Micca, please pass on my regards to Finbar when you next see him. He's quite a fixture at Bradfield Traditional Music Festival; indeed the first time I heard him there he sang a song written by Liz the Squeak!

George sounds right though that these songs are best heard live; the CD at least gives something of the flavour by using recordings of actual performances in pubs. Good comic singing is quite an art - Donal Maguire and Finbar Wall are both masters at it - the timing is everything, and the right gesture or expression can turn an otherwise mildly amusing phrase into something utterly hilarious which makes the audience collapse with laughter for a full three quarters of an hour!

Matthew