Flook - Sleeping Tortoise/Pressed for Time

Flook perform 'Sleeping Tortoise' and Gordon Duncan's 'Pressed for Time' with an amazing Bodhrán interlude from John Joe Kelly!
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[@KevinMeehanWhistle]

Their music is timeless. Definitely one of the finest folk bands ever.

[@certaindeaf8632]

Can't beat their energy and commitment. Wonderful music making.

[@nataliaql4035]

John Joe Kelly, you are amazing!

[@hollyturner4186]

I could watch John Joe Kelly play for hours! He's just amazing.

[@anastasiawilkie5202]

I haven't the adequate words. A total pleasure to watch and listen to ❤

[@foofy14]

All such outstanding musicians. Great songwriting and sense of timbre

[@leoniefurlow5780]

I love folk music and love this band. I think this one of the most decent kinds of music in the world.

[@BLOVECU]

totally agree. grew up on all kinds and genres. but the sound they produce brings more joy than any other at this time.

[@agentscarlett8341]

John Joe Kelly is unreal on the bodhran. Mesmerising...

[@nikiarrowsmith]

Yooooo that bodrahn was off the chain

[@Da1AliBi]

Mr. Kelly, you are amongst the best Bodhrán players I have ever heard! Your skills are phenomenal! Of course, also big respect to the other members of Flook - it is a great pleasure listening to your music! Great work!!!

[@nflder10]

You all have become one of my very favorite Irish groups. Love your music

[@jofftalbot1348]

My jaw will remain on the proverbial floor :)

[@fionnualamchugh89]

I can hardly tap my foot in time to the speed of this! lololol no idea how any of them play that fast in Pressed for Time, amazing!

[@higherandhigher5848]

A fluke discovery of these guys for me on Irish radio. Great sound, love it.

[@joshuadonahue5871]

higherandhigher *flook discovery

[@khedive99]

One of my favorite song! One of my favorite band! It always wakes up in the morning, it drives in the car, and it entertains other as my mobile has Flook for the call sound! Unbelievable performance! Greeting from Ukraine!

[@wendycampbell3801]

Geniuses all! What a sound!! Love them to pieces! :)

[@sebthirlway1634]

Especially nice video - I'm a bodhrán-player, so I'll admit I'm here mostly for JJKelly.... Because you get to hear bodhrán (at the highest level) in both solo and ensemble modes. JJ has always been the legend for precision, rhythmic imagination, and (especially) top-end beeblyboop drrrrrrr boop-da-doop [bonk] since I was first learning. Plenty of that (and humour) in his solo: but you also get to hear him as a groove musician, extra-fuelling a tune which is already on afterburner (Flook are, er, just a bit good...) with some nitro: but in the background, so that only bodhrán-geeks like me would pull it out of the overall sound. Also, how important it is to be next to a guitarist (or bouzoukist, or mandolinist, whatever) who's on the same wavelength. Lovely!

[@glendree1]

Fantastic absolutely fantastic !

[@davidcravena]

Brilliant.

[@Andres.Macuada]

Genial una música que rompe con lo tradicional, that is music!!! saludos from Chile ;)

[@lucilaangelinetti8805]

Los amo Flook! desde Argentina!

[@Harryspoonify]

That bodhran solo 😎

[@eileencregg6754]

Happy Saint Patties Say to all.. W/luv from the Irish

[@BRENDAN75100]

Unreal

[@padomon]

I couldn't believe that "bass drum" sound could come from a bodhran!

[@sergecolombet]

Délicieux!

[@FnordPrefect2342]

Folkin' awesome!!!

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Epic!

[@cibeleprado3733]

Sensacional!!!

[@kevinmccarthy1766]

If that doesn't make one step lively .wow

[@bibiafrica]

great!

[@Sharps.50]

Got to be Ian Anderson’s Daughter , a standing on ONE leg flute player & son of Ginger Baker on Bodhran .

[@stephgant7889]

yah, minute 3.... the drum. whoa Nellie .......

[@BrianClonmel]

Excuse my language but fucking brilliant!!!!!!

[@ready2roo24]

So outstanding! Two questions I have: how or what is making the deep percussion bass beat that you can hear? Also around 10:00, it sounds almost like a French horn playing. Is that low notes being played on the flute?

[@liamg1995]

The bass sound is coming from the bodhrán (pronounced bow -ron). It's a truly lovely instrument and has a great tonal range because the pitch can be changed by using the non- playing hand to press on the skin from the back of the drum. John Joe Kelly is a great bodhrán player, is Cathy Jordan from Dervish and Robbie Walsh, amongst many others. For another. Good example of bodhrán playing look for the video of Geoff Kinsella, Robbie Walsh and Daori Farrell playing galway girl in an airport. The French horn like sound is the low-whistle I think!

[@anitaholladay2389]

@@liamg1995 Sorry to dispute you, Liam, but I am quite sure the low notes are the flute, as the whistle is being played in a much higher range continuously throughout this section. (Finnegan does play low whistle and flute, but unless I'm greatly mistaken he's playing a whistle [aka pennywhistle] here; the low whistle he plays on other videos is quite a lot longer and a bit larger in diameter.)

[@liamg1995]

@@anitaholladay2389 no worries, on further listening, and a bit of re- education about whistles on my part, I've realized that I didn't know what I was talking about !

[@schwarzconroy2620]

Can I play Bass with you guys and Gals....Please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Cazabisarmes]

VIVA FLOOK!!!!!

[@leemckerrow1986]

Drum solo had techno influence

[@danipocholo]

2:56 OMG

[@justinliberati9304]

gert lush x

[@daisukequdow7598]

太鼓の音の感触が 気持ちいい〜

[@patrickcrayton3622]

5:48

[@joshuadonahue5871]

Anyone know what the outro tune is?

[@TomStanierSound]

Last tune as part of the set was Pressed For Time, the "outro" of the whole video under the credits is a short snippet of another Flook tune written by Sarah Allen, Granny In The Attic...

[@deonlouw2442]

What is the name of the song in the outtro?

[@erikm8372]

Pressed for Time

[@teacherfrank1022]

Which is Brian's whistle exactly???

[@pauldavies9360]

I read he uses Colin Goldie Overton whistles.

[@ariellelionessofYah]

He’s playing an Goldie in A for the first tune.

[@ariellelionessofYah]

And then he’s playing an Eb Goldie for “pressed for time” (the tune at the end)👍

[@beemoo7128]

If the brothers Young had learned to pipe instead of noodle..!

[@amokreutz]

not nice ... great :)

[@WhiskyBizz]

Well that Bodhrahn solo was an utter waste of my time.

[@BLOVECU]

as was your unrequested comment for the rest of us.

[@garymelnyk7910]

You came here by mistake obviously. I think you were looking for a “How to Improve Your Spelling” platform.