bigtom

Bigger than Garth.

Via RTÉ:

The Late Late Show enjoyed its highest audience of the year so far for Friday night’s country special. An average of 707,400 people tuned in for the show which saw interviews and performances from the biggest stars on the Irish country scene including Daniel O’Donnell, Big Tom (above) and Nathan Carter.
The show attracted an audience share of 52 per cent with over a half of all Irish viewers watching television at that time tuning in to enjoy The Late Late Show in its entirety.
The total audience reached over the course of the show was 1.3 million

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43 thoughts on “How Big?

  1. Supercrazyprices

    No wonder it got a big audience, lame ass lazy taste in music the midlands and northern boggers have, rolling along in their Pajero dayzel japes, dreaming of their new set of eagles for the gateposts of the faux georgian mansion with the pointlessly winding driveway that’s never properly finished and the big sheds for the tyre business and the bihha auld smugglin’ say nahhin.

  2. scottser

    now, i don’t mind a bit of gram parsons or merle haggard but that sh1te just gives C&W a bad name.

    1. scottser

      the irish C&W scene is affectionately known as ‘the black puddin circuit’ by the musicians who perform on it.

  3. Krill Bill

    Country music, the only music where it’s acceptable for the audience to clap on the 1 and 3 or in this case, every beat. The whitest thing alive. Just the worst.

    1. St. John Smythe

      Muhammedi Ali said some long the same lines: that’s what all popular music in America would have been like if it wasn’t for the influence of black people.

    1. Casey

      I roared laughing. Well done.

      Country bores, go on home
      To the (mock 70s) palace where you belong
      West Ireland, open byways
      Country bores, overblown

  4. Mobi

    If a definitive list of ‘cool types of Irish people’ was drawn up I wonder would C & W fans place above or below people who post mean comments on articles about C & W fans online?

    1. Neilo

      Quite! Easy to forget that we’re all only a few generations away from peasant farming. Dubliners, eh? With their heroin, shellsuits and heartwarming tales of how Great Granny Annie got a rattler from a Black & Tan in the Monto! Ring a ring, a rooooosie etc.

  5. Inopro

    This is why nothing changes here and why despite th clear findings that the Irish were the biggest EU losers in th global financial crisis, they continue to vote in the same parish pump ,corrupt austerity parties who provide little to no progression with their euro centric agendas- we’re so truthfully centre right its a wonder the marriage referendum even passed.

  6. salmon eile

    Yet again the pseudo-liberal mockney soi disant “elite” of Broadsheet come out with their swinging sweaty broadsides ( like county music-loving farmers butt cracks while jiving) at the “other” – or anyone who does not share their dystopian hippie gyppie ( until they move in near Dad) quinoa-quaffing mindset.

    1. scottser

      look, i grew up in the 70’s. you couldn’t get kenny fupn rogers off the radio. that one ‘coward of the county’ was number 1 here for about 6 years. the one he did with dolly parton ‘islands in the stream’ was re-worked as ‘ireland’s industry’ to the chuckles of major-smoking, harp swilling, mustachioed @rse-cracks everywhere. you’re opening old wounds here, dude..

      1. Deluded

        Now you know you still excite me,
        I know you love me like I am,
        Just once more I wish you’d love me,
        On a blanket on the ground ♫
        *twangs

    1. Spaghetti Hoop

      The Upton Ambush was in 1921. Are ya that old scottser?

      For the record: Irish C&W should never ever be linked with American C&W – which is in a class of its own.

      1. scottser

        well hoop, ya don’t get this grumpy without a few wrinkles and hairs growing out of places they shouldn’t.

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