Just to let you all know that the Rathangan Lughnasa Festival are pleased to announce that The Waterboys will be playing a full band show in Rathangan, Co. Kildare on the 2nd August 2009. They will be joined in an intimate outdoor setting by very special guest Mundy along with The Perfect Skins, TKO. Tickets are on sale now from
Yeah its a great soundtrack, he made serious money doing that. He does a great cover of Springsteens 'Thunder Road'. He's a big Springsteen fan. That gig in Carlow was a disaster!!
Yeah, I know Damon Gough as a friend very well. Was at the 'infamous' gig down in Carlow a few weeks back. He was pissed off with the venue & walked off, I dont know if you heard about that. He really is a sound guy, which does'nt come over on stage sometimes. He just loves his music & takes it so seriously. The night after in the Olympia he was magic.
John Martyns' great. He's playing Vicar St. 14th MAY. 'May You Never' is a great song. One of the first songs I learned on guitar. My younger brother borrowed (stole!!) most of my Nick Drake stuff, I bought everything again on CD last year.
Well at the time I did'nt know how lucky I was, just right place at the right time. He had no band & just played electric guitar, about 10 people there.... then 'Grace' came out not so long after & the rest is history. I was devestated when he died, such a waste of talent. I missed his gig in Whelans when he toured 'Grace' & was so disappointed never to see him live again. Do you ever listen to Nick Drake??
Well Jeffs' is the classic version. Was the first time I heard the song (or of him)to be honest where he done it live in New York at the Sin E cafe in 1993 & was lucky enough to witness it. He always looked troubled or distracted during the gig, but that voice! Ah! He also covered 'Sweet Thing' by Van the Man.
I agree with you Heartbeats. If there is anything to symbolise it should be how far we have come in this country in a small space of tine since our independence from that dreadful so-called empire. For the GAA it should be the symbol of the great desire & foresight that some ordinary men & women had within its organisation over the many years that Croke Park has been there & be a testiment for the world to see of there vision. I know that so many people knock the 'click' within the GAA & 'moneygrabers' tag that gets bandied around every summer in the scramble for tickets but I for one would gladly give my money to this organisation than to piss it up against the inside walls of a tribunal in Dublin Castle. So on Saturday as God Save the Queen is beeing played I think we should treat it as we would a minute silence (Now would'nt that be an idea!!) & bow our head in silence for the 14 people that died on the 21st November 1920, including Micheal Hogan & not forgeting a 14 year old young man called John Scott the youngest to die that day. Hopefully the troublesome element will not be heard or seen on either side next Saturday & we can put all the killing behind us for both pairs of hands have been dyed in the red of innocent blood over our troubled times & histories. Heres to the future of our beautiful country.
Out of those..... I think 'Chelsea Hotel'or 'The First time ever I saw your face' Not out of those ...... I think 'I'd Rather go Blind' - Chicken Shack or 'Lover, You Should Have come over' - Jeff Buckley
Music like any of these does it for me all the time!!
1. 'Sweet Memory' - Tindersticks 2. 'Are you the one that I've been waiting for?' - Nick Cave 3. 'Pictures of You' - The Cure 4. 'Hope that I don't fall in love with you' - Tom Waits 5. 'Falling Slowly' - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova 6. 'One more cup of coffee' - Bob Dylan 7. 'Chelsea Hotel' - Leonard Cohen 8. 'First time ever I saw your face' - Roberta Flack 9. 'Love' - John Lennon 10.'Love in mind' - Neil Young 11.'She is so Beautiful' - Mike Scott
Seeing the day thats in it & just seeing those dreadful annual ads on TV over the past week for so called LOVE ALBUMS which seem like most of the songs on them are crap by the sound of it.... Sooo I was wondering what would be on your Love Album..... & that song that just does it for you?????
Hope everybody has a wonderful Valentines Day. Its not all about being in a relationship, love etc. etc..... Its about being happy. The sun is shining enjoy.
Been to a good few places but for paradise & sun Sri Lanka was the best place I have been or Paris for the pure indulgence! Where are you thinking of anyway?
God' I thought I'd get a worse response to my thread than that. Anyway, this is my favourite, I was abroad a few years ago & in a gorgeous bookshop called 'Shakespeare & Co' where I bought a book & this poem was in it. Its called 'Lovesong' by Ted Hughes & it gets me!! For a guy who would like to try something different this valentines, just say this softly in your loves ear, a very simple thing but believe me you won't regret it. Anyway, tell me what you think.
'He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she sucked She wanted him complete inside her Safe and sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains
Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Off that moment's brink and into nothing Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His words were occupying armies Her laughs were an assassin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot Her vows put his eyes in formalin At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage
In the morning they wore each other's face'
P.S. I don't think Ted Hughes was on about Sylvia Plath here!!!
I have lots of favourites but from the top of my mind I can only think of this one from Yeats. Its one of his popular ones but I've always liked it...
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with the golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams...
Thanks Munchkin, I'm glad you like it. Yeah I understand totally what you are saying about Hughes not on about Plath but it actually was written during his affair with Assia Wevill. God' she was a gorgeous looking woman. Anyway as regards the sni**ering, I will steal a portion of what you have written... '...another person has nothing to do with how they are preceived by others....'. I tend not to worry what people say when they don't understand.
This may sound completely naff, but for curiousity...do any girls like love poems. The reason I ask is I was in a relationship with a terrific girl many years ago and loved hearing them. She got very turned on by it & it was such a simple thing, bear in mind that these were'nt mine but known poets. Is that day gone for alot of girls?? (If you do whats your favourite?)
Depends what your into........ but my favs are 'NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR' George Orwell, 'Anam Cara' John O'Donogue & for a bit of fun 'The Secret World of the Irish Male' by Joseph O'Connor
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The Waterboys & Mundy Play Kildare August 2nd
Just to let you all know that the Rathangan Lughnasa Festival are pleased to announce that The Waterboys will be playing a full band show in Rathangan, Co. Kildare on the 2nd August 2009. They will be joined in an intimate outdoor setting by very special guest Mundy along with The Perfect Skins, TKO. Tickets are on sale now from