Happy New Year! Sorry for the delay in posting (as if anyone actually reads this) -- I got a bit lazy and forgot to post the playlist last week, plus the schedule got bumped back a week due to Dublin's closing between Christmas and New Year's. I'm looking forward to a great '08, so let's get started!

"Ceol agus Craic" with DJ Seán Clancy

Irish rock, folk and traditional music
Live at the Blarney Stone Pub, Dublin in SL
Playlist: 1/27/2008, 10am to noon SL Time (U.S. Pacific Time)

Artist | Song/Tune | Album

Altan | Johnny's Wedding / Rogue's Reel / The Gravel Walk | Altan Live
delorentos | Eustace Street | In Love With Detail
The Dubliners | Sullivan's John | Original Dubliners 1966-1969
The Pale | Dogs With No Tails | Here's One We Made Earlier

Solas | The Newry Highwayman | Solas
Future Kings of Spain | Hanging Around | Future Kings of Spain
Brendan Ring | The Lasher | Troublesome Things
That Petrol Emotion | Shangri-La | Final Flame

Cúig | The Peacock (I'm the Boy for Bewitching Them / Peacockski / The Remortgage Jig) | Prospect
Panda Kopanda | About My Temper | The Ocean of Fire EP
Christy Moore | The Raggle Taggle Gipsies / Tabhair Dom Do Lámh | Prosperous
De Danann | Mulvihill's / Mulqueen's | World Network 16: Ireland

Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová | Falling Slowly | Once (Music from the Motion Picture)
Tommy Peoples | Slip Jigs: Hardinan the Fiddler / Give Us A Drink Of Water / Heels Over Head | Waiting For A Call
Alias Ron Kavana | New Rising of the Moon | Galway to Graceland
Comas | Polkas+Jig: Sylvain Barou's Polkas / Peter Ostroushko Jig | Comas

Van Morrison | Into The Mystic | Moondance
Toasted Heretic | Meet Mr. Morrison | Another Day, Another Riot (EP)
Kevin Rowsome | The Dublin Lasses / John Doherty's | The Rowsome Tradition
John Spillane | Seachtain | Éist (Songs In Their Native Language)
Ghost of an American Airman | Honeychild | Life Under Giants

La Bottine Souriante | Le Reel Irlandais, ou Bees Wax, Skin Sheep | La Mistrine
Kate Rusby | The Blind Harper | Underneath The Stars
Moving Hearts | No Time For Love | Moving Hearts

Ham Sandwich | Stars | Words - Single
Kíla | Mind the Gap | Mind the Gap
The Mary Janes | Queen of Hearts | Sham

Afro-Celt Sound System | Whirl-Y-Reel 2 (Folk Police Mix) | Volume 1: Sound Magic
Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola | Damhsa na gCoiníní (The Rabbits' Dance) | Flame of Wine

"Ceol agus Craic" with DJ Seán Clancy

Irish rock, folk and traditional music
Live at the Blarney Stone Pub, Dublin in SL
Playlist: 1/13/2008, 10am to noon SL Time (U.S. Pacific Time)

Toasted Heretic | Here Comes The New Year | Mindless Optimism
Davy Spillane & Kevin Glackin | Fermoy Lassies / Steam Packet | Forgotten Days
Andy M. Stewart & Mánus Lunny | Mary Mheaigi's / Frank Mórs / The Trip To Lerwick | At It Again

The Revs | Borderland | The Revs
Neil Mulligan | The Standing Abbey / Tom Mulligan's Hornpipe | Barr na Cúille
Boss Volenti | Nine Point Eight | Boss Volenti
Altan | Tommy Peoples / The Road to Cashel / The Repeal of the Union / Richie's Reel | Local Ground

TiBeriuS' minnoWs | Time Flies | Breaking Sound Barriers, Volume II: Music from Ireland
Gan Bua | The Monk's Jig / The Four Posts of the Bed / The Bank of Ireland / The Holly Bush | Gan Bua
The Walls | Bone Deep | Hi-Lo
Planxty | Lord McDonald / The Chattering Magpie | After The Break

Interference | Gold | Interference
Willie Clancy | Bimis Ag Ól 's ag Pógadh na mBan (double jig) | The Pipering Of Willie Clancy, Volume 2
Liam Ó Maonlaí | Tom Billy's Jig | Rian
The Chalets | No Style | Check In
Liz Carroll & John Doyle | The Ronan Boys / Ralph's 2-3-5 (reels) | In Play

Roesy | One of the Same | Colour Me Colourful
Paul Brady | Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore | Welcome Here Kind Stranger
Dónal Lunny | Port Lúascaigh: Leppadumdowledum | Dónal Lunny

Séamus Egan | Faubert's Lilt | When Juniper Sleeps
Jimmy MacCarthy | The Grip of Parallel | The Song of the Singing Horseman
Sam Amidon, Isaac Alderson, Keith Murphy | Mother and Child | AmidonAldersonMurphy

Afro-Celt Sound System | Anatomic | Volume 5: Anatomic
Juliet Turner | See Another Side | Season of the Hurricane

The Voice Squad | The Parting Glass | Good People All

No show this Sunday, 23 December

Sorry folks ... I'll be out of town for the holidays and just found out that the broadband Internet access where I'll be staying is unlikely to be working, and unlikely to be fixed by Sunday. Waaaah! Here's hoping the Blarney management manages to find a sub.

In any case, Happy Christmas, and I'll seeyas in 2008!

Love,

Seán

"Ceol agus Craic" with DJ Seán Clancy

Irish rock, folk and traditional music
Live at the Blarney Stone Pub, Dublin in SL
Playlist: 12/9/2007, 10am to noon SL Time (U.S. Pacific Time)

Artist | Song/Tune | Album

Paddy Saul | Walkout | One Town Tasted
Séamus Egan | Masons Apron / My Love Is In America | When Juniper Sleeps
The Mary Janes | Winesong | Sham
La Bottine Souriante | Reel du Forgeron | Xième

The Frames | Perfect Opening Line | Set List
The Bothy Band | Farewell to Erin | Old Hag You Have Killed Me
Clannad | Gaoth Barra Na dTonn | Clannad 2
The Pale | Elizabeth Sna Bratóga! | Ceol '07

Damien Dempsey | Ghosts of Overdoses | Seize the Day (request)
Moving Hearts | Irish Ways and Irish Laws | Moving Hearts
Rodrigo y Gabriela | Diablo Rojo | Rodrigo y Gabriela (request)
Fred | Wouldn't it be good | Making Music So You Don't Have To
Cúig | The Prospect (Hunters House / The New Prospect / Sweet is the Name of Peggy) | Prospect

Planxty | Follow Me Up To Carlow | Planxty
Assembly | Fast G Reels | January EP
Luka Bloom & Christy Moore | I'm a Bogman | Collection (request)
The Stunning | This Happy Girl | Paradise In The Picturehouse

Pádraig Rynne | Barabara Needhams / Christy Barrys / Bye A While | Bye A While
Garrett Wall | When It Comes | Daylight, Nighttime
Ham Sandwich | Song In D | Click...Click...BOOM!!! - Single

Anam | Reels: Riptide Music / Nugent's Reel / Wonders Never Cease | Riptide
That Petrol Emotion | Tension | End Of The Millennium Psychosis Blues
Davy Spillane Band | The Road To Ballyalla | Out Of The Air

Dervish | Packie Duignan's | At The End Of The Day
Stiff Little Fingers | Tin Soldier | Nobody's Heroes

Solas | Dougie MacDonald's / M‡ire Breathnach's #2 / The Antrim Rose / Atlantic Wave / Toss The Feathers | Solas

Oh feck, I've been "tagged."

Yes, it's the latest blog meme, highly communicable, and spreading around the SL blogosphere faster than the Black Death. I would have rolled my eyes, said "Oh, for feck's sake," and ignored it, except that it came from Ryan (God'll get you for that, honey). Sigh.

Then the second punch came from Catero, and after procrastinating for a week I thought I'd get it over with.

Okay, here's the rules:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

I'm going to break rule 3, because 1) half the people I'd tag have already been tagged by someone else, and B) I don't even know eight people in SL who have blogs. That's either sad (Seán has no friends, waaaah!) or encouraging (Seán's friends have better things to do than write blogs). But then again, of course, I'm blogging at the moment, so I think that says enough. Ahem.

Okay, here goes.

1. Given the opportunity I will eat an entire large bag of potato chips in one sitting. It's a sickness. (I'm partial to any flavor of Zapp's Potato Chips, especially the Crawtator, Honey Mustard and Creole Tomato and Tabasco flavors), Tim's Hawaiian Kettle Style Luau BBQ and just about any flavor of Walkers crisps (especially the mad Sensations line) from the UK and Ireland. Oh, and Smoky Bacon Taytos. Yay!

2. I'm a very good cook, at least in the home kitchen; in a professional restaurant kitchen I'd be in the weeds and bleeding inside of five minutes. My specialties are Italian, Mexican and Creole. And I talk about food incessantly, as those of you who know me have undoubtedly noticed.

3. Like Ryan, I'm a nonprofessional mixologist of mad skillz. I can fix you a drink that'll make you weep for joy, and forget you ever had anything of the ilk of a "Green Applepuckertini" (which is an abomination before God and man).

4. I've traveled to Ireland several times, and feel very much at home there. So much so, in fact, that I once got drunk with some locals in Donegal ("drunk" ... actually more like banjaxed, ossified, fluthered, in the horrors, langers, locked, paralytic, plastered, scuttered, stocious, twisted and sozzled after about 18 pints of Guinness), somehow managed to get back to my hotel in Derrybeg at 2am without getting nicked by the Gardaí (Irish police), then found the front door locked ... whereupon I sorta broke it down. The damage is still visible. Photographic evidence here, here and here, thanks to Angie Batz.

5. I once met Clint Eastwood. I was the go-to guy for tours of my department in college, and once upon a time he was checking us out for one of his kids. I got a whispery phone call from the department that I'd be doing my next tour for a "VIP." When I showed up to meet this VIP at the deparment office the following Saturday morning, his back was toward me. He turned slowly ... gave me the quintessential Dirty Harry narrow-eyed scowl, and then, in the quintessential Dirty Harry voice he said, "Are you ... Clancy?" My jaw dropped. I blanched, gulped and said, "Uhhhhhh ..." He then broke into a huge grin, laughed, stuck out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Clint Eastwood, pleasure to meet ya." I then spent the next hour with him.

He is one of the coolest guys in the Universe.

I also waited in line at Pink's hot dog stand behind Mr. Chekov from "Star Trek" (a.k.a. Walter Koenig), and got to chat with him for a while, and not long after that sat right in front of Mr. Sulu (a.k.a. George Takei) in a movie theatre. Living in L.A. can be fun.

6. I'm a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. I love that city more than anywhere. It's a part of me. I identify more as New Orleanian than as American.

7. Ryan Darragh's my partner in RL too, and I love him an awful lot.

8. I've been to Mexico, Ireland, Scotland, France, Russia, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, but I've never been to New York City.

That is all.

"Ceol agus Craic" with DJ Seán Clancy

Irish rock, folk and traditional music
Live at the Blarney Stone Pub, Dublin in SL
Playlist: 11/25/2007

Artist | Song/Tune | Album

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill | Rolling in the Barrel / The Morning Dew | The Lonesome Touch
The Frank and Walters | Hold On | A Renewed Interest In Happiness
Róisín Elsafty agus Treasa Ní Cheannabháin | Neainsín Bhán | Ireland: The Art Of Sean-nos
The Revs | Time Slippin' | The Revs

Willie Clancy | The Connacht Heifers | The Pipering Of Willie Clancy, Volume 2
Horslips | Trouble (With A Capital T) | The Belfast Gigs
Ciarán Tourish | Port Chuilinn / The Cordial Jig / Paddy Taylor's Jig | Down the Line
A House | I Am Afraid | I Am The Greatest

Kíla | Leath Ina Dhiaidh a hOcht | Gambler's Ballet
Solas | Who's In the What Now? | Reunion
Garrett Wall | Peace of Mind | Daylight, Nighttime
The Dubliners | Quare Bungle Rye | Original Dubliners 1966-1969

The Walls | To The Bright And Shining Sun | New Dawn Breaking
Ciúnas | The Stormy Day / Frances Herron's Fancy / The Boiling Pot (reels) | Up at the Crack of Noon
Luka Bloom | Holding Back the River | Live on KCRW, 1993
Liz Carroll & John Doyle | Dennehy Dancers / The McSweeney Side (jigs) | In Play

Planxty | My Heart's Tonight In Ireland / Merrily Kissed the Quaker | Live 2004
Toasted Heretic | Food For Breakfast | Another Day, Another Riot (EP)
The Pogues | Dingle Regatta | Red Roses For Me

Damien Dempsey | Celtic Tiger | Seize the Day
Relativity | John Cunningham's Return To Edinburgh / Heather Bells / The Bell Reel / The Limerick Lasses | Relativity

Cormac Ó Caoimh | Lazy Gazing | Start A Spark
Ron Kavana & The Alias Acoustic Band | Follow Me Up To Carlow | 1798 - 1998: Irish Songs Of Rebellion, Resistance & Reconciliation
Different Drums | Northern Man | Sound Neighbours: Contemporary Music from Northern Ireland
Paddy Glackin | Poirt: I Buried My Wife and Danced On Top Of Her / Fraher's | Rabharta Ceoil / In Full Spate

Christy Moore | Mystic Lipstick | Voyage
The Bothy Band | Michael Gorman's / The Frieze Breeches / The Road To Lisdoonvarna / Joe Cooley's | Live In Concert

Something Happens | Good Time Coming | Stuck Together With God's Glue

"Ceol agus Craic" with DJ Seán Clancy

Irish rock, folk and traditional music
Live at the Blarney Stone Pub, Dublin in SL
Playlist: 11/11/2007

Artist | Song/Tune | Album

Tommy Peoples | Farewell To Ireland | The High Part of the Road
Future Kings of Spain | Meanest Sound | Future Kings of Spain
Billy Kelly | The Holy Ground | Live from the Katharine Cornell Theater: Traditional Irish Music
Ash | Jack Names the Planets | Trailer

Matt Molloy, Paul Brady & Tommy Peoples | The Limerick Lass / The Foxhunters | Matt Molloy, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples
Something Happens | The Patience Business | Stuck Together With God's Glue
Christy Moore | The Deportees Club | Voyage
The Revs | Take It All Back | The Revs

Solas | The Primrose Lass / Molly From Longford / Four Kisses | Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers
The Frank and Walters | Colours | Best of The Frank and Walters
Four Men and a Dog | Ríl Gan Ainm / Josephine Keegan's / The Cruel Father | Barking Mad
Paddy Casey | The Lucky One | Living

Kevin Crawford | Tommy Peoples' / The Long Drop / Callaghan's | In Good Company
The Frames | The Dancer | Another Love Song
Planxty | Arthur McBride | Live 2004
Andy White | Palaceful of noise | Out There

Moving Hearts | The Lark (The Lark in the Morning / Earl the Breakfast Boiler / O'Broin's Flightcase / In the Mountains of Holland / Oh Hag! You Have Killed Me / Peter O'Byrne's Fancy / Langstrom's Pony) | The Storm

Liam O'Flynn | O'Rourke's / The Merry Sisters / Colonel Fraser | The Given Note
Damien Dempsey | Sing All Our Cares Away | Shots
Seneca | Chomh hÁlainn | Ceol '07
Michael McGoldrick & John McSherry | Ornette's Trip To Belfast | At First Light

delorentos | Waiting | In Love With Detail
Four Men and a Dog | The Mountain Road | Shifting Gravel
Damien Rice | The Rat Within the Grain | 9
The Bothy Band | Slides: The Priest / Mary Willie's / This Is My Love, Do You Like Her? | Out of the Wind Into the Sun

The Saw Doctors | Red Cortina | Live In Galway
Van Morrison | When That Evening Sun Goes Down | Tupelo Honey

"Ceol agus Craic" with DJ Seán Clancy

Irish rock, folk and traditional music
Live at the Blarney Stone Pub, Dublin in SL
Playlist: 10/28/2007

My one-year anniversary as a Dublin DJ!! :-)

Today's program was presented in conjunction with Tourism Ireland as a part of Discover Ireland Weekend in Second Life.

Artist | Song/Tune | Album

Planxty | The Starting Gate | Live 2004
Toasted Heretic | Lightning | Mindless Optimism
De Danann | Charlie Harris' Reels | Song For Ireland
The Cranberries | Waltzing Back | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

Solas | Paddy Taylor's / McFadden's Handsome Daughter / The Narrowback / Frank's Reel / Esther's Reel | Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers
delorentos | Do You Realise | In Love With Detail
Fleadh Cowboys | Jerusalem Ridge | Time Of Your Life
Juliet Turner | Take the Money and Run | Season of the Hurricane

Mozaik | O'Donoghue's | Changing Trains
Mark Geary | Gingerman | 33 1/3 Grand Street
Mic Christopher | Wide Eyed and Lying | Skylarkin
Paddy Glackin | Poirt Shingil/Dúbailte: The Fairy Jig / Frainc a' Phoill's | Rabharta Ceoil / In Full Spate

The Frank And Walters | Teenage Kicks | City Lights single
Kíla | Islandbridge | Mind the Gap
Liam Ó Maonlaí | Cathain? (When?) | Journey: The Best of Dónal Lunny
That Petrol Emotion | Groove Check | End Of The Millennium Psychosis Blues

The Bothy Band | Leitrim Fancy / Round The World For Sport / Rip the Calico / Martin Wynne's / The Enchanted Lady / The Holy Land | Out of the Wind Into the Sun
The Saw Doctors | N17 | Live In Galway
Brendan O'Shea | Hollow Moon | In The Light
The West Seventies | Better Off Running | I'll Come Around single

Lick the Tins | Can't Help Falling In Love | Blind Man on a Flying Horse
Altan | The Curlew / McDermott's / Three Scones Of Boxty / Unnamed Reel | Altan Live
Duke Special | Slip of a Girl | Songs from the Deep Forest
Tommy Peoples | The Salamanca / Lucy Campbell | The High Part of the Road

Damien Dempsey | Serious | To Hell or Barbados
Four Men and a Dog | Newmarket Polkas (John McKenna's / Newmarket / The Lakes of Sligo) | Shifting Gravel