LANKUM - Hunting the Wren (Live in Dublin)
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2020
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Director: Peadar Gill (Instagram @podurpls)
Sound: John "Spud" Murphy and Ian Chesnutt
Camera operators: Peadar Gill , Evan Byrne
Graphics : Diabhal666
Guest Musicians:
Alex Borwick, John Dermody and Adrian Crowley
I'm Scottish and came here through surfing UA-cam for traditional Scottish/Irish music. I am a big fan of this kind of music which transports you. I was listening to Brìghde Chaimbeul before this who enjoys similar types of sounds but on the Scottish smallpipes.
Wow, this song is a true masterpiece of the modern age and deserves to be up there with the most famous of Irish songs. Absolutely stunning, powerful and magnificent.
Also a dark reminder of the horrors and evils of british colonialism inflicted on so many.
Unfortunately for Scotland, the struggle continues.
Can't stop listening but can't hardly bear to hear it.
same
Everything I got, hurts. Yet somehow deliciously
succinct
I was there
Sweet darkness
So moving and powerful.
The Curragh Wrens. The name for the prostitutes that serviced the army camp on the Curragh.
"...she chose the cold open plains
o'er the dark workhouse door."
Heartbreaking.
The wren-o, why is it so derided in Europe? It beat the Eagle to be the king of birds. An ancient story that.
Interesting bit of history. Thank you for the new perspective on the song
One of the most emotive, profound, masterfully performed pieces of music I have ever heard. Thank you so much for the music you make!
Lyrics :
Sharp is the wind
Cold is the rain
Harsh is the livelong day
Upon the wide open plain
By Donnelly's hollow
Under sod, gorse and furze
There lies a young wren oh
By the saints she was cursed
The wren is a small bird
How pretty she sings
She bested the eagle
When she hid in its wings
With sticks and with stones
All among the small mounds
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground
They flock round the soldiers
In their jackets so red
For barrack room favours
Pennies and bread
The soldier is rough
In anger or fun
And he causes much bloodshed
With his big musket gun
They’re birds of the earth
The beasts of the field
By spite and by fury
Are people revealed
Attacked in the village
Spat on in town
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground
The wren is a small bird
Though blamed for much woe
Her form is derided
Wherever she goes
With cold want and whisky
She soon is run down
Her body paraded
On a staff through the town
Her head for her ceiling
The sod was her floor
She chose the cold open plain
Cold open plan o'er
The dark workhouse door
With two broken wings
And feathers so brown
They come from all over
To hunt the wren on the wide open ground
Thank you. Magic
Under *sod*, gorse and furze
Ian Ó Loingsigh Thank you 🙏
Was this original or a traditional?
@@johnnickpappanastos3382 The story of hunting the wren in myth and legend is ancient with roots back in Druid tradition. Google The Wren Boys
An icy draught from the sacred, dark well of the collective memory. Extraordinary ritual music.
Exactly. Well said brother.
The drugs must be good
@@galwaytribesman9289 Not so bro' - I can come up with that type of comment in an entirely legal state of mind.
@@galwaytribesman9289 EEjit!
They really are doing something worth doing
The power of the drone is considerable and transporting
one chord to rule them all!
Just wow. I have tears running down my face. Heart wrenchingly powerful music
a paradigm shift!i,ve been playing and singing for the last 60 years and i am glad i lived long enough to enjoy this amazing new musical breakthrough.unique.magical.evolution in action.superb.
Wonderful. I was going to leave an independent comment about how I’d found this video & song (new to me - the song not the band) & then I found your comment. Hard to follow. Incredible sound. Their version of ‘The Wild Rover’ brought me here. Time stopping music.
Damn. Just found this group (and the awesome Radie Peat!) and was checking out their tunes, and didn't really listen to this one closely, or all the way through. "That was dolorous, wunnit?"
And it haunted me. It kept coming back and I finally went back, listened to the lyrics, realized what it was, and now I'm blown away, listening to different versions, over and over. It takes courage and creativity to come up with something so soulful and unique. Damn.
Listening to this on St. Stephen's day. Can't articulate the emotional impact of this song . If this is the future of folk music I'm in
ORANGE: The amp choice of Druids for centuries......
Though you'd find a Marshall Superlead as an outlier every once in a while. ;)
And fleetwood Mac
With Lankum C-Major still sounds like doom. Absolutely wonderful.
Well, this wasn't the Wren Song I was looking for, but it is starkly fantastic.
this is so good i cut my own ears off so they wouldnt be tarnished by another song
I have yet to hear anything more powerful than this
and you probably never will ...this is the best tune i have ever ever heard
This powerful as well ,goose bumps
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it's melodramatic garbage
@@theloniuspunk383 Behave!
@@theloniuspunk383 you know what they say about opinions!
I have added this masterpiece to my Townes Van Zandt playlist, enough said.
a formidable duo
Townie would dig this band fer sure
That’s a badge of honor
I happened serendipitously to read an interview in the Irish Times, June 2018 with Radie Peat where she said she was currently listening to the music of Townes Van Zandt.
Congratulations on winning Irish Album of the Year.
The force that is LANKUM
the most inspiring thing i've heard in a decade...truly great stuff...
Same same ..
Immediately start weeping every time this begins
I came here because I just heard Natalie Merchant's new cover of it. Incredibly powerful and moving. Thank you Natalie for getting me to find this incredible band ... Lankum
Same here
Same.
just watched performed this in her encore at the Olympia and it was the ultimate tribute to an incredible song
She did the song tonight in Amsterdam ... I was blown away and came here to check the orginal. Wow!! Thank you Natalie indeed!!
Extraordinary group of musicians. Transcendent, their music reaches in and plucks your soul.
colin lloyd 🍀
Never heard of this group before, didn't know what to expect... just a few seconds into the song i knew this was pure gold. Man, i cried my eyes out.
You are not wrong....this goes straight into the soul
Check out their cut "Òld Man From Over The Sea" - its freaking harrowing.
Its so bloody good
When I learnd what this song is about my stomach dropped out of my body and heart ached like no song has ever done to me before.
Goosebumps and tears.
Shivers down my spine...on the night itself and this brings it right back.
I'm just devastated. I've loved folk all my life but I've never heard this and nothing's every affected me like this.
I had wait 50 years for such a beautiful music ! Thanks
In the mythical competition to find the bird who could fly highest. The wren hid under the wing of the eagle and when it got to its highest, the wren popped out and flew higher.
It was so easy to hear, but hard to find, it got the repute of living underground, & it's latin name is troglodytes troglodytes, cave-dweller. The folk song/ritual The Cutty Wren is the hunting of the wren as king of the underworld & winter on winter solstice, nailing it to a staff, & parading it to ask for alms.
Thanks for the explanation.
Wrens were traditionally hunted on the day after Christmas (St Stephen's Day). Groups in costume (often kids) would go from door to door with dead wrens, and receive money or treats in exchange. However, the song is also referring to a group of homeless women who supported themselves and their children as sex workers near the British Army camp at the Curragh in Kildare.
Look up the Wrens of the Curragh
The most amazing, genuine & engaging band i have heard in many years, both tearful & joyful simultaneously, Kudos
May God keep us, and favor us I n these times.
To think the wretched wicked ones want to rid us of such beauty in life is beyond traumatic. Lankum keep me going in these dark and horrific times . Please something help us all
Holy moly, I cant get this chant melody out of my head. A strange female voice, but just beautiful and almost haunting.
So raw and real and beautiful. An amazingly comforting meditation in processing pain. A privilege to listen and hear and feel. Thank you, you are amazing musicians and storytellers.
This rendition breaks my heart every time. I can’t say for certain the intent behind Lankum’s variation on the Wren, but I suspect their purpose. Regardless, it makes me want to hug every woman I’ve ever met tightly.
Adore this group. Is there a better singer in the world today than Radie Peat. The guy with the water in the can is cool too.
I love the Shirley Collins/Davey Graham version of "Hares on the Mountain". After having been randomly introduced to Lankum and Radie Peat, I have to say her version of the song competes with my first love as a favorite.
In the early eighties I had a tape called "songs of the Irish Travelers " Radie and the rest of the band manage to recreate that feeling of sincerity and tradition , with an added mastery of voice and instruments those oldtimers in their wagons often lacked ..
Can you remember any of the songs or the artists?
@@slydoll7877 one in particular I remember , an old lady singing about a crayfish being put in the pisspot and its results , at the end she burst out laughing .. i think the song was just called "the crayfish "
@@abushams3336 Fantastic! I googled
Fisherman fisherman standing by the sea
have you a crayfish you would sell to me
Yes sir yes sir that indeed I do
I've a nasty smelly crayfish I will sell to you
So I took him home and thought he would like to swim s
o I filled up the chamber pot an threw the bugger in
In the middle of the night I thought I'd have a fit
when my old lade got up to take a shower
Well husband husband she cried out to me
the devil's in the chamber pot and he's got a hold of me
Well children children bring up the looking glass
and come and see the crayfish that bit your mother's ear
Well children children you mother's had a fit
come and see the crayfish that bit your mother's toe
well she yelled and she screamed the noise it shook the walls
and then to get me back she grabbed me by the beard
well she swung and she hit me really cleaned my clock
but I never once fell over cause she grabbed me by the collar
well the crayfish escaped I thought he had the luck
but all this was his fault that nasty little fool
Well that's the end my story there is no more to tell
and if you don't like it you can go to France.
@@slydoll7877 Margaret Barry?
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I'm not sure if there is a more beautiful song that exists. So powerful.
Radie Peat`s voice is haunting.
But yet I can't stop listening to it. Its so mesmerizing
@@emmaford7205 No foolin.
So proud to be Irish right now. Lankum and For Those I Love. Pure raw honesty.
Spellbinding, truly spellbinding.
Pure magic, my favorite cut of The Livelong Day
Shamefully just discovered this group today so glad I did. I have chills and the hairs stand on the back of me neck. Wow
Wow! What a fantastic piece of music!
The sadness and tragedy of life for all of us is there, represented by the small wren bird(tradionally hunted every 26 December in the past though no more). Fantastic song, of course the Irish with their hard history have a deep undetstanding of the wren's lot.
Raddy's voice is unearthly, weird, but utterly amazing. 100 out of 10. Absolutely fantastic sound.
when I was a kid, I would spend my summers in Lahinch and around August, the travellers (gypsies, tinkers) would come into town. Down a back lane towards the prom, the women would sit on rugs, covered by their shawls and surrounded by kids, drinking pint bottles of stout and singing.
This is what they sounded like, and she is very very aware of it.
@@loquayrocks this is my favourite comment. Great image.
By this gorgeous piece of art, I believe I can, not only listen but remotely feel , see, touch even taste and smell the great Irish heritage.
The Granite Graze, The Young People and What Shall We Do When We Have No Money are worth listening to. And excuse my ignorance but have you heard Luke Kelly
@@TheLeiferikson Liam C hi brother in humanity. I didn't listen to them yet, I am open for all authentic local art from all over the globe sure I will listen to Luke. Thank you for taking time and educate me. One world one people one love to delicate art 🌺🌺🌺
@@TheLeiferiksontotally admire Ireland heritage and culture, I hope I can visit Dublin someday and enjoy authentic culture. 🌺🌺🌺
I will listen to this band for the rest of my life. Go watch them live if you can.
Thank you Lankum !
So good but wish the audio from the ticket takers wasn’t included. Still gonna watch this a hundred times
@Switch Dolphin how'd that work out :(
@Switch Dolphin it was more of a rhetorical comment, a statement on the shit times we're in. of course, at some point live music will happen again and we've several decades of joy to look forward to from this lot, whether as Lankum or in their individual guises. hope the september date happens.
they might've had to send a message to inadequate man bouncers to stop being arsholios.
When we hosted them in Belfast, there were no bouncers. I did the door. And the heckling was top of the range mid-gig banter mosh.
So good that words fail me. Hopefully you can tour Canada soon.
Can't stop listening to this. My dad was running around Dublin in the 60's, I think he'd really love where the musics going.
Amazing group and what a voice
You are the best, your songs are amazing, I hope someday I'll I'll have the chance to see you live when this situation is over. Best wishes from Toulouse, France.
This is a masterpiece
Absolutely magical
I love this video so much. I watch it over and over again. Thank you guys so much for this version. I love it!
Divine !!!!! Voices are fabuloussss musical instruments with you !!!!!
I think I watch this almost once a week. Incredible performance.
If you like some music with your magic, then this is for you. The wren is a small bird, but it controls a big space.
Feckin amazing lads. Wishing ye very success in the future. Druidic healers.
I agree 100% totally killed the building atmosphere
Thanks for keeping the "moodyness" of Celtic music alive.
Tradition but so much up-to-dateness. So is the life and you express this wonderfully good. Thank you very much.
Man, what a song, wonderful haunting voices and music. I love what you do, thank you all so much for bringing your music in my life.
Mind blowing and so uplifting
A great antidote to the Christmas fervour, keep coming back to the song, and its deep compassion.
So beautiful.... amaaazzzzziingg 💓💓💓
Fecking grand........ goose bumps !
WOW. Just amazing! Love it! 👏❤️
Powerful! Thank you!
Every day in my carving shop I listen. Thank you. Hope for more available albums soon. Would love an album from the recent songs I’ve heard through Myles O’Reilly’s film. Those are beautiful.
I heard about Lankum last year, thanks to the Italian music magazine Rumore. They became the soundtrack of my life...
Wonderful. Thanks from Toronto.
Oh my god - this is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard!
This is absolutely beautiful.
Can't stop listening to this
Very moving, thanks for being class 🖤
Unreal. Reminds me of the days of sigur ros. Very epic admins emotional.
fantastic vocal mix
I just saw your performance on NPR and was speechless... powerful & beautiful are two words that spring to mind....BL£$$ x
Haunting- yet it made my day. I was completely unaware of the wrens.
Just such an emotional performance 💚love this
you guys are moving me to the bone, keep going!
Isso é lindo d+ !!! sou do brasil e me senti conectado com essa música de uma forma incrível, valeu youtube por me apresentar .
Love it!!
Heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time
just sounds great!
Radie has the most beautiful smile ever
pure magic xxx
A musical masterpiece.
What an amazing song
Just gorgeous
You guys are incredible, tears in my eyes!
Fifth time watching it already. Unreal.
Magnificent. I will definitely be looking for a high quality vinyl version from this miraculous group of musicians. Bravo and thank you.
You vinyl hipster. It sounds better on Spotify
Beautiful...
Thank God for you & Lisa!🎶
Ahh ,I live in the past, for today is like tomorrow and like yesterday. a tale of woe Ahh there ye go...
Profound, deeply. ❤
Sheer joy .nuthin left to say ❤️🙏
Fuckin beautiful. Melted my face and soul on the Sunday night. Never been so moved at a gig ❤️ it was embarrassing
I live in live Europe and it pretty much why you should never say anything about us. You do not compare to the Irish. We mourn for everyone when we don't need to.we just do, they grace the rish give...love thee irie
Beauuutifully shot
i was at this show and i'm still shaking
You are a lucky one.
Wow. I imagine there were a fair few streaming eyes in the audience?
Marvellous performance at The Barbican this week, so honoured to have seen yous.
So enjoyed this, sublime. Please could the song continue into the audience. I just wanted to experience again and our elation..