What are you playing tonight?

[TANGODANCER]

Lovely place. Very hilly and very... Irish. What a dreadful thing to say, but I think you know what I mean! If you like trad folkie stuff, Julie Fowlis is another great Celtic songstress. She sings in Gaelic as well, which doesn't do much for singing along to, but great to listen to!

Not really Mof, mainly those outside of it that thinks so. I've done the whole gamut of Irish music over the years from Josef Locke, The Clancy Brothers, Dubliners etc, through all the Ceili (various spellings) bands, Clannad,Chieftains, Pogues and Corries, Ballads jigs and reels. Love the lot especially the sort that makes me feet have a mind of their own. Used to go to a few places around Manchester at one time (The Boathouse and some place, big pub I'm buggered if I can remember where. I know you hadn't to get upset at the rebel songs in there, that's for sure)

As for being "very Irish", smell the peat fires and you won't get that anywhere else in the world. Won't get the smell out of your nostrils for weeks either. Tis a great and beautiful land indeed and its music is miraculous.

[mofgimmers]

Haha! I just felt I was in danger of promoting Oirishness! I'm glad you knew what I meant though!

Now, off to listen to some Clancy Brothers, Planxty, Tir Na Nog, Luke Kelly and more!

[Bruce Rioja]

I can'y believe that he missed off Stiff Little Fingers!

[TANGODANCER]

I can'y believe that he missed off Stiff Little Fingers!

Well, I did have a wee peek Bruce, "Barbed Wire Love" and "Alternative Ulster. Bit Frantic on the lyrics for my advancing years I think. Even the Pogues get thus so at times. Put it down to age.

Oh, and I bought a Christy Moore second-hand cassette a wee while back. Yep, I still have a cassatte player.

[warthog]

You're very welcome, Tango. She has a new album out: Hill of Thieves. It's unashamedly traditional Irish Folk and never once attempts to be pop.

She's also got a DVD out - The Redcastle Sessions. There are a few clips on Youtube.

I saw her at the Citadel in St Helens a couple of years ago (brilliant venue btw) and the performance was flawless. Had a chat with her afterward. She's a right nice lass too.

[TANGODANCER]

Hey, I just remembered (in the middle of my tea) another Irish band from a few years ago; Hothouse Flowers. Thought they were'nt bad at the time.

[mofgimmers]

And who could forget Mulligan and O'Hare?

[Worthy4England]

She's a right nice ass too.

Yes - she has

[TANGODANCER]

Can't have a session of Irish music without a rendering of one of my all-time favourites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8U568t1Bwc

Once heard Shane McGowan do this but can't find it anywhere. Twas amazingly appealing from the rough-assed one.

[mofgimmers]

Can't have a session of Irish music without a rendering of one of my all-time favourites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8U568t1Bwc

Once heard Shane McGowan do this but can't find it anywhere. Twas amazingly appealing from the rough-assed one.

Ah, a wonderful song! This is my fave version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcxYKsbhgdk

[Verbal]

Flight of The Conchords.

"How did my mate get a hottie like that to a party like this? Good one Dave.

ooh you're a legend Dave..."

My avatar says it all.

"It's the tape of love...the sticky stuff

[jimbo]

Flight of The Conchords.

"How did my mate get a hottie like that to a party like this? Good one Dave.

ooh you're a legend Dave..."

My avatar says it all.

"It's the tape of love...the sticky stuff

"You're so beautiful, like a tree....... or a high class prostitute."

"And you know when I'm just down to my socks what time it is. It's business time."

Genius

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

She sings in Gaelic as well, which doesn't do much for singing along to

Wassup with a Celtic-language singalong, Mof?

Altogether now:

Ac rwy’n gorwedd yn dy haul
Ofn dianc oddi wrth fy hun
Hedfanwn yn dy haul
Yn drist am bechod un...

We've gone in for a Celtic-language competition against with Grisial Clir, thankfully that one just means givin' it "Novioh un-uh-door" a couple of times and belting out a Byrds riff....

[mofgimmers]

She sings in Gaelic as well, which doesn't do much for singing along to

Wassup with a Celtic-language singalong, Mof?

Nowt... if you can do it. I struggle with the Mwng LP enough, let alone leaning Irish Celtic, Cornish Celtic and Scots Celtic as well!

Heulog oedd ein oariad ni, Heulog tan ddaeth glaw yn lliff, Ysbeidiau heulog!

[Bruce Rioja]

Don't come round here boasting your knowledge of train stations!

[TANGODANCER]

Don't come round here boasting your knowledge of train stations!

[Prufrock]

Flight of The Conchords.

"How did my mate get a hottie like that to a party like this? Good one Dave.

ooh you're a legend Dave..."

My avatar says it all.

"It's the tape of love...the sticky stuff

"You're so beautiful, like a tree....... or a high class prostitute."

"And you know when I'm just down to my socks what time it is. It's business time."

Genius

"Hey there Bret, I see you looking down.
Don't want to see my little buddy there with a frown.
Just because I get more women than you, well that's only because they don't know you like I do.
Sure, you're weedy and kind of shy.
But some girlie out there must be needy for a weedy, shy guy.
They want you as the needle when they're rolling in the hay.
Just hear me out when I say...

Bret, you got it going on.
The ladies will get to know your sexuality when they get to know your personality.
I said, Bret, you got it going on.
Not in a gay way, just in a "hey mate, I wanted to say that you're looking okay, mate."
Why can't a heterosexual guy,
Tell a heterosexual guy that he thinks his booty is fly.
Not all the time, obviously, just when he's got a problem with his self esteem.
Don't let anybody tell you you're not humpable.
Because you're bumpable.
Well, I hope this doesn't make you feel uncomfortable.
If I say you've got a boom ow-ow.
Come on Bret, help me out now.

Bret, you got it going on.
(I got it going on!)
That's the conclusion that I've come to.
But that doesn't mean that I want to bum you.
Bret, you got it going on.
(Got it going on...)
No doubt about it, we'd be gettin crazy.
If one of us was lucky enough to be born a lady.

If one of us was a lady, and I was your man, if I was your man.
Well, sometimes it gets lonely, and I need a woman.
And then I imagine you with some bosoms.
In fact, one time when we were touring and I was really lonely.
And we were sharing that twin room in the hotel.
I put a wig on you, when you were sleeping, I put a wig on you.
Oh, ohhh, oooooh, oh, and I just laid there and spooned you.

Bret, you got it going on.

Jemaine: So, hopefully that made you feel better...
Bret: Can I please have a look at the lyrics?"

There's all of that, all of Albi the racist Dragon, Murray's brilliant 'go fack yourself, Bret', all of MuthaUckers. Few of the many reasons i love those New Zealandy bastards.

[Verbal]

Those lyrics are a bit gay, Jermaine.

How can singing about dressing up somebody as a woman be gay? I think you're looking for things there, Bret.

[mofgimmers]

Don't come round here boasting your knowledge of train stations!

Very good!

It's actually about the weather!

[Prufrock]

'I'ma juice the MotherUcka'
'He's gonna wake up in a smoothie'
'I'll pop an apple in his ass yeah'

All brilliant. I also love how this thread has turned into two simultaneous conversations, one about Irish folk music, and one about New Zealand folk music, specifically "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo"