Ronnie Drew - R.I.P
So when were you going to tell me? I kind of expect news from time to time. Not from BBC, not from google - but from my friends!!
So Ronnie is dead! Shit, that's massive news. A legend of our time has passed on. Mr. Dublin( not like Damien Dempsey the wannabe prick) is gone. Last night I was in a bar, funnily enough there was 90% Irish there and we had a right old knees up in his honour. The Vietnamese Dj was a little put out, but we're bigger than he so he had to take a back seat.
Anyway, here's to you, Ronnie Drew you goddamn legend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T7OaDDR7i8
In my opinion( subjectively speaking!) I think he represented a league of Irish poets that Ireland is losing on scale that equates to an artistic famine. What made Irish musicians and artists fantastic in the past was a true feelings of repression, suppressed emotions and troubled thoughts that could never be expressed in common language.
We no longer have the fuel that feeds true expression. Greed on a massive scale, obsessive notions on the latest threads,cars and mortgage rates. Where are the people who remember walking through a field (barefoot if you want to get romantic) and actively talk about it. Where are those who yield to latent memories of a childhood spent in the woods, the fields, the marts of good old Ireland?
U2 gave their best work in the eighties, when Ireland was crippled with an economic recession and lost it as soon as the bubble began to rise. And so the trend continues..
We have the likes of Paddy Casey, curly haired and fond of the drink - does that cover it? Does that fill the void? Not half enough. We've lost it. Nil muid fos in an caint as gaeilge, nil muid fos in an labhair leis ar teanga nadurtha.
Anyway, this is just a little rant - indulge me! To the end of a legends life! Rock on Ronnie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M7e_Z0BXuw
So Ronnie is dead! Shit, that's massive news. A legend of our time has passed on. Mr. Dublin( not like Damien Dempsey the wannabe prick) is gone. Last night I was in a bar, funnily enough there was 90% Irish there and we had a right old knees up in his honour. The Vietnamese Dj was a little put out, but we're bigger than he so he had to take a back seat.
Anyway, here's to you, Ronnie Drew you goddamn legend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T7OaDDR7i8
In my opinion( subjectively speaking!) I think he represented a league of Irish poets that Ireland is losing on scale that equates to an artistic famine. What made Irish musicians and artists fantastic in the past was a true feelings of repression, suppressed emotions and troubled thoughts that could never be expressed in common language.
We no longer have the fuel that feeds true expression. Greed on a massive scale, obsessive notions on the latest threads,cars and mortgage rates. Where are the people who remember walking through a field (barefoot if you want to get romantic) and actively talk about it. Where are those who yield to latent memories of a childhood spent in the woods, the fields, the marts of good old Ireland?
U2 gave their best work in the eighties, when Ireland was crippled with an economic recession and lost it as soon as the bubble began to rise. And so the trend continues..
We have the likes of Paddy Casey, curly haired and fond of the drink - does that cover it? Does that fill the void? Not half enough. We've lost it. Nil muid fos in an caint as gaeilge, nil muid fos in an labhair leis ar teanga nadurtha.
Anyway, this is just a little rant - indulge me! To the end of a legends life! Rock on Ronnie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M7e_Z0BXuw
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