Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
london feis festival
happening in Finsbury Park 18th June
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Anne, I like how Vince tells the locals how to pronounce Feis. Maybe he thought it would be mistaken for the offline face of Irish FeisBook?
The mere non-Irish managed to pronounce Fleadh (Feast) over the years even though it was in the more difficult traditional spelling. The standardised spelling Fleá might have given the impression that it was a Flea Circus, perhaps.
But Feast or Festival I'd say 'a good thing', even if LBH creams off on it, so long as Finsbury Park benefits too. 50:50 from Feis/Fleá fees feels fair?
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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Hope they go back to the original format of including a lot of traditional music - the Fleadhs ended up being mostly rock.
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I was thinking more about traditional Irish bands. I won't go anyway, as I can hear it very well from my back garden!
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Permalink Reply by Sandi on
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where did you hear this - didn't think the acts had been announced yet??
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Permalink Reply by Arkady on
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Dylan is definitely headlining. I have it from a comrade who knows his European promoter, and he has never been wrong in ten years of knowing him.
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OK. Hope he gets his mojo back by then. His performance at last year's Hop Wood was lacklustre; one for worshippers only. Still, I'll be going. Think it's great to have the Fleadh/Feis back in the park again.
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I’m an enormous fan – my bed floats on a pile of hundreds of bootlegs – but I’m afraid he finally lost the ability to enthral in a live environment about 2003. I love his singing through the 1990s – his ability to adapt to his declining voice and still sound interesting was a wonder in itself – but though he can still pull it out of the bag on occasion (and fairly consistently in the studio) he physically can’t do that night after night any more. Heartbreaking. But I shall go, given the proximity. His voice may be ruined, but so is the Coliseum – due respect should be paid.
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Agree. Likewise I'm a diehard fan. His voice may no longer pull it off in large arenas, and just (a big just) about delivers in the studio, but a poet he will forever be.
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His voice may no longer pull it off in large Venus, as your earlier edition put it. Never found much of the aphrodisiacal in old Dylan. And as for the traditional Fleadh, if Bob could only resurrect his old partner Tommy Makem I'd definitely go along. As it is, I'll get his full sound, mutter, murmur, croak here in my back garden.
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Permalink Reply by Neil van der Knutsen on
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It will be great to see Bob Dylan in the park.
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