Country Nightclubs & National Anthem

Lainey · 14-05-2004 03:32PM

i see no problem with the national anthem.. but have to say in pedigree (local barn), i can't remember if they play it or not.. trying to think last 15 mins.. i must usually be in a state by then..

but i know what ya mean by this lol

Originally posted by Third_Echelon
Without fail these songs will be played in order:
Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Guns 'n Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine

very annoying.. even though i like G n' R

cept out usual ones are

bryan adams - summers of 69
john cougar meloncamp - hurt so good..

just to get everyone warmed up :rolleyes:

beardedchicken · 14-05-2004 03:39PM

oh, it's all coming flooding back to me ( like vomit ) all those horrifically drunken nights in the beacon during the holidays.... bad things happen.... and then they play amhran na bfhiann at one million decibels before you order too much food in the abrakestabra and vom all the way home.

those were the days

Dont Ban Me · 14-05-2004 03:41PM

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Listen... if you mucksavages can play your national anthem in your "ballygohowfukingbackwardscanyoureallyget" nightclubs.... there is no reason we cant play God save the queen in ours.

And stand tall and proud you shoud btw.

Ya in your own country I've no problem with it!

Third_Echelon · 14-05-2004 03:42PM

cept out usual ones are

bryan adams - summers of 69
john cougar meloncamp - hurt so good..

just to get everyone warmed up

then enter: air guitar playing hicks...:ninja:

Lainey · 14-05-2004 03:44PM

Originally posted by Third_Echelon
air guitar playing hicks...:ninja:

only the laois people..

(no offence)

Third_Echelon · 14-05-2004 03:49PM

Originally posted by Lainey
only the laois people..

(no offence)

i dont think they can read down there... so i think you are safe enough

:ninja:

Mercury_Tilt · 14-05-2004 04:09PM

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Fudger · 14-05-2004 04:20PM

But then playing it before a Carlow V Longford football game is also taking the piss as that's hardly a special occasion!

Seriously though who says that about special occasions only and who classifies what a special occasion is?

I def agree with the Carlow v Longford issue

who classifies what a special occasion is?.......... well that maybe open to debate but i think a drunken nightclub being a special occasion can be ruled out for a start.

Fudger · 14-05-2004 04:27PM

ehhh didnt you lot officially recognise Northern Ireland as part of the UK when you voted for articles 2 and 3 to be amended back in 1998?

hmmmmmm this is getting a little off the beaten irish track.................. if we had a big chainsaw we could go our seperate ways, could be a solution, you guys get pushed up a bit your happy were more than happy.

pigeonbutler · 14-05-2004 06:35PM

I may be at risk of sounding like a country hick but I thought every nightclub played Amhran na bhFiann at the end of the night. But then I'm still just a young country boyo. Only been out in Athlone, Tullamore and Moate (Well in Europe too but I wouldn expect Amhran na bhFiann there) .My local, Bozos of Athlone (mentioned earlier in the thread) doesn't usually play it straight after a slow set though. They tend have a slow set for a few songs up til about 2.15, then some fairly hard dance songs for the last few minutes before the National anthem and everyone falling home.

Red Alert · 14-05-2004 08:41PM

What's the big problem? Amhran na bhFiann's great when you're drunk - i'm never all that patriotic otherwise.

Philbert · 14-05-2004 08:47PM

Youre completely missing the point young man!

aidan_dunne · 14-05-2004 09:11PM

Originally posted by Third_Echelon
i dont think they can read down there... so i think you are safe enough :ninja:

Here, f**king watch yourself there, sunshine! I was well able to read that!

I'll tell you what's worse than playing the national anthem in a nightclub. Playing a dance version of the national anthem. I swear to God, I've actually heard this done in a nightclub before. As if the D.J. thought playing a dance version of it in a nightclub would somehow be better and be more in keeping with the "atmosphere" of the club. :rolleyes:

And it sounded bloody ridiculous, too!

Oh, and speaking of places that play the likes of "Who The F**K Is Alice" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in the middle of a set, what about the places that play "The Fields Of Athenry" (usually some form of dance version, too)? Anyone ever hear of this phenonenom of the crowd suddenly adding their own bits to it, e.g.:

Song playing: "Low lie the fields of Athenry. Where once we watched the small free birds fly."

Crowd suddenly shouts: "HEY BABY, LET YOUR KNICKERS FLY!"

Song: "Our love was on the wing."

Crowd: "SINN FEIN!"

Song: "We had dreams and songs to sing."

Crowd: "IRA!"

Song: "It's so lonely around the fields of Athenry."

F**king stupid! :mad:

sound_wave · 14-05-2004 10:50PM

Crowd suddenly shouts: "HEY BABY, LET YOUR KNICKERS FLY!"

Song: "Our love was on the wing."

Crowd: "SINN FEIN!"

Song: "We had dreams and songs to sing."

Crowd: "IRA!"

Song: "It's so lonely around the fields of Athenry."

F**king stupid! :mad: [/B]

Jesus christ i hate when that starts! Just shut the **** up ye ****

eth0_ · 14-05-2004 11:15PM

This thread had me in stitches laughing

I haven't heard the anthem played round where I live (drogheda) since about 10 years ago when I went to the teenage disco's!

And you all forgot the CLASSIC track 'Maniac' (not the crap version that was out a few years ago, another one that sounds like scooter is singing it).

aidan_dunne · 14-05-2004 11:27PM

Oh Christ, you did have to go and mention that "Maniac" sh!te, didn't you? I'm talking about the Mark McCabe one here, not the Scooter one.

I remember when that first came out a few years ago all the D.J.s in the clubs used to play it (well, around here, anyway) and try to do the Mark McCabe-rapping bit, and all failed spectacularly. It was embarrasing to listen to. But, what was even more embarrasing was some of the idiots in the crowd who would be trying to do the "crowd" bit in the song along with the lame D.J. Seriously sad. :rolleyes:

Civilian_Target · 14-05-2004 11:35PM

Originally posted by Third_Echelon

One thing about the country niteclub you will always get is the "80's/90's big hair rock triple play"

Without fail these songs will be played in order:

Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Guns 'n Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine

You're obviously out of touch. These days they play Counting Crows - Mr Jones after G'n'R and skip on the Bryan Adams.

And as for the Fields of Athenry, if you're not sloshed by that point, its time to leave. They don't usually play it in Donegal though, generally they play Goats Don't Shave - Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal instead.

pork99 · 14-05-2004 11:39PM

Originally posted by pigeonbutler
I may be at risk of sounding like a country hick but I thought every nightclub played Amhran na bhFiann at the end of the night. But then I'm still just a young country boyo. Only been out in Athlone, Tullamore and Moate (Well in Europe too but I wouldn expect Amhran na bhFiann there) .My local, Bozos of Athlone (mentioned earlier in the thread) doesn't usually play it straight after a slow set though. They tend have a slow set for a few songs up til about 2.15, then some fairly hard dance songs for the last few minutes before the National anthem and everyone falling home.

(Bozos of Athlone - jaysus! - been there, done that, got the stitches

)

In modern European cities e.g. Dublin, London, Munich, Brussels they tend not to play any national anthem. As someone said its only a nightclub/pub not a national public occasion and therefore isn't a national anthem a bit out of place?

I've noticed this in about 50% of pubs & nightclubs I've been in outside Dublin and the smaller the town the more likely they are to do it.

It usually takes me a minute or 2 before I recognise what it is anyway because it's usually knocked out by a couple of guys on a guitar & keyboards. If you have to play it there's CDs you can get nowadays with competent orchestral renditions of any national anthem. Having to stand for this mutilated version you usually hear is a bit like standing to salute a cheap plastic tricolour (one of those awful ones you used to see with the orange replaced by Papal yellow) or I dunno, running a tricolour dish-cloth up the flag pole. A bit o'respect lads!

rymus · 15-05-2004 01:01AM

theres nothing worse than those ignorant scumbags that start up with their "sinn fein" "ira" bullshit when fields of athenry comes on. Makes the 'ol blood boil.

pork99 · 15-05-2004 01:30AM

Originally posted by rymus
theres nothing worse than those ignorant scumbags that start up with their "sinn fein" "ira" bullshit when fields of athenry comes on. Makes the 'ol blood boil.

Re-pub-licans

sound_wave · 15-05-2004 01:40AM

Originally posted by rymus
theres nothing worse than those ignorant scumbags that start up with their "sinn fein" "ira" bullshit when fields of athenry comes on. Makes the 'ol blood boil.

here, here!

I've only ever been in one place that played the national anthem at closing time and that was down in ardmore... what an inbreed hell-hole that place is, i hate it but keep going back every year cause one of the lads owns a house down there! Deliverence comes to mind when i think of that place! :dunno:

impr0v · 21-07-2004 03:42PM

Originally posted by Mighty_Mouse
Not that I have a problem either ways but can someone explain to me the problem of a National Anthem being played at the end of the Niteclub?

It's an overly nationialistic and out-moded tradition that the powers that be should remove from the curriculum in DJ school. Even if they just played it without the whole 'keep quiet and stand to attention' ****e it would be something. I've seen idiots gesturing at other idiots to stand up right away and do their civic duty while the anthem plays, the expression of nationalistic fervour on their face leaving no doubt as to what the outcome would be if the offender didn't rise immediately. In other countries you have to do your x years of national service to your country, here you have to drink all night and then give the fascist salute at the end.

And it's not just the country dives that play it, I've heard it at the end of the set in the decidedly urban 'Toast' in Rathmines. Of course the argument could be made that any pub/club in Rathmines is really a country pub at heart, the worst offender being Rody Bolands (sp?).

(apologies for bump)

Batbat · 21-07-2004 03:43PM

Ive never heard of this tradition

Johnny_the_fox · 21-07-2004 06:23PM

Originally posted by aidan_dunne

Song: "Our love was on the wing."

Crowd: "SINN FEIN!"

Song: "We had dreams and songs to sing."

Crowd: "IRA!"

Song: "It's so lonely around the fields of Athenry."

in the north : sinn fein is sung twice.. cos we know that sinn fein are the ra.. no need to seperate them..

SprostonGreen · 22-07-2004 11:16AM

I hate it too, but I never stand up. As was stated its out-dated and a bit pathetic.

ixus · 22-07-2004 03:35PM

i think it's great 'cos all the muppets are busy singing the anthem while i go and get my coat! no Que

robbie1876 · 22-07-2004 03:47PM

Originally posted by impr0v
It's an overly nationialistic and out-moded tradition that the powers that be should remove from the curriculum in DJ school. Even if they just played it without the whole 'keep quiet and stand to attention' ****e it would be something. I've seen idiots gesturing at other idiots to stand up right away and do their civic duty while the anthem plays, the expression of nationalistic fervour on their face leaving no doubt as to what the outcome would be if the offender didn't rise immediately. In other countries you have to do your x years of national service to your country, here you have to drink all night and then give the fascist salute at the end.

Here here. There's nothing worse that getting the evil eye from some scumbag for "not respecting my country". The same scumbag that will respect his country by leaving the nightclub, puking everywhere, throwing his curry tray on the ground and kicking the bejaysus out of some poor citizen on the way home.

If I want to show respect to my country, I'll do it on my own terms.

adonis · 22-07-2004 05:28PM

yeah the roselawn (if you people know, you know)
used to play it years ago,
me and a mate used to sing the english national anthem while people i call my friends, stood up with hand on heart and sang along...

laughable, i really agree with the post before mine actually (robbie1876)

Plus, does anyone know all the words to it? i dont think so

munkeehaven · 22-07-2004 05:35PM

i dont know the national anthem in irish or english......jeez i have never been to a place that played it... only the usual crap but that was when i was a little teenie at the shyte discoes 4 or 5 yrs ago.

CareBear · 22-07-2004 09:48PM

Well in the foundry the national anthem on a sat nite seems to be that 'Pizza Pie' song. Gets a good reaction

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