Somehow I managed to miss Dropkick Murphys until about twelve hours ago. I’m now making up for lost time. Don’t wait for Burns Night for bagpipes – Listen: Warrior’s Code (I suspect Ray is now thinking, I told you so)
Somehow I managed to miss Dropkick Murphys until about twelve hours ago. I’m now making up for lost time.
Don’t wait for Burns Night for bagpipes – Listen: Warrior’s Code
(I suspect Ray is now thinking, I told you so)
You know Flogging Molly, though, right?
Yeah, Syl, I’ve flogged Molly well and truly, and – oh.
Wait.
You mean….
…and yeah, I’ve a couple CDs by Flogging Molly. I have to admit bagpipe bias though. B^)
Sure. Who doesn’t? I’m a huge fan of the bags and pipe myself.
Dude, famine protest punk rock:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=10agPj0Vzu4
about men arrested and put on prison ships to Australia for stealing government corn rather than watching their kids starve.
Sir Trevalyan’s opinion on the Famine was that it was nature’s mechanism for reducing excess population in Ireland:
“The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated. …The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”
And of course the live version, with much spilling of beer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_cZzNpCM3s
And yeah, I told you so.
But you of all people know, Ray, I never do what I’d told. or what I’m supposed to.