It was 2005 when I was listening to the DragonPage WingingIt and The Signal - Firefly Podcast and fell in love with podcasts. That's when the addiction began. I recorded a podcast in March, but scraped it. A couple months later, the bug hit me again, and I recorded the Cat Lover's Podcast. It was fun and easy to produce. So I started the Renaissance Festival Podcast. The next thing I knew I had a half a dozen podcasts and new ones pop up all the time.

Here's the latest list of my podcasts, in order of popularity, as of August 2007:

Irish & Celtic Music Podcast
This is by far my most-popular podcast with over 10,000 subscribers and 40,000 downloads each month. It features Irish and Celtic music from some of the hottest independent Celtic groups around the globe.

Renaissance Festival Podcast
Ever been to a Renaissance Festival? This show highlight artists performing at Renaissance festivals each week. It also hosts the annual Renaissance Festival Awards.

Marc Gunn's Pub Songs Podcast
I started this podcast with plans to feature pub songs, but it evolved into my personal podcast. It features live performances, thoughts, some favorite bands, and just all-around amusement.

A Brobdingnagian Minute
The podcast of the Brobdingnagian Bards. Once a month, we ramble on about whatever's on our minds and then we play a few songs in each show. It's the next best thing to a live show that you'll find.

Cat Lovers Podcast
Do you love cats? I started this podcast to promote my Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers, but it kinda grew beyond that featuring cat news, humour, stories, health tips and much more.

Marc Gunn's Irish Songs and More
I started this podcast with the intent to feature just Irish songs. But I got carried away and decided to open it up to all my music. Once a week, you can download a free 128kbps MP3. Course if you enjoy it, I just ask that you consider buying an album or buy the upgraded 192kbps MP3 file.

Your Weekly Irish Stout
I started this podcast for my friend Jack Murphy. It features Irish songs, pirate songs, and sea shanties from Captain Black Jack Murphy and Irish Stout. It has currently podfaded, but we still hope to bring it back one day.

Do you ever do something that you kinda wish you hadn't done?

Worse. Have you ever had a recording of that thing you wish you hadn't done?

Worse still. Have you ever shared that recording of that thing you wish you hadn't done?

Personally, I somehow think that's the most foolish to do. I mean, why would anyone want to publicly humiliate themselves? Yet, for me... Okay, let me back track a moment and explain.

Last month, the Brobdingnagian Bards led a vacation tour of Ireland. It was awesome. Great sites. Great people on the tour. Our coach driver, Liam, said it best, "You're a like most tour groups. You're fun!"

Now me, I'm a podcaster and archivist. I like recording stuff shows I do and sharing them with others. It's what I do. But I also like to drink. And on occasion, I get kinda wild while drinking. So halfway through the tour while we were holed up in Lisdoonvarna, I and 20 friends went to a pub. I sang, drank, sang some more while everyone else sang, drank, and sang-a-long. It was great craic!

Past couple days, I went back and listened to those recordings. Youch! Sure there was some FUN stuff early on in the evening while I was still sober. But that NC-17 version of "Scarborough Faire"...? I don't think that should be heard. Nor should my foul mouth throughout the end of that show. And the "I Need to Pee" song was just, well, bad.

So it raises that interesting dilemna that I'm trying to figure out. Should I accidentally lose *ahem* delete, those files? Or hold on to them with the fear I'll be blackmailed in later years. Or should I go ahead and find the good material and just release that. I'm leaning more towards that. Why soil my mediocre name with material that was questionable at best... not to mention the performance of that last hour just, well, stunk.

I know, I know. Those on the tour are like "I WANT IT!" And those who weren't and read this are saying, "GIVE IT TO ME!" But I just don't know...

I mean, if someone else recorded it and wanted to listen to it at their leisure, that's one thing that doesn't really bother me. But when I have the power to protect my image, a sensible person would say, "Yes! Protect it!" But then when have I ever been sensible?

Anyway, when I finally decide, I'll post those live shows here with my others.

This was one of the first Irish songs I ever learned from some cassette of Irish drinking songs. It's about Tim Finnegan who dies and a wake is held in his honor. It quickly turns into a free-for-all. Even death, it's terrible thing to waste good alcohol. I parodied this song on Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers with a song about a Sphynx cat named Furagone who runs through the same life after death scenario with catnip. Notice the cute meows at the beginning of the song. That's my cat Tiziano.

"Finnegan's Wake"
Listen: LoFi
Recorded by Marc Gunn
From: Irish Drinking Songs: A Cat Lover's Companion
Read Lyrics: "Finnegan's Wake" Lyrics

Download MP3: 128 kbps
Buy MP3 for 99¢: 192 kbps
Donation: Make a Donation
Subscribe: http://www.irish-song-lyrics.com/podcast.rss

Visit MP3 Store: Buy Irish MP3s

Released under a Creative Commons Noncommercial ShareAlike License

What happens when bloggers and podcasters work together? With so much attention on Z Lists and Technorati, journeyPod has decided to launch its own list of noteworthy podcasts.

With thousands of great podcasts available today, many of the early Internet radio show pioneers and independent podcasts have gotten buried by larger traditional media. journeyPod has taken matters into their own hands, giving long overdue and well-deserved blogosphere attention to a number of the Internet radio shows in a variety of categories.

Since journeyPod was the first to launch a luxury travel podcast, it was only natural to release the first-ever P List of Podcasts, featuring only independent podcasts. Following this initial launch, journeyPod will release a second P List of Mainstream Podcasts to point out some of the mainstream media giants who have excelled with their larger budget podcasts.

"This is a great grassroots way for independent podcasters and bloggers to help each other out by promoting other quality shows that we all listen to and watch," proclaimed Ryan Bifulco, executive producer of journeyPod. "All the boats in the bathtub rise together." Adding, "The Internet epitomizes the concept of sharing, so this list is just one way journeyPod can help some of the original podcast pioneers that have shows in a variety of categories."

For more detailed information on the P List of Podcasts and to read and copy the entire list, visit journeyPod's P List of Podcasts.

"We've selected interesting podcasts for this list, but we also noted podcasters that have been producing since 2005 or podcasts that have over 500 episodes," revealed Carly Redgers, promotions manager for journeyPod.

Yesterday, Andrew and I were back in the studio working on Real Men Wear Kilts. It was a lighter workday than usual. Gigs are forcing us to take a step back. In April, we'll jump back into the studio with fervor, but too many gigs in March to do just that.

This weekend, we fly to New York for I-Con. The following weekend, we'll perform at Four Winds Renaissance Faire. With all the gigs, I can barely keep up with many podcasts. Heck! I can barely organize all my blog entries to find out which one to link to. hehe. Ah well...

Yesterday, I booked my flight to Ireland with a return trip via Rome. I also listened to more mixes for my Irish Drinking Songs: The Cat Lover's Companion CD that Ari sent me. I'm still hoping that I'll have that done by the end of April. But we'll see. Still lots to do. Heck! I don't have a CD cover for that yet. Hmm...

Other things on my list to do:

• Order more copies of The Secret World of Celtic Rock
• Book some gigs in Italy and possible in England
• Book gigs in San Diego and near Costa Mesa, California
• Contact the Saxon Pub, Tipperary Inn, Cactus Cafe, and Mother Egan's about gigs
• Start looking into Colorado Tour and Tour to Shakespeare Festival in Tennessee
• Promotion for Bedlam Bard Shindig Tour
• Finish this week's Renaissance Festival Podcast shownotes
  
• Austin Celtic Meetup Tonight
  
• Pack CDs and clothes for trip to New York this weekend
• Listen to new Cat companion recordings
• Update Bards Shows on the website
• Update Cat Lovers T-Shirts
• Record Cat Lovers Podcast

I'm sure there's more to do, we'll stop there for now.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
http://www.celticmusicpodcast.com
February 12, 2007
CONTACT: Marc Gunn
(512) 470 - 4866

THE IRISH AND CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST HITS #1 ON THE MOST POPULAR MUSIC PODCASTS AT iTUNES

AUSTIN, TX (February 12, 2007) – Let's face it, everybody likes to be #1. For the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast (http://celticmusicpodcast.com/) that chance came this week when they reached the top spot on iTunes list of music podcasts. Not only did they top the music podcast chart, they also ranked 14th of all podcasts in the world since iTunes is the #1 distributor of podcasts. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is a free, bi-monthly, downloadable radio show of independent Irish & Celtic music. It features Irish drinking songs, Scottish folk songs, bagpipes, music from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Wales, Nova Scotia, Galicia, Australia, the United States, and around the world.

Two exciting podcasts are slated to be released by the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast this March. The first is a St. Patrick's Day podcast, featuring perennial Celtic music favorites as well as historical tidbits and other St. Paddy's Day fun. Also coming in March is a podcast which will announce the Celtic Music Award winners for 2006 and feature music from the winners. Selections are made by popular vote and are hosted by Celtic MP3s Music Magazine (http://www.celticmp3s.com). The awards honor the most popular online Celtic music groups and individuals. Both podcasts are sure to be among the best of the coming year.

With the increasing popularity of iTunes, a more diverse crowd of listeners is clearly seeking out their music choices from iTunes vast catalog of downloads. The popularity of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is clear evidence of this ever-widening circle. Listeners are encouraged to vote for their favorite songs and submit suggestions for podcasts they would like to hear. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast also has a page on my Myspace.com (http://myspace.com/irishcelticmusicpodcast) where information about recent and upcoming podcasts can also be found.

The Irish & Celtic Music Podcasts are sponsored by Song Henge (www.SongHenge.com) a website offering the largest selection of totally free and legal downloads of Celtic music.


ABOUT Marc Gunn / The Bards

Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats. He is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards. He is also Celtic music podcaster and promoter as well as publisher of Celtic MP3s Music Magazine.

http://thebards.net Brobdingnagian Bards, Celtic Folk Music
http://celticmusicpodcast.com/ Irish & Celtic Music Podcast

Renaissance Festival Podcast - Music and Entertainment from Ren Faires http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/

XXX

For Further Information Contact Marc Gunn (512) 470-4866.

Cross-Published at PRWeb.

Songs:

1. "The Naughty Kitty"
   
2. "Wild Rover/Wild Kitty"
   
3. "Star of the County Down"
   
4. "A Fairy Story"
   
5. "Old Dun Cow"
   
6. "Donald Where's Your Drunken Scotsman?"
   
7. "Old Fenian Gun"
   
8. "Johnny Jump Up"
   
9. "Irish Ballad"
   
10. "Harry Potter and The Rising of the Moon"
    
11. "Jedi Drinking Song"
    
12. "The Mining Ship the Red Dwarf"
13. "Wild Mountain Thyme"
    

Notes:

• CDs from A Faire to Remember, Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers, LOVE! A Valentine's Day Gift, Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales, A Collection of Irish Pub Songs, and Real Men Wear Kilts
• Intro music by The Tea Merchants
• NEW: Buy the individual MP3s of the show
  

Download MP3
Pub Songs Podcast #22 - A REAL Live House Concert Performance with Marc Gunn

From the Pub Songs Podcast.