| GBS at D'Arcy McGee's Buffalo, NY 2003 |
| When I'm Up was lovely with Sean and Bob dancing around the stage. Every looked stoked to be singing tonight! And Danny was kept busy tonight, replacing strings, retuning, etc. |
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| Sea of No Cares was next. I love this song. It makes me feel good singing it. The audience certainly knew the words and sang well. I thought maybe Chris Trapper would come out and sing it with the b'ys, but he didn't. Lukey came next – I was pleasantly surprised. I haven’t been paying attention to the setlists and it was great here. It seemed they had so much fun playing it. Goin’ Up had the standard Buffalo Kitchen Party intro. The audience was ready for a party, that’s for sure. I think we even had a Sociable here. An extremely nice version of Clearest Indication followed. Bob’s mic was turned up nice and loud and I had no trouble hearing the whistle part. Storm clouds blew past the venue all day long and only stopped a few times. Alan must have seen some rolling in because the intro to Paddy Murphy was, “It’s Friday night and there’s a storm a-comin’. That storm is named Sean McCann.” Well, the audience went nuts with cheers and then when he said it was a song about drink and death, got even more cheers. He got a kick out of the antics of some audience members here and made the comment, “I can’t wait to get out there with you people!” When Sean sang “Doyle lifts up the icebox lid,” Alan pointed to himself and shook his head NO and mouthed “Not me!” |
| When I’m Up Bob’s fiddle sounded great! |
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| Here’s where the banter began to get more than a little weird. Sean was in rare form and began talking about how Gideon Brown was all about sex, "it's the size of your boat that matters." “Yeah you gotta watch out there – Friday night at D’Arcy’s, pints of Guinness, chat, chat, chat, socialize, socialize, socialize, exchange phone numbers, and there goes the safety net!” He was looking so mischievous up there! Alan started singing Let’s Get Physical and then goes on about how they were watching this 80’s show on the bus that afternoon and he was in love with Olivia Newton-John. Alan strikes a “King of the World” pose from the Titanic movie and then announces that “when I am King of the World I will summon Olivia Newton-John to visit me in my kingdom in Terre Neuve. I will invite her for tea and she will say, ‘No, Alan just hold me. Take me now and I will bear you a son!’ While Alan was going on and on about her, Sean was making side comments the whole time like “She’s about 74 years old for God’s sake, Alan." "She probably can’t even lift the tea kettle.” |
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| Gideon Brown found Alan in the fog. |
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