Saturday
Nov292008
The Irish Barack Obama: Amazing Follow-Up
Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 21:34
Astonishing news: The Corrigan Brothers will soon be spreading their single "There’s No One As Irish as Barack Obama” throughout the world, formally releasing it on 12 December.
We'd like to think that this dramatic development is due to Enduring America, which featured the single a few weeks ago, but apparently we have to share the credit with MSNBC's ‘Hardball’, Newsweek, the Late Late Show, Pat Kenny, and Ryan Tubridy and The Afternoon Show. The BBC's Andrew Marr, who of course is Britain's premiere music critic (having predicted the rise of Oasis in the 1990s*), anointed the band's inaugural performance as ‘the only YouTube video you have got to see’.
*OK, he didn't. But it makes for a far better story.
Actually, we understand that the breakthrough came on Election Night, when The Corrigan Brothers performed the track at a party in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral home of President-elect Obama. Impressing a crowd that no doubt far outnumbered the main victory rally in Chicago, TCB got themselves an invite to play an Obama Inaugural Party the day before the Great Irishman becomes the 44th President of the USA.
Only one downer to this Irish-American tale. We regret that TCB dropped the name under which they originally performed the song, Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys. Copyright be damned, surely this is a pop-culture reference to appeal to all audiences....
We'd like to think that this dramatic development is due to Enduring America, which featured the single a few weeks ago, but apparently we have to share the credit with MSNBC's ‘Hardball’, Newsweek, the Late Late Show, Pat Kenny, and Ryan Tubridy and The Afternoon Show. The BBC's Andrew Marr, who of course is Britain's premiere music critic (having predicted the rise of Oasis in the 1990s*), anointed the band's inaugural performance as ‘the only YouTube video you have got to see’.
*OK, he didn't. But it makes for a far better story.
Actually, we understand that the breakthrough came on Election Night, when The Corrigan Brothers performed the track at a party in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral home of President-elect Obama. Impressing a crowd that no doubt far outnumbered the main victory rally in Chicago, TCB got themselves an invite to play an Obama Inaugural Party the day before the Great Irishman becomes the 44th President of the USA.
Only one downer to this Irish-American tale. We regret that TCB dropped the name under which they originally performed the song, Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys. Copyright be damned, surely this is a pop-culture reference to appeal to all audiences....