Gaelic Storm
Oct. 25th, 2018 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretSome CTY friends got me into Gaelic Storm when I was a teenager. They're an Irish folk/Irish rock band probably most famous for their stint as the below-decks band in the movie Titanic. The last time I saw them in concert was my 21st birthday, at some bar in New York. There was drinking and dancing and moshing and singing along and it was amazing fun. It's now 12 years later and the friend who originally got me into the band had a couple tickets and then at the last minute couldn't make the show, so she passed the tickets along to me, in trade for my tickets to the Met's Carmen. I haven't really kept up with the band- the last Gaelic Storm album I was aware of was 2008's "What's the Rumpus". But I was excited to see them again anyway.
There wasn't too much stuff from the back catalogue in the show, so it was largely music I was unfamiliar with, but it was still the Gaelic Storm I know and love- witty, high energy songs about drinking booze and spending quality time with friends and family, fantastic showmanship, and manic multi-instrumentalism. Fiddles dueled with bagpipes as accordion sat underneath. I need to catch up in their recent discography now.
There wasn't too much stuff from the back catalogue in the show, so it was largely music I was unfamiliar with, but it was still the Gaelic Storm I know and love- witty, high energy songs about drinking booze and spending quality time with friends and family, fantastic showmanship, and manic multi-instrumentalism. Fiddles dueled with bagpipes as accordion sat underneath. I need to catch up in their recent discography now.