lest we forget de burgh's epic meltdown following a bad review of a gig from the irish times, here's the beginning of his letter to the editor in response:
I rarely read reviews, but as yours was sitting on my kitchen table, and after three sold-out shows in the Gaiety Theatre, I thought I should have a look at it; after all, receiving a favourable review in The Irish Timesis about as likely as . . . well, receiving a favourable review in The Irish Times!!I was not disappointed. How the fond memories came flooding back, more than 30 years of them; you must have a Lexicon of Handy Insults, because you managed to use many of the same ones that have been used so many times before, and still they make me smile at their continued lack of imagination. “Small man . . . shudder . . . warbly tenor . . . mawkish balladeer . . . cringe factor . . . squeaky clean . . . snigger . . . cheesy” etc – yes, they were all there, as used by many of your colleagues before, such as Joe Breen (who, I note, has been put out to pasture in the wine section, and I am assured by friends in the wine trade that he knows as much about wine as he did about music – precious little. I wonder what they have in mind for you in your dotage? Searing critiques of primary school Christmas plays perhaps, or judging knife-sharpening competitions in Sligo?).
I was not disappointed. How the fond memories came flooding back, more than 30 years of them; you must have a Lexicon of Handy Insults, because you managed to use many of the same ones that have been used so many times before, and still they make me smile at their continued lack of imagination. “Small man . . . shudder . . . warbly tenor . . . mawkish balladeer . . . cringe factor . . . squeaky clean . . . snigger . . . cheesy” etc – yes, they were all there, as used by many of your colleagues before, such as Joe Breen (who, I note, has been put out to pasture in the wine section, and I am assured by friends in the wine trade that he knows as much about wine as he did about music – precious little. I wonder what they have in mind for you in your dotage? Searing critiques of primary school Christmas plays perhaps, or judging knife-sharpening competitions in Sligo?).
the rest of this masterpiece available in full here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/chris-de-burgh-sees-red-1.735963?via=mr
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:10 (six years ago) link
" I have sympathy for your position, as it must be so poisonous to have to lurk in the shadows, riffling through the garbage bins of despair and avoiding those who think that you are an irrelevance, an irritation to be ignored and laughed about."
This is very harsh, he could be talking about any of us here!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:16 (six years ago) link
yeah we can't all have Playboy model childrens
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
gotta vote Chris de Burgh as he's basically ground zero for all this vaporwave shit. I mean how do you not like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGc0JHSqvI
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
because he had not been given permission by the Iranian authorities to perform in the country.
Iranian authorities otm. Good chance he'd have been shah'd.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ofp0a-Qwk
O'Donell never got a V/Vm treatment, which is outrageous tbf
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
Admire de burghs spunk on that one instance tbh
But he is late seventies Ireland's fetish for mysterious luvvie Anglo creative types made flesh in all of its weirdness also a Hobbit and a terrible weak voice
His young one is awful so bonus deduction
Daniel is massive and awful and our Liberace and our Elvis although he only really sounds like a tired Ricky Nelson also rumours his ma was his granny I think lynch could do a lot with daniel
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
Admire de burghs spunk
just
i mean
just don't ffs
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
I think lynch could do a lot with daniel
this is otm tho
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
O it's done xp
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
from the lady in red thread, a humdinger of a link from ned
Having learned about this from 2012, I must share ithttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/chris-de-burgh-i-love-myself-im-not-saying-this-in-a-narcissistic-way-8207712.html― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:45 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/chris-de-burgh-i-love-myself-im-not-saying-this-in-a-narcissistic-way-8207712.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:45 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
that poor wee lamb in his castle with no money
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
You have a well reported dislike of ppl from castles tbf
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
I have a well-recorded distrust of the kind of cunt that tries to let on that they were poor despite having an ambassador for a dad, living in a castle and going to Marlborough school
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
And looks quite like a bat
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
he's no chris de bruyne, thats for sure.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
oh he's a kevin, never mind.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
"We are proud to announce that Chris will be collaborating with Spotlight Productions on a musical based on the story of Robin Hood, this will initially open in Fulda in 2020."
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
this is an awful slander on a blameless winged rodent imo
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
Subsequently people have told him his father had healing powers. “He was a seventh son and I met this woman in the Albert Hall who said, ‘your father healed me and he was only a wee boy’.”
Daniel also might have healing powers.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
He often ends each song with a little fist-punching dance. He takes to a stool for some slow numbers. He tells jokes (“Did you hear about the time Paddy and Mary went to the Holy Land?”) and whenever he does something energetic like a high-kicking jig or a broom dance, he pretends to be worn out. He’s only messing. He isn’t worn out at all.
...and he could have taught James Brown a thing or two about working an audience.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
His lotto ad and his gas ad are reasonably good
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
voted Chris O'Dowd, profoundly misunderstood poll.
if penalty is death I shall pay it
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
For years I was under the impression that Lady In Red was about Chris's wife who had died, so although I didn't like the song obviously, I thought it was mean to hate on him too much for it. Only now do I discover his wife is alive and well, so I have 32 years of concentrated Chris De Burgh hate to catch up on. Plus I have no idea who the other guy is.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 08:48 (six years ago) link
Daniel O'Donnell is the real deal, he will show Scott Walker who da real avant-garde crooning mofo is when his Merzbow collaboration comes out.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 10:10 (six years ago) link
Plus I have no idea who the other guy is.
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 10:59 (six years ago) link
:-o
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:02 (six years ago) link
that's no way to talk about a major Irish cultural icon, bejesus etc!
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
First the prospect of a hard border now this.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
a re-imagining of Mann's Heat, where tough border cop Daniel O'Donnell is doggedly pursing DeBurgh's total arsehole of a tobacco dealer, and set on thwarting his plan to flood the North with cheap and deadly EU halfzware shag.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:30 (six years ago) link
rumours his ma was his granny
and his sister MARGO was actually his mother.
Lot of Margo albums round the house before D O'D broke and transformed the scene.
Going down the Country and Irish rabbithole again. Me and Philomena have some catching up to do.
― woof, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:37 (six years ago) link
When I was 10 I found out my "auntie" was a half-sister. Yay! my family is just as fucked up as Daniel's!
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
a re-imagining of Mann's Heat, where tough border cop Daniel O'Donnell is doggedly pursing DeBurgh's total arsehole of a tobacco dealer, and set on thwarting his plan to flood the North with cheap and deadly EU halfzware shag
irl lols also a serious desire to see this
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
Fuck that is exactly where this thread had to go
Treatment I will be considering the rest of the day: midnight run but get this get this
daniel in the ~~~~~grodin~~~~~ role boom
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link
That can work.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
9 1/2 weeks remake, o’donnell as mickey rourke and de burgh as kim basinger
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Sleepless in Seattle Daniel as hanks de burgh as his kid
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
time for a chris de burgh / death rage in a cage match so we can settle this once and for all
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
Death thinks he has it won and starts celebrating but gene what's this deburghs healing hands have worked their mystic prod Norman magic on their augmented hobbit owner
anything can and will happen: elbraw is warble
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
BURGHAMANIA IS RUNNIN WILD BROTHER
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 08:01 (six years ago) link
Disgraceful.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
5 of youse are savages
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
if danny had a banger like 'don't pay the ferryman' then he might've got my vote, but alas here i am on team chris
― Maconie Youth (NickB), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
in my opinion you should pay the ferryman
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 11:17 (six years ago) link
Ferry payment avoidance is a scourge, about time the government cracked down on it.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
the lyrics to that song do actually reveal a miserliness of spirit. Daniel O'Donnell would be flashing out a 50 euro note and telling the ferryman to keep the change.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link
Ah he wood so he wood
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
daniel o’donnell can’t cross running water tho iirc
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
hobbits can't swim iirc which is why de Burrrgh resents ferry charges
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:16 (six years ago) link
but behold the dancing bones:
In the rolling mist, then he gets on boardNow there'll be no turning backBeware that hooded old man at the rudderAnd then the lightning flashed and the thunder roaredAnd people calling out his nameAnd dancing bones that jabbered-and-a-moaned on the waterAnd then the ferryman said There is trouble aheadSo you must pay me now
― Maconie Youth (NickB), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
ps this is the only daniel o'donnell i choose to acknowledge: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Daniel_O%27Connell2.jpg/414px-Daniel_O%27Connell2.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:19 (six years ago) link
An advance ticketing policy would have avoided these problems of course.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:21 (six years ago) link
The former Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader presented himself as the “Daniel O’Donnell” of Scottish politics while carrying on activities more akin to a Premiership footballer, a jury was told.
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
don't pay the sheridan / till he gets you to the other side
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link