Irish Music At The Favourite (no Concertina!)

[Roger Digby]

I know that many concertina.net users enjoy Irish Music so I hope the absence of a concertina in this news item will not cause offence. A 30 minute programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning was a nostalgic look back at the Favourite, a pub in North London that hosted the most celebrated of all Irish Music during its heyday in the latter decades of the last century. (It was the base for Topic's 'Paddy In the Smoke' L.P.) The programme is currently on the BBC Radio 4 website and I have found a couple of minutes at lunch today to have a quick listen to a little of it. Like so much on the BBC it fails to go deep in the fear of losing the 'casual listener', but it might tug a heartstring of those who knew the pub and interest those who care for the real Irish Music. As you'ld expect, Reg Hall, the tireless researcher of Irish Music in London, ( and much else besides) has a bit to say!

I don't imagine it will be available online for very long.

Best wishes,

Roger