Irish Bus to Weston
Juan and Javier are the boys with the bus, and Eddie told them to expect some slagging.
This is the Irish Bus to O’Malley’s of Weston for Saturday, July 28, 2007 that Eddie Delahunt sent out notice of yesterday.
When he described it in detail to me last night in O’Dowd’s - with wonder in his eyes it must be said - I said it sounded like a mobile brothel (I come from a country where much library access was via the weekly visits of the mobile library, so I was just guessing). Anyway, Eddie agreed enthusiastically.
He told me he won’t pack it to capacity, so that way you’ll get to enjoy your very sociable booth seating.
It’s a customized 1978 American Eagle Rock tour bus basically. As well as the booth seating it’s all black on the inside with LED lighting. Throw in the sound system and the essential bar in the centre, and pretty quickly you realise that a trip to Weston just isn’t far enough.
Eddie did tell me that he practically has it sold already, in that he knows who said they’d definitely go - so if you want to go on the Irish Bus to Weston on Saturday 28th July you’d better move fast.
The tickets are $30 (prepaid) for the night and that includes having that upper section in O’Malley’s roped off specially for you touring Kansas City rocksters.
The bus leaves from Cafe & at 6:30pm and returns to the cafe after the performance in O’Malley’s Irish pub by Eddie, Brett & Gabe.
If you need any further info, don’t delay, and throw your questions at Eddie. His number at the Cafe & is (816) 753 3322 or if you think you can risk the time it might take, you can alway email him via edelahunt@hotmail.com.
All together now,
the beer on the bus goes round and round,
round and round,
round and round
See Also:
• Review of 1st Birthday Party for Cafe &
• Eddie Delahunt at Bloomsday for Bloomsday
• Delahunt’s Coffee Shop Extends Hours
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
eolai,
what’s slagging?
mwk
Martha,
To slag is to tease and taunt mercilessly but with underlying feelings of no nasty intention.
People unfamiliar with the art may well believe when they see slagging that they are witnessing insults or even a fight, rather than joking. Many time in Kansas City American have confided in me how shocked they were at a piece of social ugliness they believe they just witnessed, when in fact it was only slagging.
It’s very often a form of affection, and something I stopped in the US long ago because of constant misunderstandings.
However I do now employ it frequently in the written form here on Irish KC - and not unsurprisingly it has been misunderstood in some cases.
Slagging tends not to sit well with the literalism of the Midwest.
thanks very much!
m