L'Amoria and Under Clery's Clock

[John C]

My iPod has a personality. I'm sure of it - when I put it on 'shuffle' it very often plays songs that are 'connected' in some way or plays songs at the same places... anwyay, today it did something that I thought was pretty cool.

It first played L'Amoria by The Pogues (from the re-released Straight to Hell soundtrack) and the next song it played was Under Clery's Clock by The Radiators (which is on my copy of Cockles And Mussels...)

There are several musical similarities between the two songs and I was just wondering how one 'became' the other... Mr Chevron?

Peace, love and sunshine,

John C.

[philipchevron]

My iPod has a personality. I'm sure of it - when I put it on 'shuffle' it very often plays songs that are 'connected' in some way or plays songs at the same places... anwyay, today it did something that I thought was pretty cool.

It first played L'Amoria by The Pogues (from the re-released Straight to Hell soundtrack) and the next song it played was Under Clery's Clock by The Radiators (which is on my copy of Cockles And Mussels...)

There are several musical similarities between the two songs and I was just wondering how one 'became' the other... Mr Chevron?

Peace, love and sunshine,

John C.

Put simply, "L'Amoria" didn't make the film cut first time out [I used Producer's prerogative to add it to Straight To Hell Returns as it does appear briefly on the extended DVD] so I shelved the tune for a few weeks until I premiered "Under Clery's Clock" with the Radiators in Dublin (Hawkins 1987) at which point it got added to that song as an intro.

[John C]

As always, thanks for the info Philip. On a completely unrelated item, have you seen The Cavalcaders at The Abbey? I got an invitation to go tomorrow afternoon and have no idea what to expect...

[philipchevron]

As always, thanks for the info Philip. On a completely unrelated item, have you seen The Cavalcaders at The Abbey? I got an invitation to go tomorrow afternoon and have no idea what to expect...

It's a play about a barbershop quartet in a small Irish town but, like the rest of Billy Roche's work, it is really about so much more. I did slightly prefer the version the Tricycle Theatre in London did 5 years ago, in which Roche himself appeared, but it's definitely worth seeing this if you don't know any/much Billy Roche. In any event, the Abbey's new auditorium is almost worth a visit itself. No more terrible sightlines, no more acoustic dead spots.