Im Fairly new to itm and one of my heros is bodhran bliss even though i never meet him for obvious reasons. I played in a session for 30 min last night with matt cran. mick daly ,con fada,to be honest i was a bit loud but i saw cranittch taking the piss thats not nice i could have said alot of things to put them in thier place but i did nt . But from now i think i will.Even though the bodhran is the bottom of the food chain these guys made me feel like shit.From now on name and shame.I would like to thank Dave Hennessy and Herring for the welcome and kind words.
Saint, sorry to hear you had a hard time last night. But I have to say, in your spirit of naming & shaming I'm afraid I must disappoint you by naming & shaming Bodhran Bliss!
You see, he came to our session last night, ....... but he didn't even have the decency to play his Bodhran once!
However, to be serious for a moment, poor old bliss actually has other things on his mind right now, which I won't go into here, but very understandably, music was probably the last thing on his mind. I'm sorry for your trouble right now, bliss.
Anyway, in the spirit of naming, I can tell you that we had a great night's music with ace Melodeon player Ciaran Kelly in the driving seat, & then, as there were some fine singers at the bar, the emphasis of the session changed towards songs & towards the end of the night, midnight to 1.30, we heard some great singing & songs, including a couple from the bold Bliss himself, plus a few more tunes thrown in of course, for good luck & to keep the pot boiling.
It was a truly wonderful session with all the right ingredients, good musicians, good singers, good people, good atmosphere, good surroundings, good owner hospitality & importantly, everyone quite happy to go with the flow & let the session evolve organically, without any dictator calling the shots.
That's hilarious. Now we have a new type of name-dropping, where the name-dropper goes "I was at a session with Siobhan Peoples and she told me I was sh1t", or "I overheard Noel Hill bitching about me behind my back". LOL
I'll leave the rest to llig. Go on llig, I need a laugh.
Wow, dude you need to watch yourself. You probably were out of your element and p*ssed off other people. Matt Cranittch is an awesome guy and it takes a lot to make him get upset if were talking about the same man. Second, dont talk smack about people like bliss if you cant back it up. You need to get some respect for the music, for yourself, and for other musicians especially ones who have been playing a lot longer than yourself.
Must admit, that's a new one on me Striving - *talk Smack*?
I know, I should get out more, [ I really must try & watch more US TV shows! ] but can you give me the lowdown on this expression? Would I be right in thinking that to *talk Smack* about someone, means to praise them? Or are my wires crossed here?
Talking smack about someone is not a good thing, Ptarmigan. It's the kind of thing teenage girls do to each other when they want to make themselves look good by making the other look bad.
s f shame I m going to send an e mail to your bodhran teacher on syncopation i hope i get the right anwser back. other wise your whole site is sh*te. dont question my playing until you hear it dude.
Then, I just don't get it Kennedy, cause saint said - "one of my heros is bodhran bliss" ...... & that doesn't sound to me like he was disrespecting Bliss at all!?
Geoff, just checked out that Riley School website. An impressive list of classes you've got there, but I'm curious about one thing. I notice that they have a link to a Hammered Dulcimer site on the Links Page, & yet no classes! So I'm just wondering, are Hammered Dulcimers common in your neck of the woods & if so, why no classes? Could it be that Hammered Dulcimer players are common but that they just don't normally play Irish Music?
Sorry for the slight detour saint, but after all, you did mention his website.
"im probally a better bodhran player than bliss."- in the words of saint. third post.
That is smack talk when one uses provoking phrases or words that ask for a challenge or fight. In my mind that is what it sounded like. i apoligize if thats what you said was not your intent. but back to Mr. Crannitch. Do you have a place to tell him and the other session players off? You havent really responded to my other post in regaurds anything but bliss.
No Hammered Dulcimers are not common but there is one lady that i know of in town who can teach but no one has approached her in as long as i have been with the school.
Ooops I stand corrected Geoff - I missed that phrase.
As for HDs, I came across this site recently which gives the impression that, at least in some areas over there, the HD must be quite common.
N.B. I have *never* ever seen a HD in a shop, over here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHxQPjaDfxU
Saint, you've admitted that you were a bit loud on the bodhran, and that your'e fairly new to ITM, so I'm not really surprised that comment was made You got off lightly imho, - I was at a session in An Teach Beag in Clonakilty last year where a bodhran player, obviously experienced and old enough to know better, literally got kicked out of the session for drowning everyone else and not playing quieter when asked.
Look to me like you got away lightly Saint it there is any truth to the following story/song.
The Spoons Murder
Con O'Drisceoil
In the tavern one night we were sitting
I'm sure 'twas the last week in March;
From our drinks we were cautiously sipping
To ensure that our throats didn't parch.
We played music both lively and dacent
To bolster our spirits and hopes,
And we gazed at the females adjacent
And remarked on their curves and their slopes.
Til a gent wandered into the session
And decided to join in the tunes:
Without waiting to ask our permission
He took out a large pair of soup-spoons.
Our teeth in short time we were gritting
As he shook and he rattled his toys,
And the company's eardrums were splitting
With his ugly mechanical noise.
Hopping spoons off our heads to provoke us
He continued the music to kill;
Whether hornpipes, slow airs or Polkas
They all sounded like pneumatic drills.
Then he asked if we'd play any faster
As his talent he wished to display
With a grin on the face of the bastard
Like the cat as she teases her prey.
Our feelings by now were quite bloody
And politely we asked him to quit
We suggested s part of his body
Where those spoons might conveniently fit.
This monster we pestered and hounded
We implored him with curses and tears,
But in vain our appeals they resounded
In the desert between his two ears.
When I went out the back on a mission
He arrived as I finished my leak
He says "this is a mighty fine session
I think I'll come here every week".
When I heard this, with rage I was leppin'
No more of this torture I'd take
I looked 'round for a suitable weapon
To silence this damn rattlesnake.
Outside towards the yard I did sally
To find something to vanquish my foe.
I grabbed hold of a gentleman's Raleigh
With 15 speed gear and dynamo.
Then I battered this musical vandal
As I shouted with furious cries
"My dear man your last spoon you have handled
Say your prayers and await your demise."
With the bike I assailed my tormentor
As I swung in a frenzy of hate
Til his bones and his skull were in splinters
And his health in a very poor state.
And when I was no longer able
I forestalled any last minute hitch
By removing the gear-changing cable
And strangling the sonofabitch.
At the end of my onslaught ferocious
I stood back and surveyed the scene.
The state of the place was atrocious
Full of fragments of man and machine.
At the spoon's players remains I was staring
His condition was surely no joke
For his nose was clogged with ball-bearings
And his left eye was pierced by a spoke.
At the sight I was feeling quite squeamish
So I washed up and went back inside
Then I drank a half gallon of Beamish
For my throat in the struggle had dried.
Unpolluted by cutleries clattered
The music was pleasant and sweet
For the rest of the night nothing mattered
But the tunes and the tapping of feet
At the inquest the following September
The coroner said "I conclude
The deceased by himself was dismembered
As no sign could be found of a feud.
And the evidence shows that the fact is,
As reported to me by the Guards
He indulged in the foolhardy practice
Of trick-cycling in public house yards.
So if you're desperately keen on percussion
And to join in the tunes you can't wait
Be you Irishman, German, or Russian
Take a lesson from his awful fate.
If your spoons are the best silver-plated
Or the humblest of cheap stainless steel
If you play them abroad, you'll be hated
So just use them for eating your meals
I've heard Saint play on numerous occasions and can say he is without doubt the best bodhran player i have ever heard. The fact that he is so good after a short time playing gets me wondering how good will he become after another few years.
Their seems to be a bit of an unwritten rule in trad especially in cork that seems to say "unless your a genius you should'nt get any respect"-this too me is bull, why do the likes of Cranitch deserve respect but others do not???
For the record i worked in the college that Cranitch works in and believe me this behaviour from him does not surprise me at all.. he is one of the elite and does'nt mind telling the rest of the world that he is above them in standing(or so he think's) Mick Daly is another muppet-god help us if they were'nt around i don't know what the rest of us would do-why is it that people like these think they are so great?? lets face it Cranitch would not tie the laces of anyone like Peoples, Kevin Burke, Liz Carroll etc etc etc his cd's are crap too
I have no intention of joining in this thread beyond expressing my feeling that it is utterly bizarre. Is it a brilliant spoof? Are we all complete fools? What is the world coming to? Who is crazy here - me? You? Them? Us?
Confused of Leichhardt
I had to stop replying because my blood pressure was going up and up and i was afraid id say something id regret. I got a few emails direct expressing similar stories so maybe I should avoid this situation and stick to sessions where the ranking system does nt exist. Oh! to have an Ireland of equals.As for Bliss that was a compliment and the comment about being a better player than bliss is just a dream of mine.
"don't diss matt cranitch"
why not? If he is acting the muppet as usual
is it because he is a good fiddle player?? if this is the reason then my point is proven-whether someone is good or crap they deserve respect, i don't care how good someone is at playing a bloody istrument it does not give them the right to behave disrespectively to others - Mick daly and Cranitch etc etc etc all think differently but that says more about them as people than as musicians
I think it's in incredibly bad taste to insult people behind their backs and post it on an international discussion forum. Whatever they've done to p*ss you off, they don't deserve that. This says an awful lot more about you guys than it does about them. Makes me embarrassed to be involved with this website.
I was actually referring to Celtic1234's "backstabber" comment. Anyway, it's not just about insulting people. I think it's bad taste to be naming people on this site and badmouthing them. If you wanted to discuss a "situation" - as you called it - you could just as easily have done so without mentioning people's names. Bloody shameful online behaviour if you ask me. Well, you didn't ask me, but I don't care, I'm just saying, I think this is pitiful material for this discussion board.
AAAAAAAAAH!!! What's all this then?!? Music is amazing and if you can't get on with those you are playing with, for whatever reason, smile...thank them for the tunes and walk away to somewhere where you can! We need to respect those who are drenched in years of traditional practice, but we don't have to love them! Discouragement and high horses seem to be a huge problem for people in trad music...this is not where the original tunes began, around the hearth in a house, with people who's playing and company you enjoyed. Hmm..wish we could get it back everywhere!
Ya fiddler your dead right . maybe I should have took the higher ground . I did smile thanked people and left but I probably should not have spoke about it on the site.
At the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Aberdeen last year Matt Crannitch and Seamus Creagh performed a set in The Lemon Tree on Sunday afternoon. Matt actually invited the audience to take their fiddles out and play along with them and many of us did.
Hardly the attitude of an "unwelcoming" individual.
Of course, he also participated in more private sessions over the weekend but that's surely his prerogative too.
name and shame
name and shame
Im Fairly new to itm and one of my heros is bodhran bliss even though i never meet him for obvious reasons. I played in a session for 30 min last night with matt cran. mick daly ,con fada,to be honest i was a bit loud but i saw cranittch taking the piss thats not nice i could have said alot of things to put them in thier place but i did nt . But from now i think i will.Even though the bodhran is the bottom of the food chain these guys made me feel like shit.From now on name and shame.I would like to thank Dave Hennessy and Herring for the welcome and kind words.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
Saint, sorry to hear you had a hard time last night. But I have to say, in your spirit of naming & shaming I'm afraid I must disappoint you by naming & shaming Bodhran Bliss!
You see, he came to our session last night, ....... but he didn't even have the decency to play his Bodhran once!
However, to be serious for a moment, poor old bliss actually has other things on his mind right now, which I won't go into here, but very understandably, music was probably the last thing on his mind. I'm sorry for your trouble right now, bliss.
Anyway, in the spirit of naming, I can tell you that we had a great night's music with ace Melodeon player Ciaran Kelly in the driving seat, & then, as there were some fine singers at the bar, the emphasis of the session changed towards songs & towards the end of the night, midnight to 1.30, we heard some great singing & songs, including a couple from the bold Bliss himself, plus a few more tunes thrown in of course, for good luck & to keep the pot boiling.
It was a truly wonderful session with all the right ingredients, good musicians, good singers, good people, good atmosphere, good surroundings, good owner hospitality & importantly, everyone quite happy to go with the flow & let the session evolve organically, without any dictator calling the shots.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: name and shame
That's hilarious. Now we have a new type of name-dropping, where the name-dropper goes "I was at a session with Siobhan Peoples and she told me I was sh1t", or "I overheard Noel Hill bitching about me behind my back". LOL
I'll leave the rest to llig. Go on llig, I need a laugh.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Dow
Re: name and shame
im probally a better bodhran player than bliss. am i right about name and shame/ then maybe they might be nice
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
Dow, [ or is it Duh? ] Catch yourself on ...... remember today's DATE!
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: name and shame
dont make a mountain out of a noel hill
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
Wow, dude you need to watch yourself. You probably were out of your element and p*ssed off other people. Matt Cranittch is an awesome guy and it takes a lot to make him get upset if were talking about the same man. Second, dont talk smack about people like bliss if you cant back it up. You need to get some respect for the music, for yourself, and for other musicians especially ones who have been playing a lot longer than yourself.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by insert username here
Re: name and shame
I love Bliss read it prop bud
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
All these April Fools jokes are really really funny! You guys have me in stitches!
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Dow
Re: name and shame
Out of my element. so the longer you play the more respect you get great! how long do you need play to get manners
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
Must admit, that's a new one on me Striving - *talk Smack*?
I know, I should get out more, [ I really must try & watch more US TV shows! ] but can you give me the lowdown on this expression? Would I be right in thinking that to *talk Smack* about someone, means to praise them? Or are my wires crossed here?
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: name and shame
smack ........drugs
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
Talking smack about someone is not a good thing, Ptarmigan. It's the kind of thing teenage girls do to each other when they want to make themselves look good by making the other look bad.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by kennedy
Re: name and shame
s f shame I m going to send an e mail to your bodhran teacher on syncopation i hope i get the right anwser back. other wise your whole site is sh*te. dont question my playing until you hear it dude.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
Then, I just don't get it Kennedy, cause saint said - "one of my heros is bodhran bliss" ...... & that doesn't sound to me like he was disrespecting Bliss at all!?
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: name and shame
Bliss is the man on this site
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
God I love April Fools. Keep the funny jokes coming. I'm like, almost crying here. I can hardly draw breath for laughing.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Dow
Re: name and shame
Geoff, just checked out that Riley School website. An impressive list of classes you've got there, but I'm curious about one thing. I notice that they have a link to a Hammered Dulcimer site on the Links Page, & yet no classes! So I'm just wondering, are Hammered Dulcimers common in your neck of the woods & if so, why no classes? Could it be that Hammered Dulcimer players are common but that they just don't normally play Irish Music?
Sorry for the slight detour saint, but after all, you did mention his website.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: name and shame
"im probally a better bodhran player than bliss."- in the words of saint. third post.
That is smack talk when one uses provoking phrases or words that ask for a challenge or fight. In my mind that is what it sounded like. i apoligize if thats what you said was not your intent. but back to Mr. Crannitch. Do you have a place to tell him and the other session players off? You havent really responded to my other post in regaurds anything but bliss.
No Hammered Dulcimers are not common but there is one lady that i know of in town who can teach but no one has approached her in as long as i have been with the school.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by insert username here
Re: name and shame
Ooops I stand corrected Geoff - I missed that phrase.
As for HDs, I came across this site recently which gives the impression that, at least in some areas over there, the HD must be quite common.
N.B. I have *never* ever seen a HD in a shop, over here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHxQPjaDfxU
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: name and shame
Smack? Hammered? Bliss? Wot's going on here? or am I reading too fast.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by mcknowall
Re: name and shame
There's a shop full of HD's just round the corner from where I live, Ptarm.
http://www.ridersofbristol.co.uk/
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Wurzel
Re: name and shame
Wurzel, I've found the perfect tune for you & your HD. Here are the ABCs:
Vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Ptarmigan
Re: name and shame
Saint, you've admitted that you were a bit loud on the bodhran, and that your'e fairly new to ITM, so I'm not really surprised that comment was made
You got off lightly imho, - I was at a session in An Teach Beag in Clonakilty last year where a bodhran player, obviously experienced and old enough to know better, literally got kicked out of the session for drowning everyone else and not playing quieter when asked.
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by lazyhound
Re: name and shame
Look to me like you got away lightly Saint it there is any truth to the following story/song.
The Spoons Murder
Con O'Drisceoil
In the tavern one night we were sitting
I'm sure 'twas the last week in March;
From our drinks we were cautiously sipping
To ensure that our throats didn't parch.
We played music both lively and dacent
To bolster our spirits and hopes,
And we gazed at the females adjacent
And remarked on their curves and their slopes.
Til a gent wandered into the session
And decided to join in the tunes:
Without waiting to ask our permission
He took out a large pair of soup-spoons.
Our teeth in short time we were gritting
As he shook and he rattled his toys,
And the company's eardrums were splitting
With his ugly mechanical noise.
Hopping spoons off our heads to provoke us
He continued the music to kill;
Whether hornpipes, slow airs or Polkas
They all sounded like pneumatic drills.
Then he asked if we'd play any faster
As his talent he wished to display
With a grin on the face of the bastard
Like the cat as she teases her prey.
Our feelings by now were quite bloody
And politely we asked him to quit
We suggested s part of his body
Where those spoons might conveniently fit.
This monster we pestered and hounded
We implored him with curses and tears,
But in vain our appeals they resounded
In the desert between his two ears.
When I went out the back on a mission
He arrived as I finished my leak
He says "this is a mighty fine session
I think I'll come here every week".
When I heard this, with rage I was leppin'
No more of this torture I'd take
I looked 'round for a suitable weapon
To silence this damn rattlesnake.
Outside towards the yard I did sally
To find something to vanquish my foe.
I grabbed hold of a gentleman's Raleigh
With 15 speed gear and dynamo.
Then I battered this musical vandal
As I shouted with furious cries
"My dear man your last spoon you have handled
Say your prayers and await your demise."
With the bike I assailed my tormentor
As I swung in a frenzy of hate
Til his bones and his skull were in splinters
And his health in a very poor state.
And when I was no longer able
I forestalled any last minute hitch
By removing the gear-changing cable
And strangling the sonofabitch.
At the end of my onslaught ferocious
I stood back and surveyed the scene.
The state of the place was atrocious
Full of fragments of man and machine.
At the spoon's players remains I was staring
His condition was surely no joke
For his nose was clogged with ball-bearings
And his left eye was pierced by a spoke.
At the sight I was feeling quite squeamish
So I washed up and went back inside
Then I drank a half gallon of Beamish
For my throat in the struggle had dried.
Unpolluted by cutleries clattered
The music was pleasant and sweet
For the rest of the night nothing mattered
But the tunes and the tapping of feet
At the inquest the following September
The coroner said "I conclude
The deceased by himself was dismembered
As no sign could be found of a feud.
And the evidence shows that the fact is,
As reported to me by the Guards
He indulged in the foolhardy practice
Of trick-cycling in public house yards.
So if you're desperately keen on percussion
And to join in the tunes you can't wait
Be you Irishman, German, or Russian
Take a lesson from his awful fate.
If your spoons are the best silver-plated
Or the humblest of cheap stainless steel
If you play them abroad, you'll be hated
So just use them for eating your meals
http://store.pipers.ie/store/product/1368/Spoons-Murder-%26-Other-Mysterie/
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by gtag
Re: name and shame
Gtag, that's excellent! There were 3 spoons players at the last session I went to. Although I have to admit I was one of them
# Posted on April 1st 2007 by Wurzel
Re: name and shame
I've heard Saint play on numerous occasions and can say he is without doubt the best bodhran player i have ever heard. The fact that he is so good after a short time playing gets me wondering how good will he become after another few years.
Their seems to be a bit of an unwritten rule in trad especially in cork that seems to say "unless your a genius you should'nt get any respect"-this too me is bull, why do the likes of Cranitch deserve respect but others do not???
For the record i worked in the college that Cranitch works in and believe me this behaviour from him does not surprise me at all.. he is one of the elite and does'nt mind telling the rest of the world that he is above them in standing(or so he think's) Mick Daly is another muppet-god help us if they were'nt around i don't know what the rest of us would do-why is it that people like these think they are so great?? lets face it Cranitch would not tie the laces of anyone like Peoples, Kevin Burke, Liz Carroll etc etc etc his cd's are crap too
# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by Celtic1234
Re: name and shame
Who is Mick Daly?
# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by bb Cruella de vil
Re: name and shame
I have no intention of joining in this thread beyond expressing my feeling that it is utterly bizarre. Is it a brilliant spoof? Are we all complete fools? What is the world coming to? Who is crazy here - me? You? Them? Us?
Confused of Leichhardt
# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by Lingpupa
Re: name and shame
Beebs - MD was a founder member of Four Men and a Dog
# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by Lingpupa
Re: name and shame
I had to stop replying because my blood pressure was going up and up and i was afraid id say something id regret. I got a few emails direct expressing similar stories so maybe I should avoid this situation and stick to sessions where the ranking system does nt exist. Oh! to have an Ireland of equals.As for Bliss that was a compliment and the comment about being a better player than bliss is just a dream of mine.
# Posted on April 2nd 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
joke or no, don't diss matt cranitch.
# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by Lizzy
Re: name and shame
So lizzy if you want to support that kind of behavior thats up to you.
# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
"don't diss matt cranitch"
why not? If he is acting the muppet as usual
is it because he is a good fiddle player?? if this is the reason then my point is proven-whether someone is good or crap they deserve respect, i don't care how good someone is at playing a bloody istrument it does not give them the right to behave disrespectively to others - Mick daly and Cranitch etc etc etc all think differently but that says more about them as people than as musicians
# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by Celtic1234
Re: name and shame
The tradition of great Cork men getting shot in the back goes on, Michael Collins, Roy Keane, Matt Cranitch,tut tut tut, give it schtick!
# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by TOMMYB
Re: name and shame
even Cranitch is'nt as bad as that backstabber collins but i won't go there.........
# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by Celtic1234
Re: name and shame
Who is Roy Keane, and who is Cranitch for that matter?
# Posted on April 4th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: name and shame
I'll keep it simple Keane is God ,Cranitch is not..
# Posted on April 4th 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
I think it's in incredibly bad taste to insult people behind their backs and post it on an international discussion forum. Whatever they've done to p*ss you off, they don't deserve that. This says an awful lot more about you guys than it does about them. Makes me embarrassed to be involved with this website.
# Posted on April 4th 2007 by Dow
Re: name and shame
Your right but I did nt insult anyone I just explained a situation
# Posted on April 4th 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
I was actually referring to Celtic1234's "backstabber" comment. Anyway, it's not just about insulting people. I think it's bad taste to be naming people on this site and badmouthing them. If you wanted to discuss a "situation" - as you called it - you could just as easily have done so without mentioning people's names. Bloody shameful online behaviour if you ask me. Well, you didn't ask me, but I don't care, I'm just saying, I think this is pitiful material for this discussion board.
# Posted on April 4th 2007 by Dow
Re: name and shame
AAAAAAAAAH!!! What's all this then?!? Music is amazing and if you can't get on with those you are playing with, for whatever reason, smile...thank them for the tunes and walk away to somewhere where you can! We need to respect those who are drenched in years of traditional practice, but we don't have to love them! Discouragement and high horses seem to be a huge problem for people in trad music...this is not where the original tunes began, around the hearth in a house, with people who's playing and company you enjoyed. Hmm..wish we could get it back everywhere!
# Posted on April 5th 2007 by The Fiddler on the Roof
Re: name and shame
Ya fiddler your dead right . maybe I should have took the higher ground . I did smile thanked people and left but I probably should not have spoke about it on the site.
# Posted on April 5th 2007 by Saint
Re: name and shame
"I think it's in incredibly bad taste to insult people behind their backs and post it on an international discussion forum."
Couldn't have put it better, Dow.
# Posted on April 14th 2007 by Lizzy
Re: name and shame
At the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Aberdeen last year Matt Crannitch and Seamus Creagh performed a set in The Lemon Tree on Sunday afternoon. Matt actually invited the audience to take their fiddles out and play along with them and many of us did.
Hardly the attitude of an "unwelcoming" individual.
Of course, he also participated in more private sessions over the weekend but that's surely his prerogative too.
# Posted on April 14th 2007 by Johannes J