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I know the poster says March 14th – but there’s a show tonight – March 17th<\/strong> as well. I know for a fact there are still tix available.<\/p>\n Show at La Poisson Rouge<\/strong>, 158 Bleecker Street. Doors open at 6 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Buy tickets for the March 17th show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joe Hurley has been hosting the Irish Rock Revue (with a cast of thousands) in New York for years now, and this coming year will be the 10th annual event.<\/p>\n I’ve seen Joe Hurley perform (at the Losers Lounge<\/a> Queen Tribute, where he rocked the house with “Fat Bottomed Girls” as though he were to the Freddie-Mercury-born) and I’ve also had the pleasure of singing a medley of songs with him from Oliver<\/i> in the middle of the day outside a Wall Street Bar on Bloomsday in 2002. Impromptu. One of my favorite New York memories.<\/p>\n His voice is a mix of Tom Waits and, well, Ron Moody<\/a>, of course. Mixed in with a little Joe Strummer. Boy is a force of nature. Not to be missed.<\/p>\n His band, The Gents<\/a>, have been together for years now – an emotional and jagged mixture of punk and Irish traditional music (and yeah, with a little “oom pah pah” mixed in there – Joe Hurley is obsessed with the musical Oliver<\/i>, and why shouldn’t he be, I ask you?) – and you can keep up to date with all of their shenanigans at their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Proceeds of the Irish Rock Revue go to a couple of good causes (Gilda’s Club<\/a> and the Humane Society<\/a>), and it looks to be a couple of massive parties. He has guest artists come and sing, people from Broadway, Irish novelists who live in town, poets, performance artists … I can’t wait!<\/p>\n I’ll be there, screaming “Oom PAH PAH” from my seat like the nerd that I am.<\/p>\n It’s St. Patrick’s Day but I don’t really care about that. With my name, why would I give a shite about St. Patrick’s Day? Seems a bit redundant, don’t you think?<\/p>\n DETAILS<\/b><\/p>\n Date<\/strong>: March 17, 2009 Buy tickets for the March 17th show here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s Joe, from last year’s Irish Rock Revue. And more photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n \nCheers. Beannacht. Erin go bra-less.<\/p>\n Sl\u00c3\u00a1inte .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know the poster says March 14th – but there’s a show tonight – March 17th as well. I know for a fact there are still tix available. Show at La Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street. Doors open at 6 … Continue reading
\nWhere<\/strong>: La Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street.
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