We are looking for people to report on their local trad scene around the world on the Diddlyi Magazine (mag.diddlyi.com). It would be up to you how much you want to do, but could include session reviews/previews, news, profiles etc.
If you are interested please do get in touch. Probably the best way is using our contact form on the site: http://mag.diddlyi.com/contact-us/
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
Ummm....and there was me thinking that that was what this website, particularly the sessions section, was all about. Silly me. Read the "log" for the famous Blythe Hill Tavern session in South London on this website. I'm lost as to how you might want to improve on that - pray tell?
Thanks Lisaniska and Claire. I agree, session.org is probably the best place to get your trad fix online. What we want to do is jump a bit further into the communities around the world who are into Irish music. Illustrate what goes on and who's involved. Tell the story really to those involved and to a wider audience.
We love to tell the stories behind the music, dance and culture we are so wrapped up in.
While any new site is welcome, thesession.org is still the best.
I keep telling people that referring to Irish music as 'diddly' is not exactly complimentary (usually used by Irish people who despise the music) and then sites like this come along. Sorry, but I can't take it seriously with a name like that.
I recognise some of the faces in that pic: Barry Mullan on guitar, Paul Flynn on fiddle and Gary Duffy on flute. Is the editor of Diddly-i a patron of the Farmer's Inn perchance?
Don't leave out the chocolate! Yep, roast red chiles and add them to melted, unsweetened chocolate; makes the best poblano. Pour it over roasted chicken.
Now, would this new, rival session website indulge such digressions into cuisine...... or, for that matter, any of the other delightful tangents or excentricities indulged on this website? Anyway, I'd never inform on the doings at my local session. Never.
I have an inkling of how hectic your workload is. I happened across your "Misunderstanding Markup" cartoon when it hit the front page of reddit earlier this year, and only dawned on me as I was looking at the credits "Where have I heard the name Jeremy Keith from?"
Perhaps with the size of the membership group, would it be worth finding out if there's a couple of php/mysql coders on here who would be willing to chip in with an update project or even just general bug hunts? You could set up a repo somewhere (invite only) and a todo list. Then if anyone makes a change to the code you can check it over and accept/reject it, and ultimately deploy it to the live site if you so wish.
It might not constitute a wave of the magic wand that some are alluding to, though it may take some pressure off of you, and provides some facility for updates on here to be more frequent.
When I was a kid, "to pob" meant for someone to pre-masticate food in order for it to be more easily edible for very small children. As in, "Does tha want it pobbed?"
And while we're on about semantics:
diddly = scottsh music (as in whisky)
diddley = Irish music (as in whiskey
So unfortunately, Pob, you've masticated the wrong URL there mate.
Jeez, Jeremy if you spent more time joining in our discussions you might recognize the joke was directed at other sites, not ours.
Thesession is grand. I don't have to tell you.
Thanks! ;)
In Dublin there used to be many, many great bars that did their job just fine, even if they were 'ould'. Then that Celtic Tiger came along and ransacked the place. Many of the ould bars disappeared to be replaced with giant, stylish drinking gymnasiums.
Thesession.org works just fine as it is. I visit it daily and it is an endless source of inspiration to keep on playing. I like the simplicity yet the depth of information.
It does not need to be a cumbersome site like those above!
Nicholas, if you spend your free time with people who are "into" Klingon Dictionaries, I think we need to pray for you. Are you a closet Trekkie? Do you need massive doses of Irish and Scottish music to cure you of this affliction?
Jeremy, I can understand having to tolerate fools who think they know my motivations better than I do myself because I have had to deal with that nonsense too many times.
Oh Lord, now they will be getting on about which episodes featured The Music or dance tunes, or some such trivia. Mentioning Star Trek on the internet is like feeding a sea gull--all their friends show up and muck the place up!!!!
Speaking of misunderstood motivations, Nicholas, I was only trying to tease you when you mentioned a Klingon dictionary because the only people whom I have met who are interested in Klingon dictionaries are hard core Trekkies whose connection to reality is weak because they are too obsessed with a certain television program.
If there actually was an alien race called Klingons, I think Klingon-English dictionaries would be very useful and in demand books. However, as long as Klingons are just an imaginary alien race on a science fiction television program, I see no use for a Klingon-English dictionary.
To me, Trekkers are people who like to watch Star Trek but their whole life doesn't revolve around Star Trek--unlike your stereotypical Trekkie. In an episode of Saturday Night Live on NBC many years which was hosted by William Shatner, Trekkies were portrayed very unsympathetically as pathetic and pitiful creatures. Yes, this portrayal was true to life said the man who has met a few Trekkies.
I do like to watch Star Trek and other science fiction programs such as Babylon Five when I am not playing music but my music is more important to me than any television program.
I have even attended a few Star Trek conventions and science fiction conventions. It was enjoyable but I decided that it wasn't how I wanted to spend my free time. I prefer to spend my free time playing music when I am not working at my day job at a local hospital.
One of the best and most accurate literary portrayals of a science fiction convention which I have read is "Bimbos Of The Death Sun" by Sharyn McCrumb. It is a murder mystery which is set at a science fiction convention.
When I am not pretending to be a musician, I usually like to read science fiction. I have even read a few of the books based on Star Trek and Babylon Five. I enjoyed the Babylon Five books more than the Star Trek books.
Captain Kirk always gets the credit. But without the full crew (Uhura, Scotty, Nurse Chapel, et. al.) all you have is 1 horny commander who sweats, alot.
Jack O'Neill, is much more cool, & aloof ~ always aloof.
Many pardons but . . . I have to go to session in the next few minutes, so I don't have time to pull up the exact quote. In a nutshell, O'Neill explains,"With all the jumps I have done through the Stargates, the one thing I know is that no one is *experienced* in this sort of thing."
Trekkie is usually a derogatory term which is used to refer to people who have no life and no outside interests besides Star Trek. ("Get a life!" to quote William Shatner) I have been unfortunate enough to meet a few people who fit this description.
Trekkers are usually considered to be people who like to watch Star Trek but they do at least try to maintain a semblance of a normal life outside of Star Trek. They spend their free time doing something besides watching Star Trek as well as eating, breathing, and sleeping Star Trek all of the time.
What can I say? That I was young and foolish, and didn't know any better?
Then I compounded my mistake by actually volunteering to help run the convention. The two women who were in charge of this Star Trek convention and doing most of the work gratefully accepted my offer to help. So I spent most of the convention trying to make myself useful helping out behind the scenes. I did get to attend most of the convention but my view of it was different from most of the attendees. Also, I noticed that most of the people who were there didn't seem to be interested in offering to help run the convention.
Since I enjoyed helping to run the convention, I volunteered to help run the local Star Trek convention the next year and the year after that also. Then the two women who were in charge of planning and running these annual Star Trek conventions had to stop doing this because they had lost too much money the third year they did this. They couldn't afford to put on any more conventions.
In the meantime, I was finding more and more opportunities to play music and spending more of my free time actually playing music which meant that I had less time to waste on foolishness such as Star Trek and science fiction conventions. Besides, most of the people who go to these conventions didn't seem to have the good taste in music to be interested in either listening to or playing live music at an Irish Session so I gave up on this conventional foolishness and concentrated on my music.
Yes, Forrest, I have heard the term "speculative fiction" as well as SF (pronounced ess eff) and Sci-Fi which is usually pronounced sigh-fi. Most of the time, I try to ignore all of these names for my favorite reading material and just enjoy reading it because I know what I like to read and what I don't like to read.
Also, I have heard about "Galaxy Quest" and I intend to watch it Real Soon Now.
Want to report on your local trad scene?
Want to report on your local trad scene?
We are looking for people to report on their local trad scene around the world on the Diddlyi Magazine (mag.diddlyi.com). It would be up to you how much you want to do, but could include session reviews/previews, news, profiles etc.
If you are interested please do get in touch. Probably the best way is using our contact form on the site: http://mag.diddlyi.com/contact-us/
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
All the best,
Paul McAvinchey
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Planetpob
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
thanks Paul, bizarre name but brilliant idea, won't stop me inputting . . .
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by lisaniska
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Ummm....and there was me thinking that that was what this website, particularly the sessions section, was all about. Silly me. Read the "log" for the famous Blythe Hill Tavern session in South London on this website. I'm lost as to how you might want to improve on that - pray tell?
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Claire Sweeney
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Thanks Lisaniska and Claire. I agree, session.org is probably the best place to get your trad fix online. What we want to do is jump a bit further into the communities around the world who are into Irish music. Illustrate what goes on and who's involved. Tell the story really to those involved and to a wider audience.
We love to tell the stories behind the music, dance and culture we are so wrapped up in.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Planetpob
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
I see it's for "young and old Irish people from across the world". That cuts me out then.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by ethical blend
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
While any new site is welcome, thesession.org is still the best.
I keep telling people that referring to Irish music as 'diddly' is not exactly complimentary (usually used by Irish people who despise the music) and then sites like this come along. Sorry, but I can't take it seriously with a name like that.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by amhrán
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Just to jump back on topic
We have had some interest already - anyone else want to highlight the trad (or Irish dancing) stories happening in their community?
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Planetpob
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
I've just looked at the site - the words 'bollix', 'bilge' and 'balderdash' spring immediately to mind. My bargepole is fully extended.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Floss the Tethers
a cold shower might help that condition. ;)
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
I find this site good for the discussions, but lacks what this guy is offering, a feature section about session scenes and musicians.
Here hasn't changed/updated/improved in 10 years and seems unwilling to do so.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Frulator
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
It's just a matter of time until Jeremy puts in a few ads.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
I`m not Irish though, so does that mean y i cannot join..?
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Dave_
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
http://mag.diddlyi.com/2009/10/enjoy-an-irish-trad-session-at-home/
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
PlanetPOB??
"Pob" is Klingon for "body hair".
Look it up, anyone who doubts me.
I always wondered when this scrap of knowledge would come in useful!
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Erm ... I was under the impression that "pob" is Welsh for "all" or "everyone"
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by lazyhound
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
I saw it in a dictionary of Klingon.
I rub shoulders with people who are into things like that.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Definitely not just a place for Irish people! Anyone who is into Irish music, dancing, culture, arts. Open to anyone at all.
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Planetpob
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Frulator says I am "unwilling to update the site" and Random_notes says it's "just a matter of time" until I put in a few ads.
Really?
I'd love to know the source for both statements, stated with such certainty.
For the record, I would like to state:
1. I very much want to update this site. I have to find the time to do that (I have a day job, you know).
2. There will never be ads on The Session.
But hey, that's just me. What do I know about my own motivations?
# Posted on October 18th 2009 by Jeremy
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# Posted on October 19th 2009 by bc_box_player
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
No
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by flossie
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
I recognise some of the faces in that pic: Barry Mullan on guitar, Paul Flynn on fiddle and Gary Duffy on flute. Is the editor of Diddly-i a patron of the Farmer's Inn perchance?
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Conán McDonnell
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
This is the only Pob I've heard of...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pob%27s_Programme
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by bc_box_player
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
I'd just like to state, for the record, that Jeremy rocks.
[insert devil-salute smiley here]
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by tuckered out
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
(you know, that pinky-plus-index-finger gesture that headbangers use to denote enthusiastic approval--no religious connotation intended)
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by tuckered out
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
the only 'pobby' thing i could find was in the Concise O E D namely :
*poblano (from the spanish) meaning a large dark green chilli pepper of a mild-flavoured variety
and i'm really looking forward to trying one
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by lisaniska
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Don't leave out the chocolate! Yep, roast red chiles and add them to melted, unsweetened chocolate; makes the best poblano. Pour it over roasted chicken.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Now, would this new, rival session website indulge such digressions into cuisine...... or, for that matter, any of the other delightful tangents or excentricities indulged on this website? Anyway, I'd never inform on the doings at my local session. Never.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
PS: A Poblano is a man from Puebla, Mexico. Mole Poblano is the sauce made of chocolate, peppers, peanuts, and a few other goodies.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Atahualpa Quigley
Suggestion for Jeremy
Jeremy,
I have an inkling of how hectic your workload is. I happened across your "Misunderstanding Markup" cartoon when it hit the front page of reddit earlier this year, and only dawned on me as I was looking at the credits "Where have I heard the name Jeremy Keith from?"
Perhaps with the size of the membership group, would it be worth finding out if there's a couple of php/mysql coders on here who would be willing to chip in with an update project or even just general bug hunts? You could set up a repo somewhere (invite only) and a todo list. Then if anyone makes a change to the code you can check it over and accept/reject it, and ultimately deploy it to the live site if you so wish.
It might not constitute a wave of the magic wand that some are alluding to, though it may take some pressure off of you, and provides some facility for updates on here to be more frequent.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by ciaranbradley
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
When I was a kid, "to pob" meant for someone to pre-masticate food in order for it to be more easily edible for very small children. As in, "Does tha want it pobbed?"
And while we're on about semantics:
diddly = scottsh music (as in whisky)
diddley = Irish music (as in whiskey
So unfortunately, Pob, you've masticated the wrong URL there mate.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Jeez, Jeremy if you spent more time joining in our discussions you might recognize the joke was directed at other sites, not ours.
Thesession is grand. I don't have to tell you.
Thanks! ;)
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
In Dublin there used to be many, many great bars that did their job just fine, even if they were 'ould'. Then that Celtic Tiger came along and ransacked the place. Many of the ould bars disappeared to be replaced with giant, stylish drinking gymnasiums.
Thesession.org works just fine as it is. I visit it daily and it is an endless source of inspiration to keep on playing. I like the simplicity yet the depth of information.
It does not need to be a cumbersome site like those above!
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by richrua
Simple vs complex websites
Some of the *Recordings* (thesession.org) links are cumbersome.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Random_notes
this is just an example so nobody get your panties in a bunch;
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/901
a few of the links lead to jigs instead of the reel.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Nicholas, if you spend your free time with people who are "into" Klingon Dictionaries, I think we need to pray for you. Are you a closet Trekkie? Do you need massive doses of Irish and Scottish music to cure you of this affliction?
Jeremy, I can understand having to tolerate fools who think they know my motivations better than I do myself because I have had to deal with that nonsense too many times.
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
No, I've never watched a single episode through in my life!
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
It is Trekker! Don't you know anything fauxcelt?
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by No Cause For Alarm
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The Session or a 'session' - 'It's life Jim but not as we know it.'
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by john knoss
Star Trekkin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTMXiqbDZU
# Posted on October 19th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Oh Lord, now they will be getting on about which episodes featured The Music or dance tunes, or some such trivia. Mentioning Star Trek on the internet is like feeding a sea gull--all their friends show up and muck the place up!!!!
# Posted on October 20th 2009 by AlBrown
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
(I've always heard them called Trekkies, for what it's worth...)
# Posted on October 20th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Maybe we call them trekkies ... and they call them selvs trekkers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zQHNmz0gU
# Posted on October 20th 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Speaking of misunderstood motivations, Nicholas, I was only trying to tease you when you mentioned a Klingon dictionary because the only people whom I have met who are interested in Klingon dictionaries are hard core Trekkies whose connection to reality is weak because they are too obsessed with a certain television program.
If there actually was an alien race called Klingons, I think Klingon-English dictionaries would be very useful and in demand books. However, as long as Klingons are just an imaginary alien race on a science fiction television program, I see no use for a Klingon-English dictionary.
To me, Trekkers are people who like to watch Star Trek but their whole life doesn't revolve around Star Trek--unlike your stereotypical Trekkie. In an episode of Saturday Night Live on NBC many years which was hosted by William Shatner, Trekkies were portrayed very unsympathetically as pathetic and pitiful creatures. Yes, this portrayal was true to life said the man who has met a few Trekkies.
I do like to watch Star Trek and other science fiction programs such as Babylon Five when I am not playing music but my music is more important to me than any television program.
I have even attended a few Star Trek conventions and science fiction conventions. It was enjoyable but I decided that it wasn't how I wanted to spend my free time. I prefer to spend my free time playing music when I am not working at my day job at a local hospital.
One of the best and most accurate literary portrayals of a science fiction convention which I have read is "Bimbos Of The Death Sun" by Sharyn McCrumb. It is a murder mystery which is set at a science fiction convention.
When I am not pretending to be a musician, I usually like to read science fiction. I have even read a few of the books based on Star Trek and Babylon Five. I enjoyed the Babylon Five books more than the Star Trek books.
# Posted on October 21st 2009 by fauxcelt
Trekkin Trekkers ~ I don't think so. Try dialing
Captain Kirk always gets the credit. But without the full crew (Uhura, Scotty, Nurse Chapel, et. al.) all you have is 1 horny commander who sweats, alot.
Jack O'Neill, is much more cool, & aloof ~ always aloof.
Many pardons but . . . I have to go to session in the next few minutes, so I don't have time to pull up the exact quote. In a nutshell, O'Neill explains,"With all the jumps I have done through the Stargates, the one thing I know is that no one is *experienced* in this sort of thing."
# Posted on October 21st 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Trekkie is usually a derogatory term which is used to refer to people who have no life and no outside interests besides Star Trek. ("Get a life!" to quote William Shatner) I have been unfortunate enough to meet a few people who fit this description.
Trekkers are usually considered to be people who like to watch Star Trek but they do at least try to maintain a semblance of a normal life outside of Star Trek. They spend their free time doing something besides watching Star Trek as well as eating, breathing, and sleeping Star Trek all of the time.
# Posted on October 21st 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Ha ha ha fauxcelt. You have confirmed my suspicion. You are a trekkie and there's no mistake. You went to a bleedin' convention for christ' sake.
I'll reiterate: We call them trekkies ... and they call them selves trekkers.
tee he
# Posted on October 21st 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Dude, fauxcelt, there are some things you just shouldn't broadcast on the internet and attendance at a Star Trek convention is one of them. ;)
# Posted on October 21st 2009 by TheSilverSpear
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Snap. Cross post with Michael.
# Posted on October 21st 2009 by TheSilverSpear
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
What can I say? That I was young and foolish, and didn't know any better?
Then I compounded my mistake by actually volunteering to help run the convention. The two women who were in charge of this Star Trek convention and doing most of the work gratefully accepted my offer to help. So I spent most of the convention trying to make myself useful helping out behind the scenes. I did get to attend most of the convention but my view of it was different from most of the attendees. Also, I noticed that most of the people who were there didn't seem to be interested in offering to help run the convention.
Since I enjoyed helping to run the convention, I volunteered to help run the local Star Trek convention the next year and the year after that also. Then the two women who were in charge of planning and running these annual Star Trek conventions had to stop doing this because they had lost too much money the third year they did this. They couldn't afford to put on any more conventions.
In the meantime, I was finding more and more opportunities to play music and spending more of my free time actually playing music which meant that I had less time to waste on foolishness such as Star Trek and science fiction conventions. Besides, most of the people who go to these conventions didn't seem to have the good taste in music to be interested in either listening to or playing live music at an Irish Session so I gave up on this conventional foolishness and concentrated on my music.
# Posted on October 22nd 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: Want to report on your local trad scene?
Isn't "speculative fiction" the preferred term, these days?
For my part, I prefer the movie "Galaxy Quest." Alan Rickman is a hoot.
# Posted on October 22nd 2009 by tuckered out
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Yes, Forrest, I have heard the term "speculative fiction" as well as SF (pronounced ess eff) and Sci-Fi which is usually pronounced sigh-fi. Most of the time, I try to ignore all of these names for my favorite reading material and just enjoy reading it because I know what I like to read and what I don't like to read.
Also, I have heard about "Galaxy Quest" and I intend to watch it Real Soon Now.
# Posted on October 23rd 2009 by fauxcelt