…and two out of three members are asleep in my house right now.
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Dale
You let those people go right this instant, Dale! I thought we went over this already, kidnapping is ILLEGAL, and this time the judge wont be so leniant with you, despite your good intentions! 
I wonder what prompted the title Snot Rocket.
The way they slipped from the second part of the Ravelled Hank into Miss McGuinness was sort of surprising but the future of Irish Music? Really Dale, you should go out more.
Perhaps he means “future” as in, “When we old farts are dead,
these kids will be the ones playing the tunes.”
I played a tune or two with Zac up at Swannanoa - good times!
I can’t help but pronounce their name as though it were French, even though I know it’s probably not…
Dale is not old. He is vintage. Thankyouverymuch.
That’s why we keep him in the wine cellar!
Under the floorboards? 
Ever see that movie, The People Under the Stairs?
I know, they sound nice and play well.
There are literally hundreds and thousands of young Irish people playing and waiting in the wings, priming themselves, bristling wit hcreativity and skill. Compared to what I generally hear these guys still sound like they’ve been rehearsing a lot.
Last week I was waiting for my son to finish his whistle class with Brid Donohue. Inside someone was playing through tunes very slowly. I alter asked him was it Brid giving them new tunes ‘no’ he said 'a few of the older ones (he meant thirteen year olds) were playing. There was just a life and finesse in the playing that would make me think I heard an example of the future of Irish music. Hard to put the finger on the difference, has to do wit henvironmental factors, continuity and all that.
I don’t watch movies, sorry. I feel they are too “of this world” for me to watch. I also don’t watch television or tie my shoes backwards on the third Sunday of every month while wearing a purple sweater and doing yoga, either, so please don’t ask.
Hey, everything’s cool by me, as long as you don’t take more than seventy steps on the Sabbath
I think, at one extreme, you have people playing slick, lively well-rehearsed music which is fluent and technically very proficient while at the other extreme you have playing where the focus is on a kind of depth and the playing might be, but needn’t be, rougher. It would sound more spontaneous. Well played, I think both styles are lively and appealing. I don’t think that the slick suff comes only from America.
I only have a slow connection at home so I only listened to the fragment from the first album track. I thought it was lively and I enjoyed it. But it is definitely down the slick end of the spectrum. Straight after, I played Kitty Lie Over which I think is down the profound end of the spectrum.
I prefer profundity but I enjoy both. I think this distinction applies not just in ITM but in every art and roots music. Unlike some, I actually think that the music is richer for having both approaches. I do think it’s a shame when the slick ones get all the attention though.
I’ve met both Julian and Zac at the 2004 Florida Tionol. I agree that their recorded efforts have a sound that is a bit unpolished and all, but these two young fellas are each very competent and excellent musicians. It’ll be pretty exciting to hear them when they hit my age… providing I am still among the corporeal. 
At first impression without listening to the clips and just seeing the website, my first thought was “Irish Nickel Creek”…
I certainly agree with you. A point I was trying to make and possibly didn’t do very well is that there is a seething hotbed of music in Ireland of young people playing absolutely brilliantly in many different styles who are often not very wellknown outside their own locality. My remark that Dale should get out more is in that context: there is such an abundance of creativity and skill there’s no real reason to single these guys out as the future of Irish music, skilled and well playing as they may be (and I have no quibbles with that), they are only a tiny part of it.
Yeah, I thought we were agreeing, just emphasising slightly different things perhaps. I think young people, well everybody still playing energetically at whatever age, will collectively take the music in a number of different directions and the music will be all the stronger for it. Not all will be of lasting value and not all will be of equal importance but a lot of different things are happening and will continue to happen.
Maybe I misread, but I didn’t get the feeling that Dale thought that these guys were showing the way for everybody. I just thought he was expressing enthusiasm. I can see how someone might read it the other way though.
ditto
The journey of music is not a secret roadmap. Rather it turns your map from dull black and white into color, It turns your walk into dance, it shows some turns as inviting that others might not take, it enjoys the mountains, the lakes, the secluded rill and the teeming bazaar.
One thing these children have done is to affirm their path as professionals. A road that consorts with traders and bean counters, saints, seducers and sharks. I wish them well, and look forward to seeing when their true identity breaks free from the well-trod, when the training wheels come off and they stop letting others plot their path.
It’s certainly not everyone’s future, but a future well worth watching.