With thanks for the tourdates to: The Dubliners, Jim McCann, Peter Heinz, Dieter Pinell, Terje Øye
THE PERFORMER- DVD
A collection of 19 complete performances by the legendary Luke Kelly The Performer tracks include:
1.Whiskey in the jar 2.Mursheen Durkin 3.The Black Velvet Band 4.Monto 5.Hand me down me Bible 6.Kelly the Boy from Killane 7.Maids when you're young never wed an old man 8.Scorn not his simplicity 9.The Town I loved so well 10.Dirty Old Town 11.The Rocky Road To Dublin 12.Farewell to Carlingford 13.Raglan Road 14.Paddy on the railroad 15.The aul triangle 16.The Hot asphalt 17.Come to the bower 18.The night Visiting Song 19.The Wild rover
Region 2 only DVD
This will not play on machines in USA unless they are multi region Cert E
26.95, approx $32.43, approx £18.60 (including tax) For orders to customers outside the EC 21% tax will be deducted at the checkout stage.
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BIOGRAPHY
The Dubliners, now one of the most legendary bands in the world, started off in O'Donoghue's pub in Dublin in 1962 under the name of "the Ronnie Drew Folk Group". Then they were four, Ronnie Drew (vocals and guitar), Luke Kelly (vocals and 5-string banjo), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo, mandolin, melodeon and vocals) and Ciarán Bourke (vocals, guitar, tin whistle and harmonica). In 1963, they played at the Edinburgh festival where they met the head of Transatlantic Records, Nathan Joseph, for whom they started recording. In 1964, Luke Kelly and Bobby Lynch (vocals and guitar) and John Sheahan (fiddle, tin whistle, mandolin, concertina, guitar and vocals) were added. When Luke Kelly returned and Bobby Lynch left in 1965, we have what is considered as the original Dubliners, five individualists, five men whose talents were mixed together in a superb blend and just wanted to play and have a good craic. If they only knew what was awaiting them!
Although we know that they won't go on very much longer, and that they no longer are the best band in the world, they are still a very high class act. People probably don't recognize what The Dubliners have meant to the world of music. By the way, not only the world of music, but the world as a whole. They have first of all paved the way for dozens of bands from Ireland and Scotland, like the Chieftains, the Pogues, U2, Ossian, the Fureys and so on. The number of artists that list The Dubliners as one of their major influences and idols, is endless. They have brought folk music to millions of people all over the world, people who never would have been interested at all. That isn't only because of the folk music, the instrumentals alone, it's because of The Dubliners, their astonishing voices, their undescribable instrumentals, the wild life style and drinking, late sessions, their enormous beards, their extensive touring, their charisma and characters. It was, and still is to a certain extent, a blend the world will never see again.
The Dubliners have brought Ireland to the world in a way that no emigration has, they have brought the world to Ireland, and they have brought people all over the world closer together. Whenever it ends, the world will never be the same again.
the gig dates at the top are inaccurate. please consult venues for times.
Here's what some lovely people had to say about The Dubliners themselves:
Billy Connolly: "I first came across the Dubliners in Glasgow City Hall in the sixties. I sat mezmerised in the stalls being completely blown away. I had never seen such a collection of hairy people in my life. I had never seen such energy like Luke Kelly. I had never heard a voice as extraordinary as Ronnie Drew's. I had never heard banjo playing as amazing as Barney McKenna's. Ciaran Bourke looked like the gypsy from one of his own songs who was quite likely to run off with your girlfriend if you didn't keep a close eye on him."
The Pogues: "Everything we have done, the Dubliners have either done it or they could do it better!"
Two unknown: "So how long have the Dubliners been going, then? Forever. There's always been the Dubliners"
Ian Campbell: "I came to realise that The Dubliners had changed the nature of Irish pop music for ever. They had achieved what we in the British folk movement had only aspired to; they had reached chart popularity without prostituting their music, and they had made folksong a part of the musical diet of the man in the street. In doing so they paved the way for the emergence of De Dannan, The Pogues and U2, and countless other now and future groups. And that is why, despite the effects of time and stress, irrespective of changes in line-up and repertoire, The Dubliners are with us all for ever. Amen."
Colin Irwin: "The arrival of a three-headed monster from planet Pluto would have appeared marginally less extraordinary than the Dubliners in 1968. The Dubliners looked like they'd just been dragged out of a seedy bar via a hedge(backwards) and dropped on London from a very great height. The odd thing was they probably had. As a fashion statement in 1968, the Dubliners were an unmitigated disaster area, the only thing they got remotely right were the beards. But then again, they'd all been born with beards anyway... The Dubliners had become the unlikeliest pop stars in the solar system."
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Long live The Dubliners!
