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Life on the ITM edge

Life on the ITM edge

What Aussie tune players have to go through to get to sessions - let alone festivals. And you think you have it tough because you can't get broadband in Clare!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7uz14T5L0

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh

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Rights of Man at the end there...nice sounding tone on that fiddle

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by Splendid Isolation

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That sounds more like a bar or two or three of The King of the Fairies.?

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by Free Reed

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hahah thats what I meant

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by Splendid Isolation

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There should be one called King Of The Prairies.

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by nicholas

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Or The Gums Of The Magnificent Seven.

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by nicholas

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There haven't been pre-session goings-on of that nature, in these parts, for some months now. There are still a few men in the area who play their music as if the sheriff was after them. It's all in their minds.

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by Atahualpa Quigley

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Its sh*te fiddle playing, and i bet I know who it is too...tut tut

# Posted on August 1st 2008 by bb

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Duijera Dubh, your architecture looks to be a bit more substantial than ours. Your interiors, are more sumptuous. Your lawmen look a tad overdressed.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by Atahualpa Quigley

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Who is it Cruella? Who is this person who can demonstrate their sh*tedness wihin a mere four bars of music.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by chuneboi slim

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ok - its not that they are a sh*te fiddle player, they are actually a good fiddle player in the general sense...but its pretty obvious that they dont actually play trad irish..Dont you think? Do you really need more than that 4 bars to see that?

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by bb

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I would say the fiddlist has played trad by the general feel, but more of a trad showbiz style thats loud and strong rather than subtle and ornamented. I kind of like it.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by chuneboi slim

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hmmm, I disagree - I would say just from that snippet that they have played everything from jazz, to australian to scottish...they do not sound like they have listened and played trad irish seriously.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by bb

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Yes more Scottish or Australian quasi bush bandy, I can see
what your saying. Bugger it , it stunk.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by chuneboi slim

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No, no - you can like it..dont listen to me..its just my opinion and that is exactly what I was trying to say kinda bush bandy:)

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by bb

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No I do still like it even if it stinks.( chuckle) I know that it doesn't sound like nuanced ? Irish fiddle. Probably be the sort of fiddling that would lend itself to a loud band, and I don't mean that in a negative way, I'm looking at it from the angle of imagining that that type of loud , uncomplicated style is often very suitable in a group., to get the message across. I often listen to different players in that way. Would that sound be useful in some context other than being beutiful , or moving ,
or stylistically appropriate. Sounds like I've got too much time on my hands eh?

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by chuneboi slim

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Just a thought - You could always try asking elastoman25 who claims to be Ned Kelly's cousin. He might k-gno. Don't know that its either Rights of Man or King of the Fairies. I thought the playing had shades of Pink Panther a tad. Wonder who the fiddler is? Do you know Cruella? Did he/she get PAID for that little clip.

Have you got something to do with Nurefin, Dubh? Just got a bit of free advertising here. Many's the bod who takes that stuff on a reg basis just in case of a headache that might need forstallin' in the unforseeable future.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by Clear Drops

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... unlike poor Ned.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by Clear Drops

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... who really could have done with a good shot of Nurefin, in the end.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by Clear Drops

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such is life. pass the nurefin.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by chuneboi slim

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Hahaha! Very funny guys.
Nah, not into nurofin. Just thought you'd appreciate the clip.

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh

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?&^%$£!?!!, what a place...

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by nicholas

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Could the tune be "The Pride Of Petrovar"? Isn't that a Canadian song?

# Posted on August 2nd 2008 by Atahualpa Quigley

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