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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. 🎧 #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

  3. #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

  4. 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
  5. 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