It's time to name and shame'em....I'm just curious really,and have never been asked to demonstrate my talents in front of a camera either, so I'm jealous.
For instance; who are those three guys in Zefferelli's "Jane Eyre", out in the field playing for a dance - concertina, fiddle, and some sort of plectrum instrument (unlikely, that last one, I thought ) ?.
We know Dave Swarbrick took his pieces of silver for "Far From the Madding Crowd".
Karen Matheson of Capercaille co-starred in Rob Roy, as well as sang in several of the movie's main tracks. Manus Lunny (originally from Donegal) played bodhran with other band members playing for the camp fire dance scene near the start of the movie. I was surprised to see that the Chieftains had a track for this movie (the march song with pipes).
Some Aussie lads who play Irish music were in 'Ned Kelly' with Heath Ledger and Naomi Watts, playing members of the Kelly Gang playing tunes.
And wasnt there that really weird movie with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt as an IRA guy and there is a session and all those girls from Cherish the ladies and there Da's were in a session scene. Cant even remeber the name of the film cause it was so totally badly done, and shockingly acted and Brad Pitt was the most unconvincing Irish person ever.
I have a sneaking suspicion that one of the blokes in the Ned Kelly flick, I can safely assure any Aussies here, was definitely from NZ and that the others were Irish, albeit after a fashion.
Well, I believe The Commitments featured Colm Mac Con Iomaire on fiddle, Brian Mac Aodha on pipesand countless others...and that Andrea Corr as well, not sure if she counts as a musician, but there she was.
I'm not sure who the trad players were in The Field ceili sequence, but it was good playing.
One thing that always bugged me, perhaps off-topic, was in 'Braveheart', where the soundtrack was almost entirely Uilleann pipes, and there's even a sequence where we see a Highland piper but Uilleann pipes are played....hmmmm.
As far as I know, thats not true ACT,
The fiddler I play with every wednesday in Dalkey is known as Eamon Doyle -he plays fiddle in this movie, and its his playing in the movie - he swears its not over dubbed - but perhaps in the soundtrack it is.
He is a wonderful fiddle player and has been known around the Dublin scene for years.
Brit-folk's John McCusker and Kate Rusby made their big screen debuts in the film Heartlands. The movie, which came out in 2002, features many songs from Kate while John wrote the score. Beside their musical contributions, the two traditional musicians also play themselves in a scene at a folk club.
Which Ned Kelly movie are we talking ?
Has there been another since the Mick Jagger monstrosity ?
Re the above: two short news items in a very old copy of "Melody Maker"........
The well-known authority on english folk-song, AL Lloyd, has been engaged to teach Mick Jagger how to sing in the traditional style for the upcoming movie "Ned Kelly"......
....and , several pages on..........
The well-known authority on english folk-song, AL Lloyd, has just suffered a heart-attack.
Nobody on the paper put two and two together !
Sometimes people don't want to admit it.
The Hammer horror movie "Countess Dracula" includes a tall, bearded, curly-haired hammered-dulcimer player, working with a fiddler.
I mentioned this to David Kettlewell, a tall, bearded, curly-haired dulcimer player, who worked with a fiddle-player in his band Trotto, and he said " Oh, really ?".
Incidentally, the story related here of the car breaking down, I had also heard several years ago from a London-born banjo player who although resident in The Bahamas (I think), could only find sessions in East coast USA, and from that knew Seamus persnally, and from whom he heard the story... and he thus told it to me while attending a session during a visit back to London to see his ma.
And slightly off the point, the actress Imelda Staunton, her mother Bridie was a regular fiddle player at that particular session. Sadly, I heard Bridie died recently. She was a lovely lady.
I'm fairly certain that Aly Bain plaayed a street fiddler who was killed off in a BBC production based in turn of the century Edinburgh. Murder Rooms ?
I used to do a bit of film/TV extra work; I was a girl with a broken neck in 'Bramwell', one time... Well, I think it was supposed to be broken... I had a Gaultier-looking leather neckbrace with buckles on it, and an unhealthy pallor. (Model's own.)
Jim, I agree with you about Brendan Gleeson - he always gets killed off far too early. Liam Neeson too, for some reason. Didn't Brendan Gleeson play fiddle in Michael Collins, too?
As funny as the proverbial fart in a space-suit.
How does playing the "Broad Black Brimmer" in a freezing cold pub sound? We had to do about 7 takes as well.
A leather neckbrace? Was it like a slightly risqué version of Avid Merrion? Bo Selecta!
I once played my viola while riding a horse. (Someone else got to lead the horse, as my hands were too busy at the time.) We were a string quartet mounted on horseback, following a featured player to provide a soundtrack for him wherever he went.
In fact, I appeared in that movie in as many stereotyped roles as we could think of. (Buck nekkid in one of them, too, also with the viola. They put that one in to get the R rating, and I believe it was sub-titled "gratuitous nudity".) I recollect I was a housekeeper scrubbing a floor, a gardener, prostitute, washerwoman (complete with coolie hat), model, um, can't remember any of the others. Anyone who can name that movie gets a door prize.
OK, you guys asked for it. I wasn't going to mention this but as it's end of thread time I think I can safely indulge in a few moments of narcisism. This is my 5 minutes of fame and I never saw any of it on the box. But this is true - so far as I know.
The Fleadh Cheoil in Sligo, 1989, I think. We are talking yer typical all-day session and drinking from early afternoon till...whenever...not only that there was a fair bit of rolling up of the quair stuff, even right in the middle of the session. At one point a film crew came in and filmed our session...for a fair bit of time was spent by their crew...and we continued to skin up right before their camera.
I heard later on that RTE had been around filming. But it wasn't till I got back to London that someone told me they had seen our gang on RTE...I presume without the skinning up footage...this was again confirmed by another independent witness...
Anyway. Do you really care? It was fun at the time.
Brendan Gleeson is one of that very rare breed, a starring actor who ican also play an instrument well live and undubbed on screen (I think we can exclude singers in this context). I'm trying to think of others - doesn't matter whether folk, jazz or classical - without much success. Any suggestions, anyone?
Trevor
Hey PatKiwi, the lads in the session scene in Ned Kelly (the new one) were Musicians from Melbourne - fiddle player Danny Burke and that crew.
Gurnsey Pete - there was a re-make of the Ned Kelly film with Naomi watts and Heath Ledger in it, Unfortunaly it wasnt much better than the first one. But I guess at least Heath Ledger doesnt have a pommie accent.
Okay - the list of musicians in Ned Kelly were
Danny Burke, - Aussie
Paddy O'Neill, -Irish maybe
Tony O'Neill, - Australian
Steve Simmons. - Have no idea
I was in a movie, it hasn't come out yet. Pride & Prejudice, with Donald Sutherland and Kiera Knightly (spelling? - Sheera Nighty?).
But they never asked me to play anything, just stand and pretend to have a conversation. I wonder why?
Musos in the Movies
Musos in the Movies
It's time to name and shame'em....I'm just curious really,and have never been asked to demonstrate my talents in front of a camera either, so I'm jealous.
For instance; who are those three guys in Zefferelli's "Jane Eyre", out in the field playing for a dance - concertina, fiddle, and some sort of plectrum instrument (unlikely, that last one, I thought ) ?.
We know Dave Swarbrick took his pieces of silver for "Far From the Madding Crowd".
Any more to add ?
# Posted on March 14th 2005 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Musos in the Movies
Some members of De Dannan were in, hmmm, what was it? A TV thingy, "The Irish RM", maybe?
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Bob himself
Re: Musos in the Movies
Karen Matheson of Capercaille co-starred in Rob Roy, as well as sang in several of the movie's main tracks. Manus Lunny (originally from Donegal) played bodhran with other band members playing for the camp fire dance scene near the start of the movie. I was surprised to see that the Chieftains had a track for this movie (the march song with pipes).
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by CeolCairdeas
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Finbar Furey had a walk on part in Scorcese's 'Gangs of New York' in the ceili scene.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by jfiddlerh
Re: Musos in the Movies
Some Aussie lads who play Irish music were in 'Ned Kelly' with Heath Ledger and Naomi Watts, playing members of the Kelly Gang playing tunes.
And wasnt there that really weird movie with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt as an IRA guy and there is a session and all those girls from Cherish the ladies and there Da's were in a session scene. Cant even remeber the name of the film cause it was so totally badly done, and shockingly acted and Brad Pitt was the most unconvincing Irish person ever.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by bb
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Was that John Williams and-I'm assuming-a clatter of US tune players in a Irish wake scene in The Road to Perdition?
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by horaldo
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Yes, I think Kieran O'Hare might've been one of those, too.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Yeah, Kieran O'Hare and a few other Chicagoans were also in there. Briefly, but in there.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Jason G
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Beat ya, Jase!
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Cross posted. You owe me a coke
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Jason G
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I'm still owed that hug!
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Zina Lee
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I vaguely remember in "Miller's Crossing" there is a button accordian player at a wake. Looking very stylish with roll-up hanging from the bottom lip.
Maybe not a musician themselves but mean't to depict a famous box player?
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by harrywhohaa
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Catskills Zina. Gonna have to wait a few months.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Jason G
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I've seen it Jim, and he was good in that one - which is why its weird that he got it so wrong in the other.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by bb
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One of your hugs is worth the wait, Jase. ;)
Who're you calling a character, Jimmy Troy?
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: Musos in the Movies
I have a sneaking suspicion that one of the blokes in the Ned Kelly flick, I can safely assure any Aussies here, was definitely from NZ and that the others were Irish, albeit after a fashion.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Patkiwi
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The one with Harrison Ford & Brad Pitt: "The Devil's Own."
I liked it.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by grego
Re: Musos in the Movies
Nollaig Casey and Arty McGlynn played the music while the people you see are dubbed in Waking Ned. Good music, not great film.
-Athena
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by act
Re: Musos in the Movies
Well, I believe The Commitments featured Colm Mac Con Iomaire on fiddle, Brian Mac Aodha on pipesand countless others...and that Andrea Corr as well, not sure if she counts as a musician, but there she was.
I'm not sure who the trad players were in The Field ceili sequence, but it was good playing.
One thing that always bugged me, perhaps off-topic, was in 'Braveheart', where the soundtrack was almost entirely Uilleann pipes, and there's even a sequence where we see a Highland piper but Uilleann pipes are played....hmmmm.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by swearbox
Re: Musos in the Movies
As far as I know, thats not true ACT,
The fiddler I play with every wednesday in Dalkey is known as Eamon Doyle -he plays fiddle in this movie, and its his playing in the movie - he swears its not over dubbed - but perhaps in the soundtrack it is.
He is a wonderful fiddle player and has been known around the Dublin scene for years.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Hugo Chavez
Re: Musos in the Movies
I think the musicians in the film Jane Eyre were the Mellstock Band (or Quire).
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Paul_draper
Re: Musos in the Movies - Heartlands
Brit-folk's John McCusker and Kate Rusby made their big screen debuts in the film Heartlands. The movie, which came out in 2002, features many songs from Kate while John wrote the score. Beside their musical contributions, the two traditional musicians also play themselves in a scene at a folk club.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by mikk
Re: Musos in the Movies
Which Ned Kelly movie are we talking ?
Has there been another since the Mick Jagger monstrosity ?
Re the above: two short news items in a very old copy of "Melody Maker"........
The well-known authority on english folk-song, AL Lloyd, has been engaged to teach Mick Jagger how to sing in the traditional style for the upcoming movie "Ned Kelly"......
....and , several pages on..........
The well-known authority on english folk-song, AL Lloyd, has just suffered a heart-attack.
Nobody on the paper put two and two together !
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Musos in the Movies
Sometimes people don't want to admit it.
The Hammer horror movie "Countess Dracula" includes a tall, bearded, curly-haired hammered-dulcimer player, working with a fiddler.
I mentioned this to David Kettlewell, a tall, bearded, curly-haired dulcimer player, who worked with a fiddle-player in his band Trotto, and he said " Oh, really ?".
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Musos in the Movies
I'm surprised no-one has yet mentioned Seamus Egan's music in the Brothers MacMullen:
http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/feature/64egan.html
Incidentally, the story related here of the car breaking down, I had also heard several years ago from a London-born banjo player who although resident in The Bahamas (I think), could only find sessions in East coast USA, and from that knew Seamus persnally, and from whom he heard the story... and he thus told it to me while attending a session during a visit back to London to see his ma.
And slightly off the point, the actress Imelda Staunton, her mother Bridie was a regular fiddle player at that particular session. Sadly, I heard Bridie died recently. She was a lovely lady.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Alf Tupper
Re: Musos in the Movies
I'm fairly certain that Aly Bain plaayed a street fiddler who was killed off in a BBC production based in turn of the century Edinburgh. Murder Rooms ?
J
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by jfother
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I played an RUC detective in "Trail of Guilt", not a very common instrument.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by bodhran bliss
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I played an accordion player in a BBC Northern Ireland "Comedy" Drama production. It wasn't a very convincing portrayal.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
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Was it comedic, though, Conan?
I used to do a bit of film/TV extra work; I was a girl with a broken neck in 'Bramwell', one time... Well, I think it was supposed to be broken... I had a Gaultier-looking leather neckbrace with buckles on it, and an unhealthy pallor. (Model's own.)
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Nell
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Jim, I agree with you about Brendan Gleeson - he always gets killed off far too early. Liam Neeson too, for some reason. Didn't Brendan Gleeson play fiddle in Michael Collins, too?
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Nell
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He did indeed Nell
I've played with him a fair few times in pubs - pure flook (did I drop something?)
He loves the tunes and plays well, is good craic, and plays FASSSSSSST.
He enjoys one or toooo pints too!
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Hugo Chavez
Re: Musos in the Movies
As funny as the proverbial fart in a space-suit.
How does playing the "Broad Black Brimmer" in a freezing cold pub sound? We had to do about 7 takes as well.
A leather neckbrace? Was it like a slightly risqué version of Avid Merrion? Bo Selecta!
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: Musos in the Movies
Yes, something like that, Conan, only more tragic, wan and Victorian.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Nell
Re: Musos in the Movies
I once played my viola while riding a horse. (Someone else got to lead the horse, as my hands were too busy at the time.) We were a string quartet mounted on horseback, following a featured player to provide a soundtrack for him wherever he went.
In fact, I appeared in that movie in as many stereotyped roles as we could think of. (Buck nekkid in one of them, too, also with the viola. They put that one in to get the R rating, and I believe it was sub-titled "gratuitous nudity".) I recollect I was a housekeeper scrubbing a floor, a gardener, prostitute, washerwoman (complete with coolie hat), model, um, can't remember any of the others. Anyone who can name that movie gets a door prize.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Conan, sounds like you were in "give my head peace". Playing the "Brimmer" anywhere is a penance, but why seven takes?
I didn't want to sound too impressive playing a detective, I'm too small to play a peeler.
# Posted on March 15th 2005 by bodhran bliss
Re: Musos in the Movies
OK, you guys asked for it. I wasn't going to mention this but as it's end of thread time I think I can safely indulge in a few moments of narcisism. This is my 5 minutes of fame and I never saw any of it on the box. But this is true - so far as I know.
The Fleadh Cheoil in Sligo, 1989, I think. We are talking yer typical all-day session and drinking from early afternoon till...whenever...not only that there was a fair bit of rolling up of the quair stuff, even right in the middle of the session. At one point a film crew came in and filmed our session...for a fair bit of time was spent by their crew...and we continued to skin up right before their camera.
I heard later on that RTE had been around filming. But it wasn't till I got back to London that someone told me they had seen our gang on RTE...I presume without the skinning up footage...this was again confirmed by another independent witness...
Anyway. Do you really care? It was fun at the time.
# Posted on March 16th 2005 by Alf Tupper
Re: Musos in the Movies
Brendan Gleeson is one of that very rare breed, a starring actor who ican also play an instrument well live and undubbed on screen (I think we can exclude singers in this context). I'm trying to think of others - doesn't matter whether folk, jazz or classical - without much success. Any suggestions, anyone?
Trevor
# Posted on March 16th 2005 by lazyhound
Re: Musos in the Movies
Hey PatKiwi, the lads in the session scene in Ned Kelly (the new one) were Musicians from Melbourne - fiddle player Danny Burke and that crew.
Gurnsey Pete - there was a re-make of the Ned Kelly film with Naomi watts and Heath Ledger in it, Unfortunaly it wasnt much better than the first one. But I guess at least Heath Ledger doesnt have a pommie accent.
# Posted on March 16th 2005 by bb
Re: Musos in the Movies
Okay - the list of musicians in Ned Kelly were
Danny Burke, - Aussie
Paddy O'Neill, -Irish maybe
Tony O'Neill, - Australian
Steve Simmons. - Have no idea
# Posted on March 17th 2005 by bb
Re: Musos in the Movies
I was in a movie, it hasn't come out yet. Pride & Prejudice, with Donald Sutherland and Kiera Knightly (spelling? - Sheera Nighty?).
But they never asked me to play anything, just stand and pretend to have a conversation. I wonder why?
# Posted on March 17th 2005 by Ottery