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Singing Priest steals the show

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  • #2
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    He has something of the Elton John about him alright


  • #3
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I would hate that :o

    I know everyone loves it, he seems like a nice man, good singer etc. But not for my wedding thanks!


  • #4
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Nobody has posted about this yet


  • #5
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    eek, as if Irish weddings were not cringe enough.


  • #6
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Is this not a common enough thing? I remember our priest would regularly sing portions of songs with no choir or any backing music.


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  • #7
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Tbh while it was a nice performance, he's made the wedding about himself there rather than the couple.


  • #8
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Adamantium wrote: »
    Is this not a common enough thing? I remember our priest would regularly sing portions of songs with no choir or any backing music.

    It happens occasionally alright. I heard that Fred Phelps from the Westboro Baptist Church used to sing a few bars of I want to break free by Queen from time to time.


  • #9
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Right,If I can't pray the gay away,

    I might as well sing it away!!.......

    No....wait....


  • #10
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    mauzo! wrote: »
    I would hate that :o

    I know everyone loves it, he seems like a nice man, good singer etc. But not for my wedding thanks!
    Maybe I'm old fashioned, but surely the focus should be on the bride:confused:


  • #11
    robbiezero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,509 ✭✭✭robbiezero


    I guess people will remember their wedding long after your average Irish wedding merges in your memory and becomes indistinguishable from every other Irish wedding they attended.


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  • #12
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Tbh while it was a nice performance, he's made the wedding about himself there rather than the couple.

    That was my view on it. It's quite nicely done, but the emphasis of the wedding is supposed to be the bride and groom. All everyone is going to be talking about after that wedding is the priest. Rather than the discussion after the service being all about "Didn't she look lovely", it will be "Wasn't the priest amazing".


  • #13
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Tbh while it was a nice performance, he's made the wedding about himself there rather than the couple.

    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


    Did he post it on YouTube and view it over 200,000 times???


  • #14
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    If it's all about the bride( and parenthically, it seems, the groom) then why have best men, bridesmaids or any body else at the wedding? Anybody can steal the show. I once ate the cake a bit early. That was kinda stealing the limelight. It certainly has been talked about since. Maybe too often. Maybe it's remembered more than the bride's dress.

    Call me bitter but if you want the day to be about yourself alone feck off abroad and send a video. Then there can be no confusion about non standard looking wedding cakes.


  • #15
    Cornelius Cornpipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭Cornelius Cornpipe


    Grand performance. He's well able to sing. Really seemed to enjoy doing it. Well done to the Father.

    No need for the auld snarky comments.


  • #16
    maneno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭maneno


    That was just part of the wedding,so abit off saying he stole the show,very nice voice!


  • #17
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


    Did he post it on YouTube and view it over 200,000 times???

    Your post is immediately invalidated by your overuse of that poxy smiley.

    And since those 200000 views were to see him sing rather than see the wedding my point is made. He might not have uploaded it but he was the focus of it. He also has another album out.


  • #18
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    mauzo! wrote: »
    I would hate that :o

    I know everyone loves it, he seems like a nice man, good singer etc. But not for my wedding thanks!

    Sounds like someone doesn't want to be upstaged!


  • #19
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    Your post is immediately invalidated by your overuse of that poxy smiley.

    And since those 200000 views were to see him sing rather than see the wedding my point is made. He might not have uploaded it but he was the focus of it. He also has another album out.

    So what? It's not like the wedding would have been notable anyway. It'll be a great talking point in years to come for couple that their wedding made the papers all over the world


  • #20
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Nice article and shows the community based spirit of the occasion. Now just so long as the Priest does not start singing songs from the Cohen playbook, like The Old Revolution.


  • #21
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    I read a few comments from him saying he has been doing it for years, changing the names to suit the couple.

    I would be more p!ssed off at the guest who videoed it and UPLOADED it on the day of the wedding!!


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  • #22
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    that's the first time i've seen someone called O'Kane outside of county derry


  • #23
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    ElleEm wrote: »
    I read a few comments from him saying he has been doing it for years, changing the names to suit the couple.

    I would be more p!ssed off at the guest who videoed it and UPLOADED it on the day of the wedding!!

    Given all the different angles it was clearly a pro wedding video.


  • #24
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    Given all the different angles it was clearly a pro wedding video.

    Thanks for that!

    I thought it had to be a guest due to the timing. I watched it the morning after, I think the 7th when the video had the 6th on it.


  • #25
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    ElleEm wrote: »
    I read a few comments from him saying he has been doing it for years, changing the names to suit the couple.

    I would be more p!ssed off at the guest who videoed it and UPLOADED it on the day of the wedding!!

    It seems to be recorded professionally so maybe that's part of the deal.


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