Today Kansas City, Friday May 2, 2008, Kansas City, Missouri you can kiss my arse.
Or, to show I can assimilate, you can kiss my ass.
Yesterday […]

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Twice in the last week IrishKC.com has received visitors asking how do you pronounce “pogues”.
You may laugh but if people are asking it then it’s […]

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Here’s something that’s been creating a bit of a buzz in Irish music circles for the last few weeks.
It’s the tribute to Ronnie Drew. No, […]

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Here’s one I meant to link to a couple of weeks ago. It’s a feature on The Elders of Kansas City around the time of […]

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Okay Branson, Missouri readers, here’s some Irish events for you.
Dirty Old Towne are playing at Waxy O’ Shea’s Irish Pub in the Branson Landing TONIGHT […]

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The Tossers are among a group of bands playing at the Record Bar in Kansas City on Thursday, August 9, 2007.
I don’t know anything about […]

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The following review of To Hell Or Barbados by Damien Dempsey, appears in a slightly shorter version in the July 2007 issue of the Midwest […]

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Being Irish and walking among American flagpoles with their flags at half-mast has me thinking of the dead.
You know the way we sing happy-clappy sing-a-longy […]

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In Shane MacGowan’s latest yule blog Shane shares his thoughts about the role of the female singer in everybody’s favourite Christmas song on the sixth […]

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Speaking of mistakes by me, Mike Webber, responsible for the excellent review of The Pogues live in LA I highlighted a short while back, gently […]

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As we continue the huge commercial build-up of lights, shopping, and pretending cookies are homemade, all to celebrate the birthday on December 25 of Shane […]

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And speaking of things authentically Irish, here is - with singing supposedly in English, but I’ve given up efforts at deciphering because I need to […]

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If you didn’t watch the excellent The Last Temptation of Hughie and Owenie, well you missed your chance. It is no longer available (IMDb)
With the […]

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Speaking of Shane MacGowan, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Tom Petty, and Lemmy, here’s The Saw Doctors:

Hey, it’s Sunday; on the seventh day, God 2.0 watches […]

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Being asked to nominate the best song from the exalted canon of The Clash, is a task befitting the wise and, ideally, those who weren’t […]

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The music blog of the Kansas City Star, Back To Rockville, has a great review of The Pogues very recent appearances in L.A. by Mike […]

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I’m not waiting until the end of the year - because this won’t be bettered. It’s the same as the Best Irish Music Blog of […]

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Trup Trup a Chapaillín - Or, Giddy Up There Pony. The first song I learned at school, but being aged four, and it being a […]

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Art Garfunkel, Marianne Faithful, Van Morrison, Bert Jansch, Charlotte Church, Donovan, Boyzone, John McCormack, John Martyn, Sinéad O’Connor, Richard Thompson, Luka Bloom, Shane MacGowan, Loreena […]

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Q. Do You Listen to Irish Music (Really)?
A. Well yeah, but it mightn’t be what you mean by Irish music. And anyway, maybe I’m only […]

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