Live Music

[alatarvinyamar]

I went to a concert on Saturday Night. A small gig in a local theater with I suppose maybe 400 people, tops. It really reminded me how much I miss live music. The band scene in Ireland is more or less dead. Musicians in Pubs play with drum machines and backing tracks. You might as well have a DJ, cause it's not live music. When I was in my

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[samaranth]

Sadly it’s a similar situation here, Alatar. The pub music scene is so quiet it's unnatural. There are a couple of pockets of it clinging on here and there, but it’s not like the old days when pubs gave bands such as ACDC their first gig. Every so often we’ll go and listen to jazz at our local, or take visitors down to the Rocks where there might be folk or Irish music, but it’s getting harder and harder to find.

Your concert sounds like it was a blast.

[truehobbit]

Hey, I see you've friended me already - I just came to ask if you'd like it if we added each other to our friends-lists - that's so cool, thanks! :D (((hugs)))

lj-style looks great - quite Jane-Austen-like! :D

[1mpenitent]

Alatar, I went wandering through Lj, which I don't do often, and discovered you in the neighbourhood. I though I'd better let you know I've formally befriended you.