Orthodox Celts & Maidrin Rua

[Zuzana]

They have already been mentioned here a few times - a great band from Serbia playing energetic and vigorous Irish music. They also did a cover of IISFFGWG, or at least performed it live. Orthodox or unorthodox, they sound really good! Has anybody heard / seen them?

Their website:
http://www.orthodoxcelts.co.yu

A great fun video for Star Of the County Down:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HEt2XdN_TbQ

Myspace fan site with six songs:
http://www.myspace.com/orthodoxcelts

[MacRua]

The video is smashing
And they are quite a phenomenon... Heard them some years ago. That's why all discourses upon utter impossibility of playing Irish music in Serbia I regard as a sheer bullshite, nothing else.

[Grievous Angel]

Never heard of them before, but I tend to judge a band based on the cuteness of their violin player. These folks are good.

The music's not bad, either.

[MacRua]

How did you fall in love with Pogues then?

[Grievous Angel]

In the absense of a cute fiddle player, then I turn to the music. I'll grant that James Fearnley is a handsome man, but he pales in comparison to Ana from this band, Bridget from Flogging Molly or any of Gaelic Storm's revolving door of fiddle-playing babes.

[MacRua]

and Laura MacGhee

[Zuzana]

The Orthodox Celts (an entertaining eastern-European band playing Irish stuff, or a bunch of Serbian poseurs?) has been noticed by The Dubliner magazine:
http://thedubliner.typepad.com/the_dubl ... g-o-t.html
Including a fun video for one of their songs.

[DzM]

A friend has just pointed me to a entertaining cover of Maidrin Rua by Orthodox Celts. It's a little on the "oil-pay" side, but fun. I never even suspected this song had lyrics.

[Jon]

The Clancy Brothers do a pretty good version and you'll find a set of (different) lyrics at http://www.lyricsdownload.com/sean-o-se ... yrics.html

I seem to recall the song being a metaphor for the English rule of Ireland, anyone?

[MacRua]

you'll find a set of (different) lyrics at http://www.lyricsdownload.com/sean-o-se ... yrics.html

This "Sean O'Se" version is based on Little Red Fox, a poem by Francis Fahy penned in 1893 or 1894, but adopts chorus from traditional irish song Maidrin Rua, which inspired both - Fahy and The Clancy.

And the lyrics on that page contain tons of fuck ups:
mussel --> morsel
A dog says he has a chance for me like 'why's the young cock crowing' --> ''A duck!'' says he, ''has charms for me, likewise a young cock crowing"
old fireside --> own fireside
he rakes his foes but meanly --> he rates his foes but meanly
and so on.. Somebody wrote it down by ear, being half deaf.

[DzM]

and so on.. Somebody wrote it down by ear, being half deaf.

Should probably have taken that ice-pick out of their ear first.

[IrishRover]

a bunch of Serbian poseurs

[DzM]

a bunch of Serbian poseurs

So what? The song is fun and they play it well. They seem to be having a good time. Good for them.

[IrishRover]

so noithoin', oi mean Goid gave people the freedoim of choice..
so, soime koill, soime loie, soime make poiseurs' musoic, soime loisten to poiseurs' musoic, soime sell oiut, soime practoise censoirshoippoin’ & proimoitoin’ poiseurs’ musoic..
stuff ois, there ois a loine between the art & crap, between punk & poiseursheep, between expressoion & fakeaction, between OIroish musoic & the lack of oine oin essence terms; oi doin’t apprecoiate people erasoin’ the loine and creatoing a “so what, tois’ all fun basket”; ois thois fun.. no fun!!! and moixoin’ whats not be moixed; oi beloive thoings shoiould be called by theoir real name, as they really are; so gooid foir em’ oir gooid foir yerself and rest of manageroial maccash establoishment; point ois, oif thois ois the Pogues’ shared gloiry thread.. doin’t throiw a penny to the phrase, oi beloive ye moight be roich but not that roich!.. oi doin’t loike seeoin’ trash, poiseurs and non-OIroish musoic proimoited as Pogues’ shared gloiry, oik; oi remember twas’ so so easy to censoirshoip meself and me entoire musoic stoiry from thois thread, yes soir, ye probably remember that, ye had no problem woith declaroin’ me as unwoirthy, that was probably fun categoiry oin yer moind; but thats not even the woirst what ye doid, woith an attoitude “so what, tois’ fun”, yer oipenly proimoitoin’ of what has noithoin’ to do woith Pogues noir shared gloiry, yer oipenly proimoitoin’ trash and that ois an ultoimate doiscrace; shame oin ye..
essence to Medusa!

[DzM]

So nothing. God gave people the freedom of choice. Some kill, some lie, some make poseurs' music, some listen to poseurs' music, some sell out, some practiced censorship & promoting poseurs’ music...

Ah. My bad. I didn't realize that your tastes are the only ones that matter.

For a moment I considered consulting with you on all of my listening choices. That seems unscalable for both of us though. I've decided that I shall continue to make up my own mind about what music I enjoy listening to. I'll just have to accept the risk that I may end up listening to non-essence-filled noise made by people having a grand time performing it.

How lucky for you that you alone, in all of South-Eastern Europe, have inherited the gift of True Essence and avoided poseurship when you heard Irish music and decided to perform it. Or perhaps not so fortunate given the tribulations the gift has brought down on you, but no gift comes without a price.

Keep up the good fight.