The Nathan Carter Show

GalwayGrrrrrl

Am really looking forward to seeing this tonight. According to the redtops he will get his own series if tonight's show is well received.

JP Liz V1

xfactorfan23 wrote: »

Am really looking forward to seeing this tonight. According to the redtops he will get his own series if tonight's show is well received.

He probably will given the resurgence in country music


Mary Black and Paddy Casey are guests tonight

PeterTheEighth

YEEEEE HAAAAWWWWW

Ol' Donie

My God.

Is this really real?

Wow.

PeterTheEighth

The voice just isn't there any more.

ProudDUB

I lived in Nashville for 4 years - not a word of a lie - and even I am embarrassed by this shyte. :rolleyes:

Taxburden carrier

ProudDUB wrote: »

I lived in Nashville for 4 years - not a word of a lie - and even I am embarrassed by this shyte. :rolleyes:

This needs to improve a bit before it can even aspire to be called shyte

Clonmel1000

Jesus Christ I despair. This Christmas Nathan Carter Mrs Brown Al Porter A hideously bad quiz show with Mike Murphy. GUBU stuff.

GalwayGrrrrrl

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

He probably will given the resurgence in country music


Mary Black and Paddy Casey are guests tonight

Mary black Paddy Casey

Berserker

Ol' Donie wrote: »

My God.

Is this really real?

Wow.

It is indeed Ol' D. Good old Nathan.

BuilderPlumber

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Jesus Christ I despair. This Christmas Nathan Carter Mrs Brown Al Porter A hideously bad quiz show with Mike Murphy. GUBU stuff.

All this self serving rubbish is terrible. My main problem with RTE is that they force certain individuals on us for a certain period and then they drop them like a hot potato when it suits them. Look at Jedward for example? One minute, everywhere, the next gone.

Of course, Christmas was not complete without having a dose of Derek Ryan and then Ruby Walsh on a quiz show no less. The only music catered for is all this tame popcountry and boybands and the dreadful The Voice of Ireland. I have never seen TV any worse than it is at present. 2015 on RTE had not one thing to recommend for it in general: too much of all these handpicked individuals being promoted and elevated to a status they don't deserve.

Jb1989

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

All this self serving rubbish is terrible. My main problem with RTE is that they force certain individuals on us for a certain period and then they drop them like a hot potato when it suits them. Look at Jedward for example? One minute, everywhere, the next gone.

Of course, Christmas was not complete without having a dose of Derek Ryan and then Ruby Walsh on a quiz show no less. The only music catered for is all this tame popcountry and boybands and the dreadful The Voice of Ireland. I have never seen TV any worse than it is at present. 2015 on RTE had not one thing to recommend for it in general: too much of all these handpicked individuals being promoted and elevated to a status they don't deserve.

A dose of Derek Ryan....
Any dance hall, packed to the rafters round here can't get enough of his dose,
Country music is booming in the 31 counties at least.

BuilderPlumber

ProudDUB wrote: »

I lived in Nashville for 4 years - not a word of a lie - and even I am embarrassed by this shyte. :rolleyes:

The one type of music I can't stand at all is modern Irish country music or what I prefer to label boyfolk music. It is a mix of the most pop-orientated modern American country mixed in with boyband styles. There is way too much of this rubbish on and real music is neglected.

That boyfolk stuff is not real country music at all. It has nothing to do with Lefty Frizzell, Moon Mullican or Marty Robbins. It doesn't even have anything to do with Daniel either for that matter!

Why RTE are promoting all this fake country music and all the other stuff is beyond me. If it is not fake country shows, it is The Voice of Ireland or some other 5th rate X-Factor copycat. I give up.

Jb1989

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

The one type of music I can't stand at all is modern Irish country music or what I prefer to label boyfolk music. It is a mix of the most pop-orientated modern American country mixed in with boyband styles. There is way too much of this rubbish on and real music is neglected.

That boyfolk stuff is not real country music at all. It has nothing to do with Lefty Frizzell, Moon Mullican or Marty Robbins. It doesn't even have anything to do with Daniel either for that matter!

Why RTE are promoting all this fake country music and all the other stuff is beyond me. If it is not fake country shows, it is The Voice of Ireland or some other 5th rate X-Factor copycat. I give up.

Because it's what the people want. Any dance hall especially the northern half can't get enough of this county/pop genre

BuilderPlumber

Jb1989 wrote: »

A dose of Derek Ryan....
Any dance hall, packed to the rafters round here can't get enough of his dose,
Country music is booming in the 31 counties at least.

This stuff is marketed very well and for some reason is being promoted left right and centre by RTE. I'm sure music of better quality could as well but we all know anything that is a success in Ireland is more or a who you know than what you have.

Jb1989

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

This stuff is marketed very well and for some reason is being promoted left right and centre by RTE. I'm sure music of better quality could as well but we all know anything that is a success in Ireland is more or a who you know than what you have.

Maybe but the truth is to be seen regarding the type of music being portrayed

BuilderPlumber

Jb1989 wrote: »

Because it's what the people want. Any dance hall especially the northern half can't get enough of this county/pop genre

Not exactly. It is what is being sold to people by the clever marketing types. It is the Louis Walsh-style of management and this music is made mostly by ex boyband members. It is cleverly marketed and sold to gullible audiences that have not heard much else.

JP Liz V1

Maybe The Voice of Ireland should get one of these boyfolk country guys on the show and look for that style winner as none of the past winners did well

Corholio

Don't know where people are getting the idea that RTE have promoted Carter and that genre of music. They haven't at all. I'm not a fan of that music at all but it has gotten popular completely outside of mainstream media over the past few years, absolutely nothing to do with RTE. Just because they have him on shows now only shows the ground the popularity they have gained, and fair play to them. Carter has being playing massive amount of small gigs for years, both here and in England and has gained traction through that. It hasn't been shoved down our throats 'boyband' style at all imo.

squonk

Not a fan in the slightest but if it's true he's built up his following from gigging like mad and starting smalla nd building well then fair play to him. I've said for years there isn't enough of that anymore witht he Louis phenomenon and the X Factory shíte going around so I can't really trun around and diss someone who has worked hard to build their own following, no matter how crappy I happen to believe their style of music is!

haveringchick

People who like Nathan Carter are up to have a great night out more so than listening to music and reflecting on lyrics and melodies etc.
They want music they can jive or waltz to delivered by a boy next door type with competent musicians backing him
It's part of s package, bite to eat accompanied by few glasses of wine then the show, bit of a bop perhaps, ladies of a certain age my get dragged up to dance by someone they fancy, after the show back to the pub for the last one or six
Tomorrow morning on Facebook crowing about the good night that was had
If you don't enjoy that kind of thing then just don't watch
It's not my bag either, but I can tell you it's very popular down in rural Ireland and I'm not about to complain about others taste in entertainment

BuilderPlumber

I reply to above 3 posts:

First off, Nathan Carter himself is far from being the worst exponent of this genre. He is way better than his contemporaries, some of whom are utterly awful.

While Carter may have worked hard to where he got, the same story does to apply to his inferior contemporaries. RTE via TG4 have been promoting them non-stop on their awful Glor Tire programme. Others are leftovers of boybands like D-Side.

Carter has talent. Unlike his Glor-Tire contemporaries, he is an above average singer and virtually unknown in his genre, is also a good musician (most just sing and rely on their band). There was a reason why I didn't criticise Carter directly in the above as I think he is better than the other inferior rubbish in the genre!

Tubridy has been promoting substandard country music since he got the Friday slot. I don't have to mention their names but there is a group of 3 Mexican friends, and there are 2 blondie male solo performers!! And they are terrible.

A good night out where you have a chat and wine means the music is secondary. You could have the worst band with the worst name like Paddy Whackery and the Whackerypads (made up name) singing the worst stuff imaginable and people would still be happy!!!!!

fin12

Im watching this again now, god I love him and country music, i watched this new years eve and was nearly crying at that slow song when they were all around the piano.... going into town now today to get my ticket to see Nathan at live at the marquee, hes brillant and fecking gorgeous!!!!!!

Mars Bar

Was that the one with The Shires? They were the only light in that whole show. They were brilliant.

doc11

If Imelda May of the blues and jazz genre and 5 years past her peak can have a show I don't see why Nathan Carter can't have one. If Carter was from Dublin I don't think we'd be having a debate

mynameis905

fin12 wrote: »

Im watching this again now, god I love him and country music, i watched this new years eve and was nearly crying at that slow song when they were all around the piano.... going into town now today to get my ticket to see Nathan at live at the marquee, hes brillant and fecking gorgeous!!!!!!

Nathan Carter ≠ country music.

Skid X

This is back tonight, first of 4 episodes

New series. The country singer hosts a new chat show featuring live music performances recorded in front of an audience at the Knocknarea Arena, Sligo. His guests in the first episode include Finbar Furey, Westlife's Mark Feehily, Aoife Scott and Cliona Hagan

Lisha

I love Finbar Furey, I'm not a Nathan fan but he really is good at what he does. I'm just don't find him genuine.

Husband is loving this , I dunno how we are still together at times

Rikand

Who was the blondie wan singing there ?

Skid X

Rikand wrote: »

Who was the blondie wan singing there ?

Cliona Hagan, I think.

That Hall looks well, it's a decent sized band playing.

It's all very cabaret but that's what lots of people like.

Lisha

Skid X wrote: »

Cliona Hagan, I think.

That Hall looks well, it's a decent sized band playing.

It's all very cabaret but that's what lots of people like.

My mother in law and sister in law would travel the ends of the earth barefoot for a whisper from Nathan.... different strokes for different folks I guess .

To be very fair he really put in the effort and puts on a good show. I'd say very few leave his gigs disappointed.