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Top of the morning to you! It's the St Patrick's Day podcast!
Posted by David Hepworth on 17 March 2009 - 11:14am.
Barry McIlheney joins Andrew Harrison and David Hepworth for a special St Patrick's Day podcast in which we review some of your contributions to our Terrible On-Stage Behaviour thread, pay tribute to James Corden for having the bottle to do a routine in front of the most difficult-to-impress audience in the country in the name of Comic Relief (here's the story of how they did it), wonder what we'd do with Mick Jones's lock-up, talk about why the whole world wants to be Irish for one day a year and recommend what you can do with your old books.
You can subscribe to the podcasts here or stream the latest one below.
An ironic "iconic"
Oops. I used "channelling" in a post here only this morning. In my defence, it was in the context of Tiny Tim. Phew.
Crap but non offensive Irish joke alert...
Why do Irish people say everything twice?
To be sure, to be sure.
Sorry.
groan
Why did God make Irishmen drunks?
To give the rest of the world a chance
I hereby decree
Barry to be Official Translator At The Tarnished Court Of Forde.
I think, referring to podcasts passim, that the real threat is not Northern Irish people commandeering the podcasts – it's people from Stoke Newington* or Stoke Newington 'borders'** (*Barry and Andrew) (**me).
p.s. great podcast (to be sure, begorrah etc.).
Judging by the amount you've got in print today...
...are you taking the rest of the year off?
Chance would be a fine thing
The toil of the freelancer never ends.
More Norn Iron stars
Could I recommend another great person from Northern Ireland - Derry's Paul McAloone? He has a superb evening radio show here on a station called Today FM.(I think you can listen live on the net.)
Here is the track listing for his Paddy's Day Irish-only special last night.
http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Paul-McLoone/Blog.aspx
He used the Jack Charlton grandfather rule to allow music by the Beatles, Oasis and Kate Bush. Love the Fatima Mansions and Something Happens tracks.
By the way, McLoone is also the lead singer in The Undertones, he replaced Fergal Sharkey.
I enjoyed the podcast on Paddy's Day in Ireland. It's a welcome day off - I am not drinking yet but I am making a meal of ham and colcannon.(I've also used the day to discover that fantastic FIP French station recommended on this site by Mr Hepworth and others.)
To be honest, the Guinness IS in the fridge - maybe I will open it later while watching the Simpsons Irish special on Sky. From the trailers, it looks it was written when the Celtic Tiger was still roaring!
Danny Wallace - random acts of kindness
No book opportunities in that line I'm afraid. His 'Join Me' bunch did random acts of kindness on 'Good Fridays'... Book done.
James Corden
Is there no escape from him?
Comic Relief
I watched on the iPlayer what the BBC reckoned to be the best 15 minutes. The short clip of this tickled me, so I sought out the whole thing. I haven't laughed that much in ages.
The intrinsic value of the CD...
as somebody says in the podcast, is at an all time low. Seattle Public Utilities, at the vanguard of the recycling movement in the States, just published their latest rules. Sadly, they advise that CD's should not be put in the recycling bin but in the garbage container along with empty paint tins and prescription bottles.
Recorded in a toilet?
Ok, I'm a newbie and this might have been talked about before but would it take much to dampen down the room you are in...and I don't mean cocking a leg and wazzing on the floor. I'm talking about the acoustics of the room (I say room though it could well be a toilet by the sound of it).
My extensive experience of recording in toilets around the world would lead me to suggest a trip down to Singh's Indian bazaar to pick up some funky ethnic rugs to hang up around the place. While you are there you could pick up a few joss sticks to get a suitably 70s retro vibe.
Yes I know we get the podcast for free and I shouldn't whinge but if you go to the effort of producing what is a very entertaining podcast you'd think you'd want people to hear it.
down periscope...
DH 99% right
Most weeks you may have had point about tuesday night football at Barnsley but last night the Mighty Reds walloped Palace 3:1!
Excellent podcast sounded fine to me.
Springsteen and Phil Spector/Beach Boys cliches
Make. It. Stop.
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=013269018370076798483:gg7jrrhpsy4&cof=FORID...
Postcode records
As an N16 resident, though one who has made the trip from west to east Berlin, I was delighted to hear discussion of such parochial disputes as the great Nandos stand-offf, and would be delighted if each cast began with a Stoke Newington news round-up.
Also a joy to hear mention of the Word-unfriendly Crass, though I suspect it may be a long wait for the next one.
In fact N16 could put together a pretty good pub band from its residents.
Vocals - Eddie Tenpole
Drums - Penny Rimbaud
Bass - Mark Bedford
Lead guitar - Tjinder Singh
Anyone got a better postcode line-up?
Les McKeon
You can possibly rope in the former Bay City Roller on vocals, although there is a chance he's actually an E8 fellow.
The People's Republic Of Stoke Newington
Good line-up, though Dodgy's Matt Priest might be fighting with the Crass fella for the drumsticks. And obviously top management would be provided by ex-Buzzcocks svengali and current local librarian Richard Boon. All together now a la Benny and Bjorn: can you see the queue for Nandos?
you wouldn't be hear the band
from all the chatter from people pushing 3 wheeled prams and talking about schools and house prices that and tutting at the price of orgainc pak choi oh and the the general braying from media types on church street. Not forgetting any journey to stokey takes 10 hours on a bendy bus.
No deptford wins hands down puting aside all the spiky haired nme style bands that abound nowadays we can claim squeeze and dire straits and erm tomas tallis and er em barnes wallis ( the latter being the stage manager for motorheads bomber tour probably)
I reckon they should be
I reckon they should be alive and current residents for this game.
And you make a fair point about Church Street, but where exactly would this magazine, site, etc be without 'media types'?
In which case are your list members
represented by their current selves or at their prime not sure I'd want to here swords of 1000 men version 2009! and Corner shop haven't done owt of note since 1996!
Not really against media types and smug is over used word but some of the people in stokey do love themselves a bit too much, nice park mind and you can get a good kebab so not all bad and come to think of it one of the best gig I ever saw was edwynn collins playing in the basement of a thai restaurant on church st.
I was at that show too, at
I was at that show too, at least I guess it was the same one. Barracudas I think the place was called. He's one of my favourites and that a great night
that's the one I have the setlist somewhere!
!
Line-up subject to change
Good point on Mr Boon, which reminded me that I think Howard Devoto is also on patch I think, so perhaps a frontman reshuffle could be in order.
Come Up And See Me
Steve Harley rumoured to be living near Albion Road. Bass player from the LAs, later of Cast as well. John Simm is it? Just saw Bedders on his bike by the way.
I Mean John Power
Obviously.
Books and parking
Keeping books isn't just about vanity. A fair number of books in our house get lent out to friends or family. Some come back and some don't. Also, while I'm not claiming I was brought up in grinding poverty, there was never a lot of spare money around, so when I bought something it tended to be valued. I find it hard to shake off the habits of those first 18 years. So I like to keep books. Sometimes they get re-read. I have an ambition to re-read the whole series of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux one day. It may never happen, but I'm not giving them away.
Giving away Pay & Display tickets is getting difficult because of the greedy bastards in town halls. Here in Haringey they have started introducing machines where you have to enter the first part of your car registration number which then gets printed on the ticket. Giving away a ticket with unexpired time puts the recipient at risk of a parking ticket unless by a remote chance they have a registration plate that matches the appropriate part of your own. It pisses me off. I paid for the space and I should be able to give it away; but revenue streams trump altruism.
Bloody hell
Another good reason not to park in Haringey.
What was the punchline
to Barry's joke? I didn't quite catch it.
That's A Cracker!
Joist (Joyce) wrote Ulysses and Girder (Goethe) wrote Faust. It's the way he tells 'em!
On an entirely different note...
... from the picture that sits atop this entry, Mr Harrison could have something of a career as a Paul Merton look-a-like, or maybe it's just the angle...
I think Mr Harrison would have to do a De Niro...
and eat solidly for 6 months to resemble Paul Merton, he who has eaten all the pies and then some.
You'd need three of me
to make a decent-sized Ian Hislop.
Paul Merton Is Really Tall
And Andrew Harrison isn't. Last time I looked anyway.
The library of babel
'Fraid your discussions about books, CD, spotify etc etc all rather put me in mind of Borges, both the Library of Babel
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html
(which Mick Jones seems to be doing his best to replicate)
and his poem Limits,
http://www.consolatio.com/2009/01/limitsthere-is-a-line-of-verlaine-that...
with the oh-so poignant line
"Among the books of my library (I'm selling them)
there is one that I will never open now"
I guess it helps explain why I am so loath to part with the core of my books and CDs (I've trimmed the former).
does David H really say
he's never heard of Cathal Coughlan? (I may have misheard this)
He's not
The only one.
but presumably
you haven't been involved in music mag publishing and presenting for the last umpty years (if you have, sorry, I've never heard of you).
I'm sorry
Is there a list somewhere with the names of all the people you have to have heard of? I must have missed that.
Not at all
- just thought he'd been around long enough for someone with your pedigree to have come across his work before - he's hardly obscure. Even had a number one single (by default, admittedly)
David Gray...
lived in Stokey for a long time - I once held the gate open for him and his sprogs at Clissold Park playground (he was looking very rock-star-ish, I remember, not like Tjinder Singh, who's as scruffy as the rest of we Stokey dads). Success may have turned his head now, though.
Oh Dear, Paddywhackery...
... from Norn-Iron's Barry McIlheney.
NOTE: in World Soccer, you have to have a grandparent from a country to qualify playing for that country. Not simply for "having a pint" in that country.
This rule was brought in to assist poorer countries who had a history of emigration.
I'm not sure what rule applies to non-English nationals playing for the English cricket team.
Otherwise an enjoyable Podcast.
Peace Out.
Tony Cascarino
is not Irish and is not of Irish descent. He admits as much in his excellent autobiography (although auto is stretching it as it was brilliantly co-written by Paul Kimmage, who also wrote the best book ever about cycling, Rough Ride).
Correct & right, Johan...
... Mr C.'s moral compass is seriously in question.
Not only did he lie about his lineage he then went on to make a few more bob out of the falshood by writing a book with that as the main selling point.
Grubby stuff altogether.
having had bleat on sound before
I was much impressed by the quality of all 3 on the recording.
well done , Fraser presumably