Comments on: The Limerick County Library http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/ A love letter Mon, 21 May 2012 17:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Gary Madden http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-492 Gary Madden Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:46:48 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=551#comment-492 "shocking sameness" etc. ...Yeah saw this too on returning from London to Shannon lately. Very amusing. Same shock on arriving on streets of London too a year ago! Them and us is a dangerous situation and one I find ugly. What can these people do when they are denied the right to sell their labour? While the government denies them this basic human right, the few 'real' racists in Ireland hold a very fine hand of cards indeed. “shocking sameness” etc.

…Yeah saw this too on returning from London to Shannon lately. Very amusing. Same shock on arriving on streets of London too a year ago!

Them and us is a dangerous situation and one I find ugly. What can these people do when they are denied the right to sell their labour? While the government denies them this basic human right, the few ‘real’ racists in Ireland hold a very fine hand of cards indeed.

]]> By: red clay http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-491 red clay Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:02:42 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=551#comment-491 i know i need to let this one go, and tell the good olu dara stories. but it was new york, now, and i come all the way up the country to be brow-beaten by a room fulla yankees. new york has got good food, now,and the big buildings, and art of the ages, a kalieda-scope of color and form. good music, too, the bars are like a pinata, close your eyes and give em a whack, something worthwhile is liable to fall out. you just wouldn't expect to drag cross the country, and know more about about fun. i know i need to let this one go, and tell the good olu dara stories.
but it was new york, now, and i come all the way up the country to be brow-beaten by a room fulla yankees. new york has got good food, now,and the big buildings, and art of the ages, a kalieda-scope of color and form. good music, too, the bars are like a pinata, close your eyes and give em a whack, something worthwhile is liable to fall out.
you just wouldn’t expect to drag cross the country, and know more about about fun.

]]> By: Dervala http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-490 Dervala Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:02:00 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=551#comment-490 I believe this has recently changed, but they usen't let you buy 'hard liquor' in New York City on a Sunday. It might lead to dancing. I believe this has recently changed, but they usen’t let you buy ‘hard liquor’ in New York City on a Sunday. It might lead to dancing.

]]> By: red clay http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-489 red clay Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:40:41 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=551#comment-489 my first night in new york for a long while, and a young lady suprised me with olu dara tickets. a small blues bar in new york, i'm gonna see olu dara with a pretty girl. no smoking, drinking is apparently frowned on there, and NO DANCING! to the blues! lord know i shouldn't be allowed to, but this girl has an angel's grace. olu dara was cranky for the rest of the show, after they made her sit down. new york. i swear. my first night in new york for a long while, and a young lady suprised me with olu dara tickets.
a small blues bar in new york, i’m gonna see olu dara with a pretty girl.
no smoking, drinking is apparently frowned on there, and NO DANCING! to the blues!
lord know i shouldn’t be allowed to, but this girl has an angel’s grace.
olu dara was cranky for the rest of the show, after they made her sit down.

new york. i swear.

]]> By: john skinner http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-488 john skinner Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:14:47 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=551#comment-488 Aaah, yes, the good old days. Kids today have no idea ;-)

I’ll have to look up that album, thanks for the tip. Man, he must be nearly as old as I am…

]]> By: Ranger Tim http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Ranger Tim Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:10:01 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=551#comment-487 Same guy. I would have described him as a Brooklyn cornetist who discovered he had a salable singing voice and guitar licks. His solo debut _In The World: From Natchez To New York_ (Atlantic 1998) is mesmerizing; can't think of another modern recording so infused with a black New York sense of place. "Harlem country girl, you're so sweet ..." God, Material, yes! That was Olu riffing horn on that wobbly but infectious funk breakdown on "Memory Serves". Go on, try not to dance. Same guy. I would have described him as a Brooklyn cornetist who discovered he had a salable singing voice and guitar licks. His solo debut In The World: From Natchez To New York (Atlantic 1998) is mesmerizing; can’t think of another modern recording so infused with a black New York sense of place. “Harlem country girl, you’re so sweet …”

God, Material, yes! That was Olu riffing horn on that wobbly but infectious funk breakdown on “Memory Serves”. Go on, try not to dance.

]]> By: john skinner http://dervala.net/2004/02/27/the-limerick-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-486 john skinner Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:24:15 +0000 http://dervala.net/?p=551#comment-486 A Brooklyn singer named Olu Dara? Interesting, have to look him up. There was an Olu Dara who played a hot'n'funky trumpet with Bill Laswell's band "Material" a few decades ago, unlikely that it's the same guy. (Sorry to post such a triviality.) A Brooklyn singer named Olu Dara? Interesting, have to look him up. There was an Olu Dara who played a hot’n‘funky trumpet with Bill Laswell’s band “Material” a few decades ago, unlikely that it’s the same guy. (Sorry to post such a triviality.)

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