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  1. Runrig – The Stamping Ground (2001, Scotland)

    Our next spotlight is on number 6 on The List, submitted by Almandine.

    Formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973, Runrig was a much-beloved Celtic rock band that, among other things, was the first to have a song sung in Scottish Gaelic make the UK Singles Charts. By the time we get to this, their 11th studio album, they had long expanded their sound beyond traditional ceilidh/pastoral folk to be more folk rock, sung more songs in English than Gaelic, and had a number of line-up changes including lead singer Donnie Monro leaving (in 1997) and being replaced by Canadian Bruce Guthro. It apparently took a bit to get fans onboard with the change in lead vocalist, but this album brought renewed interest in the band (particularly across the pond) and it was ultimately their most successful. This album has even been played in outer space, taken onboard the space shuttle Columbia by American NASA astronaut Laurel Clark on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003. The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry but Clark’s CD copy was somehow found by NASA investigators in what little wreckage survived, in a field somewhere in Texas. Clark’s family presented the CD to Runrig, and the CD would later become part of a museum exhibition on the band (I’m not crying you’re crying).[1]

    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YKcbxXQDsQ ↩︎

    #celticFolk #celticMusic #celticRock #gaelicMusic #laurelClark #runrig #scotland #scottishMusic

  2. New #review today: "#Phoenyx was a San Francisco band of the late 80s that was apparently quite popular in local Irish pubs as well as creatively anachronistic festivals. They released the album Keepers of the Flame in 1991 in a small run of CDs, which quickly sold out, but then the band broke up and the album disappeared into obscurity and the realm of high-price collector’s items. Fast forward 35 years, and it’s now available again." #ExposeOnline #FolkRock #CelticRock expose.org/index.php/articles/

  3. 🎧 #LärmGestalt heute mit:

    - Rise Against - The Great Die-Off #MelodicHardcore
    - Prager Handgriff - Egoist #EBM
    - Die Verlorenen Söhne - Der Held #NeueDeutscheHärte
    - Levellers - Fight or Flight #CelticRock
    - Aq-Punk-tur - Deine Sache #Punk

  4. #LärmGestalt heute mit

    - Paddy and The Rats - Rumble Outta Here #CelticPunk
    - Running Wild - Chains & Leather #HardRock
    - Cephalgy - Aus dem Leben #FuturePop
    - New Model Army - Autumn #Alternative
    - Mr. Irish Bastard - Monsters in The Light #CelticRock

  5. Homesick
    "Don't know how long I've been away
    It's hard to say when it's the time to go
    Just when you feel your dues are paid
    You got it made, there's nothing left to show
    Outside my room a light is flashing
    So the night can never gain a hold
    And in the language that the stranger
    Doesn't know he's often easy rolled

    And though I'm finding it hard to smile
    I get the feeling that in a while
    It's alright
    I was feeling kind of homesick
    But that's alright
    It's alright
    I was feeling kind of homesick
    But that's alright

    Chances are for takin'
    Fortune'll smile on the boldest one
    Don't feel forsaken
    Keep on believing your time will come
    And you'll see it through

    Don't know how long I'vе been away
    It's hard to say when it's the time to go
    Just when you feel your dues are paid
    You got it made, there's nothing left to show
    Outside my room a light is flashing
    So the night can never gain a hold
    And in the language that the stranger
    Doesn't know he's often easy rolled

    And though I'm finding it hard to smile
    I get the feeling that in a while
    It's alright
    I was feeling kind of homesick
    But that's alright"

    #Horslips
    #Homesick
    #TheManWhoBuiltAmerica
    #CelticRock
    #IrishRock
    #Ireland

    https://youtu.be/DaSGQ-uHvhI
  6. I love these old videos of live performances by one of my favorite bands, Horslips. Yeah, I know, odd name, but great music! The band members are so young and so thin back in those days. Here's Mad Pat from 1975.

    Rest in Peace and in Music, Johnny Fean. You played a mean guitar, sir.

    #Horslips
    #CelticRock
    #IrishRock


    https://youtu.be/V-5N3tglXMk
  7. Based out of the beautiful city of Toronto, Ontario is a band called Enter the Haggis - uniquely weird name, amazing band!

    The getaway car in your backyard was your last resort
    Hidden under vines and autumn leaves
    Waiting there for you to come when it was just too hard
    Sit there with your hands upon the wheel

    You can run

    The getaway car could take you there, any place you need
    Around the corner, up into the sky
    Somewhere on this highway you forgot that you could dream
    Forgot that you could break the speed of life

    You can run, but you won't get far
    Now you've locked your keys in the getaway car

    Drawn into the high-speed chase, fight for bottom line
    Sirens push the pedal to the floor
    The getaway car looks rusty but you know that it can shine
    Fill 'er up again and let it roar

    Everyone forgets about this place
    But we all need a little time and space

    #EnterTheHaggis
    #CelticRock
    #CanadianRock
    #GetawayCar

    https://youtu.be/R9FHPf-8nL4
  8. Song of the Day - No 188

    Big Country - Look Away

    WIKI
    "Look Away" by Scottish rock band Big Country, released in April 1986, was the lead single from 'The Seer'. It peaked at No. 7 in the UK, their highest-charting single, and topped the Irish charts.

    youtube.com/watch?v=enZ3cLD-9kQ