Gaelic Storm wishlist
Instead of posting the actual setlist (which I don't have) I thought I'd post a wishlist. Songs I wish they'd play and they never do/didn't this time around and a few notes of hilarity from the concert.
Let's start with the obvious ones (and ones they do still sometimes play).
Faithful Land (it feels like it was written for me)
An Cailin Das Rua (Dr. Steve dedicated it to me once)
Piña Colada In A Pint Glass
I Miss My Home (oh god, when Pat said "How are we getting home?" And then Twigger and Pat cracked up. Then as they started calming down I looked at Twigger and said "Do you miss your home?" And it totally set them off again. This made me very happy.)
Tell Me Ma
The hilarious schtick re: What's the Rumpus?
Hello Monday
The Long Way Home
For Pat to dance on stage again (when we asked Pat if he was coming out he looked at M and said "I can't feel my legs!" And then tried - and failed - to dance and just kept lifting his leg confusedly.)
Wishful thinking:
SICK NOTE (Cause there isn't even a recording thereof)
Black Is The Colour
Tear Upon The Rose (They sang this to us when we were 14ish instead of Black is the Colour. We died.)
Nancy Whiskey (Dr. Steve, come back to us)
Mary's Eyes (And then I might have told Twigger that I used to have a crush on Kathleen Keane and he seriously beered out of his nose.)
"Before Steve was married, he was between more sheets than Ghandi"
Midnight Kiss (Oh I love this story. "When you're old enough to buy us drinks we'll tell you this story." "Shit! Stevie just told you?" I will also say I'm jealous of Pat.)
Down Underground (I suspect I'm the only one)
Summer's Gone
Go Home Girl (This was way truer when we were illegally young)
When I Win
She Was The Prize
I Thought I Knew You (Never actually seen this one)
Time, Drink 'Em Up
Bonnie Ship/Tamlinn
Walk Through My Door
Leaving of Liverpool
"Illegal thoughts! Illegal thoughts!"
Also, Daryl (the adorable banjo player from The Prodigals) not only gives the best hugs (up there with Terry from Carbon Leaf) but is a complete sweetheart. I told him that he single-handedly made me like the banjo (well he played it with two hands) and he threatened to fight both Gregory and Twigger for me. The guitar player was *very* cute and I've been forbidden from speaking with him. ("You can speak, just don't flirt!...you better not speak.")
At one point Twigger hand me a drink and said 'here! Drink this."
Me: "What is it?"
Tw: "I have no idea!"
Me: "You should drink it!"
Tw: 'I drank over half! You should drink the rest!"
...we both peer at the glass.
Tw: "Maybe that was another drink? This one appears to still be full."
Also when Gregory turned to Twigger (who is, apparently, "Mighty") and said "What're you drinking?"
Twigger: "I'm not! She's drinking guinness!"
Gregory: "Yes, but what about y-"
Twigger: "No! That's my guinness"
Gregory: "You were a choirgirl?"
Twigger: "We're very big on our cathedrals back home."
Me: "There's a cathedral in every town!"
Twigger: "Not in mine. They ruined it." (This is especially funny to anyone who has read "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis.)
Also, the boy stuck his tongue out at me on stage.
ETA: Now I really want an icon of "Storm Warning".
Let's start with the obvious ones (and ones they do still sometimes play).
Faithful Land (it feels like it was written for me)
An Cailin Das Rua (Dr. Steve dedicated it to me once)
Piña Colada In A Pint Glass
I Miss My Home (oh god, when Pat said "How are we getting home?" And then Twigger and Pat cracked up. Then as they started calming down I looked at Twigger and said "Do you miss your home?" And it totally set them off again. This made me very happy.)
Tell Me Ma
The hilarious schtick re: What's the Rumpus?
Hello Monday
The Long Way Home
For Pat to dance on stage again (when we asked Pat if he was coming out he looked at M and said "I can't feel my legs!" And then tried - and failed - to dance and just kept lifting his leg confusedly.)
Wishful thinking:
SICK NOTE (Cause there isn't even a recording thereof)
Black Is The Colour
Tear Upon The Rose (They sang this to us when we were 14ish instead of Black is the Colour. We died.)
Nancy Whiskey (Dr. Steve, come back to us)
Mary's Eyes (And then I might have told Twigger that I used to have a crush on Kathleen Keane and he seriously beered out of his nose.)
"Before Steve was married, he was between more sheets than Ghandi"
Midnight Kiss (Oh I love this story. "When you're old enough to buy us drinks we'll tell you this story." "Shit! Stevie just told you?" I will also say I'm jealous of Pat.)
Down Underground (I suspect I'm the only one)
Summer's Gone
Go Home Girl (This was way truer when we were illegally young)
When I Win
She Was The Prize
I Thought I Knew You (Never actually seen this one)
Time, Drink 'Em Up
Bonnie Ship/Tamlinn
Walk Through My Door
Leaving of Liverpool
"Illegal thoughts! Illegal thoughts!"
Also, Daryl (the adorable banjo player from The Prodigals) not only gives the best hugs (up there with Terry from Carbon Leaf) but is a complete sweetheart. I told him that he single-handedly made me like the banjo (well he played it with two hands) and he threatened to fight both Gregory and Twigger for me. The guitar player was *very* cute and I've been forbidden from speaking with him. ("You can speak, just don't flirt!...you better not speak.")
At one point Twigger hand me a drink and said 'here! Drink this."
Me: "What is it?"
Tw: "I have no idea!"
Me: "You should drink it!"
Tw: 'I drank over half! You should drink the rest!"
...we both peer at the glass.
Tw: "Maybe that was another drink? This one appears to still be full."
Also when Gregory turned to Twigger (who is, apparently, "Mighty") and said "What're you drinking?"
Twigger: "I'm not! She's drinking guinness!"
Gregory: "Yes, but what about y-"
Twigger: "No! That's my guinness"
Gregory: "You were a choirgirl?"
Twigger: "We're very big on our cathedrals back home."
Me: "There's a cathedral in every town!"
Twigger: "Not in mine. They ruined it." (This is especially funny to anyone who has read "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis.)
Also, the boy stuck his tongue out at me on stage.
ETA: Now I really want an icon of "Storm Warning".