scotland-the most complicated place to live in the world.revolutions,innovations,literature,engineering,philosophy,science...and the rest.without a doubt we are the most innovative,extrodinary and hardest people in the world.5.3million now and we have changed the world forever.(american independence based on the arbroath declaration)
I TRULY BELIEVE, THE BEST IS STILL TO COME, FROM PAOLO NUTINI, FOR MANY YEARS TO COME, NOT JUST, IN HIS GREAT MUSICAL OUTPUT, BUT ALSO WITH HIS, HUMANIST APPROACH TO LIFEKIND.
Wow.. As a pogues fan, of the countless times ive heard people try to cover this, this guy nails it! Glad to have found him today! Great voice, and so young!
I had to login just to comment, just had to say this is one of the best live acoustic performances i've ever heard. I have never heard such a mood-full and thematic voice that can put you right into the song. Paolo is a legend
This song was written about my home town of SALFORD in the UK were the ppl are hard as nailz but with hearts of gold, we are world famous and very proud of it :-) also home of the best football team in the world MANCHESTER UNITED. Salford born, Salford bred, one day ile be Salford dead...
I came looking for New Shoes, the only Paolo Nutini song of which I was aware. I saw other songs and began to listen. I have spent the last half hour discovering Paolo Nutini's wonderful music. I recommend you to listen to I'd Rather Go Blind as well. Great voice. Enjoy.
"The song was written in reference to Salford, Greater Manchester, England, the place where MacColl was born and brought up" Really it can be about wherever you want, but this is what the song writer was singing about.
@@rm2124 Except it doesn't. MacColl specifically wrote it about the then industrial Salford. Which was adjacent to the largest industrial conplex in Europe at the time, which crossed from Salford over into Trafford.
When you're old enough to have heard others sing the song before Nutini sang it, you do compare and not always favorably. I heard Luke Kelly of the Dubliners sing it 'years ago' and it was an immensely powerful version of the song. Nutini, I think strives not to be too imitative of other versions and there's nothing wrong with that but sometimes it works for you/against you.. Such is life1
PAOLO ROCKS, I PLAY HIS SONGS, AS A DJ, AT MOST OF MY GIGS, SEIZING THE MOMENT, WHERE REQUIRED, TIMING IS EVERYTHING, AND UPLIFTS PEOPLE, FROM THE FULL ON, PENCIL FULL OF LEAD, THROUGH, NEW SHOES, TO THE REFLECTIVE, CANDY, THEN GETTING TO THE, GLEE MOMENT, WHEN PLAYING, TEN OUT OF TEN.
I like the tempo he's using. There's so many different versions of this, but PN manages to make it his own like he does with most of his covers. Cool upload, thanks! :))
think MacColl would be proud. yes The Pogues made it famous but he was reported to have said he didn't like their cover. Paolo really made it his own thanks for sharing
it was written and performed by Ewan McColl who was the father of Kirsty McColl. It was a scene filler in a play called Landscape and Chimneys in 1949.
I am Scottish. It is true that Kirsty MacColl was born in England as was her Dad Ewan MacColl. Her Dads parents were born in Scotland and left because of their political activism however. Thus you could argue that she was half Scottish. She certainly chose MacColl as a stage name as did her dad. He identified strongly with being Scottish. The song is about where he was brought up, Salford or Leigh I believe. First made famous long before the Pogues by 'The Spinners' from Liverpool.
I just wanna say, this isn't a Pogues song originally - as he claims it is. It's a Ewan MacColl song. I'm not a masive fan of this version, but people need to know this as Ewan is possibly the greatest songwriter to come from England, certainly the best from the Midlands
Dirty Old Town is actually a British Folk Song about Salford in Manchester, England. It was written by Ewan MacColl in the 40s about his home town. The Pogues who popularised it are actually originally from London mostly. However the music is what is important, not the inherent nationalism one feels when they see something truly great come from their country.
Dirty Old Town was written in 1948 for an awkward scene change in one of Ewan MacColl's plays, "A landscape with Chimneys." The play was set in "a northern town", and Salford is not mentioned in either the play or song. MacColl was born and brought up in Broughton, Salford. So the attribution to Salford is a kind of "guilt by association." "Dirty Old Town" was very well known in the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, well before the Pogues.
THE GENERATION BEFORE PAOLO, IN SCOTLAND, I MUST SAY, WAS AN ARTIST CALLED, PETER NARDINNI, I HOPE I SPEALT IT CORRECT, I THINK HE WAS ON, THE SAME LEVEL AS PAOLO, HE HAD A GREAT SONG, CALLED, I THINK YOU' RE GREAT, DONE ON AN INDIE LABEL, WITH FUCKING LITTLE SUPPORT FROM THE OUTSIDE MEDIA, IT WAS SO GOOD, I TRANSFERRED IT FROM VINYL, THEN TO, MINIDISC, THEN TO CD RECORDER, THEN TO MP3 FROM CD, INTO MY MUSIC COLLECTION.
Me and the Feegie young team have got paulo's back for life. Any cheek or comments about how this isn't the greatest dirty old town cover ever will result in a swift scheme doing by me and my compatriots. YUNG FEEGIE PANDAS ON TOP NON STOP ! ~:PAULO EM:~ NUMMER WAN
I AM A MOBILE DJ, WITH A GOOD KNOWLEDGE, OF WHAT, HITS THE SPOT, WHEN REQUIRED, WHEN IT MEANS, GETTING AWAY FROM THE USUAL CHART AND CHEESY MUSIC TO PLAY, TO HIT THE SPOT, WITH A GREAT SONG LIKE THIS, WITH AN APPRECIATIVE CROWD. I GET THE, GOOSEBUMPS EFFECT ON MY ARMS, (WHERE MOST OF MY BODY HAIR THRIVES), EVERYTIME, I FIND THE MOMENT TO PLAY IT.
Aye - written by Ewan MacCol - it's all about Salford in the N.West of England where he was brought up- Ewan was the English son of Scottish parents - his real name was.James Henry Millar. His dfaughter Chirstie MacColl sang it sometimes with The Pogues.
The songs about Salford,Greater Manchester,in the north west of England,the reason people think it's Irish is because The Dubliners made the song very popular back in the day,but sorry folks you can forget your luck of the Irish four leaf clover shizzle,this song belongs to the north west,and has more in common with the stone roses,the smiths,new order etc,than U2 or westlife, fact!
Irish or English who cares its a great song sang well by both cultures who cares about the history or where it's about it's a great song and that's what matters friends
I quite like this. His voice is beautiful. I'm so used to the pace of The Dubliners version that this one sounds a bit too somber for me. I could be completely wrong but I always imagined the song to be about loving and hating somewhere at the same time - acknowledging that it's not a nice place whilst expressing sentimental attitudes towards it because of the memories that go with it. Sorry if that sounds corny or whatever, I'll shut up now.
LISTEN TO JIMMY JINKY JOHNSON AULD CELTIC PLAYER SINGING THIS SONG IN BAIRDS PUB AT THE BARRA'S GLASGOW THATS THE BEST COVER . BUT PAOLO'S COVER NO BAD ANO.
ALSO DONE, BY, THE, LATE, VERY GREAT, MOST RESPECTED, MAN, OF ALL TIME, WITH INTEGRITY, ON HIS SLEEVE, JIMMY (JINKY) JOHNSTONE, A CELTIC FC LEGEND, PERFORMED THIS, WITH, ASSISTANCE FROM, SIMPLE MINDS, THE ONE AND ONLY, TRUE, STADIUM ROCK, PERFORMERS, FROM THE CITY OF LIGHT, IN GLASGOW. A GREAT MOMENT, IN CREATIVE PERFORMANCES, UP THERE, WITH, HURT, BY, JOHNNY CASH.
Correct. The song has noting to do with Ireland. The original words were "I smelled the smoke from the Salford Wind". The Irish, because of the popularity of Irish pubs in many cities across the world, by default, have hijacked British folk music as their own. The song was already popular. It was near dead until Liverpool Folk group The Spinners in the 1960s saved it. However the first to record the song was an American followed by an Israeli, who did not popularize it.
The "I smelled the smoke from the Salford Wind" claim has no substance. If you think so, give us the evidence, but that would be difficult because there is none.
Interesting that Nutini cites the Ian Campbell Folk Group. I'm sure that they did it at some point (I'd have to have a dig through LPs to see whether i have a recording), but as others have said it did not originate with them or anyone other than the Salford born Ewan MacColl. Notwithstanding the mention of Ian Campbell, it's rather obvious that he learnt the song not from them or from the source, but most likely from the singing Shane MacGowan since he introduces exactly the same mistakes.
just to let you know lads, im irish...and i can tell you this song is neither irish or scottish...its an english song, written by an english man about a place in england... he was actually kirsty mccalls(whos was also english by the way) aufella...still a great song tho....just sayin
this song was written by luke kell from the original dubliners band from ireland and is about a place in england called salford near manchester and when the dubliners went to do a recording of their music and play in england they stayed in salford and it was a dirty old town so they wrote and made the song while they were there and was in the 70`s and then in the 80`s the pogues made it more famous with their cover of it and the rest is history :)
He could sing Happy Birthday and make it soulful he's that good
scotland-the most complicated place to live in the world.revolutions,innovations,literature,engineering,philosophy,science...and the rest.without a doubt we are the most innovative,extrodinary and hardest people in the world.5.3million now and we have changed the world forever.(american independence based on the arbroath declaration)
Is there anything this guy can't sing AMAZING FANTASTIC JUST BRILLIANT LOVE IT
I TRULY BELIEVE, THE BEST IS STILL TO COME, FROM PAOLO NUTINI, FOR MANY YEARS TO COME, NOT JUST, IN HIS GREAT MUSICAL OUTPUT, BUT ALSO WITH HIS, HUMANIST APPROACH TO LIFEKIND.
Love this song and love this version so much!
Wow.. As a pogues fan, of the countless times ive heard people try to cover this, this guy nails it! Glad to have found him today! Great voice, and so young!
Some how missed this cover in all the years of listening to Paolo. Takes you back to listening to the Dubliner's with my Dad and Grandad! Brilliant!
Quality! No matter what video of Paolo you watch he is just tone and word perfect
I am not usually into covers, but jjeezus this man does covers like no others
I had to login just to comment, just had to say this is one of the best live acoustic performances i've ever heard. I have never heard such a mood-full and thematic voice that can put you right into the song. Paolo is a legend
It's bleedin awful....what are you listening to
Das ist er auch für mich, eine Legende♥️
This song was written about my home town of SALFORD in the UK were the ppl are hard as nailz but with hearts of gold, we are world famous and very proud of it :-) also home of the best football team in the world MANCHESTER UNITED. Salford born, Salford bred, one day ile be Salford dead...
Gary T well said brother, I'm a salfordian myself and proud.
I came looking for New Shoes, the only Paolo Nutini song of which I was aware. I saw other songs and began to listen. I have spent the last half hour discovering Paolo Nutini's wonderful music. I recommend you to listen to I'd Rather Go Blind as well. Great voice. Enjoy.
Welcome to the ever growing discoverers of Paolo... I did the same. Went to see him live a couple of months back - amazing.
Paolo is a gem.
Iron Sky.
Paulo Nutini's fine. He's really fine
Also add 'wake up' 'recover' ' scream' the live in the diner one
Salford..Scottish..Irish does it matter...Lovely song & Paolo Nutini ..serious eye candy
Wauw! I loved Nutini, but with this song he made it all for me!
"The song was written in reference to Salford, Greater Manchester, England, the place where MacColl was born and brought up"
Really it can be about wherever you want, but this is what the song writer was singing about.
It applies to any major British or Irish city at the time though
@@rm2124 Except it doesn't. MacColl specifically wrote it about the then industrial Salford. Which was adjacent to the largest industrial conplex in Europe at the time, which crossed from Salford over into Trafford.
Scotland and Italian at its best
It was wrote about a town in England close to Manchester called Salford
I love how you can really hear Paolo's strong Scottish accent on this track..very sexy!
Absolutely beautiful Paolo one of the best versions yet love your music fantastic
When you're old enough to have heard others sing the song before Nutini sang it, you do compare and not always favorably. I heard Luke Kelly of the Dubliners sing it 'years ago' and it was an immensely powerful version of the song. Nutini, I think strives not to be too imitative of other versions and there's nothing wrong with that but sometimes it works for you/against you.. Such is life1
Joe Kelly Luke kelly gave it his all, but nuntini sings with power
Class version of the original... I just love the way Paulo makes 'The Dirty Old Town' come alive x
PAOLO ROCKS, I PLAY HIS SONGS, AS A DJ, AT MOST OF MY GIGS, SEIZING THE MOMENT, WHERE REQUIRED, TIMING IS EVERYTHING, AND UPLIFTS PEOPLE, FROM THE FULL ON, PENCIL FULL OF LEAD, THROUGH, NEW SHOES, TO THE REFLECTIVE, CANDY, THEN GETTING TO THE, GLEE MOMENT, WHEN PLAYING, TEN OUT OF TEN.
ugh. voice is so dreamy 🍀🍀🍀🌻🌻🌻🌻
I like the tempo he's using. There's so many different versions of this, but PN manages to make it his own like he does with most of his covers. Cool upload, thanks! :))
Great song coverd by great singer song writter from the pogues who made this song very famous and no dout that paolo will bring it back to life
Just fantastic absolutely fantastic best singer ever
Love you paolo
Lovely to hear him chat a bit before the song. Really excellent cover he does, slightly more haunting than the Pogues et al. Thanks.
think MacColl would be proud. yes The Pogues made it famous but he was reported to have said he didn't like their cover.
Paolo really made it his own thanks for sharing
Hey if you could checkout my super fun reggae take on this classic and subscribe I'd appreciate it 1💚
Not just "reported", he stated so himself (as he would), and so did Peggy Seeger.
oh so beautiful
He could sing me the alphabet this man 🤣💚
The song was written by Ewan McColl in 1949 and sang by him, he was from Salford in England and the song is about Salford. The Poques just covered it.
Fantastic love this version
love to just look and listen to him x
Timeless
nice take on a great song ,,,,,hail hail paulo!
Fantastic version Paulo lawd. Gud on ya hai.
We kno paolos gonny nail it. Classic tune.
every cover he does, he does with panache
it was written and performed by Ewan McColl who was the father of Kirsty McColl. It was a scene filler in a play called Landscape and Chimneys in 1949.
better than the original song. top notch!
The guvnor! On par with hendrix cover of all along the watchtower. Stunning!
Thank you - that was beautiful.
I love that voice..
I am Scottish. It is true that Kirsty MacColl was born in England as was her Dad Ewan MacColl. Her Dads parents were born in Scotland and left because of their political activism however. Thus you could argue that she was half Scottish. She certainly chose MacColl as a stage name as did her dad. He identified strongly with being Scottish. The song is about where he was brought up, Salford or Leigh I believe. First made famous long before the Pogues by 'The Spinners' from Liverpool.
Beautiful
I just wanna say, this isn't a Pogues song originally - as he claims it is. It's a Ewan MacColl song. I'm not a masive fan of this version, but people need to know this as Ewan is possibly the greatest songwriter to come from England, certainly the best from the Midlands
amazing 😀
Dirty Old Town is actually a British Folk Song about Salford in Manchester, England. It was written by Ewan MacColl in the 40s about his home town. The Pogues who popularised it are actually originally from London mostly. However the music is what is important, not the inherent nationalism one feels when they see something truly great come from their country.
Dirty Old Town was written in 1948 for an awkward scene change in one of Ewan MacColl's plays, "A landscape with Chimneys." The play was set in "a northern town", and Salford is not mentioned in either the play or song.
MacColl was born and brought up in Broughton, Salford. So the attribution to Salford is a kind of "guilt by association."
"Dirty Old Town" was very well known in the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, well before the Pogues.
Fantastic
THE GENERATION BEFORE PAOLO, IN SCOTLAND, I MUST SAY, WAS AN ARTIST CALLED, PETER NARDINNI, I HOPE I SPEALT IT CORRECT, I THINK HE WAS ON, THE SAME LEVEL AS PAOLO, HE HAD A GREAT SONG, CALLED, I THINK YOU' RE GREAT, DONE ON AN INDIE LABEL, WITH FUCKING LITTLE SUPPORT FROM THE OUTSIDE MEDIA, IT WAS SO GOOD, I TRANSFERRED IT FROM VINYL, THEN TO, MINIDISC, THEN TO CD RECORDER, THEN TO MP3 FROM CD, INTO MY MUSIC COLLECTION.
paolo is beautiful
i lurveeeeee this man !!!!!!
Excellent!!
beautiful
Me and the Feegie young team have got paulo's back for life. Any cheek or comments about how this isn't the greatest dirty old town cover ever will result in a swift scheme doing by me and my compatriots. YUNG FEEGIE PANDAS ON TOP NON STOP ! ~:PAULO EM:~ NUMMER WAN
good cover but no one gets near the great Luke Kelly :-)
i totally agree with Ewan in that
thats how you do a cover ,. spot on mate .
Absolutely quality mr Nutini 💕💚🍀❤
Yes he has the look
I AM A MOBILE DJ, WITH A GOOD KNOWLEDGE, OF WHAT, HITS THE SPOT, WHEN REQUIRED, WHEN IT MEANS, GETTING AWAY FROM THE USUAL CHART AND CHEESY MUSIC TO PLAY, TO HIT THE SPOT, WITH A GREAT SONG LIKE THIS, WITH AN APPRECIATIVE CROWD. I GET THE, GOOSEBUMPS EFFECT ON MY ARMS, (WHERE MOST OF MY BODY HAIR THRIVES), EVERYTIME, I FIND THE MOMENT TO PLAY IT.
love it, great covering
It's the dubliners who made this famous
Wrong, it was Rodger Whittaker.
wrong again... it was ewan mccoll
@wallsend3 you are indeed correct.. Ewan McColl first recorded it BUT it became more famous or familiar with the Dubliners version..
Ewan McColl Ho Chi Minh and Turpin hero great songs and ballad of Tim evens
TE AMO PAOLO ♥♪
Brilliant
Well said, caps or no. I also wish the same for him, considering what getting famous does to so many performers.
Ewan McColl also wrote the song First Time Ever I Saw your Face, made very famous by Roberta Flack. He was the father of the late Kirsty McColl.
Aye - written by Ewan MacCol - it's all about Salford in the N.West of England where he was brought up- Ewan was the English son of Scottish parents - his real name was.James Henry Millar. His dfaughter Chirstie MacColl sang it sometimes with The Pogues.
One Scot sings another Scot's song about the North West of England town he was born in. The circle...
The songs about Salford,Greater Manchester,in the north west of England,the reason people think it's Irish is because The Dubliners made the song very popular back in the day,but sorry folks you can forget your luck of the Irish four leaf clover shizzle,this song belongs to the north west,and has more in common with the stone roses,the smiths,new order etc,than U2 or westlife, fact!
Big up The Ian Campbell Folk Group!
yeah you are prob right. glad you are getting in on the conflab x
Love the cover, have to say this song was made popular by the Dubliners
Paolo nutini fuckin class
ITS CHARLIE MULGREEEWW ITS CHARLIE MULGREWW
Yesssssss. At least someone knows the craic.
Irish or English who cares its a great song sang well by both cultures who cares about the history or where it's about it's a great song and that's what matters friends
and Kirsty MacColl who was in the Pogues was the Daughter of Ewan MacColl a Scot Born and raised in Salford who wrote the song.
how can a scot be born and raised in Salford?
@@peteradams408 Ewan MacColl was born and brought up in Broughton, Salford. His parents were Scottish.
I quite like this. His voice is beautiful. I'm so used to the pace of The Dubliners version that this one sounds a bit too somber for me. I could be completely wrong but I always imagined the song to be about loving and hating somewhere at the same time - acknowledging that it's not a nice place whilst expressing sentimental attitudes towards it because of the memories that go with it. Sorry if that sounds corny or whatever, I'll shut up now.
LISTEN TO JIMMY JINKY JOHNSON AULD CELTIC PLAYER SINGING THIS SONG IN BAIRDS PUB AT THE BARRA'S GLASGOW THATS THE BEST COVER . BUT PAOLO'S COVER NO BAD ANO.
+Robert Mcintyre im sure paulo nutini would agree with you
This guy got some Voice
definitely a different take to luke kellys version but none the less still a good rendition
Great under rated artist with a fantastic Scottish twang. Dirty Old Town a great cover version but cannot top the Poges version
+Rob Davies He is huge world wide man and still releasing amazing tunes.
+Rob Davies the original ewan mccoll version is pretty good man. :D
Rob Davies Luke Kelly's version is the best version
Rob Davies Luke Kelly nails it better with the Dubliners.. not a competition though, I love the song
Well done.
good version
Dirty old town & janet, johnny and james yes matey
One of the best ever versions. Any idea where this is from? Sounds like it was on some TV show. Would like to see the video
Think it's radio broadcast
ALSO DONE, BY, THE, LATE, VERY GREAT, MOST RESPECTED, MAN, OF ALL TIME, WITH INTEGRITY, ON HIS SLEEVE, JIMMY (JINKY) JOHNSTONE, A CELTIC FC LEGEND, PERFORMED THIS, WITH, ASSISTANCE FROM, SIMPLE MINDS, THE ONE AND ONLY, TRUE, STADIUM ROCK, PERFORMERS, FROM THE CITY OF LIGHT, IN GLASGOW. A GREAT MOMENT, IN CREATIVE PERFORMANCES, UP THERE, WITH, HURT, BY, JOHNNY CASH.
Correct. The song has noting to do with Ireland. The original words were "I smelled the smoke from the Salford Wind". The Irish, because of the popularity of Irish pubs in many cities across the world, by default, have hijacked British folk music as their own.
The song was already popular. It was near dead until Liverpool Folk group The Spinners in the 1960s saved it. However the first to record the song was an American followed by an Israeli, who did not popularize it.
The "I smelled the smoke from the Salford Wind" claim has no substance. If you think so, give us the evidence, but that would be difficult because there is none.
ORIGINALLY, WROTE, AND PERFORMED, BY, EWAN MCCOLL.
Interesting that Nutini cites the Ian Campbell Folk Group. I'm sure that they did it at some point (I'd have to have a dig through LPs to see whether i have a recording), but as others have said it did not originate with them or anyone other than the Salford born Ewan MacColl.
Notwithstanding the mention of Ian Campbell, it's rather obvious that he learnt the song not from them or from the source, but most likely from the singing Shane MacGowan since he introduces exactly the same mistakes.
Nope! Liverpool folk group The Spinner popularized it.
I love how people think that this is an Irish song! ;-)!!
just to let you know lads, im irish...and i can tell you this song is neither irish or scottish...its an english song, written by an english man about a place in england... he was actually kirsty mccalls(whos was also english by the way) aufella...still a great song tho....just sayin
I love the painting at 0:17... anybody knows what it is?
I'm Irish and that's an Irish song but the Scottish/Italian boy sure can sing it. Love the changed tempo.
Song about Salford
@@nickwojciechowski2236 written by a scotsman who lived in Salford. Not that it matters. folk songs belong to no one, they belong to everyone
@@humdunkin328 Born and brought up in Broughton, Salford ... with Scottish parents.
What is that painting at 0:16?
Spotify is empty!
The Pogues are from mainly London.
@502shellbell Love this song. Paolo made it so deep and tragic.
this song was written by luke kell from the original dubliners band from ireland and is about a place in england called salford near manchester and when the dubliners went to do a recording of their music and play in england they stayed in salford and it was a dirty old town so they wrote and made the song while they were there and was in the 70`s and then in the 80`s the pogues made it more famous with their cover of it and the rest is history :)
well it is a reasonable assumption to make. made famous by the pogues and has been covered again and again by Irish trad groups
PETER NARDINNI, SO COOL.