Fire Draw Near

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLI Jan 10, 2023

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Fire Draw Near Episode XLI features 4 tracks called Trip to Ireland, 3 tracks with piping, 2 tracks called Foggy Mountain Breakdown, 1 track with dirty bits and loads more - such as Earl Scruggs playing banjo alongside a moog, Paddy Glackin playing fiddle alongside a synth, some madser playing techno alongside a fiddle tune and a load of Scottish women singing along to the beating of cloth. Tracklist: Liam O’Flynn – The Piper of the Embers / The Sixpenny Money The Croppy Boy – Anne Byrne Pierre Bensusan – Le Voyage Pour l’Irlande John McSherry and Michael McGoldrick – The Trip to Ireland Pádraigín Ní Úallacháin and Garry Ó Briain – Suamhailcí Samhailcí / Trip to Ireland Fíona Ní Churraoin, Caitlín Ní Chualáin - Gugalaí Gug! Captain Peacock – Trip to Ireland Earl and Randy Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Breakdown Gil Trythall – Foggy Mountain Breakdown Jolyon Jackson and Paddy Glackin – The Japanese Hornpipe Kate Nicholson – Waulking Song Pierre Bensusan – Heman Dubh Beau James Wilding – Set Myself on Fire Sean McAloon, Packie Fox and Hugh McCormack – The Lark in the Morning / Saddle the Pony Harry Cox – She was a Rum One https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN Christmas Special - Episode XXVII Jan 10, 2023

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Featuring all of the usual plus even more of the unusual than usual! Joyce, NO PRISONS, songs that sound like other songs, English toffs doing Irish pleb cosplay, Irish ne’er do-wells doing English farmer cosplay, English farmers singing songs that are actually plots of 1970s pornos set in the 1700s, a dramatical audio tale, people playing the taps, everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Irish rebel ballads with @rebelmatters and that’s without even mentioning what you’ve been waiting for all week - the winners of the Fire Draw Near Raucous Rebel Christmas Cock Challenge 2021!!! Tracklist James Stephens – The Brown and the Yellow Ale Jim Eldon – I Wish There Was No Prisons Gan Ainm – Triple concerto for faucet, water pipes and fiddle Michael Lee Yonkers – Funboots The Pogues – Thousands are Sailing Tommy Reck – The Irish Washerwoman Tommy Reck – The Scholar / the Salamanca / Hand Me Down the Tackle Eimear Walshe – The Piper’s Grip Willie Clancy – The Gander Thomas Allen and Sheila Armstrong – Billy Boy Aberdeen Schoolchildren – My Mother and Your Mother The Copper Family – Dame Durden A Feckless Pack of Ne’er-Do-Wells – Ebeneezer Goode Rebel Matters Interview https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Fire Draw Near Episode XL Dec 13, 2022

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Episode XL is a big Christmas special full of dead heros, secret guests, strange dreams, folk weirdos, camp highwaymen, throat-singing cowboys, young girls drinking ale straight from the barrel, Finno-Hibernian cryptids, and people who spend Christmas in Jail. Dedicated to the memory of Angelo Badalamenti. Tracklist Osa Mosafinn – Brurermarsj (Bridal March) Micho Russell – Christmas Day in the Morning Kú Killian – Kú’s Khristmas Fiddlin’ John Carson – Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over Hack Poet’s Guild – Daring Highwayman Pato Banton – I Do not Sniff The Coke Niamh Parsons and Graham Dunne – Valentine O’Hara Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver The Watersons – Holly She Bears a Berry Elspeth Anne – When I Was a Young Girl Máire ní Ghráda – Queen of the Rushes Isa Gordon – When You Got it Done Richardin Korkkijalka - Kunniallinen Nainen Richardin Korkkijalka – Friar’s Britches Culainin Koirat - Helmi Pohjolan Duo Ruut – Nightingale Johnny Brennan – Early Morning Rakija Arthur Miles – Lonely Cowboy 1 & 2 Unnamed – The Yodelling Donkey Hatchet Field – Run On The Youngsters – Christmas in Jail https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

North Circular Dec 01, 2022

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This is a one-off bonus episode featuring a number of live performances from Luke McManus' new film North Circular. The film is a documentary musical journeying along the North Circular Road in Dublin's North Inner City. Written & directed by Luke McManus, edited by John Murphy, produced by Luke McManus & Elaine Gallagher. Score by Kevin Murphy and Seti The First. North Circular opens on December 2nd in Irish Film Institute, Dublin 2, Light House, Dublin 7, Savoy Cinema, Dublin 1, IMC Dun Laoghaire and Queens Film Theatre Belfast. It opens on Dec 4th at Bertha Dochouse in London, and on Dec 9th in the Gate Multiplex in Cork and Palás Cinema in Galway. Tickets and info from www.northcircular.ie Production and mixing on tracks by Hugh Fox. Boom operated by Dave Harris. NCR picture by Andrew Sheridan. Tracklist John Francis Flynn - Lag Song Annie Hughes - The Blackbird of Sweet Avondale Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin - Dark Horse on the Wind Jerry O'Reilly - Van Diemen's Land Julie Kavanagh - Siúil a Rún Ian Lynch - Banks of the Nile https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Barbara Allen II Nov 29, 2022

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This episode looks at English and Scottish versions of the ballad Bonny Barbara Allen aka The Ballet of Barbara Allen aka Barbara Allen's Cruelty aka Barbarous Ellen aka Edelin aka Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen aka Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green aka Sir John Graham aka Barbry Allen. Tracklist: Norman Candler – Barbara Allen Sam Larner – Barbara Allen Caroline Hughes – Barbary Allen Debbie and Pennie Davies – Barbara Allen Shirley Collins – Barbara Allen The Hare and the Moon – Barbara Allen Stick in the Wheel – Barbara Allen Norman Kennedy – Bonny Barbara Allen Jimmy Stewart – Barbara Allen Jessie Murphy – Barbara Allen Ethel Findlater – Barbara Allen Dan Gibson’s Solitudes – Barbara Allen Norman Candler – Barbara Allen https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Fire Draw Near Episode XXXIX Nov 14, 2022

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Episode XXXIX features lots and lots of really interesting new music as well as some forgotten gems of the past - from the far-flung hinterlands of folk, traditional and beyond! Tracklist: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin – The Deepest Breath Neil Ó Lochlainn & Cuar – Johnny Seoige Burd Ellen – The Chariot Paleface - Emme Suostu Pelkäämään De Gyldne Løver - Fru Jensens Dreng Branwen - Buried in Kilkenny Jasper Smith - Tiddleywink Old Man Do They Hang Too Low - Billy Bedamned on banjo Afroman – Dicc Hang Lo Roslyn Steer – Gamhna Sa Cheo Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin – The Monaghan Jig Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – The Long Note https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Barbara Allen Nov 01, 2022

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This episode looks at Irish versions of the ballad Bonny Barbara Allen aka The Ballet of Barbara Allen aka Barbara Allen's Cruelty aka Barbarous Ellen aka Edelin aka Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen aka Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green aka Sir John Graham aka Barbry Allen. Tracklist: Norman Candler – Barbara Allen Tom Lenihan – Barbry Allen Elizabeth Cronin – Barbara Allen Sarah Makem – Barbara Allen John Byrne – Barbara Alen Joe Heaney – Barbary Allen De Danann – Barbara Allen Andy Cash – Barbary Allen Dolly Parton and Altan – Barbara Allen Ye Vagabonds – Barbara Allen Paddy Keenan – Barbara Allen Norman Candler – Barbara Allen https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Fire Draw Near Episode XXXVIII Oct 19, 2022

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Fire Draw Near Episode XXXVIII is a recording of the interview I did with Jack Dempsey McMahon aka DJackulate at the Dun Laoghaire Folk Festival in September 2022. We talked about many things including his musical techniques, uilleann piping, trends in traditional music, the North Strand Kontra Band, Klezmer music, trawling vinyl for samples, the Trad Rave, tradition vs innovation and lot's more. Jack performed a number of his own pieces and also brought along a few recordings to listen to and discuss. Tracklist: DJackulate – Rocky’s Couch Leo Rowsome – The Kerry Jig / The Ballintore Fancy Packie Dolan and his Melody Boys – Lasses of Donnibrook Naftule Brandwein – Nifty’s Freilach DJackulate – One Year Sober Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love Willie Brady – Little Brigid Flynn Agi Pettik and Gergely Barcza – Gan Ainm Frank Ifield – The Wild Rover DJackulate – An Eldritch Communion https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

The Unquiet Grave Oct 03, 2022

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This episode looks at the Unquiet Grave aka Cold Blows the Wind. Tracklist: The Dubliners – The Unquiet Grave George Dunne – The Unquiet Grave May Bradley – The Unquiet Grave Stanley Robertson – The Unquiet Grave Jim Keeping – The Unquiet Grave Hedy West – The Unquiet Grave Gryphon – The Unquiet Grave Steven Wilson – The Unquiet Grave Ween – Cold Blows the Wind https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

Fire Draw Near Episode XXXVII Sep 19, 2022

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Episode XXXVII features over one hour of audio hallucinatory magick stemming from the world of traditional folk and slowly creeping into other spheres, eldritch tendrils maintaining their core DNA even as they mutate and transform. Old tunes, comedic verses, devilish songs and poppy bleeps, from the wonky to the whimsical, the woeful to the wacky, the wondrous to the wocious. Let it ooze into your eager earholes like a gallon of molten Kerrygold. Tracklist: Buntús Rinnce – The King of the Fairies Tom Morrison and John Reynolds – Kregg's Pipes / The Boys From Mayo Barney Flynn – There’ll Be Murder There Tonight Brighde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes – Irish Sweet Willliam – Devil’s Nine Jim Ghedi – What Will Become of England? Peter Sellers – Suddenly It’s Folk Song Enza Pagliara & Dario Muci – Canto Alla Spiga Daniele Sepe – Tarantella del Gargano Betsy Whyte – Yellow on the Broom Benjamin Britten (arr.) – Newcastle The Broadside Band - Newcastle Bob Dylan – Easy and Slow The Seedy Seeds – Grace Century Steel Band – Fields of Athenry https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

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