I have had the Sé Mo Laoch crew filming in the house and elsewhere, at the time we had to play each set of tunes three or four times so they could get different angles. Hard to look spontaneous after the first go. But they do a good job at representing what their subject is about. It was perhaps one of my objections against some previous runs where they did bring some 'celebrity' names I wouldn't necessarily have immediately associated with the subject, it seemed they were pooling people across the series so they could film comments and friendly words on several subjects in one go. The present series pools participants a bit but seems to be closer to each subject, both the Steve Cooney and Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin editions were (also) outstanding.
Irish music and concerts are to an extend strange bedfellows, especially the tendency of wanting to put on everybody who turns up. A concert with thirty people who each play one or two sets of tunes and get turfed off the stage before they have warmed up is not necessarily the best thing to do, I often think so anyway. But there are small setting formats that work well enough.
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I just watched the Frankie Gavin one and enjoyed it partly because I'm not that fond of his music
I liked when Patsy Hanly was talking about Coleman and what he took away from his music and Morrison and then threw in the little 'but he was trying to sound like Frankie Gavin all the time'. Which I took as a little play on the old joke where some musician dies, goes to heaven where he meets Peter at the gate only to hear fiddle playing from inside that is unmistakably sounding like Gavin's. When he asks after it ('I didn't know Frankie was dead') Peter says' ah no, that God, he thinks he's Frankie Gavin'.
