3 months after we posted our humble cover, it's with deep sadness we learnt of the passing of Shane McGowan of The Pogues. His unique, unmistakable voice, which popularised this tune among others, will be missed. Our condolences to his family. Sinéad O'Connor, Christy Dignam and now Shane McGowan - what a sad year it has been for Irish music... but we'll play on.
Sad times indeed for Shanes family, (and all those who loved him,) but he would have loved your pub music gig. Great stuff, its only the rain that stops me living there😀
Absolutely and doesn't matter if the song is from English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, The point is people coming together singing, laughing and having a great time
@@pamelacondila7828 Glad to see someone gets it 😉 You might be surprised to learn that while it was filmed in a traditional Irish pub, there's people from at least 10 different countries and 3 continents playing music in this video - music brought us together.
Il from France and Ive been living in ur country for nearly 2 years and I have to say, I've never met such lovely people.. i might just come live there again I love you Ireland
I'm English but I've worked in Ireland and NOBODY enjoys a good sing along and a few bevvies more than the Irish,I worked in Waterford and went on a few trips around the emerald Isle and it's BEAUTIFUL,stay happy, safe and healthy everyone ✌️
@@PaulConroy-k7o worked on Trafford park twice (had great food at Johns diner),went drinking in the grapes and then the (I think) starlight rooms,so I can safely say Manchester isn't QUITE as nice as Ireland,ggmu,have a good day user, by the way grapes and starlight were in Eccles
What an absolutely beautiful moment, truly inspiriting. Ewan (the writer) and Shane (who did the finest rendition imho) would be moved and delighted by it, and would fit right in. RIP both.
Oh wow, I once flew to Toronto and on that Flight was a band called The Sons Of Erin, I was blessed to sit beside the lead singer who played his ukulele all the way from Vancouver and sang this song! ..that was 53 years ago! What memories!
I worked in Sarnia building a rail tunnel under the St Clair River, there was a lot of Irish and Scottish working in the oil refineries etc. One Irish family the husband worked on the rail ferry that our tunnel would close down. Yet we found friendship, his wife ran a B&B and Irish bands would stay there. Arriving late at night after their gig, but no matter some beers, bread and cheese on the huge kitchen table and the instruments would come out. I didn't play anything, but they would not have me just sitting there, so it was the spoons for me. But I had to cut down the visits to only Fridays and Saturdays, as work got in the way of enjoyment. PS: This was in 1994/5
About that time, in Sydney Australia, was a band the Sons of Arran. Perhaps the same, and this song was in the reportoire, along with the other great songs . The black velvert band, the town i loved so well, steal away, among many others
Only written as a time filler for a scene change for a play he had written (often forgotten that McColl completely reformed theatre before he did the same to folk music) but the song connects. For me, McColls point always comes in his final verse... and the song was a call for social reform of the working class cities. In the case of Salford,vtge Town the song was written about, that regeneration didn't happen meaningfully until the late 80s... over 30/40 years after MacColls plea
Wow!,That song always has the power to move me. I'm originally from Liverpool,and when I think of its rough old edges and wonderful people,I'm immediately back in my home city,even though I live hundreds of miles away now.
Me too, a scouser. . . and I was 20/21 on a working visa in Oz 90/91. Used to drive 20 miles to Molly Blooms in Port Melbourne . . . for this song and ' The Leaving of Liverpool '.
@@Dave-im3lm It is indeed. But the great thing about this, why it's so popular, and what makes it so reminicient, is it could be applied to any old dirty industrial/ex-industrial town. I'm also from Liverpool, and I also think of Liverpool when I hear it because that's the town I know and where I've always sang it in pubs (I've always known it was originally written about Salford). It's also why, since Irish bands started doing covers of it, most people think it's written about Dublin.
,can't stop watching this video , best on utube love the guys enjoying themselves , the two girls at the end are so exited. .. Brilliant . thank you for posting xx
@@UkuleleTuesday All good love your work down here in New Zealand. Could you please do Black Velvet Band. It's one of my favourite songs. Cheers Steve 🥃🍀
The original recordings of this song sound nothing like the version we have come to know,we have Luke Kelly and the Dubliners with Phil Coulter to thank for that.
You guys brought tears to my eyes in the nicest and most positive of ways !! Fantastic and beautiful. Thank you for uploading & congratulations to each and every one you 👏
What a great song and what a great cover! 👍😄 Introduced to the Pogues as an Aussie teenager back in the mid/late 80’s. Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. R.I.P Shane McGowan.
Lovely, this reminds me of going to an Irish club in Harrow for a bit of a hooley on a Sunday lunchtime with maybe four generations, seven year olds to eighty somethings, all diving in and making marvelous music. That was decades ago, hope it's still happening!
I was at a small Ceilidh in Queenstown, NZ recently. There were songs and stories and over the course of the night some very fine whiskies. It was a welcome reminder that there are things infinitely more engaging than ‘reality’ TV social media influencers.
I've worked in many countries around the world and there's always an Irish and Scotsman sitting in the bar. Real and copy Irish bars, there's even one in Saigon where I now live, live music of course and it seems even if it's bad, a few beers and it's great. On one job there was a useless paddy laborer, but the foreman would not sack him. His joke telling in the pub afterwork was too good to be missed.
Awww thanks! Yeah we try and play with dynamics to make it interesting. And add some cool instrumentation. And modulation, too... The Pogues version has 2 or 3 key changes! Were they trying for a Eurovision hit, or what?
3 months after we posted our humble cover, it's with deep sadness we learnt of the passing of Shane McGowan of The Pogues. His unique, unmistakable voice, which popularised this tune among others, will be missed. Our condolences to his family.
Sinéad O'Connor, Christy Dignam and now Shane McGowan - what a sad year it has been for Irish music... but we'll play on.
Sad times indeed for Shanes family, (and all those who loved him,) but he would have loved your pub music gig. Great stuff, its only the rain that stops me living there😀
🎶🎶🎶
Song hail hail
Don't forget Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries 😢
I KNOW f'd up lads, really was a sad year. Keep playing, more videos like this please, we need music to heal❤
That's what it's all about. People singing, laughing, playing their instruments and having a bloody good time..!! 👍
Exactly ❤
Absolutely and doesn't matter if the song is from English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, The point is people coming together singing, laughing and having a great time
It's even got its own Wikipedia page..!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Old_Town @@pamelacondila7828
@@pamelacondila7828 Glad to see someone gets it 😉
You might be surprised to learn that while it was filmed in a traditional Irish pub, there's people from at least 10 different countries and 3 continents playing music in this video - music brought us together.
We need a lot more of this, especially the way this poxy world is at the moment.
Il from France and Ive been living in ur country for nearly 2 years and I have to say, I've never met such lovely people.. i might just come live there again I love you Ireland
Thank you and your always welcome ❤🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🍀
I'm English but I've worked in Ireland and NOBODY enjoys a good sing along and a few bevvies more than the Irish,I worked in Waterford and went on a few trips around the emerald Isle and it's BEAUTIFUL,stay happy, safe and healthy everyone ✌️
That's about MANCHESTER.
@@PaulConroy-k7o worked on Trafford park twice (had great food at Johns diner),went drinking in the grapes and then the (I think) starlight rooms,so I can safely say Manchester isn't QUITE as nice as Ireland,ggmu,have a good day user, by the way grapes and starlight were in Eccles
@@PaulConroy-k7o it's about Salford
You wanna come to New Zealand....💪😎🍺🇳🇿
@@62cripple not for me fella, Ireland is an hours flight away, the land of hobbits and orcs is twenty four hours away!!!
beats people looking at their mobils all night don t it .
Hanging out with people is becoming a lost art
Absolutely
No shit
Doesn’t it just
@@kevdoran9918brilliant music 😉
No words just beautiful RIP Shane
Slainte!!!
These beautiful people have unlocked the secret to Happiness no politics no cell phone except for the one just people enjoying the moment
How can you not love the Irish! Thank you ever so much!
What an absolutely beautiful moment, truly inspiriting. Ewan (the writer) and Shane (who did the finest rendition imho) would be moved and delighted by it, and would fit right in. RIP both.
Thank you. ❤
This wonderful tune that originated in my mother's home in the Salford Quays transported to a joyous gathering in Ireland. Memories.
My dirty old town!
And my my dirty old town as well 👍
@@davidmcconville1756 welcome
@@boothy130 welcome
Thanks for that sweet message, glad it could bring happy memories! Here's to your dirty old town :)
Beautiful! Memory tear trickling down my cheek!😢
Oh wow, I once flew to Toronto and on that Flight was a band called The Sons Of Erin, I was blessed to sit beside the lead singer who played his ukulele all the way from Vancouver and sang this song! ..that was 53 years ago! What memories!
I worked in Sarnia building a rail tunnel under the St Clair River, there was a lot of Irish and Scottish working in the oil refineries etc. One Irish family the husband worked on the rail ferry that our tunnel would close down. Yet we found friendship, his wife ran a B&B and Irish bands would stay there. Arriving late at night after their gig, but no matter some beers, bread and cheese on the huge kitchen table and the instruments would come out. I didn't play anything, but they would not have me just sitting there, so it was the spoons for me. But I had to cut down the visits to only Fridays and Saturdays, as work got in the way of enjoyment. PS: This was in 1994/5
I’m Spartacus
About that time, in Sydney Australia, was a band the Sons of Arran. Perhaps the same, and this song was in the reportoire, along with the other great songs . The black velvert band, the town i loved so well, steal away, among many others
This is pretty darn cool!!! I can feel the vibe on everyone's face....absolutely love it!!!
Vraiment superbe merveilleux de voir tous ces musiciens heureux de jouer et de chanter ensemble !
In the 80's and 90's while on travel to Scotland. You would go into any bar, it seemed and find a gig band. So cool.
Beautiful country and beautiful people
Great to see 😊 This was written about Manchester by a Scotsman and now you hear it in an Irish pub 😃
yeah it was written by Ewan Mccoll,kirstys father.Its about Salford docks.
@@davidw8906 He was a great songwriter and this song is timeless 🫶
Only written as a time filler for a scene change for a play he had written (often forgotten that McColl completely reformed theatre before he did the same to folk music) but the song connects. For me, McColls point always comes in his final verse... and the song was a call for social reform of the working class cities. In the case of Salford,vtge Town the song was written about, that regeneration didn't happen meaningfully until the late 80s... over 30/40 years after MacColls plea
@@MrMassivefavour He was a great talent and definitely underrated, his songs will live on forever though.
@@jimso771 Yes, I have "The Joy Of Living" lined up for my funeral 🤣 Now THERE'S a classic McColl final verse!
Wow!,That song always has the power to move me. I'm originally from Liverpool,and when I think of its rough old edges and wonderful people,I'm immediately back in my home city,even though I live hundreds of miles away now.
Song was written about Salford
Never knew that@@Dave-im3lm could be any town, I'm from Liverpool and we all sing it, it's a great song
Me too, a scouser. . . and I was 20/21 on a working visa in Oz 90/91. Used to drive 20 miles to Molly Blooms in Port Melbourne . . . for this song and ' The Leaving of Liverpool '.
It’s the North West but definitely not Liverpool…. MUFC
@@Dave-im3lm It is indeed. But the great thing about this, why it's so popular, and what makes it so reminicient, is it could be applied to any old dirty industrial/ex-industrial town. I'm also from Liverpool, and I also think of Liverpool when I hear it because that's the town I know and where I've always sang it in pubs (I've always known it was originally written about Salford). It's also why, since Irish bands started doing covers of it, most people think it's written about Dublin.
My I love the Irish, much love fae Scotland ❤
Great song about Salford near Manchester, England. Great atmosphere in that bar!
Yes, used to sing this amongst others in pubs of Eccles (Salford) lots of the pubs are gone now, craics gone too
Lived in Irl for 3 years.
Loved the people, craic and the scenery. Beautiful country.
Oh, I miss this singing,playing,drinking in an old pub in ireland...😢....Hope to come back soon from germany...😢
Better hurry up Most of the pubs are closing down
Wonderful as it is with our ukulele group great English / Salford song.
came here to say that...without wanting to spoil anyone's fun !
by Ewan McCall (the late Kirsty's Dad)
@@JCMcGee
Love this song...would loved to have been there . Can't beat a good singalong. 👏👏👏
Love this English Salford song
Irish Salford song
@@BobMacay Nope. Written by Ewan McColl, Kirstie's father. He's English and his parents were Scottish. So............
,can't stop watching this video , best on utube love the guys enjoying themselves , the two girls at the end are so exited. .. Brilliant . thank you for posting xx
Bloody fantastic 👏 Well done, everyone 😊
Beautiful. Greetings from Germany!
Hallo! Come visit some time 🙂
Fan bloody tastic. And no one spilt a drop 😎💯
Thanks for watching!
@@UkuleleTuesday All good love your work down here in New Zealand. Could you please do Black Velvet Band. It's one of my favourite songs. Cheers Steve 🥃🍀
That's the most ukuleles I've ever seen in one room lol. Love it!
Wish all pubs could be like this .absolutely fantastic brilliant upload 🎉🎉🎉
This is what heaven is like to me.
Yep seems like a place in Heaven to me too lol
Love it...
💚☘️🎵🕺🎶💃🎵☘️💚🇮🇪
Just found your amazing channel... Keep up the good work! 💪
@@UkuleleTuesday just found yours too, love what you guys are doing, I must pop in some Tuesday 🙏
@@dublincitytoday yes, please do!!
Never experienced anything like this, looks like a world of fun and a great time.
Props to the guy in the middle playing the Fire Extinguisher!
"reuse and recycle", they said
Loved this song from the very first time I heard it and it never seems to age. 👍👍👍
One of the finest pieces of music ever written.
Its about a man meeting his girlfriend in a dirty old town - the dirty oldtown being Salford in England. But a beautiful song.
Ewan McColl made a great job of this song I love his lyrics. They sound great !
Damn straight, but I don't think there's a better version than The Pouges.
@@rossgage9730 You do know that Ewan Mccoll was the father of Kirsty Mc Coll and member of the Pogues?
@@Gommerell yes I purchased Rum Sodomy and The Lash back in 1986.
The original recordings of this song sound nothing like the version we have come to know,we have Luke Kelly and the Dubliners with Phil Coulter to thank for that.
Reminds me of the irish pubs in Reading over 40yts ago
You guys brought tears to my eyes in the nicest and most positive of ways !! Fantastic and beautiful.
Thank you for uploading & congratulations to each and every one you 👏
What a wholesome comment. Thanks so much! 💛
@@UkuleleTuesday You are most welcome. I look forward to seeing and listening to future uploads.
Seen a similar setup in a Manchester pub a few years ago, was brilliant 🇮🇪🇮🇪🍀🍀🥃🥃🍀🍀🇮🇪🇮🇪
The Sally?
@@mana3735it was in Chorlton
Hi from Mexico
Music brings people together. Wonderful 👋
Got to get over to Ireland soon
I want to be there...I truly wish to be THERE!
What a great song and what a great cover! 👍😄 Introduced to the Pogues as an Aussie teenager back in the mid/late 80’s. Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.
R.I.P Shane McGowan.
love it,the power of communal playing and singing.😊
A great talent lots more to come looking forward to more
Good fun, could not stop my foot from tapping along
C'est de passer du bon temps. Longue vie !
Brilliant. Well done all.
Absolutely brilliant
Great harmonica player
Heart warmingly beautiful. Well done all
This song always brings Luke Kelly to mind!
Just love this thank you makes me smile and miss my old mam and dad bless them ❤
Switzerland loves You!
Absolutely gorgeous phenomenal "real time" real people "
Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 ❤
Brilliant the Irish know how to enjoy life. Not a phone in sight. Love them
It's not rock and roll but it was rocking and rolling. You've just got to sing along ☺
Glad it's Shane's version. Bless that man
Lovely, this reminds me of going to an Irish club in Harrow for a bit of a hooley on a Sunday lunchtime with maybe four generations, seven year olds to eighty somethings, all diving in and making marvelous music. That was decades ago, hope it's still happening!
This made me smile!
Love this song 😊👍👍👍
Wonderful bless the Irish ☘️
50s , good to see a chuckle brother joining in.
Great session, great togetherness, and great community absolutely loved it 👏👏👏 good shout about Jeremy Corbyn too 🤣
Hey thanks Andrew! So glad you liked it ❤we'll tell Jeremy you said hi
Absolutely wonderful!
Been to Dublin several times. This says it all
Love to our Irish friends from north Greece
Looks like an absolutely great evening out!
Fair effort from yer man on melodica there
Absolutely fantastic…..great vibes….pure enjoyment
Brilliant ❤❤
Wonderful
May be time to try again,,, yeah!! xxxx
Heartwarming
God let’s go now ! This is what l really want ? A great night sing and playing the uke 🤙😍🥰😘
Jesus, i'd move to Dublin just to join this band!
What a cool vibe. Cheers!
I was at a small Ceilidh in Queenstown, NZ recently. There were songs and stories and over the course of the night some very fine whiskies. It was a welcome reminder that there are things infinitely more engaging than ‘reality’ TV social media influencers.
I've worked in many countries around the world and there's always an Irish and Scotsman sitting in the bar. Real and copy Irish bars, there's even one in Saigon where I now live, live music of course and it seems even if it's bad, a few beers and it's great.
On one job there was a useless paddy laborer, but the foreman would not sack him. His joke telling in the pub afterwork was too good to be missed.
Brilliant song ❤
BRILLIANT
My dad's favourite song x
Looks like a great time was had by all
We need more like this in our lives 👍
Beautiful! Thank you!
I used to love living in Ireland back in in the day 😊
This is up with the top 100 things I have ever seen in my life.. f'in wow!
Have to hand it to the Uke . Really offers a great way for people to be wctive participants in music making ..
have lived in Canada for more than 40 years now.....still miss my "local"........bars are not the same
Brilliant 😊
It’s about Lower Broughton Salford where Mcoll was brought up .
It's about Salford in Manchester. England.
Everyone in Britain and Ireland with a interest in folk music knows its about Salford and that Jimmy Miller wrote it and he is Kirstys dad .
Meravigliosa serata vorrei essere stata lì beati voi ❤❤❤
Love it. And Dynamics!
Awww thanks! Yeah we try and play with dynamics to make it interesting. And add some cool instrumentation. And modulation, too... The Pogues version has 2 or 3 key changes! Were they trying for a Eurovision hit, or what?
Wonderful! Thanks for posting..all the best!
What a race the Irish are. Fantastic. Love them .
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHANE ( from France ).👍.
I also have my tuner permanently on the headstock 😀