Tribute to Ronnie Drew

[Fr. McGreer]

It's never supposed to be a masterpiece I'm afraid. It's bloody charity after all.
Penned/recorded on one's knee..

That's bullshit, MacRua. Just listen to The Cake Sale's "Your Lips Come As Some Suprise", it's for "bloody charity" too. An amalgam of a few artists and one of the best songs i heard last year.

[Iver]

There's a "making of" video at http://www.u2.com/highlights/?hid=437 - Lots of brief views of all involved but it does show Shane singing most of his verse.

[Mark_Wafc]

I think that might well be the video and the whole song....

[MacRua]

It's never supposed to be a masterpiece I'm afraid. It's bloody charity after all.
Penned/recorded on one's knee..

Just listen to The Cake Sale's "Your Lips Come As Some Suprise", it's for "bloody charity" too. An amalgam of a few artists and one of the best songs i heard last year.

You owe me 1 min and 29 sec now. And be glad I failed to stand it any longer..

[Fr. McGreer]

You owe me 1 min and 29 sec now. And be glad I failed to stand it any longer..

Did you really think it was that bad? Just shows how music is subjective.

That's why i said "I think" Ballad of Ronnie Drew is terrible. I didn't say it is terrible.

[MacRua]

Yeah, your tip didnt change my general attitude to quality of usual charity stuff, actually it proves me to be correct about it. But it did change my attitude to that particular work, now The Ballad sounds like a decent song.
Which also means our tastes do differ (and if I ever sink low enough to recommend something you may easily ignore it).

For those who can stand it:
SOME of the biggest names in Irish music are to stage a special tribute to legendary folk musician Ronnie Drew on tonight's Late Late Show.
U2, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Andrea Corr and Kila will join with Ronnie's former group, the Dubliners, to perform the speciallyn composed 'Ballad of Ronnie Drew' on the show.

Fri, 22 Feb, 9:30 pm, RTÉ

[Simon Maguire]

lol, "And if your not Irish it isn't your fault".

Hopefully someone will stick the performace up on youtube.

[Alex]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FS5JE3OG07A

For those who can stand it:
SOME of the biggest names in Irish music are to stage a special tribute to legendary folk musician Ronnie Drew on tonight's Late Late Show.
U2, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Andrea Corr and Kila will join with Ronnie's former group, the Dubliners, to perform the speciallyn composed 'Ballad of Ronnie Drew' on the show.

Fri, 22 Feb, 9:30 pm, RTÉ

[Simon Maguire]

Who sang Christy Moore's part?

I'm not U2's biggest fan but I thought fair play to them, even though there so-called international "Superstars" they contributed a great deal to paying tribute to man thats is not known all over the world but is a legend in Ireland, however I do find the way Bono pranses around the stadge a bit off putting, not this preformance in particular but just in general. Poor old Ronnie didn't look great I have to say. I liked Shane's little bit right a the end, glad to see the money is going to a good cause.

All the best Ronnie Drew.

[Guest]

Who sang Christy Moore's part?

I'm not U2's biggest fan but I thought fair play to them, even though there so-called international "Superstars" they contributed a great deal to paying tribute to man thats is not known all over the world but is a legend in Ireland, however I do find the way Bono pranses around the stadge a bit off putting, not this preformance in particular but just in general. Poor old Ronnie didn't look great I have to say. I liked Shane's little bit right a the end, glad to see the money is going to a good cause.

All the best Ronnie Drew.

Liam O' Maonlai, well known as a singer of Hothouse Flowers

[Zuzana]

Stars line up to sing the praises of Dubliners legend Ronnie

By Patricia McDonagh
Saturday February 23 2008
Independent.ie
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HE has the "greatest voice in the world" and led a folk band that now makes "Nirvana look like girls".

Praise indeed from the leader of the world's top rock band, Bono, for Dublin's greatest trouper Ronnie Drew, the once bearded supremo of Irish music who watched as his peers in the industry paid homage to him and his legacy last night.

A firmament of stars, including Andrea Corr, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor and U2 took to the stage on the Late Late Show to sing their hearts out in a one-off performance.

Dressed in a sober black suit, with a red patterned scarf around his neck, the beloved founder of the Dubliners said the performance was "great" and "magnificent".

"I'm speechless. I am really knocked out and honoured and grateful. I don't think I deserve it" he told Pat Kenny.

Mr Drew, who has just finished his latest bout of treatment for throat cancer at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, said that ever since the song was written he feels stronger.

"I feel stronger and my hair is even growing back," he joked.

The song, entitled 'The Ballad of Ronnie Drew' was composed by Robert Hunter, Bono, The Edge and Simon Carmody and was recorded at Windmill Lane on January 14 and 15.

Wearing his trademark wraparound tinted sunglasses, U2 frontman Bono paid tribute to the "most powerful male voice in the world".

"He is a prime fighter and a fighter always fights harder when the crowd is cheering. That is why we did this," said the rock legend.

'The Ballad of Ronnie Drew' is due to be released in March.

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©independent.ie

[irish hillbilly]

I like it. Who's the blonde-haired girl on the fiddle?

[Guest]

I like it. Who's the blonde-haired girl on the fiddle?

Dee Armstrong, from Kila

[irish hillbilly]

Thanks

[Mark_Wafc]

http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/av_20080222.html?2341511,null,228

From the Late Late Show.

If you can stick Bono talking for 20 mins its worth the time, Shane has a chat (of sorts!!) with the presenter close to the end and Patsy Watchorn sings the Auld Triangle