The art of noise
With musicians like Sinead O’Connor, Jerry Fish and Anto Drennan of The Corrs involved – the Music Ireland ‘06 expo was an unqualified success.
Neil Brennan, 05 Dec 2006
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Amidst all the drum-banging, guitar-tuning and seminar-attending, there were many moments of real magic at this year’s Music Ireland expo at the RDS. One, however, stood out.
It came on Sunday afternoon, as the end of the weekend came into sight. Philomena Lynott was taking a short break from signing autographs for fans (not just fans of Philip, mind, but of the great lady herself), and wandered towards the Red Room.
In fact it’s fairer to say that Philomena was taking a break from chatting to fans as if they were all old friends, because that’s what she spent most of the exhibition doing. In the Red Room, the Air Guitar Workshop was reaching its sweaty but invisible climax. Zac Munro and Gabi Matzeu were teaching their audience how to properly wield their imaginary axes, with the final demonstration soundtracked by Thin Lizzy.
Philomena wandered in at the back, mostly unnoticed by those too busy perfecting their crotch-thrusts, slides and AC/DC style duck walks to the sounds of her son’s music.
She only stayed for a minute or two, but when she left she had a big smile on her face. “It’s great. People love Philip’s music. They really do,” she said, beaming. And then it was back to talk to more fans and sign more books.
Luckily for this indolent hack, the warmth of that vignette sums up Music Ireland 2006 in one anecdote. It was an event that brought together those who had seen it all before, those who had done it all before, those who were doing it right now – and those who want to do it more than anything else you or they could possibly imagine.
The first thing that grabbed most people ,when they walked in the doors was the numerous instruments hosted at the Roland, Walton and AMP Distribution stalls. One five year old took up a particularly impressive residency on a tiny drum kit at AMP’s stand on Sunday afternoon. A small crowd gathered around to watch this miniature dynamo. He wasn’t Keith Moon (yet), but he was at least at Meg White’s standard. And look how far she’s got!
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