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…
Saloon bar punch-up!
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at least Tubs didn’t try and dupe his audience with an impersonator!
Aren’t most Irish country singers impersonators of a kind?
There’s only two types of music that matter. Country and Western.
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.
You seem angry.
Yes, and it was the midlands and northern boggers that bought all the Garth tickets.
* pulls out banjo *
den-den den-dan-do dan-do dan-do den
*chimes in on the spoons*
Yeeeeeeeooooo!
So you got dumped by a girl from Wickla’ then?
You’re super super crazy prices
I used to think that Country’n’Irish sucked balls but your élitism has now made me love it!
^ I giggled.
Then felt sorry for the poor ruuuuaaarrrdles from Ruuuuaaaardle Ahhhhhrlehnt
now, i don’t mind a bit of gram parsons or merle haggard but that sh1te just gives C&W a bad name.
+1
Tis far from the Grand Ole Opry these clowns and rip-off merchants were reared.
It’s a shot through the heart and Big Tom’s to blame
did your ‘steel horse’ get clamped?
… He gives Country …
A bad name.
*reads other comments,
pats self on the back
Cowsh*te music as my Da would call it.
the irish C&W scene is affectionately known as ‘the black puddin circuit’ by the musicians who perform on it.
“black puddin circuit”
#heya
#gerrup
Depressing….
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.
A lot of winking too. The entire audience are a load of clappin’ winkers.
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.
Rural electrification – was it for this?
You win.
That’s excellent.
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
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?
If you sing a CW song with no one to hear does that mean the tree did not fall?
Or ya know. .. Something
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.
Man, this show looks more horrific than an Eagles concert
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.
There is a lot of heartbreak in the border counties too
And even believe it or not some gays
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.
Love me some quinoa I do, served with a hot sexy dose of liberalism.
Oh Roooo-oooooo-ooooby….
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kennyrogers/rubydonttakeyourlovetotown.html
…not dystopian at all at all ; )
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..
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
Dear god that’s poo
oh, and another thing. this was number 1 on the day i was born:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcTw639-DrY
i feel i am personally invested in overseeing the destruction of this musical abomination.
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.
well hoop, ya don’t get this grumpy without a few wrinkles and hairs growing out of places they shouldn’t.