Down all the days

[Low D]

That said, the album probably WAS better off without the Irish dance steps I painstakingly overdubbed onto "The Gartloney Rats" but which never got past T Woods's approval (as composer) for the final master. Let's just say the Liverpants people may not have ended up with quite so much of the credit for The International Heavy Monster Sound of Those Rappity-Tappity Irish Dancin' Feet as they subsequently did!

But Philip, was it YOUR dance steps, or just a recording you found?

Enquiring minds working the late shift want to know...

[FAY]

both peace and love/(down all the days) and my left foot were released in the same year. Was this purely coincidental?

[philipchevron]

That said, the album probably WAS better off without the Irish dance steps I painstakingly overdubbed onto "The Gartloney Rats" but which never got past T Woods's approval (as composer) for the final master. Let's just say the Liverpants people may not have ended up with quite so much of the credit for The International Heavy Monster Sound of Those Rappity-Tappity Irish Dancin' Feet as they subsequently did!

But Philip, was it YOUR dance steps, or just a recording you found?

Enquiring minds working the late shift want to know...

Sorta. Myself and Lillywhite discovered that the best way, sonically, to record the dancesteps, was to put the dance shoes on one's hands and execute the "steps" this way on a smaller, more manageable (ie recordable) piece of wood. So yes, all my own work but more dance "slaps" than dance "steps". I was an Irish dancer for 5 years at school, taught by Nora Dixon, who did this for a living when she wasn't engaged in her real job as choreographer to great Irish vaudevillians like Jack Cruise and Cecil Sheridan.

[philipchevron]

both peace and love/(down all the days) and my left foot were released in the same year. Was this purely coincidental?

Maybe, maybe not. My old colleague Jim Sheridan [we'd written a show together, The Ha'penny Place, starring Agnes Bernelle, Gerard "Mannix" Flynn, Ciaran Hinds, Ronan Wilmot, Johnny Murphy and a cast of dozens............for the 1979 Dublin Theatre Festival] did informally commission the Pogues to write some material for My Left Foot but, apart from meeting Daniel Day Lewis with Sheridan, I don't remember taking any action on this. Perhaps Shane did, but too late for the movie.

[Rich]

I remember going to London in about 1990 and My Left Foot was the film on the plane crossing the Atlantic IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.

Not relevant, really, but that's what I always think about whenever I hear any mention of Christy Brown, Daniel Day Lewis, or Glasgow Rangers.

[mats]

I remember going to London in about 1990 and My Left Foot was the film on the plane crossing the Atlantic IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
Not relevant, really, but that's what I always think about whenever I hear any mention of Christy Brown, Daniel Day Lewis, or Glasgow Rangers.

So it was My Right Foot on your way home then

[Rich]

So it was My Right Foot on your way home then

HA! Exactly!

[mats]

Not on topic but I remember a flight to US when they showed Getting Shorty. There´s an important scene with a plane crash but on the flight version they´ve changed it to a train crash Guess it was made just to not scare people.

On the other hand I once made a ferry trip in Thailand where they showed The Perfect Storm during a windy ride. People were throwing up everywhere. Good choice of movie

[Maija]

That said, the album probably WAS better off without the Irish dance steps I painstakingly overdubbed onto "The Gartloney Rats" but which never got past T Woods's approval

But Philip, was it YOUR dance steps, or just a recording you found?

Sorta. Myself and Lillywhite discovered that the best way, sonically, to record the dancesteps, was to put the dance shoes on one's hands and execute the "steps" this way on a smaller, more manageable (ie recordable) piece of wood.

Now I'm nearly tempted to hope that this version, AND the (making of) video make it into The Box Set. That would surely have been a kicking video! (I promise to have another cuppa before I post again )

[Lemmy]

There are only a handful of songs on Peace & Love that I really, really love. "Down All the Days" is one of them. Perfect simplicity. And one of the best sets of chord changes in any Pogues chorus.