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Follow Me Up To Carlow

from About Time by Stac Coll

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I heard this song when I was but a child, never more than in 1966, the 50th anniversary of Ireland's 'Glorious Revolution', which was a glorious flop. The song, as I heard it, was full of glaring inaccuracies, like Queen Liza & Fiach O'Byrne, who missed each other by two centuries. And the eternal 'blame England for everything' when it was the Normans, & they did'nt invade Ireland, but arrived by the invitation of Diarmuid McMurrough, the self-styled King Of Leinster who had ideas about King of Ireland, & needed some more fire-power to do in the local yokels. He got this from Richard Strongbow, in return for the daughter-in-marriage gig. Amazing to think Ireland was 'invaded' for a bit of the other ... ah hormones!

But such is propagnda/history; lies bullshit & ballocks amen. What most pissed me off about how I always heard this song was how it was delivered, liike the cowboys singing round the campfire, or The Eagles doing Take It Easy ... 'me bonnie lies under the ocean ooh ee' aaargh! When I was with High As A Kite I tried getting the idea across but it was a waste of time, they were more interested in golf & gargle.

It's plain & simple a WAR song. And that's how I sing it.

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from About Time, released January 11, 2013
Ger Cloosterman; whistles & bodhran
Lars Weller; electric guitar
Stac Coll; vocals, keyboards, acoustic & electric guitars

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A radio presenter in Dublin said 'but life has no sound track' & I thought 'wait a mo, that's what I do'. It took that long for me to find a 'product description'. My working life has been about getting the means to record it the way I hear it, my own studio.The work was weird, from mixing U2 to wiring nuclear power plant. I can do it now & this is the record; peoples' lives & how life is. ... more

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