#143

The men bit was an autocorrect I’ve edited. The rest of it was a reference to the sort of thing that an unkind person might say a well known Irish musician who was in a couple of films would do with young ladies of his acquaintance.

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#144

Hmmm maybe.
Also might explain why there was no sequel or more albums withe female costar of this hypothetical fellas hypothetical hit movie.
:thinking::+1:

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#145

The Thin Air is very good regarding all Ireland coverage imo, as are the Litany of Failures compilation series, so I think this is something that’s getting a lot better. But yeah until relatively recently you had a lot of the Irish music press only picking up on one or two names from the north, then you’d have the likes of ATL and AU up here focusing primarily on the north to make up the difference (though I remember AU doing an Irish Albums of the Decade list 10 years ago that introduced me to a lot of good stuff).

I still have musician friends who are quite tuned into the NI music scene but know very few of the non big acts across the border, so there’s still some room for improved integration I guess.

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#146

Thin air is very good tbf.
Yer man got Slint over so that’s great in my book.
What’s your thoughts on promoter collab, both for overseas and Irish acts.
I reckon it’d build the scene, build audiences and access to great music and benefit promoters too. Am I crazy lads or is this an open goal?

#147

Are there any bands that have both Loyalist and Republican in the same band? If not. Could it happen?

#148

Along with all the bands that have been mentioned in here, we have an Irish music thread as well over here. (I need to add loads to it actually.)

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#149

I’d use the terms nationalist and unionist tbf if we’re talking ideologies.
Or if we must Irish and British.
Republican and esp the term loyalist tend to be reserved for paramilitary terms irt NI.
There’s for sure been bands with people of both tradition/backgrounds (non paramilitary of course!)

#150

There are plenty of bands with mixed protestant and catholic lineups, but a band sharing members who are more hardcore republicans and loyalists might be a lot harder to achieve in much the same way that any band would struggle to contain say a socialist and a libertarian?

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#151

Yeah it would be good to see more bands from elsewhere playing more shows rather than just Belfast and Dublin or even just Dublin. Some bands make the effort, I think Frightened Rabbit did a pretty substantial Irish tour last time they were over. When I was at school it was pretty common for bands playing Belfast to also have a date at the Nerve Centre in Derry but that really died off soon after for whatever reason.

There was a Sleater-Kinney interview in an Irish paper last year where they bemoaned that they only ever manage to play Dublin and never have time to play anywhere else in Ireland, but like…I’m sure they could if they really wanted to?

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#152

It’s a tough one, the lack of venues is a real problem for some time now. Say they played Galway, where would you even put them? The Roisin Dubh is too small. I forget the name of the place that Dinosaur Jr played, out near Headford Rd, but it’s a really soulless venue. And that’s Galway, it should be the main gigging attraction in the west.

#153

daniel o’donnell

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#154

the Tandem Felix episode of the Point of Everything podcast (good Irish music podcast) has some decent discussion around this lack of Irish music industry topic btw

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#155

“Daniel O’Donnell’s a convicted felon” is one of my favourite lines in years

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#156

it was with this post that I realised that there is no delete button

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#157

Galway does seem odd for venues yeah, viewing it from afar they often seem to either squeeze biggish bands into the Roisin, or when Mogwai and Modest Mouse played there a decade ago they seemed to put them both on in a Radisson hotel?

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#158

To me it sounds like ‘we haven’t been offered to play elsewhere in Ireland for the fee we command’.
Frightened rabbit always did good Irish jaunts. Saw them in Dundalk and Belfast on that tour. Wish I’d been to see them when they played Portrush :grinning:

#159

:thinking:

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#160

I don’t know if was just my perception or not but it seemed like a lot more bands started visiting after the gfa.

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#161

you made me go back and check

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#162

Absolutely true.