St. Patrick's Day mix help

djdan · **Posted:** Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:23 pm

I thought this was going to be easy and it's not. I need to make a couple of mixes for an Irish bar on St. Patrick's Day and in addition to traditional Irish drinking songs, they want some contemporary Irish music as well. So I've got the Pogues, and um..... that one Chieftains album....and um....that cover of Whiskey In The Jar. Can anyone help a brutha out with some suggestions? I'm trying to stay away from U2 for the most part.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Definitely Saw Doctors & Waterboys

Maybe:

Van Morrison
Christy Moore

although I don't really think of either as drinking music

djdan · **Posted:** Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:31 pm

There's that Dropkick Murphys song from "The Departed."

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Anything from Great Big Sea...I put "River Driver" on one of my old mixes, but nobody liked it.

aFreshStart4Me · **Posted:** Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:32 pm

Ashley McIsac (sp)...very though he's from Canada

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

The Levellers are decent. You might be able to find a decent Black 47 song that would work although I don't remember liking them much.

Not a big fan of these but the fit the theme:

Flogging Molly
The Tossers
Dropkick Murphys

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

I've tried to make St. Patrick's days mixes before and have always ended up junking what I came up with listening to full albums by the Pogues, Waterboys and Saw Doctors instead. There's lots of stuff that fits but not much that doesn't feel like filler compared to those bands.

I'll be interested in what you come up with though.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:33 am

La Rocca
Mike Scott
Undertones
Stiff Little Fingers
Hothouse Flowers

Also, ignore any suggestions that use the words "Great", "Big", or "Sea".

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Ill never understand why you dont like me.

Unless its because you dont like freedom.

Gordo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:06 am

billy g Wrote:

The Levellers are decent. You might be able to find a decent Black 47 song that would work although I don't remember liking them much.

I've actually always liked Black 47, though they're real hit or miss. Check out "Maria's Wedding" or "Banks of the Hudson" from Fire of Freedom...or "Czechoslovakia" from Green Suede Shoes.

I vaguely remember liking this compilation CD "Live for Ireland" when it came out a long time ago; it may give you an idea or two:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 2m96oodep1

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:13 am

not contemporary, but kinda fun:

paddy's irish clan "f*ck the british army"

indian headdress · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:40 am

www.myspace.com/lrickhaun

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:34 am

Steve Earle - Galway Girl

seconding Flogging Molly

djdan · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:57 pm

Sketch Wrote:

Steve Earle - Galway Girl

Yes!

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:09 pm

How about something by The Commitments?
But you gotta lead it in with that monologue about how "The Irish are the Black People of Europe".

EDIT: Others...
Thin Lizzy (Although "Whiskey In the Jar" is that cover you're thinking of)
Sinead O’Connor
Boomtown Rats
Kristy MacColl
The Undertones

d · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:53 pm

uh, damien dempsey's "st. patrick's day?"
I'll up it if you're interested

sinead o'connor made a whole album of irish tunes called sean nos nua.
luka bloom does trad. irish stuff from time to time.

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:20 pm

undertones - girls don't like it
them - one more time (this record could also apply to todd's cover thread)
some crap by rory gallagher
or MBV

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