mail me.
If it's available at my local
CD library
I'll get it and give it a try.
I'm into folk... started with the celtic stuff. Can't help it,
a good fiddle tune really works for me. Folk is not
my sole interest though. I prefer 'pure' music, not overproduced,
minimal synthesised and best with some interesting lyrics. I often end up
with live and unplugged recordings. Real artists sound best live! I've got a lot of
main-stream stuff as well.
I'm always in for something new. If you know something you think I would
like, please
mail me.
If it's available at my local
CD library
I'll get it and give it a try.
Some of my favourite music:
These are 2 Scottish brothers with acoustic guitars and an accent. 'Sunshine on Leith' and 'This is the Story' make me wish I had a house in the middle of nowhere and a really big stereo set ;-). I don't know any other fans in my vicinity, this music has to grow on you... The band version of 'Letter from America' has been their only hit here in Holland that I know of, the other songs on 'This is the Story' are even better! I like them best without (a lot of) band support, like on their first record. News: their long awaited fourth album has been recorded.
Couldn't find any Proclaimers info on the net, so I started a page myself and called it: The Proclaimers Site (since it was the only one ;-). But now you can also visit The Official Proclaimers, which is currently a subset of mine (apart from the news section)...
Irelands foremost troubadour. I got 'Live at the Point' and can't get enough of it! Lot's of protest lyrics, like many Irish songs, but Christy sings about "that old whore of number ten" (pre-Blair;). Tried some non-live albums, but found them a bit tame. He was a member of Planxty and Moving Hearts. I think Planxty was the benchmark Irish folkband.
See the Christy Moore homepage
"His great voice, his choice of some of the best songs by some of Ireland's greatest unknown writers, together with the wit and passion of his own fine song writing, make him the most powerful Irish folk singer today." - Jackson Browne
To bad Christy had to stop playing live for health reasons.
Hey Ernie, doesn't she use a lot of synthesiser... Yes, I noticed.. I'm no dogmatist and Björk never gets boring... Her voice, tunes, poetic lyrics... Okay, she's probably not such a great poet (I'm no expert), but it's good enough for me. She's kinda cute too, isn't she? I sure wouldn't mind sharing a bottle of some Islandic spirit on a cold winter evening ;-)
My first home-brew CD is Natural Björk: 73 minutes of synthesiser-free Björk, great! It's a compilation of the MTV unplugged session and Gling Glo (Icelandic, with jazz trio).
Dutch Björk Page (in Dutch, but lot's of nice pictures)
Here in the Netherlands we've got Bloem de Ligny with much the same style as Björk. She does a very good live performance and I even prefer her CD "Zink" to Björk's "Homogenic". "Homogenic" does have some good tracks, but many others are totally screwed up by terrible synthesizer and distortion shit. Really sucks :(
The Pogues are usually described as a punk-folk band... They make solid Irish folk and I like it a lot. The Popes is a follow-up project by the former band leader: Shane MacGowan. Shane is a excellent song writer and he sings too, but he's usually not very sober. I'm terribly sorry for Jem Finer, but I feel the Pogues without Shane missed the essential ingredient. They quit, so they probably felt the same...
Shane started with the Popes to have more artistic freedom and his first album 'The Snake' is quite nice, I like the second 'Crock of Gold' too. He was supposed to have stopped the heavy use, when he started with the Popes, but was clearly quite drunk or stoned when they performed in Holland at the '95 Pink Pop open-air festival. They had to drag him backstage when he couldn't finish a line of his own songs and was feared to fall off the stage. The band tried to continue without him, but they were pretty pissed off and so was the public.
I've witnessed several Shane+Popes gigs in NL, England and Ireland now and as long as Shane could still sing, the shows were great! Shane fans are very nice folk too.
See The Friends of Shane homepage for more info...
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