Paul Brady

Stan 10

Does anyone know why Paul Brady does not sing Arthur McBride anymore at his concerts. Was to see him twice in the last year and he was asked on both occasions to sing the song but refused and one night he lost the head with someone who was a bit pushy about it.

I'm still a big a fan of his but he does not do requests from the floor anymore

trad

He's on in the Pavillion in Dún Laoghaire tonine so tonite could be the night.


I suspect it's because it's probably his best known song that he didn't write himself.

He's done 35 years of work since then and probably wants to be recognised for his own work.

Liam O'Maonlai does an excellent version of it too.

Had a ticket for last night but couldn't get the night off so I don't know if he sang it last night.

He refuses to sing "The Island" anymore because the request to sing it invariably follows a tragedy.

Stan 10

trad wrote: »

He's on in the Pavillion in Dún Laoghaire tonine so tonite could be the night.


I suspect it's because it's probably his best known song that he didn't write himself.

He's done 35 years of work since then and probably wants to be recognised for his own work.

Liam O'Maonlai does an excellent version of it too.

Had a ticket for last night but couldn't get the night off so I don't know if he sang it last night.

He refuses to sing "The Island" anymore because the request to sing it invariably follows a tragedy.

He sang The Island the last time I saw him in Longford about a week ago, when he was at the piano doing The Island some one asked for Arthur Mc Bride he sang about two lines of it and left it at that.

Casinoking

Saw him in concert with Andy Irvine in Vicar St last year and he sang both Arthur McBride and the Lakes of Ponchatrain, probably his 2 best known songs and he wrote neither. Maybe he just likes to vary the set-list from night to night and the OP has just been unlucky that particular song hasn't come up on either occasion.

Miaireland

I have seen Paul Brady a number of times. He sang Arthur McBride once and the Island a few times. I always assumed it had to do with timing, the band and sounding in the venue than any other reason.

C.K Dexter Haven

He was interviewed some years ago on one of the RTE documentaries on Irish musicians and he made it very clear back then that he hated the concept of requests at concerts and thought it disrespectful to him. I thought it a little arrogant of him at the time to say this- it's fairly normal to shout out your favourite song as a request at concerts I thought.

trad

Stan 10 wrote: »

He sang The Island the last time I saw him in Longford about a week ago, when he was at the piano doing The Island some one asked for Arthur Mc Bride he sang about two lines of it and left it at that.

Here's a track from that gig courtesy of PB himself
https://soundcloud.com/hoobadooba/dancer-in-the-fire-live

trad

Came across this on youtube.
Tiernan McBride's film of Paul Brady's 'Arthur McBride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdywzKD2Jw

Now if only someone would do Christy's Musgrave