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Sleeve Notes
Another lively concert from Ireland's most famous ballad group, this time in one of Yorkshire's better known clubs renowned for booking and staging the best of international entertainers.
The Dubliners are, of course, primarily such a group but have also made their mark as musicians both collectively and individually by their use of good musical taste quite apart from their rowdy, bawdy behaviour both on and off stage.
This show gives you a pretty good idea of a typical performance by this multi-talented group. A novel number in their repertoire is "The Four-Poster Bed" which is a traditional Shetland wedding tune. "Seven Drunken Nights" reached number one on the Irish hit parade some years ago and sounds like a typical Dubliner's night out — every night. It is said that if an Irishman was confronted with a roomful of beautiful naked ladies he would make his way to the nearest bottle! Two of Ewan McColl's compositions are featured here, "Black Velvet Band," a big hit in Ireland as was "Dirty Old Town."
It is quite amazing that such diverse Paddies have managed to keep together as a group for so long.
Ronnie Drew left for a while to solo but is now back again with his gravel voiced approach to Balladry.
The gentle KieranBurke [sic] was stricken with paralysis but is, thankfully, on the mend.
This historic group has more than proved its popularity since they met many years ago in O'Donohues Pub in Merrion Row, Dublin to pore over Colm O'Lochlainn's "Irish Street Ballads," rehearse to the delight of the patrons, and become the Irish folk music "New Wave Band." Long may they continue to delight us with their unique talents!
