Connacht Town on St Patrick’s Day 09 in KC
Connacht Town are playing Crosstown Station in Midtown Kansas City at Noon 1:30pm, and later on they are closing O’Malley’s Irish Pub in Weston, Missouri starting at 9pm.
Crosstown Station is a music venue located at 1522 McGee. There will be a “festive Irish kitchen menu” for the big day, and specials on Guinness, Irish Car Bombs & that green beer that reaches the part of you that your German ancestry can’t.
It’s FREE to see Connacht Town play at the Crosstown Station.
Phone Crosstown Station at 816-471-1522 for more information or check out their official website.
These events are posted on the Kansas City Irish events calendar.
See more St Patrick’s Day 2009 events in Kansas City.
See Also:
• St Patrick Fact #1: Inflatable Shamrock
• St Patrick Fact #2: Black Puddings
• St Patrick Fact #3: The Irish Panda
• St Patrick’s Day 2008 in Dublin, Ireland
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
“Irish Car Bombs.”
The only drink guaranteed to celebrate and insult the Irish in one fell swoop.
For the uninitiated, or the ignorant, “car bombs” are not something most Irish men and women recall fondly. Somewhat akin to celebrating 9/11 with a “Smoking Tower” or a “Flying Stockbroker,” a “car bomb” is not only a drinking game for novice alcoholics but incredibly insulting to all those innocents who lost their lives in a brutal clash of cultures.
And you do not even want to get me started on the whole notion of dumping green food coloring into perfectly good beer ….
Thanks for the negativity, I certainly hope this doesn’t make people not go to the venue above and have some fun on St. Patrick’s Day.
Is it “negativity” to remind people that this day is to HONOR the Irish and not mock them? Is it “negativity” to point out someone’s absolute ignorance or insulting behavior? (Or would you be willing to sell “Watermelon Shots” on Martin Luther King Day?)
Is it “negativity” to point out a few actual facts about the Irish to people who are absolutely raking in the bucks selling boatloads of their cheapest, green-colored beer during this holiday?
Don’t worry about this being any kind of “buzz kill” for anyone’s “celebration.” Because you certainly know that most of your compatriots don’t give a rat’s ass about ANYTHING Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. They just want an excuse to get falling down drunk.
Even as you celebrate your alcoholic binge, try to remember that this holiday actually MEANS something to (at least some) Irish and Irish-Americans.
Which should mean something to you if you, as I suspect, make your living marketing the Irish culture.
The first time I saw a “Car Bomb” advertised as a drink was on a huge banner at the Weston Irish Festival, where they should have known better.
Does anyone besides me realize (or care) that the Irish are the last ethnic group left that it is not politically incorrect to denigrate?