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Wow.. As a pogues fan, of the countless times ive heard people try to cover this, this guy nails it! Glad to have found him today! Great voice, and so young!
I TRULY BELIEVE, THE BEST IS STILL TO COME, FROM PAOLO NUTINI, FOR MANY YEARS TO COME, NOT JUST, IN HIS GREAT MUSICAL OUTPUT, BUT ALSO WITH HIS, HUMANIST APPROACH TO LIFEKIND.
I had to login just to comment, just had to say this is one of the best live acoustic performances i've ever heard. I have never heard such a mood-full and thematic voice that can put you right into the song. Paolo is a legend
I came looking for New Shoes, the only Paolo Nutini song of which I was aware. I saw other songs and began to listen. I have spent the last half hour discovering Paolo Nutini's wonderful music. I recommend you to listen to I'd Rather Go Blind as well. Great voice. Enjoy.
This song was written about my home town of SALFORD in the UK were the ppl are hard as nailz but with hearts of gold, we are world famous and very proud of it :-) also home of the best football team in the world MANCHESTER UNITED. Salford born, Salford bred, one day ile be Salford dead...
"The song was written in reference to Salford, Greater Manchester, England, the place where MacColl was born and brought up" Really it can be about wherever you want, but this is what the song writer was singing about.
@@rm2124 Except it doesn't. MacColl specifically wrote it about the then industrial Salford. Which was adjacent to the largest industrial conplex in Europe at the time, which crossed from Salford over into Trafford.
When you're old enough to have heard others sing the song before Nutini sang it, you do compare and not always favorably. I heard Luke Kelly of the Dubliners sing it 'years ago' and it was an immensely powerful version of the song. Nutini, I think strives not to be too imitative of other versions and there's nothing wrong with that but sometimes it works for you/against you.. Such is life1
I like the tempo he's using. There's so many different versions of this, but PN manages to make it his own like he does with most of his covers. Cool upload, thanks! :))
think MacColl would be proud. yes The Pogues made it famous but he was reported to have said he didn't like their cover. Paolo really made it his own thanks for sharing
PAOLO ROCKS, I PLAY HIS SONGS, AS A DJ, AT MOST OF MY GIGS, SEIZING THE MOMENT, WHERE REQUIRED, TIMING IS EVERYTHING, AND UPLIFTS PEOPLE, FROM THE FULL ON, PENCIL FULL OF LEAD, THROUGH, NEW SHOES, TO THE REFLECTIVE, CANDY, THEN GETTING TO THE, GLEE MOMENT, WHEN PLAYING, TEN OUT OF TEN.
it was written and performed by Ewan McColl who was the father of Kirsty McColl. It was a scene filler in a play called Landscape and Chimneys in 1949.
I am Scottish. It is true that Kirsty MacColl was born in England as was her Dad Ewan MacColl. Her Dads parents were born in Scotland and left because of their political activism however. Thus you could argue that she was half Scottish. She certainly chose MacColl as a stage name as did her dad. He identified strongly with being Scottish. The song is about where he was brought up, Salford or Leigh I believe. First made famous long before the Pogues by 'The Spinners' from Liverpool.
Dirty Old Town is actually a British Folk Song about Salford in Manchester, England. It was written by Ewan MacColl in the 40s about his home town. The Pogues who popularised it are actually originally from London mostly. However the music is what is important, not the inherent nationalism one feels when they see something truly great come from their country.
Dirty Old Town was written in 1948 for an awkward scene change in one of Ewan MacColl's plays, "A landscape with Chimneys." The play was set in "a northern town", and Salford is not mentioned in either the play or song. MacColl was born and brought up in Broughton, Salford. So the attribution to Salford is a kind of "guilt by association." "Dirty Old Town" was very well known in the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, well before the Pogues.
Me and the Feegie young team have got paulo's back for life. Any cheek or comments about how this isn't the greatest dirty old town cover ever will result in a swift scheme doing by me and my compatriots. YUNG FEEGIE PANDAS ON TOP NON STOP ! ~:PAULO EM:~ NUMMER WAN
I just wanna say, this isn't a Pogues song originally - as he claims it is. It's a Ewan MacColl song. I'm not a masive fan of this version, but people need to know this as Ewan is possibly the greatest songwriter to come from England, certainly the best from the Midlands
THE GENERATION BEFORE PAOLO, IN SCOTLAND, I MUST SAY, WAS AN ARTIST CALLED, PETER NARDINNI, I HOPE I SPEALT IT CORRECT, I THINK HE WAS ON, THE SAME LEVEL AS PAOLO, HE HAD A GREAT SONG, CALLED, I THINK YOU' RE GREAT, DONE ON AN INDIE LABEL, WITH FUCKING LITTLE SUPPORT FROM THE OUTSIDE MEDIA, IT WAS SO GOOD, I TRANSFERRED IT FROM VINYL, THEN TO, MINIDISC, THEN TO CD RECORDER, THEN TO MP3 FROM CD, INTO MY MUSIC COLLECTION.
Aye - written by Ewan MacCol - it's all about Salford in the N.West of England where he was brought up- Ewan was the English son of Scottish parents - his real name was.James Henry Millar. His dfaughter Chirstie MacColl sang it sometimes with The Pogues.
I AM A MOBILE DJ, WITH A GOOD KNOWLEDGE, OF WHAT, HITS THE SPOT, WHEN REQUIRED, WHEN IT MEANS, GETTING AWAY FROM THE USUAL CHART AND CHEESY MUSIC TO PLAY, TO HIT THE SPOT, WITH A GREAT SONG LIKE THIS, WITH AN APPRECIATIVE CROWD. I GET THE, GOOSEBUMPS EFFECT ON MY ARMS, (WHERE MOST OF MY BODY HAIR THRIVES), EVERYTIME, I FIND THE MOMENT TO PLAY IT.
The songs about Salford,Greater Manchester,in the north west of England,the reason people think it's Irish is because The Dubliners made the song very popular back in the day,but sorry folks you can forget your luck of the Irish four leaf clover shizzle,this song belongs to the north west,and has more in common with the stone roses,the smiths,new order etc,than U2 or westlife, fact!
I quite like this. His voice is beautiful. I'm so used to the pace of The Dubliners version that this one sounds a bit too somber for me. I could be completely wrong but I always imagined the song to be about loving and hating somewhere at the same time - acknowledging that it's not a nice place whilst expressing sentimental attitudes towards it because of the memories that go with it. Sorry if that sounds corny or whatever, I'll shut up now.
Irish or English who cares its a great song sang well by both cultures who cares about the history or where it's about it's a great song and that's what matters friends
LISTEN TO JIMMY JINKY JOHNSON AULD CELTIC PLAYER SINGING THIS SONG IN BAIRDS PUB AT THE BARRA'S GLASGOW THATS THE BEST COVER . BUT PAOLO'S COVER NO BAD ANO.
Correct. The song has noting to do with Ireland. The original words were "I smelled the smoke from the Salford Wind". The Irish, because of the popularity of Irish pubs in many cities across the world, by default, have hijacked British folk music as their own. The song was already popular. It was near dead until Liverpool Folk group The Spinners in the 1960s saved it. However the first to record the song was an American followed by an Israeli, who did not popularize it.
The "I smelled the smoke from the Salford Wind" claim has no substance. If you think so, give us the evidence, but that would be difficult because there is none.
Interesting that Nutini cites the Ian Campbell Folk Group. I'm sure that they did it at some point (I'd have to have a dig through LPs to see whether i have a recording), but as others have said it did not originate with them or anyone other than the Salford born Ewan MacColl. Notwithstanding the mention of Ian Campbell, it's rather obvious that he learnt the song not from them or from the source, but most likely from the singing Shane MacGowan since he introduces exactly the same mistakes.
ALSO DONE, BY, THE, LATE, VERY GREAT, MOST RESPECTED, MAN, OF ALL TIME, WITH INTEGRITY, ON HIS SLEEVE, JIMMY (JINKY) JOHNSTONE, A CELTIC FC LEGEND, PERFORMED THIS, WITH, ASSISTANCE FROM, SIMPLE MINDS, THE ONE AND ONLY, TRUE, STADIUM ROCK, PERFORMERS, FROM THE CITY OF LIGHT, IN GLASGOW. A GREAT MOMENT, IN CREATIVE PERFORMANCES, UP THERE, WITH, HURT, BY, JOHNNY CASH.
this song was written by luke kell from the original dubliners band from ireland and is about a place in england called salford near manchester and when the dubliners went to do a recording of their music and play in england they stayed in salford and it was a dirty old town so they wrote and made the song while they were there and was in the 70`s and then in the 80`s the pogues made it more famous with their cover of it and the rest is history :)
just to let you know lads, im irish...and i can tell you this song is neither irish or scottish...its an english song, written by an english man about a place in england... he was actually kirsty mccalls(whos was also english by the way) aufella...still a great song tho....just sayin
I love Paulo's version of this - brings it right into 21st century - and comes much closer to the should of the original by Ewan McColl who wrote it in 1949 about Salford where he was born ! He recorded it and with Peggy Seegar in 1956, at the time of the folk revival ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4Wj7xZf8xm8.html
