Episode 42: What do Xtina, Bjork and U2 Have in Common?

We’re talking GIGS! Way back when, pre-pandemic, pre-babies, pre- all kinds of adult responsibilities (and aching limbs), we were MAD for a gig! We talk about some of the best concerts we’ve been to, from watching drunk Scotsmen sing their hearts out in a field to truly reaching musical nirvana in a Milanese bookshop.

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Some things we discuss include:

  • Arctic Monkeys at Oxegen, aka the year a truly poorrendous Portaloo incident put Rosemary off festivals for life
  • the first ever Electric Picnic – and Rosemary’s favourite AC/DC song
  • why Beatrice is too good for the Ramada Inn
  • Jurassic 5 > Maroon 5
  • long live 2 Many DJs
  • Artists we’d love to have seen include: Phil Collins (!), Garth Brooks / Chris Gaines (Zoolander) – should have partnered with Holy Justin Bieber, Fleetwood Mac, Scissor Sisters, NSync, Celine (or Ariana Grande, specifically as Celine), Yebba, Backstreet Boys!!, Dolly Parton
  • Is there an Irish person alive who doesn’t know every lyric from the following two albums: The Killers’ Hot Fuss, David Gray’s White Ladder
  • We <3 the country charts: particularly Gabby Barrett, Maryn Morris and the Secret Sisters
  • A moment, please, for this duet between Maire Breathnach and Nanci Griffith
  • And our best gigs? Roisin Murphy, Bjork, Lykke Li, a very drunk Paolo Nutini, Bat for Lashes

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Not Without My Sister is presented by sisters Beatrice Mac Cabe and Rosemary Mac Cabe, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Our producer is Liam Geraghty. Sound editing and original music by Don Kirkland. Original illustration by Lindsay Neilson.

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