The merging of two musical cultures producing a unique sound is fantastic. I will always remember the Lambeg drums in Portadown and now living in Australia this sound and Irish dance mix makes one appreciate our two cultures.
Rocking and Rolling and a Reeling, kicking up some dust with this dancing music with a lick of the great Rory Gallagher slide playing on the guitar, If I had the power I insist those 4 players become kings in each of their own towns and that dancing girl queen of all the land, with the only power to keep playing and dancing whenever they wanted, to bring joy and happiness to all the people. 2 cultures but just the same people, it is time for us to join hands and dance together, to heck with everything, so let's dance.
LOL! Thanks James - glad you liked, don't think we'll be Kings anytime soon! Yes we're all the same underneath and hopefully music can bring us closer together.
This is definitely feelgood, yippee music, After watching this video I took up Irish dancing, Some people in the know dancing say behind my back that I remind them of the great Rudolf Nureyev as I try to copy this very find lady stepping out and dancing her very best steps
Glad you’re still watching a year later James. I’m sure you’re much better than Rudolf Nureyev as I don’t think his Irish dancing was up to much at all. Keep up the good work and if you can ever dance as well as Larissa (our dancer) we’ll happily audition you for the band!
I will use the words Rory Gallagher would say to his audience at the end of his bristling gigs/ concerts. Thanks A million David for your reply and the invite to an audition as possible 2nd dancer for your band, I will have to greatly up my game and really learn more skills to be able to dance alongside the great Larissa, so no more wasting valuable time sitting at the bar drinking a cool beer of Guinness or going for gentle walks with Osine the wolfhound dog, This time will be spent improving my tap/step, hard rocking Lambeg Bogie dance
Phenomenal! Love and respect from an Anglo-Italian dual-national in Luxembourg, married to a Belgian. Came here from the Guardian article today, stayed for the music and the video, can you guys blast this out on both sides of the border now?
I'm from galway and play big willie drennan loud while driving with Windows down brillant music.saw willie at Portrush +at balleymena often up balleymena direction a lot friends thier in galgorm.
Thanks Eoin! Glad to know to know Lambeg Boogie is being heard in Galway! Introduce yourself next time we’re playing in Portrush/Portstewart. Glad you know Galgorm area too!
St Patrick has not stopped dancing since he first hear this song, some people who pass by are a little surprised and shocked to see St Patrick dancing, they never saw this happen before
Really excellent, sounds like a fusion of The Travelling Wilburys plus Lambeg drumming plus Tuareg band Tinariwen's guitar riffs (in their Sastanàqqàm number) plus traditional Irish dancing. A heady mixture.
Main difference is that The Travelling Wilburys featured some of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century. This sounds like it was written by a 9 year old.
The Lambeg drum is a symbol of the Ulster Scots people. In the United States these people would be known as Scots Irish. They are prominent in early American history, their arrival there having predated the better known Catholic Irish immigration by decades.
This is great. The clicks and the sticks. Maybe you can incorporate the Lambeg drum in to other genres of music now too. How about, lindy hop, swing, salsa, there's plenty of modern tango could take it too. A concept album? Food for thought. A big hello from Dublin!
Thanks M, glad you like the track! Combining with other genres is something we’ve thought of , maybe someday but blues will do for now. Greetings from Ballymena!
I have found the cure for sll of the world's ills, it is a very fine tune and dance called the Lambeg Boogie by that fine upstanding fellow called Willie Drennan and his band of excellent musicians with their dancing queen it will cost you nothing but we all should pay £1 or 10 euros or 5 dollars each time we play this tune, it is far cheaper than going to the doctor
Good song & the fusion with the tap-dancing works so well, but .. could the song benefit from a remix so as to make the tap dancing a bit louder ? Visually, the contrasting styles, activities sounds work very well. Work of art here .. please polish more !
Happy St Patricks day 2022 from Los Angeles, I hope all there can celebrate in this tormented world, say a prayer for the poor Ukranians, hopefully peace will come their way soon.
I don't understand this term 'Ulster Scots'. Yes it's a dialect of Scots, with Irish inflections, but not unique to one artificially divided 'religious/ethnic community' or the other. Its ties to Scotland are not exclusive to one or the other 'community' either, and if you look at names you'll see they're all mixed up too. Yet the implication is that an Ulster Scots identity is somehow exclusive and unique to one, identified as 'protestant'. I guess it's a perceived reaction to the supposed 'exclusivity' of an Irish identity, though this comparison doesn't quite tally, even in Irish culture's most sectarianised/exclusivised (and boring!) period of De Valera et al. So what is it that makes Ulster Scots? Surely it's a dialect and historical/personal name association with Scotland common to 'both communities', and one that's overwhelmingly focused on the counties of Antrim and Down. Another problem is that Ok Northern protestants of a Scots ancestry now have a separate identity (even if you negotiated the cultural/historical minefield outlined above) that's not exclusively tied to a rather weak and fragile concept of 'Britishness' - but what about those with an English or French Hugenot background? Or if you're a protestant with a Scots name but you're from say, Derry, Tyrone or Donegal, with a completely different local dialect/history/culture, what then? Or the ones with converted (before it became taboo) Irish ancestry? Yes it's great to see the Lambeg taken out of its 'traditional' sectarian context and placed in a different one that's open to cross-cultural fusion and new ideas, and I congratulate the musicians here on the skill and talent displayed, but in my opinion it needs to go much further. Something not 'apolitical', but rebellious and a big fuck you to the reactionary cultural oppressions from ALL origins that still hold Ireland back.
As a man who’s family has been involved in drumming from the days of the gun running I honestly have to say that this is absolute tripe. Seriously Willie needs to sort this out big time. A lamb egg does not belong in a rock band.
For goodness Plopperman TV lighten up, it's a great wee song and good craic. By the way if you and your family have been involved in drumming for so long, surely by now you should know the proper spelling of Lambeg!!!!
I like the concept and love the combination of the lambda drum and hard shoe Irish dance but the drum drowned out the tap of her shoes. Just my two cents.
