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Brendan Wrote:

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> I had a few weeks to myself. I was driving one of

> these:

> Through this:

> The closest town was at least 2 hours away and

> this came on the radio:


Before clicking the link I'd convinced it would be

. Excuse the home made vid, but what a tune. Funny how it's the same artist though!

if I had to choose one...


Nightswimming, by REM


Tim Finn said it was the one song he wished he had written. Tim Finn said that.


"it's not like it was years ago, the fear of getting caught" - oh my.


Ultraconsultancy.

coming back to you - leonard cohen

i hope that i dont fall in love with you - tom waits

coward of the county - kenny rogers

down by the banks of the beautiful blue danube - strauss

the radetzsky march - strauss

only our rivers run free - christy moore

irish eyes - the wolfe tones.


bit of melancholy, bit of class and then drunken rebel rousing.

Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore (childhood fav)

Sweet Child of Mine - Guns and Roses (just played on Radio 1 and remembered that I love it)

Walk on By - Dionne Warwick

One Hand One Heart - Dionne Warwick

The First Time Ever I saw Your Face - Roberta Flack

A House is not a Home - Luther

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Ha ha, Wolfe Tones definitely wins my *Most

> Uncomfortable Gig* award.



as it stands at the moment mock there,s been a bit of a split and there was for a while two groups calling themselves the wolfe tones both obviously featuring members of the original group, the running joke for a while wherever they were playing was, is it the real wolfe tones or the continunity wolfe tones playing tonight.

saying that i,ve only seen them the once in the swan approx 8-9 years ago and while their traditional irish stuff is quite good,they certainly dont hold back when it comes to brit bashing, which unfortunately is what most of the crowd were there to hear.

Yeah, I caught them in Balinaboola (no idea about the spelling) the first time I ever popped into to see the then new girlfriend as my dad and brother and I went to kerry for new years. Somebody tried to explain all about the splits, reforms, splinters and so on, but it sounded very comlicated. These chaps weren't considered originals, but sufficed for a v v small town.


Half Mrs Mockney-To-Be's mates thought we'd never survive the gig, but I had a great time. I actually think the locals next to us found it more uncomfortable than my bruv and I did at each 'oop the ra'. We just drank and shrugged our shoulders, I think alot of it's to do with the motions, and the kids didn't even really know what it was all about (wexford is hardly rebel central after all).


The incredibly drunk chap in the bogs who could barely pee straight and informed me that the only the only good brit was a dead one got the shock of his life when i put on my daftest posh accent i could muster and replied "I should say old chap, top ho" and left with a wink; look on his face was a picture ;)


I should add that everyone was incredibly nice to us, we couldn't have bought a drink even if we'd tried, and we just boogied the rest of the night away.

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