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moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 10:38 I'm surprised none of our Irish members have picked up on he idea   , especially seeing as Mike is half Irish, and it's St Patricks Day. So I'll raise a pint of Guiness or a glass of Baileys , to all good  things Irish. So here's to Mike, Baileys, Guiness, Thin Lizzy, Leprechauns, U2,       Oscar Wilde, bohdrans, not forgetting Maureen Liston, just to think if she and Ray Oldfield had never have met how different things would have been musically speaking. There would be no Tubular Bells or Hergest Ridge, no Ommadawn  , isn't that enough to make you want to  cry ito your pint of Guiness???  It does me. Happy St Patrick's Day folks . -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 11:28 Happy St Patcrick day from france!!! -------------- Take the Time Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 11:31 I was wondering if I'd see anything. I heard this morning that St Patrick's Day was only big in the US, and not in Ireland. For days, there have been leprechauns selling cars on television. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 11:42 If anyone is in the mood, I have 6 CDs of Irish music I've only ripped one so far....... PM if interested! Hope I win the bodhran I'm bidding on MERRY DAY FOR ALL t'be sure -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 13:24 Happy St. Paddy's Day! This thread got 'The Top of the Morning' stuck in my head. Quote (The Bell(end) @ Mar. 17 2006, 16:42) If anyone is in the mood, I have 6 CDs of Irish music That depends: U2 isn't exactly the same as Daniel O' Donnel. Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 13:35 Traditional Irish songs, I wouldn't class U2, the Corrs etc as Irish (although they obviously are) but that's pop that originates in Ireland Whiskey in the jar and such like   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 17:47 Quote (hiawatha @ Mar. 17 2006, 16:31) I was wondering if I'd see anything. I heard this morning that St Patrick's Day was only big in the US, and not in Ireland. For days, there have been leprechauns selling cars on television. St Patrick's Day is certainally big in England, possibly bigger than St George's Day , but I think St George's Day is making a comeback .  I'll celebrate St George's Day with a pint or two of English Ale or Cider  and play Mike's music that makes me think of the English countryside, so either Hergest Ridge or Ommadawn   .  When I play Ommadawn I always seem to picture the view from The Beacon window (I'd love to wake up to that every morning). FATC is another good one that seems to have an Englishness about it, when all the climatic part has faded out, your'e left with  this sound of birds tweeting, church bells ringing.  Make's me think of cricket on the village green on a Sunday afternoon , so quintessentially English. -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 17:50 Let's make a Guinness Party with lots of MO music \o/ -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

tubular_trekkie Group: Members Posts: 366 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 17:55 I'm already on draught Guinness no. 3... -------------- "The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future." - from 'Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib' by the Princess Irulan Back to top

stevenmd779 Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 19:10 St. Patrick, missionary to the Irish. He used the shamrock to illustrate the trinity. -------------- "A people who would sacrifice liberty for security will lose both, and deserve neither." Ben Franklin Boogs is fo' da chode man. Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 19:20 Oh island of the soul Valleys hushed and white with snow Ireland's eye - you linger with me 'til the day I die Oh how it hurts to go The waters ebb and flow The changing seasons come and go Ireland's eye - forever reaching up into the sky Oh how I'll miss you so The sunlight dancing on your rocky shores The moonlight playing upon the water Your memory will stay with me forever-more Wherever I may roam Stay with my dreams I will see you Safe in my heart I will keep you -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

SentinelGard Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Mar. 17 2006, 19:41 Happy St Patrick's day to you from the Land of Ozz .   -------------- "Onwards & Upwards'" Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Mar. 18 2006, 06:03 Quote (stevenmd779 @ Mar. 18 2006, 00:10) St. Patrick, missionary to the Irish. He used the shamrock to illustrate the trinity. The Trinity, that's Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn     . -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

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