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  1. With all due respect to Frames fans...but he rivals Bono as probably the most irritating Irish singer and I'm Irish.

     

     

    Each to their own and all that but I cannot fathom how this guy gets airspace, there's a reason why they're still relatively unknown after 20+ years and it's cos they are terrible.

     

    He's extremely conceited and has an ego to match Bono's.

     

    And he should not have won that oscar for the Once song as it had been recorded a few years previous to the film and had appeared on at least one other album before the Once OST.

     

    I'd rather go deaf than listen to that moron.

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    If you read earlier in the thread - it is precisely because I hold the IT to be on par with the New York Times or Washington Post that I am especially disapointed with the decline in journalistic integrity.

     

    I have encountered IT journalists at cocktail parties, PR events and the like, both here and abroad (I too, was a journalist.) with their Southside addresses and posh backgrounds. Not that there is anything wrong with being privileged.

     

    I have no personal collection of axes that require grinding, except perhaps, having participated in Democrats Aborad in Ireland during the 2008 Obama campaign, I feel a tremendous sense of injustice about the way the IT treated Kate Fitzgerald's memory and her family.

     

    I mainly rely on foreign media (BBC, AP, Reuter), blogs, and RTE for news coverage on Ireland.

     

     

    So you regard the IT to be on a par with the New York Times and the Washington Post yet you look to foreign media outlets and an Irish TV channel for Irish news? LIke I said earlier, bizarre.

     

    When did the decline in the IT's journalistic integrity begin?

     

    I respectfully suggest you are missing out on a lot of in-depth analysis of Irish news. For example Patsy McGarry has done outstanding work on the criminal behaviour, lies and obfuscation of the Irish Catholic Church and more importantly the Vatican in protecting paedophile priests and bishops.

     

    You state that some of the journalists have Dublin southside addresses and posh accents but then state there's nothing wrong with being priviliged. Which is it?

     

    I have a southside address but it is probably the most left-leaning constituency in Ireland, I'm sure you'll know where I mean.

     

    I know very little of the background of Kate Fitzgerald and that issue but it seems to have clouded your opinion of the IT.

     

     

     

     

  3. Sorry to resurrect this thread, but just wanted to rant a little about the crappy reporting at the Irish Times some more...

     

    I have met a few journalists who work for them -- all of them seem to have inherited money, and got jobs because they are related to people. No gritty hard nosed journalists need apply. They suck up to the rich and powerful and complain about taxes and civil servants. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2012/0621/1224318353022

     

    Last year, one of the organizers of Democrats Abroad, an Irish American gal, committed suicide after being bullied at her Irish company. And the Irish Times agreed to publish her suicide note, but edited it to protect the Irish company (who have connections to the paper.) http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-Times-and-FitzGerald-family-clash-over-suicide-of-daughter-135821413.html

     

    As a former journalist I find the Irish Times great for lining the birdcage.

     

    Yes the Irish Times is certainly flawed but it is the best Irish daily newspaper by a long shot.

     

    I find it totally bizarre that of all the Irish newspapers you would single the IT out as ‘complaining about taxes and civil servants’! Have you ever read the Irish Independent or its Sunday edition The Sunday Independent? Those newspapers most definitely have an overt agenda against civil servants etc. Every week without fail they publish stories that are half-truths, misinformation and downright spin.

     

    With regard to the journalists you have met that work there whom do you mean? It sounds like you have a personal axe to grind.

     

    Do you find the Irish Independent great for lining the birdcage?

    Do you know who owns the Irish Independent?

    Please list the gritty hard-nosed journalists from the Irish Independent or other papers.

    What Irish newspapers do you read instead of the IT?

     

    Bizarre.

     

  4. Even if you dislike Nels' playing, you can't ignore the impact he's had on the band. He's such a force, especially live, that he has influenced and evolved Wilco's music tremendously.

     

    You can say he sucks / they suck now and still agree with that statement.

     

    He sure has had an impact on the band, especially live. I know I'm in the minority here but it does very little for me (I've said this before here). I dislike hearing Impossible Germany live and Nels' noodling section at the end so usually pop out for a toilet/bar/smoke break.

  5. "Much of Wilco's evolution is due to the addition to the band eight years ago of Nels Cline"

     

    I would vehemently disagree with this statement, in fact I'd say it's the polar opposite.

     

    Also he says he never played in Belfast, musta been a doppelganger I saw at the Open House Festival there a few years ago then...

  6. The award was presented by Melody Maker magazine which hasn't existed since 99 or so. I believe Rory's brother ( and former manager) has possession of the award.

     

    Cheers. Yeah I used to get Melody Maker back in the late 80s when it and NME were half decent. I see Rory's albums are being re-issued, dunno if they're also being released on vinyl or whether they're remastered or not.

     

    yeah, good point. i should have said "british" - which is what the original title was in the thread (and what i was trying to help define), rather than britain. british does refer to the people of northern ireland as well. where as the british isles, as you said, means mainland britain. so whereas you thought i was a whole country incorrect, i was in fact 3 letters incorrect in my statement.

     

    glad that's all sorted - these little errors do niggle somewhat.

     

    Yeah it can be a litle confusing. I must come across as pedant of the decade here but once again 'mainland Britain' is a misnomer with regard to NI. I think you mean mainland UK. Lots of folks in Ireland take issue with the term British Isles too (as do I) but from a scientific perspective (with regard to geology, flora and fauna) I think it's acceptable. It's kind of outdated now and you'll never here it being used with regard to British & Irish political relations.

     

    Anyway my favourite Engish bands would be

     

    The Beatles

    Rolling Stones

    The Kinks

    Spacemen 3 (and Spectrum and early Spiritualized)

    The Wedding Present

    The Smiths

    Billy Bragg up to the early 90s

     

    The first couple of House of Love albums were super too

  7. Yeah, I was aware of that, but thanks for looking out for my ignorance. My friend Ian Curtin, a Cork native and unabashed proselytizer of things Gallagher, has a beer at Rory's grave pretty regularly (as an Irishman and a guitarist he pretty much deifies Gallagher). The head stone is modeled on an award he received for the International Guartist of the Year award (1972). Yes, there's a statue of Gallagher in his birth place of Ballyshannon (yeah, Ian's been there too), but he's considered a child of Cork as he was raised there and is burried there. Feel free to launch more insults after you Google a bit more.

     

    It's OK, I'm done. I didn't start the insults.

     

    Didn't know that about the headstone, was wondering about it (and didn't google!), thanks for the info. If I was a christian (and an international guitarist of the year) I'd like something like that. Is that award still around?

  8. Yes, Cork is not in Northern Ireland - forgive my egregious error, broc. Lighten up, Francis - did someone piss in your corn flakes this morning?

     

    That's quite alright. Your googling isn't exactly right though, he was born in Donegal (which is near Northern Ireland) not Cork (though he was associated with Cork and was buried there). I thought you'd like to know that.

     

    Pretty cool headstone on his grave too (in Cork :stunned).

     

     

    220px-Rory-Gallagher-Grab.jpg

  9. As a lot of you seem unsure - 'Britain' actually means England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland. Unless the topic-maker meant 'English Bands' and said that by a mistake.

     

    Eh, no it doesn't.

     

    Britain is England, Wales and Scotland. You are confusing Britain with the United Kingdom (which is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).

     

    Spacemen 3

     

    Wow, first time I've seen Spacemen 3 mentioned on this forum! Probably my favourite band ever.

  10. Bulmers & POD present

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    Winner of Best New Festival at the Irish Festival Awards for 2011; Forbidden Fruit is returning for another Bank Holiday feast of music, art and fashion. Today marks the announcement of an impressive line-up that will tickle taste buds and have festival goers longing for another bite of Forbidden Fruit. Most notably, Manchester legends NEW ORDER play their first Dublin headline show since 1986 when they close the main stage on the Sunday.

    Now extended to three days with five stages, the non-camping festival is a urban fusion of music, art, fashion and now also comedy; with a new comedy stage being added this year. The music line-up across the three days features iconic as well as up and coming artists, offering a variety of different genres to reflect the diverse modern music tastes of today. Each day's music line-up has a slightly different bend, ranging from an electronic bill on the Saturday to an indie/folk bill on the Monday; with the Sunday bill somewhere between the two!

    Together with a fine array of delicious food, creative craft stalls and the usual festival quirks and oddities, Forbidden Fruit is the finest reason to spend a Bank Holiday weekend in Dublin. Tickets for the festival are affordable, starting from just 49.50 for one day early bird tickets, and further discounts for the two and three day options.

    2012 Line-up just announced:

     

    SATURDAY

    Leftfield

    Bloody Beetroots

    Booka Shade

    The Field

    Factory Floor

    Bear in Heaven

    Le Galaxie

    Toby Kaar

    SUNDAY

    New Order

    Death Cab for Cutie

    The Rapture

    Death in Vegas

    Modeselektor

    Atlas Sound

    Austra

    Grimes

    Rarely Seen Above Ground

    Kool Thing

    MONDAY

    Wilco

    James V McMorrow

    Beirut

    Mazzy Star

    Andrew Bird

    Field Music

    Julia Holter

    Windings

    For more info check www.forbiddenfruit.ie

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  11. I think maybe 10% of the fans get it when it comes to trying to pull off a 10-12 minutes "mellow" song for s concert opening song.

     

    I get it allright I just don't think it works. I've been to plenty of shows with a quiet opener and it worked. The show I saw in the Netherlands a few weeks ago started with OSM and it didn't.

     

    I don't think I would go to a Wilco sit-down show either. I've seen them six times, all standing. The only sit-down concerts I've seen were a Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs show and an acoustic Beck gig. Is it an American thing?

  12. I know a lot of people here love this but this song is beginning to bore me a little, it could have the latter 7 mins chopped off without much of a difference I feel. Musically it's a dead end.

     

    I saw them in Utecht on Nov. 11th and they opened with it. I had consciously avoided the tour set-lists so was a little surprised by it being the opener. I respect them for having the balls to open with this but it was not a good choice. 12 plus minutes of this as an opener was way too downbeat. It also means they have to chop 2/3 songs off the set-list to fit it in.

     

    Impossible Germany now has a companion as the toilet/bar/smoke song.

  13. has Wilco ever played Shake it Off Live? You can usually tell what songs Wilco is "embarrased" about by the songs they choose or don't choose to play live. I can't remember seeing a set list with that on it.

     

    It's the worst song on the album, mainly because it doesn't fit with anything else on the album. It's really out of place.

     

    Yep, they opened with it at Kesselhaus, Berlin, May 24th, 2007. I was there.

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