The next big thing in Irish music - Seamus Agus Deirdre

magpie

Has anyone heard of these guys? Apparently they're huge in South America. They do Metallica and Dave Brubeck covers in a Trad Irish stylee on Bodhran and Mandolin. Apparently they're headlining the biggest rock festival in South America this year and have released a CD recorded in Colombia called "Seamus agus Deirdre: Come Alive in Bogota". Check them out, they're awesome.

Doctor J

I hear Deirdre is a demon in the sack.

Spicy Lauren

magpie wrote:

They do Metallica and Dave Brubeck covers in a Trad Irish stylee on Bodhran and Mandolin

Rodrigo y Gabriella for Spanish style Metallica covers... and
Seamus agus Deirdre for Irish style of the same!

Sounds a bit of a coincidence doesnt it?

Doctor J

Wow, do you really think so?

magpie

I hope you're not implying that Seamus Agus Deirdre are some sort of plagiarists?

Spicy Lauren

I might as well, yes.

magpie

But Apocalyptica did the Metallica covers in a classical stylee years before Rodrigo y Gabriella hawked their way over to Ireland ('Plays Metallica By Four Cellos' - 1996 http://www.apocalyptica.com/bio/index.php) and yet they're still universally viewed as 'deadly', 'amazing', 'original' etc, so it would be an act of unbelievable hypocrisy not to extend the same courtesy to Seamus Agus Deirdre, no?

magpie

Great news, according to Brian D Phantom FM are in negotiations to bring Seamus Agus Deirdre over to Ireland to play at the Phantom launch party. You heard it here first.

juno75

You have got a bit of a thing for Rodrigo y Gabriella, why the hot air man?

For me its refreshing to see musicians who have a bags if technique, outside of the widdlly metal thing or the usuall host of uninspired Irish bands who can bearly play 3 or 4 chords.

What whith this 'originality' thing too? should they just not play anything because they did not pioneer the flamenco style or invent metal?

I think its a breath of fresh air in a sea of talentless cr@p,for once a trimuph of substance over stlye.

If you dont like them then thats fine but you cant expect everone to share the opinion, you seem shocked by the success of the duo.They have worked hard at it,fair dues to them.

Are they not good role models for young musicians who would never have normally been exposed to this sort of thing?

PS - Seamus Agus Deirdre was funny to a point.

magpie

I doubt their thousands of South American fans who can't get enough of their Mandolin and Bodhran virtuosity find them 'funny'. They're currently inspiring young musicians throughout Peru and Colombia not to do cheesy Flamenco covers of metal but to find music with real soul. I believe they're working on a Sean Nos version of 'Evita'.

juno75

I doubt their thousands of South American fans who can't get enough of their Mandolin and Bodhran virtuosity find them 'funny'.

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Oh god, I dont wanna inspire the wrath of thousands of amazonian bodhran
gawkers. OK thier not funny at all at all.

cheesy Flamenco covers of metal

Far more to R+G than that.

So is deirdre's right hand as good as Gabrellia's?
Are they planning any proto pan pipe/mandolin/metal fusion concept albums or is that a interweb roumer?

magpie

Are they planning any proto pan pipe/mandolin/metal fusion concept albums or is that a interweb roumer?

I believe they may be working on a "Signs of the Zodiac" concept triple album with Rick Wakeman producing. "Flight of the Condor" performed on Hammond Organ and Glockenspeil will be given away as a bonus flexi-disc.

juno75

I believe they may be working on a "Signs of the Zodiac" concept triple album with Rick Wakeman producing. "Flight of the Condor" performed on Hammond Organ and Glockenspeil will be given away as a bonus flexi-disc.

OH MY GOD, Signs of the Zodiac, thats,like,cosmic man.

The return of the concept album, a triple?? thats a running time of at least 4 hours 55mins? A tad short maybe?

I hear the first track is 2 hour long pan/pipe badhron face off with Rick reciting his memoirs of a 3 year voyage through the amazonian basin on a bamboo raft tied together with marmot hide.

Apparently they were doing an unplugged amazonian/irish version of the Age of Aquarius with max cavelara on vox. to be released as a christmass single?

I went to school with Rick Wakeman's kids. Seriously.

Doctor J

juno75 wrote:

I went to school with Rick Wakeman's kids. Seriously.

Do they have no sense of humour?

magpie

I went to school with Rick Wakeman's kids. Seriously.

Did they wear silver capes?

juno75

One lad, Oliver was bang on. Pretty normal, good musician but doing his own thing.

The other chap was pretty much the silver cape thing (well dodgy black lether)
We jammed with him for hours one time, did not like a thing he played (although he a technically grate keyboard player) but then he started messing with the LFO's and filters on his KB making wibble wobble R2D2 noises, we loved it.

He got very offended by this and walked outta the room with KB under arm.
Us crettins prefer r2d2 noises to lame MOR piano tripe really.

Jeez, Im getting old :eek:

BossArky

A few years ago I saw Rodrigo y Gabriella playing at Doolans, Limerick. It was just after Dave Mustaine disbanded Megadeth on account of an arm injury. Rodrigo mentioned this and was nearly in tears, then the two of them broke into the intro of "A tout le monde"(Megadeth song), and followed by the intro of "One"(Metallica) and then went off on a tangent into some metal jam.

magpie

walked outta the room with KB under arm.

If you can carry your keyboard under your arm it's just not prog. You want a container-lorry sized load of Hammond B3, Mellotron, Modular Moog and a few ARPs thrown in for good measure. And a silver cape.

Doctor J

He must be the milkman's son. No class.

Crucifix

Hmm, I'll keep an ear out for them. I'm quite a fan of Rodrigo y Gabriella, and Apocalyptica, so this could be right up my alley.