This is Pat Dineen from Celtic Cross. So glad you are back online. We have a new CD out and would love for you to hear it. Drop me a line at patrick@celticcross.com.

Patrick

Cheers,
Aaron

Thanks for doing what you’ve done here.

Thanks.

Just wondering whether CMN swag shall ever be available for purchase? I still want to look cool in a CMN painter’s cap at next year’s Scottish Games!

Cheers,
Aaron

Aaron, you got me loving Greenman because of the same weird fusions they do. Keep playing some different stuff every now and then.

Greenwich Meantime is also my new favorite and glad to see both sell through iTunes.

Good show this week….well all are good, but good selections this time.

Shawn

Incidentally, five of the tracks on Brilliant, Sad And Guilty are ones that I recorded for my Buffalo Live! Music Podcast #6!

It really was a great show and Maja had such a good time at the show, even though she got a bit tired by the end.

Now if only I can get bands to hit Macon instead of Atlanta……

Aaron

The show was done off the board with my M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 (see pic to the right). Thank you M-Audio!

On Flickr, thats brilliant, I havent used flickr much yet, but I knew it had a lot of capabilities. I’ll have to set that up to use and mention it next week

Huge Thanks!
Aaron

I have a recommendation for your Flickr photos. For my podcast, we agreed on a common tag that listeners & crewmembers can all use for any photos related to the podcast. We use thesignalpodcast, for your show it might be good to use a tag like celticmusicnews. That way listeners can contribute photos that are related & all photos related to your podcast can be grouped together regardless of who posted them.

I had a lot of fun doing that one even though it was seriously rushed….I’m still debating on doing a show this week or letting this show stand as the weeks show out early…

Aaron

(and that’s coming from a piper who is sick fed up of itchy bloody fingers!)

“Loch Lomand” (near Santa Cruz)
http://www.lochlomondceltic.org/games.htm

FYI, to anybody, the 10/28&29 games in Ione have been cancelled for this year.

On King of Scotland, no its not cheating, cheating is having someone tell u the answer with no effort, a google search is some effort

But don’t say it yet, let see if we can get someone else to figure it out too.

A

- L

-L

Aaron

Cheers,
Aaron

I’ll be in the ladies’ barfing, and not from the beer.

No.
No.
No.

Maybe, maybe, a rap knock off with legitimate Celtic rhythm structures could work, but not this sort of obnoxious-on-purpose pseudo-urban in-yer-face all-attitude-no-history/study/strength/ability/class slow 2/2 vulgarity stuff.

No.
No.
No.

I agree with you on the bass line and backing music especially, being a bass player for fun i always try to look at and listen to bass lines (even synth ones).

I’m also not much of a fan of rap in general or rapped lyrics, although there are exceptions, Rush’s Roll the Bones rap section comes to mind (the author of which, Neil Peart is a friend on the shows myspace page (so is Dr. Dre for some strange but yet somehow pleasing reason)). Or Black 47’s Rockin’ the Bronx, which is very early Beastie Boysish.

While I almost never comment on political things on the show (I did mention the Fairtax Book once as an aside), there is a lot of good celtic/irish music that is political, see Black 47. Shaymin is an Irish-American from the Boston area and Irish politics are part of the heritage there.

That said, I have the upmost respect for the British military, and while I dont know any personally well, a good friend of mine (and listner to the show) Mel, is in the Civilian Police doing international work a lot of the time, I met him in Kosovo and he also worked in Iraq.

I was and am so excited by Shaymin because I never heard the style before. Its like when I first learned of celtic music (and celtic/folk/rock) by hearing Spirit of the West at Eden Fest near toronto years and years ago, when I got home and picked up one of their CD’s I was just enthralled.

Now my memory which is not the best will betray me as he did explain the song to me in a lot of detail on the phone. It’s mainly about Irish (american mainly) women and what they put up with being with Irish men. The line you referred to was about someone he knew personally (a daughter of one of the men killed), and I believe it was supposed to be from her point of view.

The show takes no stance on any politics, any ones stance can be aired through song, James Connelly by Black 47 for example. But being an american (an irish, scottish, english and dutch mutt if anyone is curious) I do stand by the free speech view. I didn’t play it for any political reason, just that I love music that is a mix of styles, going back to high school, anyone else remember Anthrax and Public Enemy doing Bring the Noise? Or Run DMN and Aerosmith redoing Walk this Way?

Cheers,
Aaron

However as a Brit I would like to say that I was less than impressed at the lyric refering to the British Armed forces as cowards. Adopting a pro IRA stance seems remarkable given the events of sept 11th. In general I would imagine people visit this site and listen to this podcast because of what they agree on.. a particular interest in a particular genre of music. Perhaps overtly political material would only serve to distract from that common ground. I say perhaps becuse it might just make it more succesful, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons.

cheers

Les

I will be putting all of them back on this site, I started it but found one problem, the player for the site has problems with some of them depending on how they were encoded, so thats taking longer than planned. You can however find all the shows at http://celtic.podshow.com in the meantime.

Cheers,
Aaron

and Tara,
Thanks, I will be contacting them soon to try to get them on the show.

Cheers,
Aaron

Aaron

Slainte!
Thom

New site is looking good.

I was lucky enough to encounter an Irish group by the name of Amadan tonight. Their music is fantastic.

They only have a couple of CDs out but it might be worth looking into.

Website: http://www.amadanusa.com/index.htm

Love your show,

Tara

Love the new layout. Nice work buddy

-Daryl

Stephan

Aaron

You will probably hear some more of her in the next couple weeks.

Aaron

I just wanted to suggest a band that you might be interested in playing on your podcast sometime. They are called Shanneyganock. I don’t know if you have ever heard for them before or not. They are from Newfoundland and sing alot of Irish type music. I don’t think I’ve seen you play any of their music before so I thought I would suggest it. Keep the great podcasts coming!!

To both of you and of course any other interested readers, the calendar and tour dates. This is a tough one Mike. i’ve really thought about this one for quite a while and have come up with many ways to do it, but all of them involve either manually checking every bands dates often and updating them in a calendar of some kind and I just do not have the time for that.
However….that said…I am hoping for some kind of comprimise, where they can be posted to this site. As Nancy volunteered for GBS we also have a volunteer for GMT so far as well. There will be seperate categories here soon, so you will be able to select all entries that have tour dates to just view them.

Now all that is needed is volunteers for more artists All of you listeners and readers come join in….

Cheers,
Aaron

As for suggestions for a forum idea, I like the idea of one fan posting the news for their favourite band/singer. I would like to volunteer for GBS if no one else has. I’m a huge fan and keep up on their activities alot!! Anyways, I think the news part should include tour dates and cd launches for artists. I think though that it will be alot of work for just you to do so your suggestion for other people to help is the best. If I can help in any way just let me know!!