Folkies supporting IRA

Subject: RE: Folkies supporting IRA
From: Brían
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 11:05 AM

I would hate to think that the only reason I play music is to get drunk and have a good time. I play music because it makes my life richer and hopefully enrichens others lives. If I was spending my free time hanging aroung a group of angry hypocrites with murder in their eyes, I would probably find another place to play. I don't think KEVIN BARRY is a particularlly bad song. The melody is a good one and the story is quite accurate. Kevin Barry certainly didn't start the atrocities and his death, if anything only exacerbated them.   It does matter who the singer is and the audience. I have a friend who sings a very nice version of it that sounds powerful in a quiet moment with a proper listening audience at the end of a party.

Brían

Subject: RE: Folkies supporting IRA
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 10:12 AM

Before the IRA Hi Jacked the Civil Rights movement and re vitalised The Troubles in 1969 , there were a lot of Cracking Good Pro -Republican Chorus songs on the UK Folk Scene - NO percentage in doing
them after '69 , when a lot of your audience could have family and friends with the services in NI ,
   I work in a couple of 'Irish' bands have have never had any demands
from republican sympathisers to sing Rebel songs , and wouldnt sing them if they WERE requested .






Especially Kevin Barry , IMHO not even a good song !

Subject: RE: Folkies supporting IRA
From: mindblaster
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 09:19 AM

You thicko CAMPIN I did not say Kevin Barry Murdered anyone - I am talking about the IRA supporters. Kevin Barry just happens to be one of the crap "tear" jerking songs that they sing.

Subject: RE: Folkies supporting IRA
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 09:07 AM

When exactly did Kevin Barry murder a mother of 10?

I don't have any respect for the British Army scum currently murdering their way through Iraq but that doesn't stop me playing pipe tunes from WW1 and WW2. (Or "Support Company 1st Battalion Scots Guards Farewell to Divis Flats", for that matter).

Subject: RE: Folkies supporting IRA
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 09:03 AM

Mmmm good job that we American and Brit troops dont do that sort of thing aint it?

Subject: RE: Folkies supporting IRA
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 08:56 AM

Does this still happen? I must admit I haven't come across this for a long time.

Rhiannon

Subject: Folkies supporting IRA
From: mindblaster
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 08:49 AM

Why is it assumed that because an event is "folk" we must put up with evil minded hypocritical IRA suppoters singing crap IRA ballads with fake tears in their murderous eyes.

I'm sick of the "Sing Kevin Barry, or you're not a true Irishman" attitude.
Why should I show any respect to people who worship the bastards that pulled a mother of 10 from her home then tortured and murdered her?

All I want to do is play my guitar and drink beer and enjoy good company.