The Medusa Fora

Where, for the love of GOD, can I buy a copy?!? ArrrgH!

Fintan wrote:Where, for the love of GOD, can I buy a copy?!? ArrrgH!

hope this helps, Fintan

http://www.towerrecords.ie/searchResults.asp

Cheers, Sensei. I was in Tower Records above Eason's on O'Connell Street just last week (hard to believe now) buying "Red Roses For Me' for the daughter.

Thanks for the pointer. Ordered 'Trouble Pilgrim' just now, along with 'TV Tube Heart'. Looking forward to getting them soonish. Yay!

Did ye get my recent PM?

Fintan wrote:Cheers, Sensei. I was in Tower Records above Eason's on O'Connell Street just last week (hard to believe now) buying "Red Roses For Me' for the daughter.

Thanks for the pointer. Ordered 'Trouble Pilgrim' just now, along with 'TV Tube Heart'. Looking forward to getting them soonish. Yay!

Did ye get my recent PM?

Yes thanks. Apologies to all who have not yet had replies to Recent PMs, and quite a few of them accumulated in past weeks. I am now in San Antonio Texas (they have great hat shirt and shoe shops here, and it's the birthplace of the great Doug Sahm) and trying hard not to do anything I'm meant to be doing, so bear with me.

However, this might be as good a place as any to make an observation about Aftershow passes in Glasgow, as there were a number of requests for these. Almost the worst place in the world for Aftershows is the Glasgow Academy, as there is so little backstage area that even changing into stage clothes is a trial, much less greeting people from foreign parts. This means that the Aftershow customarily takes place in the guest bar at the very TOP of the building, quite nice in its own right but the route from the dressing room to there can be perilous for a Pogue, not to mention time-consuming and athletically challenging, which is why so many of us prefer the discomfort of the dressing room or, better still, the fast car the hell outta there while "Fiesta" is still ringing in the ears. I say all this by way of advance warning and explanation. Some folks make it into the dingy dressing room anyway, but not many, so it's better not to make any rash promises we cannot fulfil.

philipchevron wrote:

Fintan wrote:Where, for the love of GOD, can I buy a copy?!? ArrrgH!

hope this helps, Fintan

http://www.towerrecords.ie/searchResults.asp

Thanks Mr C!! This should help! I had no success finding you guys with the other links posted here. You expect me to wait until 2007 to get a copy? No chance in HELL for that. If I had to, I'll fly on over to Dublin and search Tower Records on O'Connell Street myself. Believe me, it would be a pleasure!

Cheers!!

Yes! I just finished the order. Can't wait to get the copy in my hands. Thanks again!

Excellent service from Tower Records, ordered on Thursday from Dublin - here in Oz today. About to start listening. 'Trouble Pilgrim' (with 'The Summer Season' bonus EP) and a copy of 'TV Tube Heart' as well.

Fintan wrote:Excellent service from Tower Records, ordered on Thursday from Dublin - here in Oz today. About to start listening. 'Trouble Pilgrim' (with 'The Summer Season' bonus EP) and a copy of 'TV Tube Heart' as well.

I agree! I just received the CD this afternoon. A great way to start the weekend eh? I'm now listening to it. So far so good.

Behan wrote:I agree! I just received the CD this afternoon. A great way to start the weekend eh? I'm now listening to it. So far so good.

I've given them a few listens so far. Thoroughly enjoyed it all so far. I'm allowing time for any favourite tracks to announce themselves, but so far I like 'Huguenot', not least because I have a German friend with Huguenot ancestry... 'Heaven' is a nice tune, and I quite enjoy 'Hinterland'...

Fintan wrote:

Behan wrote:I agree! I just received the CD this afternoon. A great way to start the weekend eh? I'm now listening to it. So far so good.

I've given them a few listens so far. Thoroughly enjoyed it all so far. I'm allowing time for any favourite tracks to announce themselves, but so far I like 'Huguenot', not least because I have a German friend with Huguenot ancestry... 'Heaven' is a nice tune, and I quite enjoy 'Hinterland'...

I don't have a finished copy yet, but I remember liking "Huguenot" too. I am myself part-Huguenot, something it seemed worth gently pointing out in an era when immigration is such a volatile subject in Ireland.

philipchevron wrote:...in an era when immigration is such a volatile subject in Ireland.

Isn't it, though? To tell ye the truth, that was one of the things that saddened me the most about my trip. The pointless, historically myopic ethnic bigotry and hostility directed towards the admittedly huge numbers of Eastern European workers who seem to occupy so many of the mostly lowly-paid, thankless service industry jons in Ireland. Towards the end of our sojourn, I found myself almost... infected... by it myself, and noticed myself becoming short with some people's poor English skills. One of the most trenchant examples I could find was a petition in Bunbeg, Donegal complaining about immigration policies, which stressed a need for English-language skills in the migrant intake. I couldn't help meself, and had to deface it by adding a comment inquiring why the hell Irish-language skills shouldn't be the first priority? Oh, mum, nobody told me there'd be days like these...strange days indeed.

Fintan wrote:

philipchevron wrote:...in an era when immigration is such a volatile subject in Ireland.

Isn't it, though? To tell ye the truth, that was one of the things that saddened me the most about my trip. The pointless, historically myopic ethnic bigotry and hostility directed towards the admittedly huge numbers of Eastern European workers who seem to occupy so many of the mostly lowly-paid, thankless service industry jons in Ireland. Towards the end of our sojourn, I found myself almost... infected... by it myself, and noticed myself becoming short with some people's poor English skills. One of the most trenchant examples I could find was a petition in Bunbeg, Donegal complaining about immigration policies, which stressed a need for English-language skills in the migrant intake. I couldn't help meself, and had to deface it by adding a comment inquiring why the hell Irish-language skills shouldn't be the first priority? Oh, mum, nobody told me there'd be days like these...strange days indeed.

I was discussing this today with an Irish Times writer who was interviewing me about the album, and "Huguenot" in particular. It is bizarre that a people who depended so much on emigration to survive should now have such a problem with immigration. The journalist, by way of illustrating that the Irish had always been latently racist, told me about the time Bernadette Devlin visited South Boston. The Irish-American locals, expecting to fete Devlin as "one of our own" were astonished to find themselves denounced and dismissed by her as a crowd of bourgeois, middle-class reactionaries as she sought out instead the company of disposessed African-Americans, by way of reminding people that she was a Civil Rights activist, not a blind nationalist.

philipchevron wrote:...by way of reminding them that she was a Civil Rights activist, not a blind nationalist.

Nice. And a fine one she was too.

Fintan wrote:Nice. And a fine one she was too.

ahem, perhaps you mean "and a fine one she IS too", unless you know something i dont. i believe she's still alive & kicking (and slapping), tho i think she's married and changed her name to McAliskey. hold on, i should check ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Devlin
...In 2003, she was barred from entering the United States and deported on the grounds that the State Department had declared that she "poses a serious threat to the security of the United States"

ah yes, looks like she's doing well.

i have just celebrated an unexpected scholarship my partner got by joining in with ya'll and ordering "trouble pilgrim" myself. hope mine comes with the free e.p. too.

Fintan wrote:

philipchevron wrote:...by way of reminding them that she was a Civil Rights activist, not a blind nationalist.

Nice. And a fine one she is too.

Thank you Low D for noticing my lapse of tense. Sorry for the temporal inaccuracy, and my apologies to Ms Devlin/Mrs. McAliskey for unintended implications of posthumousity...