"watch your telly if you want, others are playing the music, including me.."
I'll have to take your word for that since you make your snide attacks anonymously - as do all our trolls
Can't be up to much if you don't have the bottle to give us your name.
There really isn't much to be said for appearing on tele or the media - been there, done that - three television appearances this year and six radio programmes (all to promote the singers you have sneeringly referred to as "old codgers").
Three years ago it was a three-part radio series on your work with Travellers 'Come All you Loyal Travellers' on Lyric FM.
Then before that - three programmes on our Clare CD 'Around The Hills of Clare' tall "old codgers again I'm afraid.
Due to make another for Radio Kerry on our collecting in Ireland in the not-too-distant future.
Think it was three radio programmes and part of a four part television series on traditional storytelling in the U.K. - shit - "old codgers again"
We (Pat and I) appeared under our own name, so it' all checkable.
Anyway, getting on tele is not what it's all about - as far as we're concerned - tends to get in the way of the real work.
You want a pissing competition - dream on bro!
"but who lack something "
Begrudgery nonsense Dick and this time aims at young kids - shame on you.
You have been promoting Comhaltas' 'playing by numbers' style of playing which is designed to win competitions for as long as you have been on this forum - noted for its 'playing by the rulebook' for the adjudicator.
The kids that break free of the competition ethos become beter musicians, but under the dead hand of CCE (once described as by one of the greatest influential figures in Irish music as "an organisation with a great future behind it" - very little chance.
You want to knock youngsters playing - do so if that's what turns you on - I prefer to talk about the success and failure of the teachers.
Suggest that if you think youngsters lack a joie de vivre - go listen to Edel Fox or Padráic Keane and tell us there's not 'joy of living' in it
PADRÁIC KEANE
You'll never reach that standard while you've got a hole in your arse.
For those who don't know Padráic - he is the grandson of the late Tom McCarthy - the London-based piper and concertina player - now the third generation - would Tom have been proud of him!!!
Jim Carroll