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Irish Night
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Message 1.Β
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
Hellpo,
As I sit here attempting to make sense of what may be the consequences of the rumoured Roxette reunion, my attention turns to even more pressing matters.
That is the Mayday bank holiday when I propose that we will have Irish Night - in short a celebration of bands and artistes from the island of Ireland.
As with our trips to Scotland, Wales and England there may be some grey areas but the main thing is to make it a show of varied and brilliant music. Which is where you come in.
So suggesions please for bands, artistes and particular songs to feature on said night.
Thanks as ever
gidx -
Message 2
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
Please start as many messages as you can with the greeting "Hellpo".
thanks -
Message 3
Posted by Valour Gull (U1637480) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red
I switched over to The One Show whilst Marc Riley went to the news, and there was Chris de Burgh singing 'Lady in Red' to a small chimp on his shoulder whilst Adrian Chiles took a photo.
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Message 4
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
It's no Missing You though is it? Not to mention High on Emotion. Or "Ferryman". Let alone "Spaceman".
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Message 5
Posted by Al McGregor (U2976807) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
Difficult to follow that Mr G, but I was about to suggest a bit of Damien Dempsey ("Negative Vibes") or David Holmes ("I heard wonders") for the Irish night. CdeB singing to a monkey, its a scary image!
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Message 6
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
johnny logan - what's another year
wee joke -
Message 7
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
Any chance of Terry Wogan's "Floral Dance"?
No? Good. -
Message 8
Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
Helpo
Another opportunity to roll out Whipping Boy's 'When We Were Young'. -
Message 9
Posted by tokyosteve (U13920099) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
The Marbles - slip into sound
Magic -
Message 10
Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Thursday, 16th April 2009
For one night only, how about resurrecting the great lost Irish album?
Shades of a Blue Orphanage - Thin Lizzy
and be the first radio DJ ever to play 'The Rise And Dear Demise Of The Funky Nomadic Tribes'. -
Message 11
Posted by Hairless Heart (U11603814) on Friday, 17th April 2009
tin lizzy - da boyz r bk in twn
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Message 12
Posted by mmmmmsandwich (U13921540) on Friday, 17th April 2009
Oh...
Si Schroeder - The Reluctant Aviator
Jape - I Was A Man
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Fight Like Apes - Recyclable Ass
LaFaro - Tuppeny Nudger
Bell X1 - I'll See You Heart
Gemma Hayes - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
Anything from The Frames, Cathy Davey, Super Extra Bonus Party, Cashier No.9, My Bloody Valentine, And So I Watch You From Afar, Rory Gallagher...
Aphex Twin is from Limerick, great new band called Villagers.... ok I'll stop now, just a few suggestions... -
Message 13
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Friday, 17th April 2009
Power of Dreams are in, i hope
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Message 14
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Friday, 17th April 2009
If it's Van Morrison, it's gotta be TB Sheets.
And another excuse to play Dr Strangely Strange. Surely. -
Message 15
Posted by manzanas (U13922104) on Saturday, 18th April 2009
Hello Gideon,
I would like to suggest the new single from Irish group Garrett Wall Band, "Is there no freedom?" currently picking up airplay in Spain and Ireland...check it out here, www.myspace.com/garrettwall
Other Irish groups/songs worth spinning would be Bell X1, Duke Special, Mundy or Colin Devlin (Raise the Dead is a great track). Other favs are Foy Vance, Luka Bloom...the list goes on!!!
Have a great show
Cheers -
Message 16
Posted by binky84c (U13898791) on Saturday, 18th April 2009
That Petrol Emotion - Keen
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Message 17
Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Sunday, 19th April 2009
Hang on, isn't Elvis Costello Irish?
If not, anything by Relish. -
Message 18
Posted by antoin2701 (U13924872) on Sunday, 19th April 2009
Great artist from Galway via NYC!!
www.myspace.com/forgetfulalien
Check him out!!! -
Message 19
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Monday, 20th April 2009
hellpo,
Cranberries. -
Message 20
Posted by miked_c (U13925297) on Monday, 20th April 2009
Hellpo,
There is a lot of great Irish music out there, but if I were putting a compilation together I think this lot would give a good taster:
A House - Take It Easy On Me
An Emotional Fish - Celebrate
Bell X1 - Flame
Cathal Coughlan - Three Rusty Reivers
Chequerboard - Indian Ink
Colm Quearney - Under The Stars
Compulsion - A Little Mistake
Connect Four Orchestra - Organ Donor Kebab
David Holmes - Rodney Yates
David Kitt - Sleep Comes Tomorrow
Grand Pocket Orchestra - Odd Socks
Jape - I Was A Man
John Hegarty - A Dancing Girl
Luka Bloom - Gone To Pablo
Mic Christopher - Heyday
Microdisney - Mrs Simpson
Mocrac - Waldorf
Perry Blake - I Got What I Wanted
Pierce Turner - Busy Man
Sack - Get Up
The Chalets - No Style
The Dudley Corporation - (H)our Islands
The Fatima Mansions - Blues For Ceausecu
The Frank & Walters - Happy Busman
The Jimmy Cake - The Opposite Of Addiction
The Pale - Dogs With No Tails
The Plague Monkeys - Surfacing
The Redneck Manifesto - I Am Brazil
The Stunning - Brewing Up A Storm
The Tycho Brahe - Spike and the Wheel
Whipping Boy - We Don't Need Nobody Else
Cheers
miked_c -
Message 21
Posted by Greg (U8004659) on Monday, 20th April 2009
Helpo.
Anyone remember the rather wonderful Bawl featuring brothers Marc, Darren and Jason Cullen (and Stephen McBride who wasn't their brother but he used to live next door!) from Finglis?
It would be great to hear 'Glen Campbell Nights', their third single which attracted my attention due to the sleeve featuring an elderly couple in Country & Western attire in a supermarket, stocking up on a certain brand of tinned soup. When I got home and played it....stone me if the record wasn't great as well! Their fourth single, 'Beyond Safeways' (NB other supermarkets were available) and 'Older and Older' from the album 'Year Zero' would also slot nicely into the Irish Night.
Bawl later changed their name to Fixed Stars and their single 'What If The World Sleeps With You?' would be a good candidate for the show, too.
Come to think of it, Marc Cullen has released 3 albums under the name Pony Club and they are all good...... -
Message 22
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Monday, 20th April 2009
"Beyond Safeways" was a lovely record. Finding it may be tricky but I'll give it a bash. Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Keep em coming please.
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Message 23
Posted by fauxlosopher (U13926394) on Monday, 20th April 2009
from risk of too much Irish exclusivity, how about the great Anglo-Irish collaboration the High Llamas?
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Message 24
Posted by starks_shirt (U1547481) on Tuesday, 21st April 2009
Hellpo
Ah when we were young;
Got to have;
Something Happens - Forget Georgia
Anything by the hugely underated Toasted Heretic.
Fat Lady Sings - Arclight
A House - I will always be grateful
I coudl go on............... -
Message 25
Posted by cliffcake (U7839729) on Tuesday, 21st April 2009
The following is what comes to mind right now:
The Frank and Walters - Fight
Gemma Hayes
Divine Comedy - Sweden
Duke Special
A House
Thin Lizzy
Rory Gallagher
The Undertones
The Pogues
Sultans of Ping
Horslips
Cactus World News
Paul Brady
Roisin Murphy
Moving Hearts
Adrian Crowley
If you do play something by the Frank and Walters, please, please, please play something more modern by them. They have 4 albums since their debut "Trains Boats and Planes". "Fight" is a cracker of a song and comes from their 2006 album called "A renewed interest in happiness". Their second album "Grand Parade" is a masterpiece ... They are on the go for 20 years this September! Rant over
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Message 26
Posted by Harrylaconicjr (U13928813) on Wednesday, 22nd April 2009
Check out Cashier no.9, particularly When Jackie Shone, 42 West Avenue or Goodbye Friend.
Great band from Belfast currently putting their first album together. Supported Snow Patrol at recent arena dates in the UK but don't hold that against them. We all have our quirks. Me, can't touch dry foam, hate being tickled and prefer all my meals in sandwich form.
Peas out. -
Message 27
Posted by Kev Parkes (U2008669) on Thursday, 23rd April 2009
The obvious (but nonetheless obligatory):
Van the Man
Thin Lizzy
The Undertones
Stiff Little Fingers (should be obvious but no one else seems to have mentioned them yet)
And for Irish music (rather than music by people who happen to come from Ireland):
Altan - "Tommy Peoples'" or "Ta Me 'Mo Shui" (no idea how to pronounce the latter - written Galic seems to bear little relation to spoken Galic)
Four Men and a Dog - "The Newmarket Polkas" -
Message 28
Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Thursday, 23rd April 2009
Hellpo Gideon,
How about a John O’Neill Radiotastic Triple Power Play?
Undertones - You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)
That Petrol Emotion – Creeping to the Cross (or Swamp)
Rare – Something Wild
(I first heard that last one when you played it on GLR...)
Otherwise a bit of Christy Moore (Unfinished Revolution? Pair of Brown Eyes? Viva la Quinte Brigada?)
Andy White – Religious Persuasion.
Something from the Moondogs Peel Session.
SLF – Barbed Wire Love.
And more recently anything from Divine Comedy’s Absent Friends. The Happy Goth could probably do with a wider audience. -
Message 29
Posted by pinkclementine (U13931385) on Thursday, 23rd April 2009
Si Schroeder - "Lavendermist".
Or anything off his album "Coping Mechanisms".
(I heard Liz Berg play a track of his on her WFMU show - Lou Reed, Matt Groening and Jim Jarmusch regularly tune in apparently...) -
Message 30
Posted by DavidClause (U13931481) on Thursday, 23rd April 2009
Hellpo
Lisa Hannigan,
Cathy Davey,
Gemma Hayes (especially off album 3)
The Frames - Underglass is especially good
argh.. cinema... must go. -
Message 31
Posted by obiflan (U13931579) on Thursday, 23rd April 2009
Agree you should have Gemma Hayes and the Frames but think Kerbdog are missing from the list. One of the best bands to come out of Ireland in the 90's but were largely ignored. First album was produced by nirvana's producer and the second was the guy that produced rage against the machines best record. Damien Dempsey's first album was horribly over produced but on a stage with a nothing but a guitar, he is in a league of his own. Also, dont wish to provoke any political argument but what about Therapy? - their first album is stunning.
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Message 32
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 23rd April 2009
Yes. Therapy?. Yes.
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Message 33
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Friday, 24th April 2009
Cruella de Ville and has anyone mentioned Undertones?
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Message 34
Posted by CardiffGentleman (U13471703) on Friday, 24th April 2009
I'd like to hear Clannads 'Theme from Harrys Game',and the Virgin Prunes 'Walls of Jehrico' please.
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Message 35
Posted by rileydj (U2509737) on Friday, 24th April 2009
Hellpo Guv'nor!
It'd be great to hear U2... a recent one would be really good. Boomtown Rats too. And some solo Bob Geldof would be a treat.
Glad to be of service..as always!
I'm thinking of a special English night... but I've got stuck with just Suede and Menswear on my list thus far... can anyone help at all?
ta!
Marcx -
Message 36
Posted by misslnugent (U13932786) on Friday, 24th April 2009
Hey, great idea!
Please please, Astral Weeks byt Van the Man. Never heard it on radio before, saw it performed ast the Albert Hall on Sat, ace.
Also, The Fureys, The Dubliners, Hot house flowers, Luke Kelly
Lou x -
Message 37
Posted by misslnugent (U13932786) on Friday, 24th April 2009
Hey, great idea!
Please please, Astral Weeks byt Van the Man. Never heard it on radio before, saw it performed ast the Albert Hall on Sat, ace.
Also, The Fureys, The Dubliners, Hot house flowers, Luke Kelly
Lou x -
Message 38
Posted by trixieem (U13933225) on Friday, 24th April 2009
get something on from the new Imeldia May album, and maybe some classic dustin tracks
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Message 39
Posted by BrainTracer (U13935867) on Sunday, 26th April 2009
There are so many astonishingly good Irish artists....one suggestion that came to mind was Damien Dempsey's Negative Vibes, which I see now Al McGregor has mentioned.
Also (including some from Norn Iron):-
Luka Blooom - I'm a Bogman (amazing sound, terrific drums and Spanish trumpets), or anything by Christy Moore's brother; You Couldn't Have Come at a Better Time is also outstanding.
Juliet Turner--Belfast Central is gorgeous and has backing vocals by Brian Kennedy
Declan O'Rourke's Galileo has been covered by Eddi Reader and others but the original is lovely and perfectly done.
Van the Man of course--any of the classics, or a fun live one started by Brian Kennedy where you share the audience's thrill when VTM brings that voice on stage mid-song is Tupelo Honey from the live Night in San Fransisco album.
Brian Kennedy's early Captured always goes down well as a not-too-goopy love song though I have other favourites.
Sinead Lohan's Whatever It Takes gets the foot tapping.
Saw Doctors' World of Good is a lively 'sorry we have to part but good luck' song.
....To name but a few! -
Message 40
Posted by BrainTracer (U13935867) on Sunday, 26th April 2009
Ah, cliffcake has jogged my memory and I bizarrely left out one of my favourite artists: Paul Brady. Although Nothing but the Same Old Story and other better known songs are brilliant, one that would surely win everyone over is I Will Be There, a stunning song on the same sort of theme as You've Got a Friend.
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Message 41
Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Monday, 27th April 2009
Lurking about the pile of music here somewhere is a cd of Punk/New Wave stuff that was all released on Belfast's Good Vibrations label. It's one of a reissue label series of cds; got a Secret Records one as well but can't remember who put them out. Not Ace Records but someone along those lines.
There used to be a reasonable Irish girl band called Chicks; still going or not?
Otherwise, SLF, Boomtown Rats, Protex, Undertones and so on.
Ooops, almost forgot the hellpo. -
Message 42
Posted by theagata (U13939249) on Tuesday, 28th April 2009
1. Van Morrison - `Astral Weeks` (obviously)
2. Sinead O`Connor from her best debut album `The Lion & The Cobra` and from the last production
`I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got` - 2009 reissue bonus disc -
Message 43
Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Tuesday, 28th April 2009
Found it; Anagram Records CD Punk 36
Rudi, Victim, The Outcasts, The Undertones, Xdreamysts, Protex, The Idiots, Spider, Ruefrex, The Tearjerkers, The Moondogs, The Shapes, The Bankrobbers, The Bears, The Jets, Shock Treatment, The Lids, The Androids, Terri & The Terrors (Terri Hooley whose shop it was). -
Message 44
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 28th April 2009
This thread has generated more first-time posters than any other since.....well, since the one next door with 12,000 posts,that we don't talk about here.
Gid - I do hope someone notices the ground-breaking evangelical outreach work you're doing on behalf of the boards.
Plus - I'm an ignorant so-and-so, and don't recognise 90% of the music mentioned here. So I await Irish night with keen anticipation. -
Message 45
Posted by jimf (U8087221) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Mary Coughlan should be up for consideration, and no one seems to have mentioned Phil Chevron's old outfit the Radiators from Space( though no one has suggested Daniel O' Donnell, so we should be thankful for small mercies). And of course the old Gideon show favourite "Strachan" by the Hitchers. And definitely Andy White, Christy Moore, SLF, The Undertones, Luka Bloom, Cactus World News, Fat Lady Sings, Moving Hearts, Planxty, Saw Doctors, Dubliners, Paul Brady, Sinead O'Connor, Thin Lizzy, Horslips and the Four of Us.
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Message 46
Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Something Happens - Forget Georgia
Fat Lady Sings - ArclightΒ
Two excellent bands there, I second that! -
Message 47
Posted by Mike267 (U13921248) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
Engine Alley
Rollerskate Skinny - Jimi Shields (younger brother of Kevin of MBV fame) was a member.
Pugwash - top quality powerpop
Toasted Heretic - Galway and Los Angeles
The Harvest Ministers
Brian
The Revenants
The Stars Of Heaven
Patrick Street - Music For A Found Harmonium
Compulsion
Stump - Charlton Heston -
Message 48
Posted by MichaelDonegal (U13941730) on Thursday, 30th April 2009
Nice one Gid,
Planxty: Cunla
Whipping boy: Twinkle,
Something from and so i watch you from afar.
Christy Moore: Hills of Donegal (makes me all emotional when i hear this when i'm not at home)
the Frames: Lay me down.
Rory Gallagher: Out on the western plains or laundromat
Cheers Gid, Its a great Idea, if you choose only one let it be planxty or rory, not enough people in teh world know abput the magic of Rory Gallagher. Jimi hendrix once said: "How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don't know, go ask Rory Gallagher"
Michael -
Message 49
Posted by manzanas (U13922104) on Monday, 4th May 2009
That should have been "Hellpo" sorry...he he
enjoying the show..
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