At home abroad: 08/01/2008

August 9, 2008

Irish Music - Kila - Diddly Dee

This will be short and sweet. For those of you who know who I am; I would rather get my eyeballs pierced than listen to Irish diddly dee music (and just for the record; I am terrified of piercings... at least on my own body).

So last week I went to a Kila gig as a wonderful friend of mine really loves the stuff and I simply had to try and understand why?

It was an entertaining evening and to be fair I think the band is really talented and amusing (if you are into this kind of music).

For me it was more like: is this really another song? why does it sound exactly like the one they just played? do they play any songs that are less than 25 minutes?

She loved it though and wrote a completely different and probably more enjoyable review here.

Needless to say; I enjoyed the evening very much, but for the next gig I am hoping for some good old fashioned heavy metal.

Intro

In Ireland I was once told a story. A Spanish man travelling in Connemara asked what the Irish word for mañana would be. He was told “Oh no, we don’t have a word describing such a hurry here.”
I tried to keep this story in mind on my way from Cork into Dublin on Sunday evening.
It seemed to me like even the roads were in a hurry. Cars where changing lanes like mad and honking was the only accepted way of communication.

Ireland is a lovely country, people are friendly, the weather is mild, the countryside is gorgeous and in general not much is working in this country, but Irish people are way to relaxed to keep complaining about this too much, which is a very good skill to acquire when you move here from lets say one of the Scandinavian countries.