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Really-From: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@mitvma.mit.edu In the January (91) issue of Q magazine there is an article about a forthcoming TV series called Bringing It All Back Home. It is in 5 parts and "traces the extraordinary journey of Irish traditional music and dance over a couple of centuries to America and back" ".. The programme makers have enlisted the musical services of a wide rnage of performers - members of U2, The Waterboys, Hothouse Flowers, Pete Seeger, Don and Phil Everly, Ricky Skaggs, John Cage, Emmylou Harris, Kate Bush and The Pogues - mixing their cultural and musical backgrounds to underline the point of the story." "Besides the 5-part TV series and accompanying book a soundtrack album is also planned. All the performances are live and even include some special compositions like Elvis Costello's Mischievous Ghost which he sings with flame-haired Irish chanteuse Mary Coughlin, backed by Irish piper Davey Spillane". Bringing It All Back Home is scheduled to be broadcast in February. A little while ago I posted here that Rapido on BBC-2 had done a piece on Irish influences on musicians. This featured a short spot from Kate - whether they pinched this film from the new series is unknown. Be seeing you, Neil -- Neil Calton UUCP: ..!mcsun!ukc!rlinf!nbc Informatics Department, NSFNET: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, BITNET: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@ukacrl Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX JANET: nbc@uk.ac.rl.inf England Tel: (0235) 821900 ext 5740