So I got us tickets to see Celtic Thunder in Charleston last night. Lady Chance comes by her love of irish music honestly as her father was from a tiny little farm town outside of Belfast and ended up in the states by joining the army in the late 1940s. He kept his cultural identity to a point and passed that one to she and her brother. Well and good.
We had seen a band called Celtic Thunder in the early 1990s or so I think. Picked up the record The Light of Other Days and have had it for ages. Good stuff. Not quite traditional but very good work.
I picked up the tickets on a whim, really, figuring it would be fun to see it.
Imagine my surprise when we got what was, in essence, an Irish boy band performance! Certainly not the night anticipated, though so over the top it was still entertaining. Sort of like expecting whisky and getting fruit punch, if that’s evocative enough for you.
Go ahead and laugh. I’ve certainly earned it. But, my, what a shock. And now, checking the web, it’s like the first Celtic Thunder has been erased or something. Finding info about them is a tricky matter.
Hehe, that’s pretty great. The Celtic Thunder you saw is on tour right now. (I saw them on tour last year; I think they got together in 2007, so very recently.) I think they are actually a lot of fun! But when I first heard them, I looked on Amazon and found the album you referenced. They certainly seem to be very different groups.
Very odd. RateYourMusic only has an entry on the one you just saw; an attempt to search for the album title brought up an album of the same name by a band called Neurotron. Going to Wikipedia, they also don’t seem to have an entry on the older band, nor a disambiguation page. AllMusic has them tho. IIRC this particular album is buried in my collection somewhere (or a friend who was very heavily into “light” Celtic stuff gave me a copy at some point).