Comments on: Some music http://www.gavinsblog.com/2006/03/29/some-music/ Estd. in Ireland, July 2002 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:42:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul O'Driscoll http://www.gavinsblog.com/2006/03/29/some-music/comment-page-1/#comment-86873 Paul O'Driscoll Mon, 08 May 2006 13:12:39 +0000 http://www.gavinsblog.com/2006/03/29/some-music/#comment-86873 I remember him and Stokers Lodge. I was quite young at the time and I couldn't believe that someone would dare to sing in a Cork accent. I never saw him in a pub but I saw them in a fete in Musgrave Park, Cork in 1979. That was around the time of "Do you want your old lobby washed down." I think he had a bit of a dispute with Brendan Shine who had a more successful version than Stoker's Lodge. It was a great show and I even taped it but it's probably long lost now. Last time I saw him live was in an outdoor gig in the NIHE (now University of Limerick) in 1985 - I was a student in Thomond College at the time. And I think he had a song for the Tall Ships race in 1991. My favorite was a song warning about drink driving - can't remember what it was but it had the lines: "I don't want to sound corny I just want to warn ye" Must check him out again. I remember him and Stokers Lodge. I was quite young at the time and I couldn’t believe that someone would dare to sing in a Cork accent. I never saw him in a pub but I saw them in a fete in Musgrave Park, Cork in 1979. That was around the time of “Do you want your old lobby washed down.” I think he had a bit of a dispute with Brendan Shine who had a more successful version than Stoker’s Lodge.

It was a great show and I even taped it but it’s probably long lost now. Last time I saw him live was in an outdoor gig in the NIHE (now University of Limerick) in 1985 – I was a student in Thomond College at the time. And I think he had a song for the Tall Ships race in 1991.

My favorite was a song warning about drink driving – can’t remember what it was but it had the lines:

“I don’t want to sound corny
I just want to warn ye”

Must check him out again.

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