“…lively new Irish language chat and music show”
January 14th, 2008I don’t know what I was thinking. The offer of some free tickets blinkered my vision and I failed to spot the possible pitfalls and problems!
Over the weekend, I had managed to secure some tickets to the recording of the first episode of Imeall Geal, a new Irish language music show. Director were to be playing, as were the relatively unknown Mary’s Great Idea. “Nice”, I thought. “A day away from Dublin and some free live music to boot”. Unfortunately, being the first show, the production team were, lets say, a tad disorganised! The recording ran over by more than 2 hours and after 4 hours in our seats, applauding on queue, it wouldn’t really matter how good the music was as we were all desperately longing for our beds! Luckily for Director, they played at the very beginning therefore demanding our full attention and the new song “Moment to Moment” promises some good (if mainstream) things from the next album. Mary’s Great Idea weren’t so lucky and had to wait until the very last moment to perform. Their song “Follies and Foibles”, although very pretty, meandered along very gently and lead singer Ciara’s voice was so soothing that I would have drifted off to sleep right there and then had I not been aware of the cameras pointing at me from every angle!
But don’t let my experience put you off! With artists such as The Flaws, The Delorentos and Foy Vance lined up for the coming weeks, it could well be worth applying for some free tickets. After all, the production company must have ironed out all of the hold-ups and will have the show running like clockwork next time…right?!
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Hi Kate, you are quite right! That show with Director and Mary’s Great Idea was our first one so maybe we can be forgiven for running over a wee bit? We hope you don’t hold it against us and come back soon. Anyway as you kindly note we have some great acts on the way for the remainder of the series: The Flaws, Foy Vance, Jinx Lennon and The Republic of Loose as well as an excellent unsigned act each week. Audience tickets are still available for all these shows, email ig@bigmountainproductions.com if you are interested.
Cheers! Team Imeall Geal