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One of the things I really like about The Weakerthans is that their music sort of sounds like the kind of poetry we all had to read in high school literature classes. I know, you think it sucked. But I loved it. There’s something powerful about a terse arrangement of words that you have to [...]

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I’ve been meaning to get back to posting videos from Ships and Dip V since something like…ahhh…FOREVER. And now I’m finally jumping back in with videos of my favorite new band, The Weakerthans. They totally, friggin’ rawk. And not only because they’ve written some rocking songs about cats! So here’s the first of several videos [...]

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No one knows how to end a show like Gaelic Storm. First show, on the pool deck, and how do they top their crowd surfing from last year? They crowd surf INTO the pool. Awesome! We actually saw Gaelic Storm the week before the cruise and asked Jessie Burns, the fiddler, if she was going [...]

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More Gaelic Storm from Ships and Dip V for your St. Patrick’s Day listening pleasure. A tale of a guy, a girl, and the 7/11 they meet at. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD97GeqIyGk

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Well, as St. Patrick’s Day approaches, it seems only fitting to post some Ships and Dip V videos from a band that is led by someone who will someday be the Patron Saint of Liver Disease, Patrick Murphy. By the end of the cruise, Patrick complained he had “broken his liver”, but I like to [...]

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Here’s a video of the start of the sail away concert from Ships and Dip V — BnL doing Some Fantastic. This is the only video I’ve got from the concert because I swore to myself I wasn’t going to watch the cruise through a viewfinder this time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__NJp-6XmdA

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I know, you’re saying to yourself, “How could you improve on something called “Bar City”? Especially when you’re on a cruise and you don’t have to drive home? Why mix in Gaelic Storm, a bit of Great Big Sea, and a ton of folks having a good time! This isn’ t the best video quality, [...]

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I don’t have a lot of video of Mike Evin, but it’s not because I didn’t enjoy his performances. Nay, to the contrary. It is exactly because I enjoyed his performances that I don’t have a lot of video. You see, Mike is kind of like…well…the Bill Nye the Science Guy of music. Or something. [...]

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Back to the music from Ships and Dip V — lest you think it was all distorted electic guitar-based rock, here’s some quirky music from Christine Fellows. I found I really liked her music because, in an odd fit of synaesthesia, I find it very visual. Like listening to it makes me see a movie [...]

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Here’s another video from the Pool Deck show Butterfly Boucher did on Ships and Dip V. Totally rocking song called “Gun For A Tongue” from her new album scaryfragile. (At least I think the title is all run together like that. It kind of looks that way on the album cover.) Right at the end [...]

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