{"id":300,"date":"2008-03-10T01:15:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T01:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-03-10T01:15:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T01:15:44","slug":"worst-irish-song-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Worst Irish Song of 2008."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goes to <em>&#8220;The ballad of Ronnie Drew&#8221;<\/em>. I can&#8217;t quite believe this amusical dirge has been released. As I&#8217;m not from Dubin I don&#8217;t have to worship Ronnie Drew like he&#8217;s some kind of saint. It&#8217;s certainly sad that the man is unwell but I don&#8217;t understand how a collection of such allegedly talented artists managed to record such a dire song with its incoherent mutterings from Shane McGowan, more shouting from my namesake Damien Dempsey and Bono&#8217;s new orleans gospel chorus. Those whoops have never seemed so out of place.<br \/>\nAs for the Late Late Show performance. Pat the plank hosted a dub musical love-in without rhyme or reason. When I heard Bonio suggest that Ronnie was up there with Pavorotti in his singing ability I reached for the remote. He&#8217;s a very average singer with a distinctive voice. No Luke Kelly either.<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;ve somehow <em>&#8220;missed the point&#8221;<\/em> but if Daniel O&#8217; Donnel had put out this rubbish Bonio and chums (Sinead O&#8217; Connor for F&#038;(K&#8217;s SAKE!)  would be rightly slagging him but it seems the capital&#8217;s musical elite think they&#8217;re immune from criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goes to &#8220;The ballad of Ronnie Drew&#8221;. I can&#8217;t quite believe this amusical dirge has been released. As I&#8217;m not from Dubin I don&#8217;t have to worship Ronnie Drew like he&#8217;s some kind of saint. It&#8217;s certainly sad that the man is unwell but I don&#8217;t understand how a collection of such allegedly talented artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}