Irish music

[DubbelDach]

and many just claim they do...

The only Irish in me is my liver. Cheers!

 

[android]

i dig irish music, particularly a band named Solas... they are f-ing awesome. 'Solas' and 'Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers' when Karan Casey was the lead singer just rule... Her voice on some of those tunes and the instrumental wizardry of john doyle and seamus egan are almost too much to handle...

 

[Orfy]

Norn.

I'm British. I have a friend who lives in Banbridge who I visit from time to time. He lives in the country in the farming area.
I don't like to debate the situation in public or private with people I don't know. It tends to cause fights and lose friends. That's why I stick to beer and Music. I've spent many a fine time with the friendly people of Ireland.
I learnt not to talk politics or football along time ago. If I don't ask someone's opinion I don't have to fall out with them.
I've been pissed (drunk) with all sorts of people from all over Ireland and have fond memories.
:rockin:

The Blue grass festival was aesome. I want to go back next year.

 

[android]

orfy, who played at the bluegrass festival? any bands from our side o' the pond?

 

[Orfy]

Yes and I can't remember....

This is this years lin up.

http://www.bluegrassomagh.com/music_2.php

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, USA Dan Paisley & Southern Grass, USA Jerry & Tammy Sullivan, USA Big Medicine, USA Aubrey Ghent Band, USA Jeff & Vida Band, USA Janet Holmes & Friends, Northern Ireland Jack Lawrence & Tony Williamson, USA Hungry Hill, Canada Paperboys, Canada G2 Bluegrass Band, Sweden Blue Grass Boogiemen, The Netherlands Jiri Kralik & The Rowdy Rascals, Czech Republic Papa Truck, England Woodbine, Ireland Rough Deal String Band, Ireland Broken String Band, Northern Ireland Northern Exposure, Northern Ireland

It was amazing for allsorts of reasons. I made some good friends there and have some stories to tell. One involves a MR Beer, an HGV and a security guard.
it was held at this place.


Ulster American Folkpark : Homepage : Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland which added to the experience.

http://www.bluegrassomagh.com/
It was after a great time in Ireland north and south the night before I had to bein Belfast for the ferry home.

Liverpool to Belfast. Two great cities.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I've been pissed with all sorts of people from all over Ireland and have fond memories.
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For extra clarity (Although most here will know) Orfy means drunk (pissed) with all sorts of people. He was not annoyed at them.

 

[android]

Orfy, I used to play in a bluegrass band when I lived in Colorado... I got the chance to meet Danny Paisley and the members of the Southern Grass a few times, they are one of my all-time favorite groups of people and bands... I have their CD in my truck right now...

Michael Cleveland is another phenomenon... glad you got to see them!

 

[menschmaschine]

I was into Irish music for a while. Really got into Clannad for some reason. Maire Brennan's voice is eerily beautiful.

Also, I've always been fascinated by the sound of the uillean pipes... the kind they play in all the films about Scotland because they sound better than Scottish bagpipes.

This is my favorite uillean piece. Davy Spillane can make those things cry.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSjmvU_8xLY]YouTube - Davy Spillane Caoineadh Cu Chulainn Uilleann Pipes Riverdance The Show Dublin 1995 (((Stereo)))[/ame]

 

[APendejo]

Old school, I would go with Horselips and Rory Gallagher.
AP

 

[Shwagger]

Alls I know is that I cannot effing stand Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys. Like I said in that other thread, it's like a cross between real Irish music, Kid Rock and Chumbawumba. Garbage pop crap to cater to drunk-ass college kids. (again, no offense )

hehe, I guess you've never been to a Flogging Molly show?

It's not all drunk college kids, it's a lot of drunk old guys too. They are fun to see at a FM show lol. And the band members are nice dudes to hang out with after the shows. Of course, they are drinking quite a bit, ironically(or not), Guinness. And only the lead singer is from Ireland, and maybe his wife (the fiddle and flute player)

But DKM's are in-your-face street punk, but i consider them, Street Dogs, etc, Boston punk more than Irish music.

Back on topic, there was a group that played at the Nine Fine Irishmen in Las Vegas for some time that was really good. They had a girl dancing on the stage. Their name wasn't in English, so I couldnt tell you what it was even if I knew. At any rate, if you like Irish drinking music, check them out.

Slainte

 

[barroomhero1234]

I'll respectfully disagree with the Flogging Molly comments... I've seen them live four or five times and it's some of the best shows I've ever been too. Dropkick Murphy's??? Yeah, I'll pass on them but I like Floggin Molly a lot.. i don't see The Pogues as a "college crowd" band even remotely and Flogging Molly is almost a carbon copy of the Pogues.

Hey Evan, I don't mean this in some pissy way... but what do you consider "real irish music"?

I really don't see how flogging molly is a carbon copy of The Pogues, i would say the tossers are much closer to the pogues but flogging is very far from the pogues.

and the street dogs irish? they are a boston punk rock band how are they irish music?

 

[brrman]

Great Big Sea FTW for the Newfies. Put on a hell of a show.

hell ya! I saw them last year in Indy and the show was awesome (I am a Newfie, by the way)...

 

[Shwagger]

And when you are making your Scotland Ales, or Nova Scotia Ales (??), you can plug in some Real McKenzies

 

[Cape Brewing]

I really don't see how flogging molly is a carbon copy of The Pogues, i would say the tossers are much closer to the pogues but flogging is very far from the pogues.

and the street dogs irish? they are a boston punk rock band how are they irish music?

No I guess you're right... I don't what I was thinking. I kept getting hung up on the fact that they all use the exact same instruments, a mix a "traditional" (tin whistles, fiddles, mandolins, etc) and modern to play "irish sounding" punk. But I guess you're right, they do use different words for lyrics. They're worlds apart.

Put "Turkish Song of the Damned" on sometime and then pop in "Another Bag of Bricks" and explain to me how they're not incredibly similar.

And who said anything about the Street Dogs being irish music?? Although they are cut from the same cloth as DKM. The Street Dogs were started by an ex-DKM member. But you're right, I don't see DKM OR Street Dogs as "irish" music. They're Boston punk... and since Boston has a huge Irish population and culture, they tend to somehow get lumped into that.

 

[Ryan_PA]

I made mention of Street Dogs. The only reason they were on my mind at the time of posting is because they usually play the Shamrock Fest in DC with a lineup of Irish bands, usually including Flogging Molly. I would agree they are not Irish, that is why I had put "Irish" in quotes in the original post.

 

[srm775]

I love Dropkick, Flogging, and the Tossers. I like each of them for different elements.

I like Dropkick for their punk focus. I like their Irish influenced songs and I love their straight street punk songs. They put on a great show that usually has a pretty good mix of people (including a surpising number of older people). I've seen them 4 times in the past ten years and have never walked out of the show wishing they had more stage presence or crowd involvement.

I like the Murphy's too. I don't think they make any great claims to "Irish Music" but rather fuse irish music and punk. I think now, they are more "Boston Irish" rather than pure Irish. Also, they're very strongly rooted in workingman/union causes.

I recently got into the Tossers and they are far more traditional than the other two. They are very talented and make a great background for brewing. My favorite of theirs is "Whiskey makes me crazy". That's a winner in my books.

The Tossers are similar to the Murphy's also. They have a lot of punk and irish influences. Where they're from is a big influence too. A lot of the songs have a Chicago south-side Irish feel to them. One of my favorite Irish punk bands.

 

[Orfy]

I don't want to lock it.

I've tried to clean up the thread and deleted later the comments and request/warnings that are OT. I believe all involved have seen and replied to the relevant posts.

Any more at all and it will be locked. I said above that people bicker and argue about any controversial issues. Start a new thread in the appropriate forum if wish to debate things other than music.

Please don't prove me wrong in not locking it.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Er, well, I still like the Pogues!!

 

[Orfy]

They are good when drunk.

 

[flyangler18]

Just remembered another fantastic band that hail from the Emerald Isle. Saw them when I was in college, forgot all about them until this thread.

Dervish, here performing an old Dylan tune:

[youtube]KNFRvQrvLtM[/youtube]

And a series of reels called John Blessings:
[youtube]h5wQAJNdqic[/youtube]

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

They are good when drunk.

Good when drunk? Hey!! "Fairytale of New York' is the go to Christmas song in the Gnome household!

Shame about that frickin Mexican speedboat and what it did to Kirsty though.

 

[z987k]

The Dubliners. Christy Moore and Planxty. Bill Craig. Penny Whiskey( not very traditional but really good.

I met bill craig in Florida in an Irish brewbup names Murphy's. Very cool bar, very cool guy.

You know he was in boondock saints?

 

[Pronay]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEC0V7-5FJM]YouTube - Celtic song - yew tree[/ame]

 

[BlackDogBrewing]

I've been a big fan of Solas ever since I saw Seamus Egan at the Banjo Summit a few years back in State College (Penn State) PA.

 

[Orfy]

Kíla

On Tour

High voltage heroes of contemporary Irish music, Kíla formed in Dublin in 1987, originally comprised of vocalist/bodhrán player Rónán Ó Snodaigh, his multi-instrumentalist brother Rossa, and uileann piper Eoin Dillon. … (read more)

 

[DubbelDach]

Whoever threw the Tossers out here in this thread... THANK YOU!!! Downloaded 6 albums... Halfway through right now.

This Friday morning's brew day will be brought to me by the Tossers!!!

 

[uglygoat]

bump...

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and...

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[z987k]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwTOjPMkNw]YouTube - Kinky Boots - Bill Craig[/ame]
this guy is fun.

 

[GreenwoodRover]

Here's something we can all agree on. The worst Irish music band has to be the Saw Doctors. I used to really like them and listed to them oftern in college, but now they make me want to puke. It's just too sickly sweet and popish for my taste....

 

[uglygoat]

edit: i dig your reels flyangler!

saw docotors...lol, it's like bono mutated and started playing folk tunes...
up shane and the pogues!

[youtube]TaHMG_SvUkw[/youtube]

[youtube]-WFBC-PEnTI[/youtube]

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finally, cait is hawt!!!!

[youtube]FJt4y4fH938[/youtube]