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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostTurin Breaks 20 years later also. Wait for the acoustic solo at the end,
If live music and bands being able to tour are a long-term covid casualty I'd seriously consider moving out of Dublin I think. Wouldn't grumble. 20-odd years was a good run.
Could grow into being PSV's worst nightmare.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe sooner people let that collective madness be forgotten like all the other wars, the better. Plebs dying from every side so big men can see who the biggest man is. I see Sky News is noting the participation by the Indians on the Brit side as if it was some noble gesture by the Indians rather than the cost of their slavery to the nobel British effort to rid the world of *ahem* bad countries.
The old line about those who fail to learn the lessons of history still applies today."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
You can't just erase history (no matter if good or bad).
The old line about those who fail to learn the lessons of history still applies today.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
You can't just erase history (no matter if good or bad).
The old line about those who fail to learn the lessons of history still applies today.
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
It's not really as simple as that. Part of the modern English problem is they can't get past the one bit of history they remember, i.e. Chamberlain and the second world war. That didn't work out to well for them regarding the last Iraq disaster.
You'll have to explain the Iraq\WW2 parallel to me."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
The main thing we learn from history is that we repeatedly fail to learn from History. q.v. Trump"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Champions League is just one of those sporting tournaments that consistently delivers great entertainment. Similar to the Heineken Cup in rugby.
Pretty much the only soccer I watch all year and it's always really good in the knockout stages."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Nah. It's what is always said. But it's just plain wrong. The surest way of a politician in trouble to be re-elected is to start a war. Warmonging politicians in the image of Churchill are viewed as something admirable in the US and UK (Thatcher, Johnson when given a chance). And tough-guy politics is big everywhere. Hollywood can't stop making war movies that have tragedy but also glory at the heart of the story. So when exactly is the lesson going to be learned? Because it has been 75 years.
As said, we have had the longest sustained period of peace ever. Lessons have been learned. Look at the multilateral institutions put in place to prevent war after WW2. Successful ones."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I'm talking about these annual commemorations, just let them die, not the fact that the UN was (maybe) set up in its wake. People saying "we'll never forget" despite evidentially forgetting based on the idiots they elect.
They are the ones who have the biggest fetish about WW2, skilfully leveraged by Putin. And he's started how many wars now? A shitload.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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That was absolutely astounding Benny. Thank you so much for giving me the nudge, was himming and hawing all week about buying a ticket, thought it would be a kinda flat experience, didn't think it would feel live. I was very wrong. It was incredible. So immersive. The segues were fantastic.
That Belfast hip hop act towards the end were electric.
Buzzing here.
Gonna watch it againI hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
I would have thought Brexit was a far more appropriate example of the misapplication of historical memory regarding WW2.
You'll have to explain the Iraq\WW2 parallel to me.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThis is fantastic
A real triumph of the human spirit in every sense.
The Kneecap and Mary Wallopers sections were fun counterpoints to the dark surrealism and brooding doom.
They've breathed new life into the drone which has been, for aeons, a cornerstone of music (and life) and we're luck to have their vision.
I sincerely hope they cleared their costs and made a few quid.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThat was absolutely astounding Benny. Thank you so much for giving me the nudge, was himming and hawing all week about buying a ticket, thought it would be a kinda flat experience, didn't think it would feel live. I was very wrong. It was incredible. So immersive. The segues were fantastic.
That Belfast hip hop act towards the end were electric.
Buzzing here.
Gonna watch it again
Kneecap (the Belfast lads) are a great band - can't wait to see them live too. Someday hopefully.
I'll be watching again tomorrow with MrsHifi who is away tonight.
I know the production company who did the interlude pieces and they won't have been cheap (worked with the founder before).
I know the drummer fairly well (he's also the drummer in The Jimmy Cake) and his younger brother is the fiddle player. Very musical family and good people so I'm stoked for them.
Best e12 I've spent all year.
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Don't think I mentioned it but I got into them after shazamming 'Hunting the Wren' on John Kelly's Mystery Train.
I heard this mesmerising, haunting song, vocal harmonies with the timbre of bagpipes.
Shazammed it 3 or 4 days after my little one was born.
We had named her Wren.
Lyrics about overcoming adversity (my interpretation). This little Wren with broken wings dodging predators and surviving strong.
Mind was blown.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostDid you tune in Solks, or SP?
Right up both of yizzer streets
I'd say eventually it'll go to YouTube but you'll never regret giving them e12 now and will only feel like a cheap heel if you watch it next year for free
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostDon't think I mentioned it but I got into them after shazamming 'Hunting the Wren' on John Kelly's Mystery Train.
I heard this mesmerising, haunting song, vocal harmonies with the timbre of bagpipes.
Shazammed it 3 or 4 days after my little one was born.
We had named her Wren.
Lyrics about overcoming adversity (my interpretation). This little Wren with broken wings dodging predators and surviving strong.
Mind was blown.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThanks man. ​​​​​​
Trying to figure out how to watch it again. Doesn't look like you can.
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Oh well, don't mind asking Mrs HiFi to spring for one tomorrow evening.
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View Post
Yeah I had a look at that myself and can't find an easy way without, perhaps, buying another ticket . That would be a real shame now.
Oh well, don't mind asking Mrs HiFi to spring for one tomorrow evening.
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View Post
Forget that negativity. Just rewind the YouTube video. Literally scrub the video back and you're back at the start
Had to click on the YouTube icon to get to the slider.
Cool, haha, cheers.
Here we go again.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
Haha, that worked.
Had to click on the YouTube icon to get to the slider.
Cool, haha, cheers.
Here we go again.
Normally I'd just dive into some other music now but I'm so pre-occupied with this I can't even think of listening to another band at the minute.
I genuinely believe The Young People is one of the greatest songs of the 21st century.
How many tunes about suicide, a blight that affects all of us but a topic that is generally avoided in polite company, can tug on the heart strings with a melody and sensitivity that reflects the complexity of the subject matter.
Simultaneously crushing and uplifting. Pure genius.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostVery like A Lazarus Soul
Love these boys
It's a pub/buliding that has always intrigued me. It was massively long which you couldn't tell from the front and I wonder what they did in that space, the times that they had and how important it was to in the community.
Sadly I was never in it before it closed, oh.. I dunno maybe a decade or 15 years ago or maybe even more.
It was demolished a few years ago and apartments built. Another cultural casualty.
Just memories and ghosts replaced.Last edited by BennyHiFi; 15-08-20, 23:39.
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I was never in it to my knowledge Benny. Was in a fair few over the years en route to Richmond Park. Cant even recall , from the Black horse to Dillons then the other direction the horse and jockey . So could have. They are all just a haze .
I didn't realise it was about St Michael's estate .
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostI was never in it to my knowledge Benny. Was in a fair few over the years en route to Richmond Park. Cant even recall , from the Black horse to Dillons then the other direction the horse and jockey . So could have. They are all just a haze .
I didn't realise it was about St Michael's estate .
The pub was opposite the entrance to the War Memorial Gardens, just before you head over the bridge and hit the Islandbridge junction at the Phoenix Park wall. There 's some funky cafe there around there now. The Storyboard I think.
Not sure the track is specifically about St. Michaels but the songwriter would obviously have an intimate knowledge of the inchicore/kilmainham/islandbrige area i'd imagine.
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View Post
Yessssss! That's how good it was.
Normally I'd just dive into some other music now but I'm so pre-occupied with this I can't even think of listening to another band at the minute.
I genuinely believe The Young People is one of the greatest songs of the 21st century.
How many tunes about suicide, a blight that affects all of us but a topic that is generally avoided in polite company, can tug on the heart strings with a melody and sensitivity that reflects the complexity of the subject matter.
Simultaneously crushing and uplifting. Pure genius.
Well said.
Am in love with Radie Peat, she's haunting.
I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
Conservatives at the time made the argument that leaving Hussein in power was like appeasing Hitler. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...373-story.html
And when we read that this was the Daily Telegraph, it seems even more so. They would scream about the blitz spirit in response to anything."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
Conservatives at the time made the argument that leaving Hussein in power was like appeasing Hitler. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...373-story.html
And where is Saddam's imperial plan? He has been in charge of Iraq for some 30 years, and so far he's initiated hostilities with only two countries, Iran and Kuwait. Hitler dreamed of ruling the world. Hussein's grand vision was to control the whole of the Shatt al Arab waterway and some oil fields to his south.
Is Kosovo not the better parallel for Iraq? It was the success there that emboldened Blair to attempt to do the same in Iraq.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Shouldn't you be bolted into the house in The Plague County?
Turning millions into thousands
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