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IRISH ROVER AND THE CREW, THE STORY & STRUGGLE BEHIND THE NAME

IRISH ROVER AND THE CREW® was founded in 2005. by IRISH ROVER, known to many as OIrishRover, art. Rover MacGowan MacChroi, Paddy Punk Rocker, Lead Singer & Lyricist, a Victim Of Geography, still held against own free will in 3rd world of Europe, serbia, belgrade, with human rights down in the mud, awaiting freedom & move towards the Republic Of Ireland. IRISH ROVER AND THE CREW stands as a true OI, essence genuine Irish punk rock performance, strongly individual furious expression of Irish Rover's, influenced by the greatest Irish punk rocker of all times, Shane MacGowan and his outstanding work both with The Pogues and The Popes. IRISH ROVER AND THE CREW stands as a furious devotion, essence & attitude expression with no poseurs within'. The very name is inspired by an Irish trad. song Irish Rover, bestly performed by The Pogues & The Dubliners. Sadly, with complete lack of Irish people and Irish musicians, punk rockers in this part of the world, which is the 3rd world of Europe, this story suffered from the starts. No genuine Crew for Irish Rover and The Crew. Numerous but ultimately wrong choices as candidates for The Crew that were and are the only available for this part of the world, led to underperformance, lack of live performance, recordings and above all lack of genuine Irish touch, Paddy essence & attitude, the magic that is a must and exists within' all em' grand rockin' Irish bands in the world. So, moving the story to where it belongs, goin' west, Ireland, where true Paddies, where punk rock truly exists, that is the only way for Irish Rover and The Crew to really happen in essence terms. By then, no compromise with the essence ! The work is currently a solo one, just Irish Rover, doin' both vocals & guitar, also workin' long-distance collaborations with Irish musicians & punk rock bands from worldwide. Only the furious Paddy punk rock Crew can live the story together with Irish Rover, and bring the real sounds to friends and essence audience. Hopefuly, 2009. will be a turning point and Irish Rover will be rockin' with The Crew, where em' streams of whiskey are flowing. Them chains must fall first.

 

NO IRISH MUSIC SCENE IN 3RD WORLD SERBIA

Where genuine Paddy's spirit doesn't exist, pure imitation, reproduction, selling & acting out by worst of poseurs & scums comes as opportunity to crawl outta ground. Insult for genuine Irish music itself and all descent genuine Irish musicians worldwide and me here who am stuck in chains of serbian system. Irish music scene in serbia does not exist and there aren't Irish bands in serbia as some journalistic whores try to present due to ignorance or whatever motives they might have, putting my story in some rotten fruit basket as well. While theres poseurs who sell theres always gonna be those fooled enough to buy the poseurs' crap cause they know not of any better. Cheap thrills, cheap entertainment, fake 'n' pose is not what Irish music and especially Irish punk rock in its true meaning represents. Fakers sell it in such manner. In a country where war criminals are considered heroes and their wifes are throned as no.1 artistic "singers" with national symbol & icon status, its pretty obvious what perception is given to "Irish music" and what is considered to be "Irish band". Not the essence, spirits, attitude, here it cunts the other stuff, poseurs chasing poseurs' goals. Media, ignorance, relatives connections, system desiribility, public appearance is used to fake, to put crap on throne, to present non-genuine & non-essential as the real, to show non-Irish as Irish. Fake is more than welcome where genuine stuff is beyond recognition, interest acception etc. Repetition makes the "poseurs' truth". Nazi principle "its easier to sell a bigger lie.." works out perfectly throughout. Lyrical trash and clothed performance by non-Paddies in such conditions is seen as the real deal, all a trick of outmost deception. Pricks with few beats and wires don't make Irish expression but sadly in the darkest forest one might look from a mouse to a bear. Irish music scene does not exist in serbia. Where essence & attitude are on sale, quasi-music whores walk the "stage". Irish Rover And The Crew is not to be put in such poseurs' basket by the ignorant ones. My support band, the Crew, is opened to people from worldwide but this story is a Paddy one, genuine, furious expression of me own and hopefuly of all who tend to join me. In the meanwhile, for real journalists and interested parties, the truth should be told as it really is, trash is for the dump and real Irish music for the stage, not the opposite. Punk's not dead nor will be compromised by poseurs, ever.

8th December 2007.