http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Patti+Smith IrishCentral Patti Smith en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/off_the_record/u2-bono-and-the-boys-seem-ready-for-a-break---video-129945223.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/off_the_record/u2-bono-and-the-boys-seem-ready-for-a-break---video-129945223.html Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:40:07 PDT
Bad news came to U2 fans this week as Bono let it slip to friends that it would be a long time before we see the lads from Dublin onstage againWho could blame them? They must be knackered after the successful U2360 tour and the drama around resuscitating the Spider-Man Broadway musical!Now comes word from Rolling Stone that Jack White, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith and Damian Rice are among the artists on a forthcoming tribute album honoring the 20th anniversary of U2’s Achtung BabyThe album was commissioned by the British music magazine Q "Jack White does ‘Love Is Blindness,' Depeche Mode do ‘So Cruel,' Patti Smith did ‘Until the End of the World,' Damian Rice does ‘One READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/girl-about-town/patti-smith-ireland-and-the-catholic-church-84387637.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/girl-about-town/patti-smith-ireland-and-the-catholic-church-84387637.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:00:31 PST
Patti Smith is a rocker, poet and memoirist and, having read her memoir "Just Kids," I can also tell you she is Irish -- in ancestry at least She grew up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and her family was poor; she tells how as a child she would play games with her siblings, taking the roles of Catholic against Protestant"We fought the wars of our Irish grandfathers, the orange and the green We wore the orange yet knew nothing of its meaning READ MORE ]]>