worst groups from Ireland.
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Brendan Shine against ...oh fuck it whoever he's up against is gonna win, eh?Oh wait Daniel O'Donnell. Brendan wins by KO.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah well done, Daniel O'Donnell's album Blue Jeans, my personal soundtrack to hell.
Brendan Shine, Foster & Allen... you're making me cry...
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― lexurian (lexurian), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Now booking 10th anniversary Aon Focal Eile Tour15th March to 15th August 2006
http://www.richiekavanagh.ie/Sleeves/Aonfocal150.jpg
RICHIE KAVANAGH! Thread is OVER!
Top 30 Singles
Title: AON FOCAL EILE
Artist: RICHIE KAVANAGH
Label:FOCAL RECORDS
Date of entry: 07.03.1996
Highest Placement: no 1 for 7 weeks
Weeks in the Charts: 27
Year: 1996
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Listen to and watch the Chicken Talk video. And weep.
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway Brendan Shine, Foster & Allen... you're making me cry...
My dad has all that shite. Though I havent heard him play it in a long time(apart from Foster & Allen, he does buy them) But in the 80s my 2 grans loved it too. So it was inescapable. None of them had irish blood though. My mums dad was from NI and she was the one who didnt like it much hehe. Tho i think she did like brendan shine. At least his songs had some life in them. Daniel O ARGH.
I should go and look through their old lps for some horrible irish and scottish stuff. But I wont. Loads of irish folk compilations "as advertised on tv" and dodgy country and western. and of courses My mums fave, wales's own Shirley Bassey.
I will say one thing though. The Fureys version of "Green Fields Of France" is one of the best songs ever.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
And anyway, Ireland will have a hard time competing against The Proclaimers.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Christ.
Regarding the debate: B*withched, Boyzone, Westlife, Louis Walsh in General, The Thrills, The Frames, our attempts at hip hop in general, U2, Snow Patrol, The Revs, that gobshite who did the Maniac on the dancefloor remix etc etc etc. I'm sorry, so very sorry.
That said: Belle and Sebastian. Not much to redress the balance but it's a start.
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
*checks thread for mentions of Associates and Cocteau Twins, finds none so adds them duly*
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.skysportsdvdshop.co.uk/catalog/images/GUDVD5719.jpg
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.paviliontheatre.co.uk/showHTML/shows_2006/images/sidneydevine.jpg
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Better check yourself foo'
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Gangsta Twee? The mind boggles...
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I thought Marcello likes those bands.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link
-- sonofstan (stanerraugh...), September 4th, 2006.
Of course I know!
― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I know I'm quoting myself, but can someone tell me why this should be so? For a city that prides itself on its faux celtic macho image, why is it a veritble production line of world-class blandosaurs. As soon as one fades another pops up, thus; (taking a random staring point) Deacon Blue begat Wet wet wet begat Texas begat Nutini etc etc. It's pure no fair by the way big man.
― lexurian (lexurian), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
(a) the bohemian dropout half who wanted to be Lou Reed - Orange Juice, Pastels, Mary Chain;(b) the upwardly mobile urban half who wanted to be Sinatra, hey lookit those skyscrapers! - Wets, Hue & Cry, Deacon.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesus wept.
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I was hoping the irish contingent were going to remind me of some classic irish music a la Brendan Shine and the like.The Fureys played Hamilton actually about 10 years ago. My mate and I were tempted to go hehe. My parents saw them in Glasgow a few years later but there seemed to have been some falling out and a few members weren't there. The only one i can remember the name of was Finbar.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
What about Luke Kelly?"Onnnnn Raahh GLAnn RO-UDD"
Afro Celt Sound System - Crusty Dance / Trad you can take drugs too
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
The Dubliners vs The ChieftansThe Corries vs Hamish Imlach.
Are you slagging these people off?
I like, or at least don't dislike, far too many bands mentioned here.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Worst excuse ever! Or were you tethered to him for a number of years or something?
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
And as for runrig, it was not possible to avoid them as he played them in the car constantly.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― whatever (boglogger), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s146402.jpg
dear god I couldn't even remember their name last night... ugh
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link