Guth & Tuairim, Márta 1982

Harrogate in Yorkshire is cert~nly not the most exciting venue to stage the 27 Eurovision Contest, 11 and the Irish entry for 1 82 "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow", composed by Galway born Sally Keating and performed by the Duskey's is not our strongest or most original choice for this fading contest. The song is like numerous other past Euro songs, rather dated melody, and rather poor lyrics. This was the composer's first major competition and the Duskeys' second appearance in the National Song Contest. This year 19 countries will compete in the Eurovision and Ireland has been placed second from last in order of appearance. Let's hope that the song will not end up in the same position after the jury have voted. Uith so many super composers and groups around, I ask, can this song be classed as our best composition ? I feel that the time has come for Ireland to join both France and Italy and withdraw from the Eurovision. The Pltsent Euro format i s an insult to our performers, and our composers. · The International Hit For the past three or four years that folk ballad ~A Bunch of Thyme" featuring the duo Foster and Allen has been in out of the charts on an annual basjs . Now to the surprise of the international music s cene t he song has stormed into the British charts for the duo. The two - Mick and Tony have spent in excess of £10,000 re-recording and promoting this ballad and at last they are ~ 11 ·.rewarded . A good song 1 but I do wish the boys would change their stage appearance, they look like two leprechauns instead oe two good entertainers. Li fe on the Road 1 Li f e on the r oad i n s~biz has little or no glamour about it. Some weeks back Feardorcha 0 1 Colla, the Editor, and myself set out on a six date Irish and British tour with the Seamus Me Gee Sound. In a periOd of six days we covered in excess of 5,000 miles visiting Galway, Claremorris, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and back to base. We received a tremendous welcome at each venue ( more in the next s pecial issue of Guth 7 Tuairim ). We had late ni ghts after equipment, etc was packed, and very little sleep during the tour. Behind the bright lights there is certainly hard work, long hours and litt le gl amour behind the scene~ on the one-nights curcuit. I think I will stick to the typewriter myself. As for the editor, he found 'The Game ' as he called it very much in his favour. Pity he can't sing ~ PQ;pn l a rit;y Poll T o,ppers. Without doubt U 2 certainly emer ged as the poll toppers i n t he Hot Press Annual Foil . The group wer e voted number one act, Bono top vocalist, the Edge best instrument alist , while their al'l::lum 1 October' was rat ed as top LP by the readers. Their single 1 Gloria 1 was voted second pl ace. Good news indeed for this much travelled group of musi cians. An Early St art _In J anuary the BOO TV will introduce their 1 Breakfast TV Show' while two mont hs l ater ITV joi n in with t heir new TV AM station. Both stations hit the screens at 7 . 00 am and over the next two hours will present a new~ magazine, and film format. BBC TV state that t he new early morning service will add a further £5 million to their budget. With such competi tion, RTE will be f or ced to go if,to competition, and they f ee l that as t hey are over £4 million plus in the red t his is a venture they can ill afford at present. Unconfirmed r eports that Terr y Wogan could be dep&rti ng from BBC Radi o 2, to hos t the BBC TV show. GU t~SS WHO? 1. Giant Panda and his friends. 2 . Turn your head this way'till w e take your picture for "G 7T.". 3 . What are you thinking about Ann? 4 . Ahh.. . that 's good tea! 5. "Ta- muid sa Gut h agus Tuairim". 6 . Normally w e don't allow this kind of carry - on in''G&T"but the Editor is out so w e'll stick this one in. 7. One happy man. 8 . One happy Lady. 9 . Darts champions of the w orld. 10 . Slackness. 11 . What's John smiling at? 12. Models. 13. Thios cois na tr<i. 14. Friends. 15. One big happy family. 16. Is glas na cnoic i bhfad uainn. 17 . shh .....what 's that noise? 18. You're in Willie - are you happy now? 19. No 1 babysitter. 20. A special pose from Sarah. 2 1. Practising. 22. We're on the one road. 23. Rosie put in the curlers for Gut h & Tuairim. 2 4 . A wild lad. 25. Every picture tells a story. MELLY'S BAR Burto_np~rt MUSIC EVERY WEEKEND pub grub WEDDING 'BouQUETS BAsKETS SPRAYS buTTONHOLES - -8UBLONP_?.RT 47 l ----iiiiiiiiiilil... ~·~ Eurovis i on ho~efuls -The Duskeys Ljtjr o'n Athair Peadar O~Gallch01r as Cnoc a' Stolaire I atS: ag obair mar mhisin6'ir i Keyna. · · ~~-~. - · Ar na mallai bh thug an Canonach Mac Cnaimbs{ agus ( omrada{ cuairt orm amuigh ana r{igii!in anseo ann Kenya. Ba abhar luchair domhsa iad a fheiceail, nonf annamh a bhuaileann a' nduine as an bhaile thart a' ceantar seo. Ach an rud a chuir dha oiread luchair orm gur smaoitigh mo chairde uilig sa bhaile i dTrr Chonaill orm-sa amuigh anseo, nabhf ar iompar leo mala f iuntach airgid, rud nach r aibh mefei t heamh l eis. Ach i s e Di a a chuir chugam e na· bhf rr£ sna smeachanna deireynnacha ~~obhnil air gid ~e cuidiu l iom giota oibre a bhf eadar l n mhe a chri"oclmu. Chuir an ma'la a bhi leis an Chanonach crioch maith leis an obair sin ~ Mo fhfor bhufochas do na daoi ne seo uilig a t hug an tacafocht seo domh agus d6 na daoine a ghlac an triobl~id an t-air gead seo a chrui nniu, no nf gan triobloi d a chuir siad oiread airgid le cheile. Beidh me ag t abhairt cuairt ar an bhaile sa tSamhradh agus bei<:h me abclte. bufochas pear sant a a thabhairt dfbh as bhur gcuid fiuntai s. Beannacht De or abh uili g. An tAth. Peadar ciGa llch~ir, CSs P, Kenya. :Cather Feter l ends a hand .