Kept Catholics - 50 Years of the Chieftains

[Sam Lord]

The keen ear catches snatches of all the very best of world music. A little Irish here. A touch of Miles Davis there. A flash of gypsy Balkan. Then the Velvet Underground. And somewhere in a white noise finale there’s a flicker of Radiohead. Anita Pallenberg, a guest at the first year’s festival and former partner of both Brian Jones and Keith Richards, said she particularly loved the group’s “Zeppelin riffs”.

That's quite the ear.

A flicker of radiohead ...

[Kev Bar]

That's quite the ear.

A flicker of radiohead ...

Devoid of education, we still try our best to amuse.

[Sam Lord]

Devoid of education, we still try our best to amuse.

Amusing is one thing. Penning a hot favourite for the pseud of the year award is another entirely.

[Kev Bar]

Amusing is one thing. Penning a hot favourite for the pseud of the year award is another entirely.

Curiously I edited with that very notion in mind.

But sometimes to the dour and the puritanical there lies little between the pseud and the passionate.

You should go to the festival Sam... Allah alone knows but you might even loosen up and enjoy yourself.

[Sam Lord]

Anita Pallenberg, a guest at the first year’s festival and former partner of both Brian Jones and Keith Richards, said she particularly loved the group’s “Zeppelin riffs”.

Wow. She slept with both of them. Her musical judgement must be impeccable.

[Kev Bar]

Wow. She slept with both of them. Her musical judgement must be impeccable.

You seem to have quite a range of requirements before one is entitled to say Tutti is Frutti.

But it so happens her views echoed mine and those of W Burroughs.

Think they call that stuff a type of feature 'sourcing'

Having a bad life or something Sam?

See you there next year and we'll get those flickers and riffs to bring a smile to your sour, crusty auld lips

(We'll have the debate on misogyny -and/or snobbery - after the muezzin scream)

And how would your erudite view on the nature of the "riffs" differ from the above?

Whilst your lust for life is under serious question, perhaps it's time to ask have you ever "had it" in the above mentioned "ear" before?

Lust ...hmmm
Listen if you can't make Joujouka next summer, Thailand is fierce popular with the unloved. You can take that from me, I lived next door for years.

[Shaadi]

It seems Kev Bar has become something of a music critic nice piece in Saturday's Irish Times about a Moroccan festival that sounds mad and fun nice prose KB

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...319895508.html

In light of Kevs journalistic history, I concede that his OP was indeed about the Chieftains music and not just a s**t stirring rant..

[C. Flower]

Kev - do you not fear that your prose might bring down a similar populist fate on the Master Musicians of Joujouka as has descended on the Chieftains?

[Phelan]

Kev - do you not fear that your prose might bring down a similar populist fate on the Master Musicians of Joujouka as has descended on the Chieftains?

No, it's okay. Some dude from Trinners is making sure that they do not become corrupted by the modern world

Impressive name dropping by the way

[Kev Bar]

Kev - do you not fear that your prose might bring down a similar populist fate on the Master Musicians of Joujouka as has descended on the Chieftains?

I think if they survived Gysin, Burroughs, Leary, The Stones etc they are probably hardy enough to counter any of the Kev inspired trivia that comes their way.

They are also too hard core to change their hard core rock n roll, music loving ways.

Although curiously a mobile phone interruption did feature in the Al J piece

Of course, the musicians want change. While we were talking, a mobile phone belonging to one of the flute players rang in the adjacent music room while he was in the middle of playing an intense melody over a groove laid down by other members of the group. Everyone laughed - including him - at the seeming incongruity of a Sufi musician in a house with no running water being shaken out of his trance by his cellphone. But the dichotomy was funny precisely because it was so patently false.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...147601338.html

In light of Kevs journalistic history, I concede that his OP was indeed about the Chieftains music and not just a s**t stirring rant..

Are they mutually exclusive?

No, it's okay. Some dude from Trinners is making sure that they do not become corrupted by the modern world

Thank God they're in safe Protestant hands!
If you are to believe the Al J piece above the musicians hold the key on how to guide the Arab Spring to a bright shiny summer.
(Don't ask me, not my article)

Impressive name dropping by the way

Why thank you, darling.

[Shaadi]

Are they mutually exclusive?.

Definitely not, that's why I ended the sentence with " and not just a s**t stirring rant ".

[Kev Bar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...=f5dH_tQb1ag#!


Cactus
Not that I like to undersell myself, but when you look at the above, I fear a lot more than my prose may be needed to make Trinners and the Masters Chieftain like rich.

[Kev Bar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...=f5dH_tQb1ag#!

Another chunk of primitive rock n roll abandon that I just don't see them clapping their jewellry to amidst the plush surrounds of The Grand Canal.

Iggy Pop is a kindergardan version of the local "rock n roll animal" who is seen here calmly tending to the fire as opposed to his usual dancing in celebration of the gods of destruction therein.

Sam...can your keen ear catch a "flicker of Radiohead?" an injection of the Velvets, a rush of the Jesus and Mary Chain, a shriek of the banshee?

Or was it something in the air?

Did a whiff of the Kif in the Rif send me stark raving bananas?

[Sam Lord]

Sam...can your keep ear catch a "flicker of Radiohead?" an injection of the Velvets, a rush of the Jesus and Mary Chain, a shriek of the banshee?

There is always someone to buy a pup. Master musicians.

Anyway, I am seriously unhappy with you Kev. I swore decades ago that I would never read anything by anyone who coupled "African" with "primordial" and what did you go and do ....?

Make me break my oath.

[People Korps]

There is always someone to buy a pup. Master musicians.

Anyway, I am seriously unhappy with you Kev. I swore decades ago that I would never read anything by anyone who coupled "African" with "primordial" and what did you go and do ....?

Make me break my oath.

This is those guys at Glastonbury wandering around a little bird tells me Kev Bar is in this video
From about 05.50 it starts going a bit wild musically

Master Musicians of Joujouka, live at Stone Circle, Glastonbury Festival 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOvubZTLCkQ

why dont youtube vids come up as videos