knoxdkm
knoxville area DKM supporters
What I'm listening to right now: Cutthroat Shamrock " Blood Rust Whiskey " , some Catfight songs I downloaded via SNOCAP on their myspace profile, and Gogol Bordello.
Here is the message from DKM:
" Hi everyone,
We are very happy and excited to let you all know that we have our act
together early this year and would like to announce the dates for our Boston
St Patrick's Day shows for 2010. We will be playing from Friday March 12th
through to Wednesday March 17th at the Boston House Of Blues. Tickets for
these shows will go on sale next Friday November 27th. More details will be
sent out over the next week.
The South Boston St Patrick's Day Parade will take place on Sunday March
14th and there will be tons of other great stuff happening all week at
McGreevys and around town. So come help us turn Boston into another giant
DKM convention for the week of St. Pats!
Oh and while we are at it here's some more good news. We are just finishing
up putting together our Live On St Patrick's Day 2009 album release that
will come out in time for next year's shows, ready to get you in a festive
mood ready for the 2010 debacle. The album will feature a completely
different track listing from our first live CD that came out back in 2002.
There will also be a bonus DVD version so we're going to give you your
moneys worth. We made sure there was no double dipping on the songs here!
See ya in Boston 2010!
Love,
Dropkick Murphys "
to support knoxdkm.com and it's webmaster, " Chuck Blackguard."You can also help by ordering from my coffee ordering site, including any product listed on Kat's Coffees and More website, sending the order by email to the address given on my coffee ordering site, paying via the paypal button on my site.
( Please also visit Rogue Blackguard's Celtic and Pirate Music Blog. )
In case you were wondering, yes, that's me on mandolin, guitar, and tin whistle on the background music file. Multitrack recording, delay, and chorus were done with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 Trial Version.
From @cutthroatben on Twitter: " Cutthroat Shamrock's 3rd album "Blood Rust Whiskey" is out and you can buy it at The Rhythm Section in Gatlinburg, TN. It will be there today. " He also said call 8654364342 first to be sure it is there, and that it can be purchased from any band member, and will be available in Knoxville and online.
Update: " knoxville @ the disc exchange. morristown @ the cd swap. Gatlinburg @ rhythm section "
An Irish festival to benefit
Second Harvest ? That's my kind of idea x2!
From Mike at Leaf and Ale
in Knoxville:
"Check
out this great event we are involved with. I can't think of a better
organization than Second Harvest of Knoxville to get behind. This will
be a HUGE party even if you aren't Irish! We'll be there during the
entire time selling cigars at the Cigar Tent. So join us for an Irish
style celebration. "
East Tennessee Irish Festival to Benefit 2nd Harvest
Leaf & Ale is an Official Vendor for this Event Location: Worlds Fair Park
Time:1:00PM Saturday, August 22nd "
http://www.leafandale.com
They have also supported knoxdkm in various ways since we met them at Gatlinburg's Fox & Parrot tavern a few years ago, including a mention in the liner notes of their first studio CD. They now have two full length studio releases and a third on the way.
DKM rocked Knoxville tonight. I don't think the show was quite as long as their Boston Saint Patrick's Day shows I have attended, but it was an awesome show and Knoxville was certainly glad to have them. Ken Casey said from the stage that DKM was glad to finally be here, apologized for taking so long, and said that they will definitely be back. Let's hold him to that, Knoxville. While local favorites Cutthroat Shamrock were not on the bill, at least three fifths of Cutthroat Shamrock were present in the audience. Ben was even up front with my oldest nephew, Andrew, who tells me that while he didn't get on stage during the encore, he did " high five " Al Barr and Ken Casey.
It's about time, too. Dropkick Murphys will be at The Valarium on 11/09/08 for an all ages show.
You can bet I'll be there. If I would travel to Boston twice to see them live, you know I'd travel the 45 minutes from Lenoir City to Knoxville.
Here are the details from The Valarium's website:
Sunday, November 9
7:00 PM Doors
Dropkick Murphys come out swinging with their 6th studio album "The Meanest Of Times" a collection of tales about family, loyalty and remembering where you came from. "The Meanest Of Times" contains all the best elements of the DKM sound: a complex distillation of classic punk rock, Celtic folk and American rock'n'roll, this album puts the band's diversity, intensity and sincerity on full display.
From the Quincy Barbershop where it all began to Fenway Park the year the Red Sox won the World Series to six sold out shows in a club they used to be barred from to the title song in a Martin Scorsese feature film the DKM goal has always remained the same. Says Ken Casey: "We always wanted to be that band that didn't forget where it came from and we keep it in the forefront of our minds that we're all in it together, audience and band members, as one, no one better than the other. That's the M.O. of a lot of punk bands, but I think sometimes it gets lost the minute a band has any kind of success. We never want to let it go to our heads. We know how lucky we are to be doing this. It's because of the people that listen to the band's music we have this opportunity to see the world. I don't care if we're playing to 10 people or 10,000 people, those kids that are up front singing our songs are the reason we're doing this."
ALL AGES.
$24 Adv/ $26 Door.
On Sale Friday, 9/19 at Noon.
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.
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.
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.
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
Support Local Talent !!!
Click here to see my local and sort of local bands 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. (
Okay I wrote that a long time ago and now I would have to add Jon Worley and his Cornbred Blues Band, along with a handful of bands like The Fox Hunt, Pine Hill Haints, and Jason and the Punknecks
that don't quite fit my definition of
local but sometimes play shows here with local bands, so I'll try to
add a little on them to the local bands page, but until I do, check
them out by clicking their names here. )
