Great Big Sea released their new CD today, called Fortune’s Favour. Having pre-ordered it online, I received my copy with yesterday’s mail. I got home late, though, and only started listening to it this morning. Having only heard six tracks so far, I must say it’s quite a departure from what they used to do, although the last album or two has shown this trend less severely. I can’t pass judgment until I’ve listened to the whole thing several times, and I hope I like it, but I haven’t been able to just jump in and love it like the older ones.
I was in Edinburgh in August 2001 during their big festival and saw a really cool street band playing. I kicked myself for not finding out who they were, or buying one of their CDs. Tonight, while watching a PBS special on traveling in Scotland, I saw them again! On TV! Someone has to know who these guys are! Please help if you can!
This is the picture I took in 2001, scanned from slide film:
Here are some pictures from tonight’s PBS show:
If you know who this band is, please tell me so I can buy all their CDs!
Here is a video of the band from the TV show (15.7Mb).
First Young Dubliners tickets, and now a new Great Big Sea album! w00t!
PS: If you pre-order Fortune’s Favour you get a free download of three bonus mp3s.
I just picked up tickets to the Young Dubliners at the Big Easy in Spokane for June 24th. I’ve seen them in concert before and really enjoyed it. They put on a great show.
If you were a long-time reader here, and I mean long time, you might remember a post about Band Logos I wrote about four years ago. Well, here’s another one:
I got an email from Johnny, who has a band called Skurvy, who ran across this blog because of the name similarity. Their music is not really my thing (them: jazz, me: Irish trad), but if you like jazz you may like them. It won’t hurt you to check them out anyway.
The Saw Doctors released a video of I Useta Lover, a popular single of theirs. Since you’ll never see it in the U.S., follow the link and enjoy some good Irish music.