Jams/Sessions
Irish Music for a Week
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I’ll be on holiday in County Kerry for a week from Saturday 27th, so there will be no posts during that time. I’ll be too busy meandering around lakes and mountains and joining in pub music sessions. We have some good friends in Killarney who play a regular spot several nights a week in one [...]
Help Us Out (and Maybe Yourself)
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Our web stats suggest that the posts with video in them are the most popular. Well, that’s fine, we’re happy to include video when we can.
Of course, variety is the spice of life, so the more different videos we have the more we have to offer. Oh, we could trawl Youtube for video but we [...]
A Brief Interlude…
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007OK, this will either convince you that informal live music is fun, or it will horrify you to the extent that you will never go near another pub jam session so long as you live.
Below are a couple of videos from a local pub jam last night. All very relaxed.
If you are just starting out [...]
Look, It IS That Easy
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007This is a kind of case study. It is intended to show how easy it is to get out and start playing to an audience in the shortest possible time.
The rather alarming picture below is of a bunch of middle aged hooligans sometimes known as The Ploughmen. Your humble correspondent sits second from left playing [...]