World Tour of Ireland June 2016
 

lisahannigan.ie/tour

full tour announced with many dates in many small places

so who's going??

Tix x the 2nd Kildare show already out, call the pub, capacity= 100 people!

This makes me feel Igloo famous. :smiley36: :hello:

I'm in for the first two in Kildare!
(Thanks to Marti :wave:)

Can't wait! :hello2:

:hello2: I'm definitely going to Galway and Dublin now. :smiley16:

The Kildare gigs look great: nice venues, and exciting to be at the first couple of gigs. Hope you have a great time! If I'd had a choice of any of the gigs I'd probably have chosen those ones, but I'll be away travelling at the start of June. (Can't complain!)

Well, in a way it's a good thing that we're going to different gigs, there'll be more reports in the igloo that way :)

I'm waiting for the videos. Please take nice videos and photos :)

looks like its selling out fast according to Lisa on Fb

Packing for a little 3-day trip to Ireland and...

Not enough room for spare clothing !!! :icon_scra :o :smiley5:

#ThingsNotGoingAsPlanned
(as usual... story of my life...)

:oops:

Ha! If you're going to any of the Kildare gigs, a couple of us are going as well. Come say hi!

Oh I thought you were going to Galway's one :smiley22: !

Eeeeeer Obviously I can't read :sign12: ! (just read the thread again...)

So hmmm I plan to be tomorrow hopefully around 1pm or so by train in Kildare to deposit my luggage at the hotel and then take the train back to Newbridge to reach Riverbanks in the middle of the afternoon or something like that.

So yeah let's meet :wave: !!!

Three of us are driving from dublin to Kildare tomorrow.
We'll be there in the afternoon.
A fourth eskimo will join us the day after at Cunninghams :)
I'll send you a PM tomorrow, when we arrive.

Just sent you one right now with a few deets (email, phone number).

Thanks. I got it.
I'm just arriving at the airport.
Have to do the whole check in and security checks right now. I'll answer when I'm relaxing at the gate ;)

Did Lisa get married?

yeah, it's leap year u know

She's just not married me http://i.imgur.com/EVPEity.png

i am fine
i'll be finehttp://i.imgur.com/eT7hjH1.gif

just keep me timehttp://i.imgur.com/XvabQLt.gif

We are all so happy for her, aren't we? :)
Well, I am :)

Here are some pics of Lisa performing in Kildare at the Riverbank Arts Centre:

http://thethinair.net/2016/06/lisa-h...entre-kildare/

I find this one really pretty:

https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7491...98504b15_z.jpg

Any reviews maybe? :D

On the road so cannot post much
But posted at the Eskimofriends FB page
Great 2 shows in Kildare
6 newies
We the drowned, Fall, Prayer for the dying
Snow, Lo and Ora

Ora prob my fav
you'll be the mountain, i'll be the sea
Come home with me

Sounds awesome! I wish I could have been there and can't wait for her dates in Europe! :love7:

no no Vere, they were not brilliant they were "lovely" :D

it's Lo, remember I got the set lists :) and talked with Lisa about it too. Lo it's a boy name in Danish
Lo and Ora were songs written together with the National guy, he wrote the music first and then passed the tracks to Lisa to do the lyrics. The song titles are the original names of the instrumentals. There are some more apparently :)

for whatI understood, there will be more strangely-titled songs in the albums, meaning songs that this Aaron did the music first and Lisa the lyrics afterwards, and she kept the original titles even if they're not mentioned in the lyrics (Lo, Ora)

Loved both gigs !

On one hand I'd love to say many many things about them, and then on another I'd feel like giving away spoilers for the eskimos that have yet to see one of the future gigs (Galway and Dublin festival if I recall correctly).

That said and while there sure were many highlights that I won't spoil, there still is one I want to talk about (spoilers ahead you've been warned !) :

See, during the first evening in Newbridge/Riverbanks the audience was quite shy and while you could feel the excitement we still were all very quiet during songs. Which of course is to be expected during songs like "Little Bird" or "We, The Drowned" for example, but not so much during songs like "Knots" or "Passenger". I certainly hope Lisa wasn't disapointed at the lack of hand-clapping to accompany some of her upbeat songs because in fact I'm sure everyone wanted to and instead didn't dare or was waiting for someone else to start. This was absolutely obvious during "Knots" : people were stomping their feet and the whole metallic structure that held the seats was vibrating : I felt it from left to right, from behind me a lot as well. People did want to start clapping their hands, but noone was the first to, thus noone did. Shyness...

Which brings us to the second evening, in Kildare, at Cunningham's.
I don't know if it's because it was smaller, or was it because half the crowd was not sitted, or most people had a drink in their hand, because the ambiance of a pub instead of a "traditional" venue, or because it wasn't the very first gig of the tour anymore ?
But then it did finally really start, and it was during "Passenger".
We were clapping our hands, we were singing the chorus : at last the "celebration" happened !
It was brilliant !
We were quite good for the "And I said BiiIIIiiiiIIIiIiIIrd" part of the chorus, but then for the "OoooOOoooh WhyyyYYYyyYyyYYY" part it was more like every (wo)man for (her)/himself and going in all directions and probably accross all known musical scales : which in fact made it even more glorious and unforgettable : Lisa was laughing as she was singing, and it probably made people clap harder, sing louder, and certainly "WhyyyYYYyyYyyYYY" even wilder !
What also made this version of "Passenger" very special is that it was only Lisa and the two guys from "Ye Vagabonds" on stage, one of them playing the violin (fiddle style it seemed to me) : it was absolutely unique. I looooooved it !

I soooooo hope a live version like this, both with "Ye Vagabonds" and the audience going bonkers, is recorded and released one day.

:smiley9:


Sadly I have little or no decent pictures of the actual gigs so instead, for the recap of my 3 day trip,
I posted it in the "everything else" section of the forum since most of the pictures are about the actual travel,
some doubts, some joys, some misfortunes, and some wonders that happened...

:o

http://i.imgur.com/TSjjIOX.jpg

:D