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	Noel Kenny   The Irish Times - Saturday, January 28, 2012 Dubliners a capital group now 50 years RONAN McGREEVY THE DUBLINERS chose the setting of their native city’s premier cathedral to celebrate their 50th anniversary last night. The first of two shows at Christ Church Cathedral, which conclude tonight, was an occasion for celebration and reminiscences for this most storied of Irish folk bands. It is a short distance as the crow flies from O’Donoghue’s in Merrion Row where the band first got together in 1962, but, as they reflected in the two sold-out shows, they have come a long way. Their concerts are the hottest tickets of this year’s Temple Bar Tradfest with fans coming from as far away as Australia for the event. One American fan walked forlornly up and down the queue looking for a spare ticket only to be told by four German tourists they had come from Berlin and hadn’t any to give. Of the six members of the band, only Barney Mac Kenna remains from the original incarnation. As he told the audience he was old enough to remember when music was everything and there was no distractions such as “Space Invaders and things like that”. Singers Luke Kelly, Ciarán Bourke and Ronnie Drew have died in the meantime. The Dublin Minstrel was dedicated to Kelly, who died in 1984. The Dubliners were joined on stage last night by the Dublin Gospel Choir for several songs including a rousing version of Dublin in the Rare Auld Times. Tonight it will be the turn of singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke. Now in its seventh year, Tradfest concludes tomorrow night. 02.02.2012 - 11:02      Celtic.Dave   The Dubliners will be given 'Lifetime achievement award' at this year's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The award will be presented at the Lowry in Manchester on February 8th where they will perform, and the award show will be live on the BBC. Presented by Mike Harding and Julie Fowlis the awards show takes place at The Lowry Theatre, Salford on Wednesday 8 February at 7.15pm and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2, online at bbc.co.uk/radio2, and on the BBC's Red Button Service. The ceremony, which includes performances by The Dubliners, Christy Moore, Don McLean and Seth Lakeman, will celebrate the folk highlights of the last 12 months, including awards for Best album, group, musician, live act and Folk singer of the year. There will also be lifetime achievement presentations plus the announcement of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk award winner. 02.02.2012 - 09:52      Celtic.Dave   Big stone* 02.02.2012 - 09:48      Celtic.Dave   It would need to be a stone 02.02.2012 - 09:48      Noel Kenny   Hi Christine. Hope you're well. Mike. How about inscribing "Yeah Yeah Yeah" on the stone? 01.02.2012 - 23:38      Christine   Apparently "Mr MacGowan ... has his song 'Yeah Yeah Yeah' being played in the break at Lucas Oil Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday", according to the Boogaloo news. That would add to the fun, I imagine, for our American friends! Those who watch, let us know. x 01.02.2012 - 22:34      michael whitty eidstone@datawave.net.au   Noel, I'm trying to think something with my stone for Shane at Byron Bay. Have you any ideas? 28.01.2012 - 08:37      Peter   Davey posted about Gerry Diver's speech project a while back - there's now an atmospheric video with Shane's interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwkkqwJQ_T8 26.01.2012 - 17:58      Celtic.Dave   The Popes return with their new album 'New Church' in March 2012 – the follow up to 2009’2 critically acclaimed 'Outlaw Heaven'. 'New Church' is the band’s fourth album and has been described as their strongest album to date - from punked up blitzkreig of opener 'Storming Heaven' to the rousing Celtic tones of 'How Many Bullets', from the feelgood anthem that is 'Alice' to the Bond theme-esque vibe of the brooding 'In A Broken Dream'. The album also features as stunning guest slot from Howard Marks on 'Throw Down Your Aces'. The album was produced by The Popes. The band are an established live draw. March 2012 will see them on a full UK tour as main support to The Stranglers. With festivals and further dates to follow later in the year. Shane MacGowan formed The Popes to record his album 'The Snake' in 1994 after leaving The Pogues. The band released two studio albums and a live album with Shane but have gone onto record a further three albums with Paul (Mad Dog) McGuiness taking charge of lead vocals. The current line up of The Popes are Paul (Mad Dog) McGuinness - Guitar and Vocals, Charlie Hoskyns - Guitars and Backing Vocals, Will Morrison - Drums and Backing Vocals, Dave Allen – Fiddle and Backing Vocals, Jim McAllister – Bass and Backing Vocals and Whiskey Mick – Mandolin and Backing Vocals. The Popes embark on a full UK dates with The Stranglers in March. The Stranglers UK Live Dates are as follows: Mar 1st - Leeds O2 Academy Mar 2nd - Dunfermline Alhambr Mar 3rd - Glasgow O2 Academy Mar 5th - Liverpool O2 Academy Mar 6th - Nottingham Rock City Mar 8th - Cambridge Corn Exchang Mar 9th - London Roundhouse Mar 10th - Birmingham O2 Academy Mar 11th - Exeter Phoenix (The Popes Headline Show) Mar 12th - Oxford O2 Academy Mar 13th - Portsmouth Pyramid Mar 14th - Bedford Esquires (The Popes Headline Show) Mar 16th - Brighton Dome Mar 17th - Bristol O2 Academy Mar 19th - Leamington Spa Assembly Mar 20th - Guildford G Live Mar 21st - York The Duchess (The Popes Headline Show) Mar 22nd - Newcastle O2 Academy Mar 23rd - Sheffield O2 Academy Mar 24th - Manchester Academy 26.01.2012 - 13:30      plain_jane   It's been a while since I've visited this site, however, I feel it's time to come on and say hello. I keep meaning to buy Bob's book and haven't got around to it. But I'm seeing a lot of good feedback on it so I'll have te get it. I find it hard to talk about Shane knowing that seeing him play live anywhere soon is not in my future. Kind of a bummer to even visit the topic really. It's like window shopping in shops I can't afford! Things are good here in Fl. Weather is fantastic, work is good, family is healthy, and beach season is just around the corner. My boy Thomas says he's not into the Pogues music anymore, but the other day I caught him singing 'Poor Paddy' while doing his homework. Also when I flick through the songs on my iPod in the car, he always stops me on certain Pogues songs and says "leave that on". Well St Patrick's Day coming up soon, no doubt that will cause some stirrings! I'll be off for a week, but of course, I'll be thinking of last year when I was in fucking NYC for the Pogues! Where in fact, I was lucky enough to meet Bob the author and his lovey wife. And some other Shane fans...from over on the Medusa forum, who have in fact become nice internet friends of mine. Carmen, New Jersey Rich, Pro37. We even got to meet James Fernley. But I posted all that before... Bye for now...I'll be back soon.... 25.01.2012 - 21:56      plain_jane   Whasssuppp?????? 25.01.2012 - 21:49      Noel Kenny   8th of April, Michael. 25.01.2012 - 10:56      michael whitty   Hi Noel, this is Mike Whitty in Australia. Do you know of the Pogues will still be at Byron Bay at Easter? 25.01.2012 - 10:40      Noel Kenny   http://ukulelehunt.com/2008/03/13/the-dubliners-and-the-pogues-the-irish-rover/ As well as his song writing, Shane MacGowan is to be commended for taking traditional music from the British Isles and making it exciting again. I love English folk music, but I do wish there was someone around who could inject this sort of excitement into it. MacGowan often cites The Dubliners as one of his biggest inspirations. You can tell he’s really enjoying performing this traditional Irish song with them. At the start of the song he has a fag in one hand and drink in the other, but by the end of the song he’s copying Ronnie Drew’s hands-in-pockets stance. It’s so cute, like watching a five year old boy and his dad. One thing to note in this tune is that the chord progressions are slightly different for the verses sung by Ronnie Drew and those sung by Shane MacGowan. The difference occurs in the last line of the verse. In MacGowan’s verses, there is a G followed by a quick D then G on ‘Rover’. In Drew’s verses, the chords go straight to D and holds it until the G at the end of the line. The instrumental verses also mix it up. The first instrumental verse follows the MacGowan chords and the second Drew’s. Make sure you change the line, “There was awl Mickey Coote who played hard on his flute,” to, “There was awl Mickey Coote who played hard on his uke.” http://ukulelehunt.com/tag/the-pogues/ 16.01.2012 - 23:40      Celtic.Dave   Michael Mcintyre & Pixie Lott doing FONY......... still not as bad as Keatings... www.firstpost.com/topic/person/michael-mcintyre-michael-mcintyres-take-on-shane-m acgowan-on-the-christmas-c-video-pADtvrYQeKE-40569-2.html 12.01.2012 - 18:58      conor   thank fuck for stewart lee 10.01.2012 - 15:30      Bob Mamrak bmamrak@yahoo.com   Peter...I'm glad you like the book. Thanks for the kind words. Please email when you gert a chance. I've got a question. Thanks, Bob 09.01.2012 - 18:34      Peter   Stewart Lee in today's Observer: You scumbags, you maggots… leave that sacred Pogues song alone Santa's on coke, Sherlock's sexed-up and Helena Bonham Carter is newly honoured, but some seasonal institutions should remain beyond parody ''My generation has lived through the emergence of a tradition. Nearly three decades ago the Pogues' banjo player Jem Finer came up with a lyric about a sailor returning home. His partner, the performance artist Marcia Farquhar, hated it and suggested a story based on the couple over the road, whose Christmases always followed the same cycle of angry recrimination and drunken redemption. Vocalist Shane MacGowan eventually relocated the story to New York, city of emigrants' dreams, giving the lyrics' mix of black despair and romantic resilience a global resonance. A quarter-century since its completion, the now seasonal standard "Fairytale of New York" recently endured a curious mixture of homage and parody on another seasonal standard, Michael McIntyre's Christmas Comedy Roadshow. The host and his writers entertained the notion that the song's lyrics were unintelligible. The crowd was encouraged to karaoke them as best they could over the top of MacGowan's vocal, in which he is in character as an incoherent, incarcerated drunk. The tragic opening image of an old dying man singing an Irish folk song was guffawed through and an inappropriate celebrity cutaway showed Carol Vorderman singing the supposedly incomprehensible lyrics word perfect, suggesting the editor had some secret wish to undermine the piece. Already I was slack-jawed, thinking: "What are they going to do with Kirsty MacColl's vocal?" MacColl, part of the genetic fabric of folk, and an essential element of the song's appeal, died in a boating accident 11 years ago and it might seem rather tasteless to encourage a mass slur through her contribution. Instead, the backing track snapped into an instrumental, a young singer in hot pants came on, a troupe of stunned Irish dancers hoofed along and a cutaway to a happy Irish Eamonn Holmes reassured everyone this wasn't offensive. On some level, the sequence was sincerely meant and 34 years since the last edition of The Black and White Minstrel Christmas Show, it's good to see racially stereotyped dancing back where it belongs, at the centre of the seasonal schedules. But the song survives. As well as playing in the Pogues, Jem Finer is a conceptual artist. Much of his work seems concerned with music and notions of endurance. Water began dripping sonorously into the woodland pit of his Score for a Hole in the Ground six years ago and Longplayer is currently 12 years into its 1,000-year cycle of musical drones in an east London lighthouse. But Finer's pieces' attempts at immortality remain necessarily speculative. In pop terms, "Fairytale of New York" is already eternal, a secular carol with a spiritual resonance, an impregnable slice of dirty realist redemption that's now beyond both parody and its creators' control. Strangely, it's something to believe in. Take my baubles, take my pies, take my Christmas carols, and my Christmas Doctor Who, but I'll only give you my 7in of "Fairytale of New York" when you prise it from my cold dead hands.'' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/08/stewart-lee-christmas-traditions -pogues 08.01.2012 - 23:45      Noel Kenny   BBC 4 TV Sunday 22.00. the Great American Songbook Presenting the best and most eclectic performances on the BBC from the world's best known artists giving their interpretations of classic tracks from The Great American Songbook - the music and popular songs of the famous and prolific American composers of the 1920s and onwards. Composers such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Hoagy Carmichael. Dame Shirley Bassey performs The Lady is a Tramp from 1966; Bryan Ferry sings Smoke Gets in Your Eyes from 1974; Captain Sensible's 1982 Top of the Pops appearance with his number 1 hit version of Happy Talk; Kirsty MacColl sings Miss Otis Regrets in 1994; Jamie Cullum performs his version of I Get a Kick Out Of You on Parkinson in 2004; and Florence Welch performs My Baby Just Cares for Me with Jools Holland from 2009. 08.01.2012 - 22:53      Ingrid (Admin Team) ingrid.knetsch@gmx.de   Hi Peter I've got a question. Could you pleas email me? 08.01.2012 - 09:13   1-21 | 2893 entries
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