The Blood of Cu Chulainn

[Bob Clayton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hClyvvZh3w

where can i find more music like this?

instrumental, upbeat, etc.

someone please point me in the right direction. the google searches i've haven't really given me anything i like.

[Darkstrike]

Should be easy, just search for celtic music.


I'd start here, with the album that song's from A Celtic Romance

[Bob Clayton]

i would have thought so too. but a lot of the celtic music i've found from the searched has given me things slower and with vocals that are kinda choir-ish.

[Darkstrike]

Originally Posted by Bob Clayton

i would have thought so too. but a lot of the celtic music i've found from the searched has given me things slower and with vocals that are kinda choir-ish.

Ahhhh, yeah, there's a whole heap of that too, they'd be "airs".

I should have thought better when you mentioned upbeat, try adding the words "jigs" or "reels" to your searches, that'll get you more upbeat stuff, but it'll all be Irish Celtic, IIRC(I'm not sure if other forms of Celtic music use jigs and reels).

Here's a pretty cool one, Celtic Woman - A New Journey - Granuaile's Dance

If you don't mind a more modern rock style mixed in, Horslips is a good source of this kind of song, most of their songs are at the very least the chord patterns from old Celtic stuff. Plus, their bassist is utterly excellent.

I've often heard them described as a celtic Jethro Tull.

The High Reel

King Of The Faries

Speed The Plough

Dearg Doom

Hope that helps any....

[Southpaw5]

Check out the Pogues too if you're not already familiar, they range from trad to modern(at least inthe 80's) rock. You're title made me think of the "The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn". totally diferent stuff though!

[Darkstrike]

Mmm, The Pogues are great too, I'd call them more punk than rock, to be honest though.

[BassBrass]

Battlefield Band is cool. Not a commercial monstrosity like Celtic Women...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX5RbEXjdPI

OR an oldie-
The Bothy Band (they still exist I think)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgXwI...eature=related
"Old Hag You Have Killed Me"

[Southpaw5]

Originally Posted by Darkstrike

Mmm, The Pogues are great too, I'd call them more punk than rock, to be honest though.

Not to come across as a troll, but I'm a pretty big Pogues fan, and I feel it sells them short when people refer to the pogues as punk, they really are world music. Much of their music is more subdued, "Thousands are sailing", "olde main drag","young ned of the hill", "the aulde triangle", "repeal the liscincing laws"(this is straight trad), just to name a few. Their first album "red roses for me has a couple gems on it.
Sure, they have a lot of punk influence in some of their work, but it is by no means the main definition.
Also, they do a great cover of "honkey tonk woman" by the Stones, but Spider Stacey does the vocals on it not Shane.

[Darkstrike]

Originally Posted by Southpaw5

Not to come across as a troll, but I'm a pretty big Pogues fan, and I feel it sells them short when people refer to the pogues as punk, they really are world music. Much of their music is more subdued, "Thousands are sailing", "olde main drag","young ned of the hill", "the aulde triangle", "repeal the liscincing laws"(this is straight trad), just to name a few. Their first album "red roses for me has a couple gems on it.
Sure, they have a lot of punk influence in some of their work, but it is by no means the main definition.
Also, they do a great cover of "honkey tonk woman" by the Stones, but Spider Stacey does the vocals on it not Shane.

Hmmm, I'll admit, they're a very hard band to pidgeonhole to a single genre, since they'll go from straight up trad to out and out agression, I only ment compared to rock, as you called them, I definatly believe they're closer to punk than rock on their more agressive songs.

[Southpaw5]

i may have been a bit touchy on that one. I get into it about them every now and then. any way, you're right on their harder stuff they sound pretty much like celtic punk(i'm thinking waxies dargle here). My point to the op was there are certain melodic,more classically structured songs as well, which, given the general view of the band, would go completely unnoticed.

Thanks, and sorry to the OP for hijacking the thread and for being a general P in the A.

Think I'll grab some whiskey on the way home from work now, pogues and whiskey go together so well

[Darkstrike]

Meh, I just call it good discussion!

Seems perfectly on topic as well, IMO!


*Whiskey's alway's on topic!*

[Bob Clayton]

good stuff darkstrike!

[Darkstrike]

Glad to be of service!