Some very humorous responses.

We do requests of the most popular songs, just because we would lose touch with our audience if we didn't; becoming background music. Now that we are actually starting to get fans, we need to stay in touch with people. So learning "Fields of Athenry" or "Four Green Fields" or "Galway Shawl" is a must. We can do them as creatively and as lively as anything else, but I want to keep playing the jigs and reels too, and stay in touch with our session side. That's the real reason I stay up there and play the drek well. The fire ceol keeps things from getting tooralooracheesy.

But that steeeewpid Unicorn seems only to be requested by drunk six foot meatheads who are permanently stuck in kidneygarten. I'd rather play Black Velvet Band six times in a row for a bunch of old ladies at the back table.

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