I am moving to Australia next March for two years. Where would the Irish tradition be strongest? Are there any native born Aussie maestros of the genre? Is there a strong tradition, passed on through the generations?
I already know they are not much good at sport (my other passion) but I was hoping that there was a thriving ITM scene. Many posts on here would seem to suggest so.
Oh well bliss .. make the most of your last rugby season with some decent players around you. I understand their preferences over there are for pretend rugby with 13 players!
Only teasing
I suspect that tombo and dow are from the nether regions of our planet and also regular contributors on here and they may be able to advise you better.
Hey BB great to hear that you are moving to Australia! The best scene for ITM would have to be Melbourne and Sydney, though here in Perth there are some awesome players. Also if you are going to cairns let me know and i will try and help out with contacts. all the best!
Bliss, just remember if they ask you at immigration whether you have a criminal record, just look all innocent and say "I didn't think you still needed one!"
My drums are too expensive for the demolition crew, rarely purchased by beginners.As I often remind people on this board, I have heard more session wrecking from banjos, out of tune fiddles bloody piano accordions etc than the poor wee bodhran.
yeah yeah yeah, the poor bodhran is getting a bashing again Well if I see a beginner with a mcknowall bodhran in a session banging away I will let you know...come to think of that I actually saw one at the last Folk Festival I went to a few weeks ago...hmmmm session wrecker from what I remember!
So Tombo you have decided to style yourself as the resident snob! Well....
Anyway Bliss the tradition may not be the strongest here in the West (Perth) but we do get by even though we are about to lose one stalwart. The weather is better here and its just a nicer place than all those cities on the other side.
Paddy Fahy reckoned I was the best mandolin player he had ever heard, mind you this was in 1971 and he hadn't heard too many.
Now unlike Dow, Paddy Fahy reckoned most of the tunes went boom ticka boom, and that is why he never put names to them. Dow, not reared to the tradition, would doubtless think Paddy Fahy a bit dim. Paddy may return the compliment.
I remember him saying one day when asked about names, "Sure they all sound the same".
A great and sensible man, Paddy Fahy that is,.
I posted this on another topic, "Used Bodhrans". Not too radical for Oz I hope, not sure about Geordie land.
Perth sounds like the spot, and also happens to be my one of my destinations.
Geez Bliss, the UDA finally puts away their guns and NOW your moving? Ah well - good luck to you. I have been to Australia several times - wonderful country. There is a lovely Irish Cultural center is Brisbane, and they are a sports crazy country. You'll fit right in I'm sure.
Some day I'd like to buy you a pint (and maybe talk politics and philosophy)--but I promise I won't be fool enough to sit in on your session. No no no. I'll be a good and just listen...
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Follow the follow the follow the follow the
Follow the Yellow Brick Road...
ha ha yeah maybe not donough! BB barney plays at the mighty quinn these days though there is a session down at the Davilak, a pub in freo on a sunday arvo from 3pm.
As for turning the other cheek...i am not going to say anything to the post you wrote to dow.....just that obvioulsy irish tunes don't all sound the same...well maybe to goat skin bashers they do so i would have to argue that point if i ever saw Paddy Fahy
I don't think I've ever witnessed a strong cross generational
handing down of traditions in Irish music. Thats a bit of a big call. There is however, a strong tradition of didgeridoo tunes and percussive clapping stick pieces.
And yes welshman, Rugby league is perhaps one of the most
hardcore physical games in the world . The only trouble with Rugby Union is they don't have enough Australian League players , especially in the backlines, then you would see an exciting sport, the running game returned etc, any way I digress.......
SC "No brian you see."
D "But how can you talck if you havn't got a brain?"
SC "Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."
D "Well, I guess they do."
yeah good one BB, i know paddy fahy was a fiddle player i didnt come down in the last shower. Maybe you should ask Barney about the great ozzie players then if you think you have such a great connection.......might be like old times big boy, you take the p*ss out of aussies and we can take the p*ss out of the goat bashers..sorry bodhran players.
You are spanning 25 years of history of what we call the greatest game of all BB. Fair play to you as they say in the emerald isle. Only slip up was " Malinga " , should be "Meninga". 2 Queensland players, 2 NSW players nice touch.
Could we assume you will embrace our culture when you get here BB. Will we see you drunk and rolling down at the cricket, harassing shiela's and pulling billy's.
Unfortunately we don't keep a list of great players or traditions, its too hot to bother.
I don't know knowall, I just heard someone say it once, and I thought it sounded pretty good.Something to do with a goat. Are you going to Woodford. I am. I hope to unravel the mystery there.
Anyway, bliss is not coming down here, he is only pulling our billy.
Well, Slim the secret's out now. I am not going to Woodford this year, too expensive for a humble instrument maker, it's lost it's folkus, it's too hot,too noisy and I don't make any money there.
However Canberra suits me well on the above criteria.
I was thinking of a "session crawl" of Bris sometime, is that possible? I still can't work out who you are, but I have my suspicions.
Sessions here in Melbourne are breathtaking affairs... we start the afternoon by playing drinking games with FourX and Fosters, all drunk from yard glasses and those hats that fit two beer cans with tubes. Oh, and there are always twenty corks dangling from the hats.
Then someone will always plonk out "Skippy" on the banjo, followed by a tearjearking rendition of Waltzing Matilda on a two-row Chinese concertina. Not to be outdone, some fiddler (usually Tombo on a visit from Perth) will yell out, "Enough of that whiney crap" and play The Devil Went Down to Georgia, mistaking it for Irish music. Just when everything's getting a bit exciting, some mopey bugger (usually Dow when he's on a visit from Sydney) will start singing Danny Boy and pining for the Old Land, which of course he's never been to.
He he. Hopefully if we spread this rumour then nobody will come to Melbourne and we can keep having bloody good tunes!
Hi BB, The only Belfast down here is now called Port Fairy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Fairy_Folk_Festival. I think you mixed me up with the other Harry (the one from the Northern Hemisphere) who also plays the flute. I think it's our loss that a multi-talented musician such as yourself won't be coming this way.
Rock on Katiebee, you are so not a cream pu pu pu pu puff!!
Charlie Daniels is my hero! (belch.....hick...oh once there was a swag man camped by a billy full of rum)......
I was looking forward to seeing you slap that drum too BB!
What a shame - you could tell BB wanted very much for someone famous to make him feel valid and special.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by Dow
I can do that for myself, but fame is fleeting.
Anyway Dow, just concentrate on trying to recall where you got your sad ideas about sessions from. Ask some of the Aussie masters, when you think of some.
Or ask Bob Morton, the North Easts sole contributor to folk.
There are a few people who I would consider to be "Aussie masters" as you call them, but I'm not going to name them here for fear of embarrassing them.
Anyway, why are you interested, BB? I didn't think you were interested in tunes players. If you were you'd be playing the tunes yourself and contributing to the music.
"You shouldn't play with the big boys, only get into trouble" posted by BB on November 15th.
What are you part of the session.org mafia BB? You have a very big inflated opinion of yourself mate...is it because you have something to make up for????
Yeah, that was very 'the godfather' wasn't it? I'd be afraid dow
Tombo, you'll always be my aussie tune master.
(sad that our humble little scene has to be slagged just so some guy who's patently got no interest in aussie music can make some obsure point-scoring point to dow - BB, here's an idea, why not send your increbidbly funny, deadpan slags to dow in an email? whatev)
It's obvious this thread was just set up so BB could basically say "what do Aussies like dow and tombo know? - nobody over there can even play or has any idea of the music so their opinions on sessions etc are therefore invalid". This was always going to p1ss people off and end up dissolving into petty sniping right from the outset. Well, I'm bored with it. See youse on another thread or something.
yep, I'm back tombo... (and how married am i? pretty bloody married!!! you missed quiet a party...)
Anywho, i'm going to take BB's lead, find a post by Slainte and start a thread that implies all japanese players are crap and don't know anything. Slagging countries is all the rage!!
(P.S. all the tune players in Samoa are terrible musicians and not a single one of them can be considdered an Irish music master. So deal with it Samoans, and stop having opinions - real people from the North of Ireland post here.)
"Bohdhranbliss" - I heard Irish music played at the "National Festival" in Canberra last Easter as good as any I've ever come across in Ireland, some of it played by musicians who post at this website. I suggest you invest in the CD I posted the link to above, and revise your opinions.
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs "SirNose".
SIR NOSE, YEAH, SIR NOSE, HE'S IN DA HOUSE, HE IS DA MAN... Hi. I'm only just back on here too, Nosey! It's cheaper than texting tombo and late in the evening, and I can be more openly cynical without having to put the usual "xx" at the end. Aaah... life's good.
I must apologise to Dow for the comment about the Old Land, just on the off chance that he misconstrued it as serious. I have a nasty habit of posting entirely sarcastic paragraphs.
Like this one - I really, really, really wish that I was Irish because that would make me a legitimate musician. Particularly if the music had been passed down to me from generations of venerated masters. Given that I'm unfortunate enough to have been born in the nether regions of the world, at one of the places furthest from Ireland, I should just chuck in the concertina that I've been working ridiculously hard at for years and take up my rightful place as a bikini-clad beach babe who does nothing but drop into the chemist for hair bleach and giggle lustily with tourists.
BB, if you're not actually paying out on all Aussies, now's probably a good time to say it. Eh? Before we all bump into you en masse at a festival...
F*&k yeah!! Thats what i am talking about ozzie ozzie ozzie...oi oi oi!!! I like your work Sir Nose and Katiebee, maybe Late in the evening if you don't mind picking up your game and coming on side that would be just dandy!
Oh by the way katiebee nice to have you back and i am going to end it with " xx"
Peace and love and CRANK THE F*&K UP!!
"I must apologise to Dow for the comment about the Old Land, just on the off chance that he misconstrued it as serious. I have a nasty habit of posting entirely sarcastic paragraphs."
Don't worry about me, Katiebee, I get irony, unlike some of the other people on thesession.org
And:
"Like this one - I really, really, really wish that I was Irish because that would make me a legitimate musician. Particularly if the music had been passed down to me from generations of venerated masters. Given that I'm unfortunate enough to have been born in the nether regions of the world, at one of the places furthest from Ireland, I should just chuck in the concertina that I've been working ridiculously hard at for years and take up my rightful place as a bikini-clad beach babe who does nothing but drop into the chemist for hair bleach and giggle lustily with tourists."
All I can say to that is: LOL! I'll have late in the evening on my back now for saying "LOL". Last time I used it in a text message to him he replied (and I quote word for word but censored):
"Lol!? Speak english you myspace talkin emo c@#t!"
Charming boy isn't he? Bloody Aussies you're so brash and overly familiar in your interpersonal relationships...
Its just a way of showing affection Dow, you should know that by now.
Translation " Speak english " = "Will you be my friend"
" you myspace talkin emo c@#t! " = " Young fella ? "
Touchy. My reference to playing "with the big boys" was a warning about getting into a battle of wits if you are unarmed.
I have always stated that Ireland is possibly one of the worst places in the developed world for ITM, I even started a thread once, "Is ITM wasted on the Irish". So please, do not attempt to play a race card. As for the Mafia, where I come from they wouldn't last a week.
I was merely trying to ascertain as to why Dow knows he has discovered the "true and only" tradition. Unfortunately I did not receive much help.
Oz
Oz
I am moving to Australia next March for two years. Where would the Irish tradition be strongest? Are there any native born Aussie maestros of the genre? Is there a strong tradition, passed on through the generations?
I already know they are not much good at sport (my other passion) but I was hoping that there was a thriving ITM scene. Many posts on here would seem to suggest so.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
Oh well bliss .. make the most of your last rugby season with some decent players around you. I understand their preferences over there are for pretend rugby with 13 players!
Only teasing
I suspect that tombo and dow are from the nether regions of our planet and also regular contributors on here and they may be able to advise you better.
D
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by Welshman
Re: Oz
This country ain't big enough for both of us bliss
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
just correct me if I'm wrong ... Oz is a very very long way away yeah?
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by llig leahcim
Re: Oz
Hey BB great to hear that you are moving to Australia! The best scene for ITM would have to be Melbourne and Sydney, though here in Perth there are some awesome players. Also if you are going to cairns let me know and i will try and help out with contacts. all the best!
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
At the end of the yellow brick road
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
hey mcknowall, i like your bodhran FAQ web page, so just when are bodhran players ready to play in a session???
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
I thought Munchkinland was at one end and the Emerald City was at the other?
Oh, I think I get it. The Emerald Isle is at one end and all Australians are Munchkins?
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by llig leahcim
Re: Oz
when they are ready, it's only music after all. Depends a bit on how many resident snobs in the session.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
Good one mcknowall, always nice to see someone arming the masses with session wreckers! from your resident snob
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
from mcknowall.com
Q. How do I know if I’m good enough to play in a session?
A. You are!
Ha ha ha ho hoh ho bloody tee bloody he ha ha
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by llig leahcim
Re: Oz
Bliss, just remember if they ask you at immigration whether you have a criminal record, just look all innocent and say "I didn't think you still needed one!"
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by grego
Re: Oz
Enough said really isn't llig leahcim!
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
My drums are too expensive for the demolition crew, rarely purchased by beginners.As I often remind people on this board, I have heard more session wrecking from banjos, out of tune fiddles bloody piano accordions etc than the poor wee bodhran.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
yeah yeah yeah, the poor bodhran is getting a bashing again
Well if I see a beginner with a mcknowall bodhran in a session banging away I will let you know...come to think of that I actually saw one at the last Folk Festival I went to a few weeks ago...hmmmm session wrecker from what I remember!
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
I'd love to stay and chat, but I must go and make some more bodhrans for you to all enjoy. mutter pompous players mutter mutter.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
no ... NO ... please stay and chat. We can talk about anything you want ...
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by llig leahcim
Re: Oz
So Tombo you have decided to style yourself as the resident snob! Well....
Anyway Bliss the tradition may not be the strongest here in the West (Perth) but we do get by even though we are about to lose one stalwart. The weather is better here and its just a nicer place than all those cities on the other side.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by Donough
Re: Oz
BB it's obvious you're lying. Are you bored?
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by Dow
Re: Oz
Does Barney McKenna (not the Banjo player) still go to "The Bog" in Perth?
Hello Dow, the very man to answer my queries. I await the list of Aussie musical legends with baited breath.
Rolf Harris is more folkie than traditional, I hope.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
Excreta from bulls. I am already thinking Oz.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
Paddy Fahy reckoned I was the best mandolin player he had ever heard, mind you this was in 1971 and he hadn't heard too many.
Now unlike Dow, Paddy Fahy reckoned most of the tunes went boom ticka boom, and that is why he never put names to them. Dow, not reared to the tradition, would doubtless think Paddy Fahy a bit dim. Paddy may return the compliment.
I remember him saying one day when asked about names, "Sure they all sound the same".
A great and sensible man, Paddy Fahy that is,.
I posted this on another topic, "Used Bodhrans". Not too radical for Oz I hope, not sure about Geordie land.
Perth sounds like the spot, and also happens to be my one of my destinations.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
Geez Bliss, the UDA finally puts away their guns and NOW your moving? Ah well - good luck to you. I have been to Australia several times - wonderful country. There is a lovely Irish Cultural center is Brisbane, and they are a sports crazy country. You'll fit right in I'm sure.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: Oz
"Ha ha ha ho hoh ho bloody tee bloody he ha ha"
llig,
Some day I'd like to buy you a pint (and maybe talk politics and philosophy)--but I promise I won't be fool enough to sit in on your session. No no no. I'll be a good and just listen...
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Follow the follow the follow the follow the
Follow the Yellow Brick Road...
--gw
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by gw
Re: Oz
ha ha
yeah maybe not donough! BB barney plays at the mighty quinn these days though there is a session down at the Davilak, a pub in freo on a sunday arvo from 3pm.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
As for turning the other cheek...i am not going to say anything to the post you wrote to dow.....just that obvioulsy irish tunes don't all sound the same...well maybe to goat skin bashers they do so i would have to argue that point if i ever saw Paddy Fahy
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
I don't think I've ever witnessed a strong cross generational
handing down of traditions in Irish music. Thats a bit of a big call. There is however, a strong tradition of didgeridoo tunes and percussive clapping stick pieces.
And yes welshman, Rugby league is perhaps one of the most
hardcore physical games in the world . The only trouble with Rugby Union is they don't have enough Australian League players , especially in the backlines, then you would see an exciting sport, the running game returned etc, any way I digress.......
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by chuneboi slim
Re: Oz
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2011
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by Kenny
Re: Oz
SC "No brian you see."
D "But how can you talck if you havn't got a brain?"
SC "Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking."
D "Well, I guess they do."
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by llig leahcim
Re: Oz
brian? talck?
And writing Michael, an awful lot of awful writing without brain.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
well maybe to goat skin bashers they do so i would have to argue that point if i ever saw Paddy Fahy
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Paddy Fahy played the fiddle.
And Rugby League, esecially the Aussie team, are lightbyears ahead of anything union can offer, Lewis, Kenny, Malinga, Johns, all legends.
By the way Tombo, Barney is an old team mate of mine from real sport, hurling. A good man to get to give someone a slap if they deserve it.
Still no list of Aussie greats, or indeed an Oz tradition? Don't be shy lads.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
yeah good one BB, i know paddy fahy was a fiddle player i didnt come down in the last shower. Maybe you should ask Barney about the great ozzie players then if you think you have such a great connection.......might be like old times big boy, you take the p*ss out of aussies and we can take the p*ss out of the goat bashers..sorry bodhran players.
# Posted on November 13th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
the musicians that weren't killed in two world wars were finished off by prosperity and suburbia
however, the folk revival has provided us with many experts
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by Bren
Re: Oz
You are spanning 25 years of history of what we call the greatest game of all BB. Fair play to you as they say in the emerald isle. Only slip up was " Malinga " , should be "Meninga". 2 Queensland players, 2 NSW players nice touch.
Could we assume you will embrace our culture when you get here BB. Will we see you drunk and rolling down at the cricket, harassing shiela's and pulling billy's.
Unfortunately we don't keep a list of great players or traditions, its too hot to bother.
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by chuneboi slim
Re: Oz
pulling billy's what?
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
I was under the impression that Paddy Fahey "is" a fiddle player rather than "was". Isn't he still alive?
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by Donough
Re: Oz
I don't know knowall, I just heard someone say it once, and I thought it sounded pretty good.Something to do with a goat. Are you going to Woodford. I am. I hope to unravel the mystery there.
Anyway, bliss is not coming down here, he is only pulling our billy.
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by chuneboi slim
Re: Oz
Well, Slim the secret's out now. I am not going to Woodford this year, too expensive for a humble instrument maker, it's lost it's folkus, it's too hot,too noisy and I don't make any money there.
However Canberra suits me well on the above criteria.
I was thinking of a "session crawl" of Bris sometime, is that possible? I still can't work out who you are, but I have my suspicions.
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
There was a good discussion about the Oz tradition (or lack of it) last year http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/11269.
In Melbourne it has been reinforced by recent arrivals like the Fitzgerald family and the late Billy Moran
http://www.irishaustralia.com/Billy/menu.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s890715.htm
This place is also worth a visit - http://www.koroit.com.au/index.html
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by harry
Re: Oz
I think Paddy Fahy is alive, but he will be 81 so I don't know if he is playing any.
The Aussie league team was that good that Meninga came on as a sub at a test at Old Trafford I was at.
And Tombo, Barney was the man for the slapping, I just give orders.
And thank you Harry, someone knows about Oz tradition, even if it is Belfast people.
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
Having considered all these replies, and the little info about the Oz tradition, I have decided to move to Belfast.
Thanks to Tombo and Donnacha and McKnowall and a few others for the good wishes and welcome.
And tell Barney I said he could never hurl.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
Ah well, bodhran bliss, your loss.
Sessions here in Melbourne are breathtaking affairs... we start the afternoon by playing drinking games with FourX and Fosters, all drunk from yard glasses and those hats that fit two beer cans with tubes. Oh, and there are always twenty corks dangling from the hats.
Then someone will always plonk out "Skippy" on the banjo, followed by a tearjearking rendition of Waltzing Matilda on a two-row Chinese concertina. Not to be outdone, some fiddler (usually Tombo on a visit from Perth) will yell out, "Enough of that whiney crap" and play The Devil Went Down to Georgia, mistaking it for Irish music. Just when everything's getting a bit exciting, some mopey bugger (usually Dow when he's on a visit from Sydney) will start singing Danny Boy and pining for the Old Land, which of course he's never been to.
He he. Hopefully if we spread this rumour then nobody will come to Melbourne and we can keep having bloody good tunes!
Have fun in Belfast
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by katiebee
Re: Oz
Hi BB, The only Belfast down here is now called Port Fairy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Fairy_Folk_Festival. I think you mixed me up with the other Harry (the one from the Northern Hemisphere) who also plays the flute. I think it's our loss that a multi-talented musician such as yourself won't be coming this way.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by harry
Re: Oz
I'll have a good cry about that tonight.
What a shame - you could tell BB wanted very much for someone famous to make him feel valid and special.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by Dow
Re: Oz
Rock on Katiebee, you are so not a cream pu pu pu pu puff!!
Charlie Daniels is my hero! (belch.....hick...oh once there was a swag man camped by a billy full of rum)......
I was looking forward to seeing you slap that drum too BB!
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
What a shame - you could tell BB wanted very much for someone famous to make him feel valid and special.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by Dow
I can do that for myself, but fame is fleeting.
Anyway Dow, just concentrate on trying to recall where you got your sad ideas about sessions from. Ask some of the Aussie masters, when you think of some.
Or ask Bob Morton, the North Easts sole contributor to folk.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
There are a few people who I would consider to be "Aussie masters" as you call them, but I'm not going to name them here for fear of embarrassing them.
Anyway, why are you interested, BB? I didn't think you were interested in tunes players. If you were you'd be playing the tunes yourself and contributing to the music.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by Dow
Re: Oz
But I can play tunes Dow, hundreds of them, on a variety of instruments. You can't absorb information, therein lies the problem.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
I can absorb information if I have the remotest interest in it.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by Dow
Re: Oz
How disappointing, I expected better.
You shouldn't play with the big boys, only get into trouble.
# Posted on November 15th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
Its better than playing with small boys BB.
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by chuneboi slim
Re: Oz
"You shouldn't play with the big boys, only get into trouble" posted by BB on November 15th.
What are you part of the session.org mafia BB? You have a very big inflated opinion of yourself mate...is it because you have something to make up for????
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
Yeah, that was very 'the godfather' wasn't it? I'd be afraid dow
Tombo, you'll always be my aussie tune master.
(sad that our humble little scene has to be slagged just so some guy who's patently got no interest in aussie music can make some obsure point-scoring point to dow - BB, here's an idea, why not send your increbidbly funny, deadpan slags to dow in an email? whatev)
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by SirNose
Re: Oz
It's obvious this thread was just set up so BB could basically say "what do Aussies like dow and tombo know? - nobody over there can even play or has any idea of the music so their opinions on sessions etc are therefore invalid". This was always going to p1ss people off and end up dissolving into petty sniping right from the outset. Well, I'm bored with it. See youse on another thread or something.
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by Dow
Re: Oz
Sir Nose you are back!!!! Woohoo!!! Well feeling is mutual Sir Nose, you will always be one of my aussie tune masters!
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
yep, I'm back tombo... (and how married am i? pretty bloody married!!! you missed quiet a party...)
Anywho, i'm going to take BB's lead, find a post by Slainte and start a thread that implies all japanese players are crap and don't know anything. Slagging countries is all the rage!!
(P.S. all the tune players in Samoa are terrible musicians and not a single one of them can be considdered an Irish music master. So deal with it Samoans, and stop having opinions - real people from the North of Ireland post here.)
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by SirNose
Re: Oz
yeah i heard it was awesome...wish i was there :( Well hope you are enjoying the sydney scene, will hopefully be down that way in the next few months!
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
Congrats on the hitching SirNose; its all downhill from here.
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by Donough
Re: Oz
"Bohdhranbliss" - I heard Irish music played at the "National Festival" in Canberra last Easter as good as any I've ever come across in Ireland, some of it played by musicians who post at this website. I suggest you invest in the CD I posted the link to above, and revise your opinions.
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs "SirNose".
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by Kenny
Re: Oz
A big burley fella called Ben called into the Cobblestone about 2 years ago playing the flute - he was deadly.
He was also very polite though, and smiled when he played - failure.
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by Hugo Chavez
Re: Oz
SIR NOSE, YEAH, SIR NOSE, HE'S IN DA HOUSE, HE IS DA MAN... Hi. I'm only just back on here too, Nosey! It's cheaper than texting tombo and late in the evening, and I can be more openly cynical without having to put the usual "xx" at the end. Aaah... life's good.
I must apologise to Dow for the comment about the Old Land, just on the off chance that he misconstrued it as serious. I have a nasty habit of posting entirely sarcastic paragraphs.
Like this one - I really, really, really wish that I was Irish because that would make me a legitimate musician. Particularly if the music had been passed down to me from generations of venerated masters. Given that I'm unfortunate enough to have been born in the nether regions of the world, at one of the places furthest from Ireland, I should just chuck in the concertina that I've been working ridiculously hard at for years and take up my rightful place as a bikini-clad beach babe who does nothing but drop into the chemist for hair bleach and giggle lustily with tourists.
BB, if you're not actually paying out on all Aussies, now's probably a good time to say it. Eh? Before we all bump into you en masse at a festival...
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by katiebee
Re: Oz
About time you got off the nest!
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Oz
F*&k yeah!! Thats what i am talking about
ozzie ozzie ozzie...oi oi oi!!! I like your work Sir Nose and Katiebee, maybe Late in the evening if you don't mind picking up your game and coming on side that would be just dandy!
Oh by the way katiebee nice to have you back and i am going to end it with " xx"
Peace and love and CRANK THE F*&K UP!!
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by tombo
Re: Oz
"I must apologise to Dow for the comment about the Old Land, just on the off chance that he misconstrued it as serious. I have a nasty habit of posting entirely sarcastic paragraphs."
Don't worry about me, Katiebee, I get irony, unlike some of the other people on thesession.org
And:
"Like this one - I really, really, really wish that I was Irish because that would make me a legitimate musician. Particularly if the music had been passed down to me from generations of venerated masters. Given that I'm unfortunate enough to have been born in the nether regions of the world, at one of the places furthest from Ireland, I should just chuck in the concertina that I've been working ridiculously hard at for years and take up my rightful place as a bikini-clad beach babe who does nothing but drop into the chemist for hair bleach and giggle lustily with tourists."
All I can say to that is: LOL! I'll have late in the evening on my back now for saying "LOL". Last time I used it in a text message to him he replied (and I quote word for word but censored):
"Lol!? Speak english you myspace talkin emo c@#t!"
Charming boy isn't he? Bloody Aussies you're so brash and overly familiar in your interpersonal relationships...
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by Dow
Re: Oz
Its just a way of showing affection Dow, you should know that by now.
Translation " Speak english " = "Will you be my friend"
" you myspace talkin emo c@#t! " = " Young fella ? "
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by chuneboi slim
Re: Oz
Touchy. My reference to playing "with the big boys" was a warning about getting into a battle of wits if you are unarmed.
I have always stated that Ireland is possibly one of the worst places in the developed world for ITM, I even started a thread once, "Is ITM wasted on the Irish". So please, do not attempt to play a race card. As for the Mafia, where I come from they wouldn't last a week.
I was merely trying to ascertain as to why Dow knows he has discovered the "true and only" tradition. Unfortunately I did not receive much help.
See you in Oz next year.
# Posted on November 17th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Oz
You did get some help, but it was really just another wind-up. I guess it will all become clear when you check it out for yourself.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by harry
Re: Oz
Rats... Am I too late to join in? Donough, you should have told me there was fightin' words going on!
# Posted on November 28th 2007 by bdh