concert schedule

**Wed May 17, 2006 8:00 pm**

Please to be seeing other thread and/or The Front Page.

**Wed May 17, 2006 8:09 pm**

philipchevron wrote:BILLY CONNOLLY 37 Arts Theatre, New York (tomorrow)

JACKIE MASON Vicar Street Dublin (June 18th)

I would love to see Billy tonight but I wouldn't be able to get tickets now.

Stiff Little Fingers: June 11 -- New York, NY: Irving Plaza

**Thu May 18, 2006 9:06 am**

Paddy Rolling Clone wrote:They haven't denied it. I'd put money on it going ahead. Well for yis.

Well it appears to be going ahead, according to the front page.

**Thu May 18, 2006 4:36 pm**

Behan wrote:
philipchevron wrote:BILLY CONNOLLY 37 Arts Theatre, New York (tomorrow)

JACKIE MASON Vicar Street Dublin (June 18th)

I would love to see Billy tonight but I wouldn't be able to get tickets now.

Stiff Little Fingers: June 11 -- New York, NY: Irving Plaza

Actually, he wasn't quite sold out. He is still doing walk-up business for this 20-show run. It's certainly very odd seeing Billy playing a compact theatre in New York when he is such a megastar back home, but kinda nice too. The last time I saw him in a venue this size was when he played Liberty Hall in Dublin in 1973. For the record, he was as gut-achingly funny as ever in a two-hour show, and the New Yawkers loved him. He had a long riff about his new passion for Scuba Diving in which I feared he would leave me behind, as I don't even swim, much less dance with sharks, but I was in safe enough hands when he went into a bit about the sting of the Stonefish - "the worst pain known to man, I'm told. How do they know this? Do they have a village simpleton guinea pig and a pain-o-meter and they grade the intensity of the pain? From Ouch! to Fuck this! to Holy Mary and Sweet Holy Jesus! to Worst Pain Known to Man!??"

Billy told me later that it was he who persuaded a far-from-convinced Terry Woods to join the Pogues when the job was offered to him in 1985. "Aw man, it'll be like running away to join the circus, Terry. Go for it, man!!" This was interesting, not to mention prescient information. He also lamented that he had forgotten to do his new bit about his Middle East musical "Saddam, You're Rockin' The Boat" (songs include "Yasser, That's My Baby"). Also in the post-gig court of King Billy was that woman who plays the shrink in The Sopranos and her sister, also an actress, who told me she last met me in Chicago in 1986 when she was appearing with Tom Waits in the musical "Frank's Wild Years". What an interesting life I have half-fogotten.

Billy has the greatest Gift - the gift of laughter.

**Thu May 18, 2006 8:54 pm**

Thanks Philip for a great read about an evening with the Big Yin. It is indeed an amazing life that you half-remember...

**Fri May 19, 2006 7:53 am**

seen death by stereo and himsa last night. himsa were ace!

**Fri May 19, 2006 8:02 am**

The Zutons tonight...

**Fri May 19, 2006 8:56 am**

firehazard wrote:The Zutons tonight...

heard a lot about these guys but never actually heard them, they any good firehazard?

**Fri May 19, 2006 9:01 am**

Niall wrote:
firehazard wrote:The Zutons tonight...

heard a lot about these guys but never actually heard them, they any good firehazard?

They're supposed to be good live. I'll let you know! The last time I tried to see them the gig got cancelled at the last minute... and then rearranged for a date in December when I was seeing some other band at Brixton. :wink:

**Mon May 22, 2006 10:26 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
Behan wrote:
philipchevron wrote:BILLY CONNOLLY 37 Arts Theatre, New York (tomorrow)

JACKIE MASON Vicar Street Dublin (June 18th)

I would love to see Billy tonight but I wouldn't be able to get tickets now.

Stiff Little Fingers: June 11 -- New York, NY: Irving Plaza

Actually, he wasn't quite sold out. He is still doing walk-up business for this 20-show run. It's certainly very odd seeing Billy playing a compact theatre in New York when he is such a megastar back home, but kinda nice too. The last time I saw him in a venue this size was when he played Liberty Hall in Dublin in 1973. For the record, he was as gut-achingly funny as ever in a two-hour show, and the New Yawkers loved him. He had a long riff about his new passion for Scuba Diving in which I feared he would leave me behind, as I don't even swim, much less dance with sharks, but I was in safe enough hands when he went into a bit about the sting of the Stonefish - "the worst pain known to man, I'm told. How do they know this? Do they have a village simpleton guinea pig and a pain-o-meter and they grade the intensity of the pain? From Ouch! to Fuck this! to Holy Mary and Sweet Holy Jesus! to Worst Pain Known to Man!??"

Billy told me later that it was he who persuaded a far-from-convinced Terry Woods to join the Pogues when the job was offered to him in 1985. "Aw man, it'll be like running away to join the circus, Terry. Go for it, man!!" This was interesting, not to mention prescient information. He also lamented that he had forgotten to do his new bit about his Middle East musical "Saddam, You're Rockin' The Boat" (songs include "Yasser, That's My Baby"). Also in the post-gig court of King Billy was that woman who plays the shrink in The Sopranos and her sister, also an actress, who told me she last met me in Chicago in 1986 when she was appearing with Tom Waits in the musical "Frank's Wild Years". What an interesting life I have half-fogotten.

Billy has the greatest Gift - the gift of laughter.

Thanks Phil for all that, I certainly enjoyed that.

**Tue May 23, 2006 12:38 am**

Got tickets to see Bloc Party in LA this weekend. They're playing at the Greek in August.

**Tue May 23, 2006 3:21 am**

Live concert recording from Washington DC

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4698503

**Tue May 23, 2006 4:50 am**

Excellent! Thanks. I've only seen them once before, in a waaaay smaller venue of course. Nice they've become so popular. Greek has good sound as well. Hopefully it won't rain that day.

**Tue May 23, 2006 6:46 am**

georgecat wrote:Got tickets to see Bloc Party in LA this weekend. They're playing at the Greek in August.

Good live band, seen them the once.

The bassist is a sort of friend of a friend...

**Tue May 23, 2006 5:14 pm**

They had a song on a car commercial this morning too.

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