Late Late and Ronnie Drew's Tribute

RoundyMooney

Just watching this...

Commendable subject, mixed bag of musicians, bloody awful song...

I suppose getting Shane McGowan to stand up is something of an achievement

Snake Plisken

Its a very catchy song especially the chorus, couldn't understand a word Mr McGowen was saying though.

Cool_CM

This is the most cringeworthy TV I've seen in ages

chalkitdown1

Shane McGowen should not be allowed to talk on live television. I understood maybe 10% of what he said.

Standard Toaster

Cool_CM wrote: »

This is the most cringeworthy TV I've seen in ages

Agreed

Was ok up until Plank started talking to Shane. What God awful questions he asked them all too.

The song is gash imho.

Has Ronnie beaten the throat cancer?
Hope he's on the mend.

mobby

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

Shane McGowen should not be allowed to talk on live television. I understood maybe 10% of what he said.

Thats 10% more them me

Wishbone Ash

Cool_CM wrote: »

This is the most cringeworthy TV I've seen in ages

The performance of the song was good the the rest was embarassing. I had to look away several times!

shockwave

Cringe tv as only RTE can do.

SoupyNorman

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

Shane McGowen should not be allowed to talk on live television. I understood maybe 10% of what he said.

Excuse me, did you not listen to Paul Hewson speak.Paul made Shane McGowen sound like a Narrator from BBC's The Natural World .

The greatest part was Shane drinking out of a Flowery Mug......Fabulous stuff!

Keano

The_Edge wrote: »

Agreed

Was ok up until Plank started talking to Shane. What God awful questions he asked them all too.

The song is gash imho.

Has Ronnie beaten the throat cancer?
Hope he's on the mend.

Not as bad as the Brits the other night... Not even close!

My only gripe is could they not give him a whole show???

Running Bing

Those monks were brilliant.



That song is laughably bad. Is it supposed to be "Hallelujah" by Leonhard Cohen? I missed the start.


If it is you would think so many supposedly great musicians could actually write an original song for a cause they all see as so worthy and if it isnt they have basically ripped the song off and made it completely **** and cringeworthy.


That chorus is like something a class of 11 year olds would come up with if tasked with writing a song for Ronnie Drew. Really quite astonishing.

*Tripper*

Anybody watch that feminist ****e? Fook that was dreadful.

Sam Kade

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

Shane McGowen should not be allowed to talk on live television. I understood maybe 10% of what he said.

Was the 10% when he used the f word he also laughs with a hiss

berliner

i enjoyed it but it makes you realise watching that bunch how little talent we have in Ireland.Same old tired faces.Sinead O'Connor etc ZZZZzzzz

Mossy Monk

shockwave wrote: »

Cringe tv as only RTE can do.

But you all go back to it every week for more.

Wishbone Ash

Mossy Monk wrote: »

But you all go back to it every week for more.

Some of us haven't much choice!

waxon-waxoff

So thats why people go drinking Friday nights....

Bono called the Tanaiste a "he". Larry and the edge sharing the same story. Sinead O'Connor is a one hit wonder, what a freak. Thats some tribute to poor old Ronnie.

estebancambias

That segment was embarrassing.

Bono: ''Edge tell Pat about meeting Ronnie in Germany''

Edge: Well..I never really had the chance to speak to Ronnie until I met him in Germany in 1980....I saw him in a bar, with loads of glasses on the table..see in those days they gave you ( ) to buy things, for breakfast, maby lunch and perhaps some dinner... a lot of drink was taken, and Ronnie said can you..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Corr: My dad was Ronnie Drew's groupie...

Bono talking about minstrels and the likes.

Shane ''cghuuuuuuuuuuuuuu'' Mcgowan.


After watching all those people, I couldn't but help thing back to the wonderful personalities of Westlife on Tubridy.


The monks were so meh.

Roar

waxon-waxoff wrote: »

So thats why people go drinking Friday nights....

Bono called the Tanaiste a "he". Larry and the edge sharing the same story. Sinead O'Connor is a one hit wonder, what a freak. Thats some tribute to poor old Ronnie.

the tanaiste is a he. brian cowen to be precise.

it was bloody awful, it was painful to watch. i know it's for a good cause and all that, but still.

that rapping nut job monk was hilarious though!

dublinmadyoke

McGowan was awful bad

dublinmadyoke

Ah Brian Cowen is a bloke.. well maybe he isn't lol...

waxon-waxoff

Ha ha, i forgot Mary Harney vacated that post. Bono said the tanaiste has enough troubles, he meant the Taoiseach perhaps?

Did you hear Sineads suggestion about getting together once a year for a sing along. Dont think there will be many takers for that offer. Well maybe her and Shane can in whatever asylum they escaped from tonight

je55ie

What age is Shane?

dublinmadyoke

I was looking at him tonight and I don't think he is that old! I'd say late 40's???? God he'd make ya stop drinkin! He should be on those drink wise ad's.....

estebancambias

dublinmadyoke wrote: »

I was looking at him tonight and I don't think he is that old! I'd say late 40's???? God he'd make ya stop drinkin! He should be on those drink wise ad's.....

Yeah but what yardstick could you judge him by?

Once a booze hound always a booze hound.

estebancambias

50 according to Wikipedia.

Jeez..3 years difference between Bono and McGowan...the difference.

IanCurtis

90% of those on stage were drunk..!

Stop slagging Sinead O'Connor - her first two albums are outstanding, the third is quite good, the rest are ****e I'll give you that.

dublinmadyoke

Ah I am not going to judge him... awful thing to say but I think he won't be with us for much longer...

estebancambias

The definition of class:

dublinmadyoke

Jayus!!

parasite

I really hope that's cigarette tar on his fingers ...

je55ie

OMG :eek:

Wishbone Ash

dublinmadyoke wrote: »

Ah I am not going to judge him... awful thing to say but I think he won't be with us for much longer...

Ronnie or Shane?

estebancambias

parasite wrote: »

I really hope that's cigarette tar on his fingers ...

Ugggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

shockwave

Look at the state of him I'd say he's got about 10 years left,at the most.

RoundyMooney

Quite sad actually.

When I started this, I thought Ronnie was getting a whole show to himself.

Time is a funny thing, with the exception of Barney (the Dubliner sitting on the stool), the other band members look far healthier than McGowan, and played far better too.

And they put away some booze in their time

Get well soon Ronnie.

Design_Dude

The monks were gud i thought, theyd something decent to say anyway.

Wertz

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Commendable subject, mixed bag of musicians, bloody awful song...

Couldn't agree more. The song was terrible, even though it was sung and played well. Soemthing that certainly didn't exceed or even equal the sum of it's parts.
McGowan's a legend (I hate that term but he is)...Bono was being his usual sanctimonious self, but I ended up almost feeling sorry for him when faced with the ineptness of plank. I thought he was going to loose his temper at one stage.

The whole LLS last night was a pretty surreal episode IMO, 'specailly the hip hop monks living in Moyross. Sorry guys but I was in fits. Respect though...

tampopo

waxon-waxoff wrote: »

Did you hear Sineads suggestion about getting together once a year for a sing along. Dont think there will be many takers for that offer. Well maybe her and Shane can in whatever asylum they escaped from tonight

lol,agree with you there!!!

I thought it WAS a whole show and turned away for ages. Saw three biddies in masks. wtf?

I 'met'/bumped into Ronnie Drew one day in town, he's a total a$$hole. I'm sorry his wife died.

Sinead O'Connor has no good albums imo.

I missed some singing monks. gee whiz!

Wertz

It should have been a full tribute show, not the half arsed 15 min tete a tete it turned out to be.

BTW am I the only one who was strongly reminded of the Band Aid video by the on they did for the Drew tribute track?
Also does anyone else think we'll all be sick to the back teeth of this tune when the radio stations get their mits on it?

Design_Dude

McGowan is actually brain damaged from drug abuse, but i think he had a few in him as well.

Madge

How come Sinead or Andrea aren't singing solo on the song?
They pick a drunken toothless yoke to sing a verse, (though you couldn't even know what he was saying) when there are 2 of the best Irish female musical voices there. What a joke :mad:

Wertz

Design_Dude wrote: »

McGowan is actually brain damaged from drug abuse, but i think he had a few in him as well.

I'd love to know what was in that cup

Design_Dude

Yea, looked quite flowery:)

berliner

Wertz wrote: »

It should have been a full tribute show, not the half arsed 15 min tete a tete it turned out to be.

BTW am I the only one who was strongly reminded of the Band Aid video by the on they did for the Drew tribute track?
Also does anyone else think we'll all be sick to the back teeth of this tune when the radio stations get their mits on it?

Gay Byren already did a tribut show to the Dubliners back in the 80's.Superb TV from Gaybo the legend.Badly missed off the box.

Wertz

I vaguely recall it....that's where the clip they showed last night of The Irish Rover was recorded right?

...to go off topic for a second, I reckon the LLS video vaults must be full of gems, bound to be enough stuff in there to make a great series a la Reeling in the years...

lostexpectation

the certainly did have a lot of big names in the video in the sutdio at the one time, is ronnie drew getting better?

why did they have to ring some bloke out of the grateful dead to write such a obvious song?

Design_Dude

Did yas hear Pat singing!

berliner

Wertz wrote: »

I vaguely recall it....that's where the clip they showed last night of The Irish Rover was recorded right?

...to go off topic for a second, I reckon the LLS video vaults must be full of gems, bound to be enough stuff in there to make a great series a la Reeling in the years...

Yeah,that's where they got the clip of The irish rover from.The whole of that LLS is available on dvd.Tubridy and Kenny should watch in a see the master at work.

Steve01

*Tripper* wrote: »

Anybody watch that feminist ****e? Fook that was dreadful.

If that wasn't car-crash television I don't know what is. "We won't remove our masks until feminism is respected worldwide", i.e. "Until SOMEONE enjoys our godawful act". Don't hold your breath ladies

Latchy

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Not as bad as the Brits the other night... Not even close!

My only gripe is could they not give him a whole show???

Jeeez ,wasn't that an awful load of coddswalop to view ? Watching a bunch of wasters off their face on booze as if we dont see enough of it on our citys streets every weekend .Is this what we pay a tv leience for ? the osbournes ...i meen cmon ,will sombody please set fire to that horrible talentless womon Sharon :rolleyes:

Havent seen the LL show but seen enough off ' rent a dentist ' Shane McGowan to know he is just happy to be exploited as long as the free booze is flowing .