Comments on: Celtic Music Deathmatch # 1 - Brobdingnagian Bards vs. The Barley Boys

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:41:57 +0000

@ Ken - Gotta admit I’ve never heard of Big Tom and the Mainliners. I did check out the wikipedia entry. Looks interesting. I guess if you’re really into traditional music, I can see your point about the Bards being a little closer to that “sound”, but they DO play an autoharp and a recorder.

@ Carrie - Thanks for the support, and obviously I think you’re spot on about the emotion of the song. Maybe one of these days we’ll make it up to the Northeast and give ‘em a listen.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:10:24 +0000

I love this deathmatch idea. Both great tunes but The Barley Boys surely have the driven emotion that makes this song ROCK! (You should catch it live–the drum solo is nuts)!

By: Ken Armstrong

Ken Armstrong — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:23:20 +0000

I think the Borbdingnags sound a little more authentic - whatever that means!! The other crowd sound a bit like a showband - Big Tom and the Mainliners anyone?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:02:33 +0000

@ Marc - Thanks for stopping by and setting us straight on that point. Who could hope for more after a Deathmatch than to have one of the combatants drop by to argue along? Nobody, I’m sure. Awesome.

@ Jeremy - Glad you like the new post! We have a lot more of these in the works, so hopefully it will become a regular feature around here.

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:50:23 +0000

Nice one, guys That’s the brilliant thing about Celtic music - it’s open to so many interpretations, you could argue for hours about who does what better, and in the end, you’d all be right! Here’s a good example of it - two bands who love what they play putting their own slant on a great tune. More, please

By: Marc Gunn

Marc Gunn — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:29:53 +0000

LOL. Awesome! I love it. Tres cool!
That said, Andrew always pointed out something that you both missed,
his recorder. He always played a happy recorder part which kinda
conflicted with my lyrical part and turned it from a fierce rebel song
to a bouncy cheerful song. Merits of that? I like the happy song of
death aspect but I like the fighting aspect of it meself and the la di
la’s add a nice degree of reflection to the fierceness which is why I
swiped that from The Wolfe Tones (I think it was…)

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