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Joyce & Emily's (aka Eddie & Patsy) Top 10 Irish Music Festival Tips

Joyce & Emily's (aka Eddie & Patsy) Top 10 Irish Music Festival Tips

Emily and I had a fantastic week at Gaelic Roots down at Boston College this past June. Here are some tips we thought might be humorous, if not helpful:

Top 10 Festival Tips


1)Don

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by JMH

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I hope I don't get kicked off for this post ; )

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by JMH

Re: Joyce & Emily's (aka Eddie & Patsy) Top 10 Irish Music Festival Tips

This is insane!

I love it!
:-)

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by Pontus Adefjord

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I (we) had some real "bad" ones but wasn't sure if they were appropriate for a mixed audience.......so this is actually the censored list.......

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by JMH

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LOL -- you two actually learn anything about *music* at GR? *grin* (Just kidding, Kevin said you two were like sponges.)

Yeah, there's definitely the more censored Rules...like:

11) Have a VERY firm grip on your stance as to whether you'll get, ahem, involved with a married or otherwise taken individual (or, if your own marital status reads "taken", know exactly how far you can take flirting before your SO would start steaming). If your stance is "no, never", then when necessary, whenever you are around someone who answers that description but that you're very attracted to, DO NOT DRINK. AT ALL.

but you've also missed a couple of the non-censored ones, like:

12) NEVER go anywhere without something to record with, WITH extra batteries and extra tapes or discs...

Zina

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by Zina Lee

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I want to hear the really *bad* ones! Feel free to email them to me. Oh, and thanks for specifying that only the girls need to shave their legs.
Chris

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by unique

Re: Joyce & Emily's (aka Eddie & Patsy) Top 10 Irish Music Festival Tips

These lasses named Emily and Joyce,
whose fluting is better than noise,
get drunk and are baudy,
and just a bit naughty,
in a fleeting attempt to meet boys.


Sorry, I can't help myself.
Chris

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by unique

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Hi Zina - Yeah we definitely partied like rock stars, but we really did learn a lot about the music. We listened to & absorbed some really great spontaneous music at the after-hour parties/late-night sessions....we met so many cool people and got a lot of valuable "inside information".....stuff they don't teach ya in class : )

We really worked hard on the tunes that were taught to us in class. That in itself was a lot of fun. We definitely took our classes seriously. But there's a certain "culture" that goes along with the music that we also immersed ourselves in....

Yeah, driving home from Boston, was pretty rough. I had the shakes and maybe a minor fever. I felt like I got hit by a Mack truck.....but it was all so worth it...

I'm heading down to the Catskills in a few hours to catch the second half of Irish Arts Week. This time I'll have my "chaperone" traveling with me so I'll be acting a bit more civilized....I even packed my running gear...hahahahahah....we'll see what happens.....

Emily - Did you book your tickets yet??

Cheers!

Joyce



# Posted on July 16th 2003 by JMH

Funny Chris! That's good! lol

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by JMH

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LOLOLOL esp @ E&J being 'sponges'... uh hmmm that's double entendre, or triple or something...

The coffee rule would still be #1 for me, I realized I cannot learn anymore without it in the morning.

Hmm OK well on that Joyce left off that is NOT censored, or even vaguely inappropriate is this one:

6) Always do your homework before taking classes. Re read all sleeve notes from the teachers' CD's who you'll be learning from.

See, Kevin Crawford gave us a pop quiz one day, he was teaching us a slip jig called Sheila Mulhaire's, & asked the class if anyone, or maybe actually specifically Joyce, if she knew who Sheila Mulhaire was, & sure enough, she f*cking nailed it! I was so proud of you Patsy! But she had prepared by reading copious sleeve notes but only as an outgrowth of her normally obsessive personality. This girl is a vault of ITM trivia!

Ok another one left off, speaks DIRECTLY to Zina's post:

9) Never, never keep spare condoms in your instrument case

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by emily_bmore

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Here's another since Jeremy hasn't deleted this stuff yet: always pack your nicest/newest underwear and have enough for each day of the week.....just in case...... ; )

Ok i gotta get outta here...it's a 4 hour drive to the Catskills....

Emily - when I get back, I'll think about more of those Top 10 Festival Moments...hahaha...(I'm thinking of Eamon at 9:00am)

bye for now

Joyce

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by JMH

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OK WAAAIIITTTTT a second here... not good, not good! (as Eamon Flynn would say)

I haven't left for Phoenix yet, I'm leaving after these maintenance men leave, but let's be clear that OK well *I* didn't hook up with anyone, that was not my goal, had naught to do with the state of my legs or intimates. My goal was tunes, craic, tunes & craic, & yours was too young Joyce, so uh let's not mislead folks here!

Not that there is anything wrong with that tip, I'm just saying... oy

Sorry for the turn this post has taken, I know it's a family programme, if I know Joyce she probably was knocking back the shots while typing that hahaha, getting ready for the Catskills, may the Lord have mercy on all those in attendance.

Here's another tip:

Pick your goals to a festival before you go, since you can only accomplish so much & there's simply so much going on. Then find a roommate or someone great to hang out with who has similar goals to yours. If they happen to include excessive drinking & you are prone to Migraines, also make sure you pack extra doses of your narcotics & possibly some instant cold packs.

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by emily_bmore

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Eddie, dear, better to repent in leisure... *grin* Hey, get yourself a rep, girl, then you can surprise everyone with your actual demeanor. ;)

zls

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by Zina Lee

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Not sure if this would be kosher in Ireland, but stateside it's acceptable to scout out insider info ahead of time on the lodgings of the musos you want to hang with and snag a room in the same place. Do NOT take this as license to act like a stalker, so show some discretion and don't snoot in where you don't belong. But some of the best sessions and craic happens in nooks and crannies (loading docks, hotel kitchens, restrooms) after hours.

At the 1999 Washington DC Irish Festival, Hurricane Floyd flooded the fairgrounds, at times knee deep, in thick, brown runoff "rich" with additives (chiefly goose droppings, but some of the music stages were in pavillions recently used for showing farm animals, so let your imaginations run wild). The musicians were real champs, playing through the worst of it. But after three days of this, I tossed my running shoes in the dumpster out back--couldn't stand to be in the same room with them. Lesson learned: *always* bring spare footwear.

Also always pack a bathing suit, just in case. (But the corollary to this is to always go skinny dipping if everyone else is.)

Also, remember Harmon's Law: If you sleep on the floor, keep your head well out of the path to the bathroom. There are just too many things that can go wrong otherwise....
:o)

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by Will Harmon

P.S.

Party at our room in Butte! :)

zls

# Posted on July 16th 2003 by Zina Lee

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Hey, Patsy's the blonde one, I'm Patsy darnit! Joyce has black hair, she gets to be Eddie. :)

(anyone who doesn't get the ref needs to go rent some Absolutely Fabulous episodes)

LOL Will, oh dear oh dear....

Oh yayah, par-TAY! Sleep OVER! Manicures & popcorn & R-rated movies woooo!

Uh, do I have to let my mom know what room we're in? heh

# Posted on July 17th 2003 by emily_bmore

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Damn, I've gone and called you Eddie on almost everything else! *snort* Now I have to go changing it all?

# Posted on July 17th 2003 by Zina Lee

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ah crap it's my own fault Z, I signed it Eddie up on a previous post. It's whatever you want if it makes your life easier, but those are the names we gave the photographer from the Irish Times, which thank god, I dont' think ever got printed. But they do have archives, don't they.

# Posted on July 17th 2003 by emily_bmore

P.S.

I NEVER skinny dip, because it wouldn't be pretty. *grin* Of course, that's nominally true of the bathing suit, too.

# Posted on July 17th 2003 by Zina Lee

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Gee, d'ya think we can fit all of us AND Kevin, Sean, Trevor, Cillian, and Donogh in that little room you reserved? What color nail polish shall I bring? And R-rated movies...you mean like Terminator 3? Oh, and do I hafta tell my *wife* what room we'll be in?
*snicker*

(Disclaimer: Hello Rose. Who gave you the url? Never mind. All in jest. If you're reading this, c'mon up to room 118 and join the party. :o)

# Posted on July 17th 2003 by Will Harmon

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I've got some lovely dark burgandy polish that'll set off your coloring, Will. And I have a feeling that people tend to *make* room where Patsy is concerned... Sos and I will be lucky if we get to sleep in those beds at all, is my guess! I suspect the place will be full of people we can't turf out without a crowbar, until Patsy goes to sleep, anyway.

Rose will probably want to go to bed at a decent hour, because she's naturally more sensible than us...besides which, I'm not sure she'd want to see you in curlers and manicure; I mean, she still has to respect you after we've left, yeah? Heh.

Unless, of course, we turn out to be in a room next to somebody who actually wants to get some sleep, in which case we move the slumber party to the lobby.

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by Zina Lee

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OK A. I wanna party with Rose, darnit!

B. Ok see y'all have done been on a steady diet of tunes, craic, pints & pubs, whereas I have been almost completely deprived of the company of other peeps in this friendly capacity. So yeah, OK, I'm looking forward to the society. However, I do not see any larger evidence pointing to this party-girl rep, well outside GR, b/c I'd much rather stay home & read Jane Austen or Sky & Telescope magazine, or gee I guess that was before I actually practiced so much, esp in the evenings.

In any case, you can slag me all you want re: flakey blonde flute player, like hitting the broad side of a barn if you ask me :), but the truth is, my true rep continues to remain intact, uh, sort of. Whatever that is. Uh. Just remember, sessions as ideal society. Heh.

Will is there seriously a place to swim near your house? I hadn't even thought of bringing a suit. & based solely on your obscured profile & self-description, yeah burgundy would be a nice colour for you. :)

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by emily_bmore

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I'm partial to golds and yellows, but I can always go with the flow....

And Rose will be coming to Butte for all the fun--we've got a room at the hotel too.

Em, there's a terrific little lake on our end of town, Spreing Meadow, a state park (and we have a season pass, so there's no cost), 5 minutes from our house. The water's not exactly warm, but by August it no longer makes your toes hurt (in fact, we jumped in yesterday and it was just the ticket to take the dge off this 101 degree heatwave). Plus there are larger reservoirs on the Missouri just a 40 minute drive away, not to mention any number of rivers and streams worth splashing in. We even have kayaks and a canoe if anyone wants to really spend a day on the water.

Poor Emily and her "undeserved" reputation. Maybe we should take it easy on her--wouldn't want her to backlash by going puritan on us....
*snicker*

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by Will Harmon

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Only if you want to spend time rescuing me from a roll gone bad, I'm terrible at them, Will, had to ditch most of the time. But I loved the paddle and tour kayaking on the lake, less chance of going over.

Okay, so we party in YOUR room, and that way if anybody gets in trouble, we can ditch management under the bed while Rose looks confusedly at management come to find out what all the noise was...

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by Zina Lee

P.S.

Patsy, what do you mean, no evidence? we have the edited top 10 Irish music festival tips, for one...

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by Zina Lee

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No Will, not golds & yellows for nail polish, it'll make you look jaundice, esp in summer. Now bronze, coffee, or mocha tones we can work with. :)

OK that's fair. So to be clear, my current 'rep' is boy-crazy, binge drinking blonde floozy, is that it? B/c everybody knows living by yourself on an remote Indian reservation is party central, yahoooo! Jaysus, I have my work cut out for myself I suppose.

Nobody took Buffy the Vampire Slayer seriously either. *sigh*

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by emily_bmore

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Did you work for two whole weeks to become a Vampire Slayer?

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by Zina Lee

'nother P.S.

Well, we know you're not a floozy... *grin*

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by Zina Lee

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Now I'm really confused. Is Em's nickname Patsy, Eddie, or Buffy?
Heh.

P.S. We have only one serious whitewater kayak. The other three are super stable, perfect for less experienced boaters. No need to learn a roll. But if it stays this hot, we might just inner tube downstream to cool off.

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by Will Harmon

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OK, here's a confession.

I had an affair with other internet folks before you, but it didn't mean anything I swear! heh @ internet floozy... anyway, the theme of that group is trivia, I met them all in the Excite trivia chat room, & we had multiple group gatherings in Real Life. Anyway, when I first signed up there, I used the name buffy73 haha! I thought that TV show was awesome, but more importantly, ppl called me Buffy the Trivia Slayer, cuz I'm a smarty pants see? So at a Real Life gathering, like in a mall or, more likely, a bar, I'd hear ppl calling me, "Buffy! Yo Buffy!" & I'd instantly respond. It was surreal. I'm so glad I used my real name on this website, as well as you guys. But hey, if you want to call me Buffy, that's fine too. If you want me to open a six pack of Kung Fu on yo' ass that is! j/k :)

# Posted on July 18th 2003 by emily_bmore

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