knoxdkm
knoxville area DKM supporters
http://www.brendanbrady.org/
Also, Ken's new sports bar, McGreevey's, is open in Boston. Check it out if you are planning to be in Boston.
http://www.myspace.com/mcgreevysboston
I've said it before, but it's worth repeating. Please purchase Lafitte's Return Volumes 1 & 2 to support the preservation of New Orleans music.
These CD's are full of great pirate-themed bands and music. My friends in Cutthroat Shamrock have a track on each volume, and the music ranges from metal to traditional sea chanties. Besides just being great CD's, the profit goes to New Orleans school music programs.
( Mike McColgan, Spicy McHaggis ) and continued to be among the best Celtic Punk bands. I suspect that Tim Brennan will do a great job taking over Marc Orell's duties.
We at knoxdkm.com ( that would be me ) raise a glass of the black to Marc " The Kid " Orell.
Since my wife left on April Fools Day 2006, I have continued to struggle financially. When you don't have people skills, employers tend to ignore things like intelligence, good work ethic, computer skills, etc., that might otherwise earn you a position. Please remember to click the ads when you visit my music blog, Rogue Bloggard's Celtic & Pirate Music Blog, where I urge everyone to download or pick up Cutthroat Shamrock's new CD, " The Wake ", and purchase copies of the pirate music benefit for New Orleans music education, " Lafitte's Return. ".
A guy who visited this site gave me the URL for a good Al Barr interview. It's pretty short, so don't worry about not having time to check it out.
It is here:
http://musicnation.musicnation.com/blog/2007/10/lessons-from-legends-al-barr
Thank you Daniel S.
10/29/07 Congratulations to the 2007 world champion Boston Red Sox on winning the world series !!!! The final score in game four was 4-3.
10/28/07-Game three goes to Boston, 10-5. One more win and Boston will take the world series again !
10/25/07- And with a much closer final score of 2-1, Boston has won the second game of the world series !
10/24/07- Boston has won game one of the world series with a final score of 13-1.
10/22/07- Boston is going to the world series !!! The first game vs. Colorado is on 10/24 at Fenway.
10/21/07-DKM to play before game seven. Here's the email from Dropkick Murphys:
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The Red Sox win over Cleveland tonight means the series goes to game 7 at Fenway"
tomorrow. We got a phone call tonight from Red Sox management asking us to come
down to Fenway to perform on the field before the game starts. For those of you
outside Boston or who weren't lucky enough to get tickets for the game you
should be able to tune into FOX TV or your local affiliate to see some of the
Dropkick Murphys performance live right before the game starts around 7.45pm. We
also hope to get some video footage and photos we can post on our website for
everyone to see.
Let's go Red Sox!
10/20/07- That's more like it ! Boston wins game six 12-2, forcing game seven. Let's take it to the world series, guys.
10/18/07-After a couple of disappointing losses Boston is back ! Now we need to win the next two games to make the world series. Let's do it, Red Sox !!!
10/14/07 - The ALCS is now tied at 1 game each, Boston & Cleveland. It's time to let Big Papi, Manny, Varitek, and company know that " Boston's tenth man " is still behind them !!!
(Please check out the latest post, even though it is off topic. Thank you, knoxdkm. )
Dropkick Murphys album due in September !
DROPKICK MURPHYS NEW ALBUM - "THE MEANEST OF TIMES" OUT SEPTEMBER 18TH!
That's right. Check out www.dropkickmurphys.com for more info. It features guest appearances by Spider Stacy from the Pogues and the great Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners.
Sorry I haven't done much updating in a while. I have been pretty busy, stressed, etc. Who hasn't, right ?
I can tell you that Stephanie D's band, Deadly Sins, has finished recording their CD.
Check out their myspace profile.
Please check out my new Celtic punk & pirate music blog.
You can also view my youtube video favourites including Pogues, DKM, and Cutthroat Shamrock here.
Support this site by buying our merchandise.
If any of you need DKM " Blackout "stickers or flyers, please email me at lovejoyinc@yahoo.com with subject " DKM stuff. " ( I may not have a lot for more recent albums, and even the blackout leftovers won't last forever, since I am no longer a street team leader. I am told DKM had to cut back on leaders, and I am one who got cut. ) Also I am now doing street team stuff for Mike McColgan's current band, Street Dogs. If you need Street Dogs stuff, just use subject " Street Dogs stuff. " If you do not know who Street Dogs are, please check out their " EPK " ( a nice little biovideo introduction to the band ) on their media page at http://www.street-dogs.com. Also, please put " DKM " in the subject of any general email to this address, to insure that I read it as opposed to deleting it with the ton of spam I get daily.
Thanks,
Chuck Crouch
former
DKM knoxville area street team leader.
" Take another ride on the moonshine highway... " ( OK, that's the Tennessee version. See, everyday I drive to and from work on Route 11/Kingston Pike, which was known as
" Thunder Road " in moonshining's heyday. Check out the Robert Mitchum film " Thunder Road " if this interests you. )
If you are in Gatlinburg, especially if you like Cutthroat Shamrock, check out 3rd I Productions. ( It's " Billy Badass " Ryan's shop, along with another artist/owner, Rae. )
Welcome to the website of Chuck Crouch, Dropkick Murphys supporters ( former ) " street team leader " for the Knoxville, TN area. Whether you are an official DKM supporters club member or just a fan who wants to help promote this excellent Boston Irish streetpunk band in the Knoxville area, this site is intended to be a resource for you. I hope to bring more fans on board for the official & unofficial teams through this site, so if you want to help, please email me @ lovejoyinc@yahoo.com .You can also email me if you are already helping & need more stickers, posters, or flyers, though I may not be getting as many, since I am told DKM have had to cut back on street team leaders and I am no longer one.
Thank you & enjoy the site !
Chuck
Click here to listen to my internet radio station courtesy of Launch ( Yahoo ) ' launchcast. '
We were in BOSTON 03/11/04-03/14/04 here you'll see some of the photos from Boston & the DKM concert we went to on 03/11/04 as well as the charity breakfast on 03/13/04! The show & the breakfast were awesome. I shook Al Barr's hand, & Elizabeth & I had our pictures taken with various band members. ( You'll see after we get the pics developed & scanned, hopefully early next week. ) For now, though, if you look close you'll see us in one of the pics posted from the charity breakfast here. (Hint: Look in the top left corner. Elizabeth was wearing a beige coat. )
THE SHOW-03/11/04 If you were at the Avalon for last year's St. Patrick's Day shows, you may think this impossible, but Dropkick Murphys really outdid themselves this time around. Even last year's show (at least on the night we were there) was not quite as awesome as this year's. ( We never would have thought that they could top last year, though. ) The band played a pretty good mix of older tunes and more recent favorites. While they didn't play any Clash covers at the show we were at, they surprised me by playing The Nips ' Vengeance ' & AC/DC's ' Long Way to the Top, ' both of which were from singles or compilations, as opposed to DKM albums. The show also included ' Good Rats, ' 'The Wild Rover, 'and ' Finnegan's Wake ,' in addition to the usual working class anthems such as ' Worker's Song, ' ' A Few Good Men,' & ' Boys on the Docks,' and of course ' The Dirty Glass ' with Stephanie Dougherty. We left saying it was the best concert we had ever been to.
THE BREAKFAST - We were among the last 50 people to get tickets to the charity breakfast, which benefited The Nick Boynton Diabetes Foundation. We shelled out the $50 for two tickets when they became available, the night before we flew to Boston. We were certainly not disappointed. We knew from the moment the band walked by casually greeting the fans waiting to get in ( outside The Harp on the morning of the 13th ) that this would be a morning to remember. Once we were inside, the band members were just as casual, allowing the fans to take pictures with them, signing various items, etc. The Pogues, one of my personal favourite bands, played over the sound system as we ate breakfast & went around taking pictures of each other with members of the band. Ken Casey joined a Bruins team member onstage to raffle off a variety of Dropkick Murphys & Bruins items, then Dropkick Murphys took the stage and played excellent acoustic versions of ' The Dirty Glass ' with Stephanie D. & another great tune, which if memory serves was ' Boys on the Docks. ' Elizabeth says it was ' Boys on the Docks, ' reminding me that Ken Casey introduced his mother before playing it & stated that the song was about her father, John Kelly. Then Casey dismissed us so that the band could go across the street to the Fleet Center to watch the Bruins defeat the Sabers 3-2.
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Knoxville Area Dropkick Murphys supporters site.
Check out the video " Coma Girl " from the new Joe Strummer single !!!
And Mike McColgan's new band, Street Dogs !!!
Shite'n'Onions-Celt punk magazine
Knoxville area semi-independent record store
A great record store in my old hometown, Orlando, FL.
( The store I ordered my first DKM from. )
A bumper sticker you can print.
Sinn Fein website ( Irish patriot party. )
A local computer user group that I served on the board of in 2003.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
St. Patrick's Day 2005
While we were not able to join DKM for their annual celebration in Boston, we still had a pretty good time in Knoxville with Cutthroat Shamrock.
Congratulations Boston Red Sox, on winning the 2004 World Series.
( I'll admit I haven't followed sports in a long time, but hey, the last world series I watched was when you lost to NY ! I was rooting for Boston then, too. )
We had a great time last night ( 01/30/05 ) at the Cutthroat Shamrock/Kissers show at Preservation Pub. Cutthroat played a brief ( to a Cutthroat fan anyway ) selection from their usual repertoire and responded to calls for an encore with their cover of the Nine Inch Nails tune " Hurt " in the style of Johnny Cash. They now have a live 14 track CD available, " Beer Soaked and Live " which captures the boys in top form and documents the feel of a Cutthroat show right down to Ben's toasts.
Then The Kissers took the stage and played two excellent sets and a couple of encores, mixing up originals, traditional tunes ( though not always played exactly according to the traditional version ), rock and alternative rock classics by the likes of the Who, Elvis Costello, and my personal favourite, The Pogues.
" Rotten " and I even convinced them to play " Sally MacLennane, " which we knew from their previous Knoxville show they play extremely well. They also played a good version of another Pogues classic,
" Sunny Side of the Street. " One could almost forget that the pub was out of Guinness. " Brilliant. "
Pictures will soon be posted here.
Support Local Talent !!!
Click here to see my Cutthroat Shamrock page.
It was going to be a " local bands " page, but I don't get out to shows like I did in my younger days, and these guys are the one local band that I know is worth going to see when I can. If I hear another I'll add them, but for now the page is all about Cutthroat Shamrock.
CUTTHROAT SHAMROCK ( see pic below ) played at the Great Smoky Mountain Brewery
in Gatlinburg Wednesday 12/15/04, and again Wednesday 12/22/04, and again Wednesday 12/29/04.
The show we were at on 12/22/04 was excellent, as always.
If you like good time Celtic drinking type music, these are your boys !!!
According to their new official site, CUTTHROAT SHAMROCK
has the following shows coming up:
Sun January 30th 8:30 pm
the preservation pub
market sq. knoxville tn
opening for: The Kissers
bad ass band come out and get drunk with us. we will only play for an hour so dont be late!
Wed Feb 9th 9:30pm
the brewery
gatlinburg tn
Wed Feb 16th 9:30 pm
the brewery
gatlinburg tn
Fri Feb 18th
time to be announced
the triple C dance barn
sevierville tn
Saint Patrick's Day
Thursday March 17th
the preservation pub
$2 @the door 9PM
CUTTHROAT SHAMROCK played a great show at the Great Smoky Mountain Brewery
in Gatlinburg Wednesday, 10/13/04.
They play great originals & a few covers in a sort of " irish drinking punk " style.
They also now have a 6-song CD available for purchase, as well as t-shirts & work shirts.