There are at least three artists with this name:
1) Matt McGinn (born 1… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least three artists with this name:
1) Matt McGinn (born 1928 - died 1977) was a Glasgow singer songwriter and poet who came to prominence in the 1960's with his prolific catalogue of folk songs.
2) Matt McGinn (b1978 - ) is an Irish singer-songwriter from Hilltown, Co. Down in the Mourne Mountains who has released his debut album Livin'.
3) Matt McGinn is the guitarist for Rosita.
1. Matt McGinn was one of the most important singer songwriters of the folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born on 17th January 1928, in Ross Street, Glasgow, next to the famous "Barras " market. Matt's life would have followed the typical steps of the other poor kids that lived in the Calton; petty theft and crime, if it hadn't been for the fact that, after spending two years in approved school for stealing, a friend introduced him to left-wing politics. He was later to win a trade union scholarship to study Economics and Political Science at Ruskin College, Oxford, which was quite something for a man that had ended his formal schooling at the age of 12. While at Oxford he won a newspaper prize for "Best Folk Song" and this encouraged him to write more; indeed he was known to write five or six songs a day. He had a natural talent for rhyme and writing and he wrote songs, poems, jokes, books, plays and even a pantomine. He was first and foremost a political man who identified most with communism. Throughout his life he fought injustice and inequality, through his songs and participation in demonstrations and protests. Matt also had a great sense of humour and was a compasionate man and the range of his songs is very wide and surprising; from hard hitting social comment like With Fire and With Sword, to love songs like Janetta, to kids' songs like the Red Yo-yo, which is a favourite with school children. Matt died in 1977 yet the man and his songs are remembered more every year. He was in many ways typical of his people and social class, yet his natural talent to tell the tales of his people through song made him unique.
2. Matt McGinn is a singer songwriter from Co. Down. Born on a snowy St. Stephen's day in 1978, he was raised in Hilltown, a picturesque village amongst the Mourne Mountains. At 11 years old, after being dragged to piano lessons by the ear for six years, Matt picked up his father's Eko guitar and never looked back. After finding a love for music throughout school at St. Colman's Newry and continuing to study music at Queen's University, he has been prominent on the Belfast music scene ever since. In 2007 he took over Duke Special's East Belfast studio for a month and released his first self produced and recorded E.P., a tongue in cheek titled 'Double Bed & other wee Tunes. In December 2010 he recorded and produced his debut album Livin' to much acclaim.
He has also collaborated with artists such as Joe Echo aka Ciaran Gribbin who is now fronting INXS, Gareth Dunlop and Michael Logen who is rising to fame for his work with Johnny Lang.
more http://mattmcginnmusic.com
3) Matt McGinn is the guitarist for Rosita.
1) Matt McGinn (born 1… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least three artists with this name:
1) Matt McGinn (born 1928 - died 1977) was a Glasgow singer songwriter and poet who came to prominence in the 1960's with his prolific catalogue of folk songs.
2) Matt McGinn (b1978 - ) is an Irish singer-songwriter from Hilltown, Co. Down in the Mourne Mountains who has released his debut album Livin'.
3) Matt McGinn is the guitarist for Rosita.
1. Matt McGinn was one of the most important singer songwriters of the folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born on 17th January 1928, in Ross Street, Glasgow, next to the famous "Barras " market. Matt's life would have followed the typical steps of the other poor kids that lived in the Calton; petty theft and crime, if it hadn't been for the fact that, after spending two years in approved school for stealing, a friend introduced him to left-wing politics. He was later to win a trade union scholarship to study Economics and Political Science at Ruskin College, Oxford, which was quite something for a man that had ended his formal schooling at the age of 12. While at Oxford he won a newspaper prize for "Best Folk Song" and this encouraged him to write more; indeed he was known to write five or six songs a day. He had a natural talent for rhyme and writing and he wrote songs, poems, jokes, books, plays and even a pantomine. He was first and foremost a political man who identified most with communism. Throughout his life he fought injustice and inequality, through his songs and participation in demonstrations and protests. Matt also had a great sense of humour and was a compasionate man and the range of his songs is very wide and surprising; from hard hitting social comment like With Fire and With Sword, to love songs like Janetta, to kids' songs like the Red Yo-yo, which is a favourite with school children. Matt died in 1977 yet the man and his songs are remembered more every year. He was in many ways typical of his people and social class, yet his natural talent to tell the tales of his people through song made him unique.
2. Matt McGinn is a singer songwriter from Co. Down. Born on a snowy St. Stephen's day in 1978, he was raised in Hilltown, a picturesque village amongst the Mourne Mountains. At 11 years old, after being dragged to piano lessons by the ear for six years, Matt picked up his father's Eko guitar and never looked back. After finding a love for music throughout school at St. Colman's Newry and continuing to study music at Queen's University, he has been prominent on the Belfast music scene ever since. In 2007 he took over Duke Special's East Belfast studio for a month and released his first self produced and recorded E.P., a tongue in cheek titled 'Double Bed & other wee Tunes. In December 2010 he recorded and produced his debut album Livin' to much acclaim.
He has also collaborated with artists such as Joe Echo aka Ciaran Gribbin who is now fronting INXS, Gareth Dunlop and Michael Logen who is rising to fame for his work with Johnny Lang.
more http://mattmcginnmusic.com
3) Matt McGinn is the guitarist for Rosita.
The Ballad of John Mclean
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Coorie Doon Coorie doon, coorie doon, coorie doon, my darling Coorie do…
Get Up Get Out With the grindstone to your nose I bought a clock, a…
Go Limp Oh daughter, dear daughter, Take warning from me And dont …
Loch Lomond By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes Where the…
The Big Glasgow Polis With my handcuffs and my truncheon, my whistle and my…
The Footba' Referee Why did I ever become a footba′ referee? I coulda been…
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@flamencobob
The "straight majority" for the "Tories" was actually for the Scottish Unionists before their formal absorption by the Conservatives. They believed in decentralisation from London, Scottish administration of the Nationalised industries within Scotland, and even toyed with the idea of Home Rule. They went along with the National Health Service and the existing Nationalised industries. In many ways, they were to the left of the current Labour Party - mind you, Macmillan was to the left of the current Labour Party.
I notice you maintain a distinction between the labour and socialist movement - right enough, it's been quite a while since the commitment to socialism was edited out of the Labour Party's manifesto. After decades of corruption and broken promises in Scotland, it's no wonder we turned our backs on the Labour Party - in their insufferable arrogance, they had walked away from us a long time before.
What is left there to unite with that we could believe in? Corbyn's projected minor reforms - and they are minor - ok partly because he has to hold together the factions of a Labour Party united only in mutual hatred?
How much of Tory legislation is he going to repeal? Precious little.
Is he going to get Trident out of Scotland? No!
Why is he all in favour of Independence for any other nation on the planet but not for Scotland?
Shouldn't he be in favour of them showing solidarity with the oppressed workers in whichever country they want to get away from?
Hypocrisy and, let's face it, stupidity. He's not that bright, and he's not the Messiah.
No thanks. I want more, and if Corbyn can't get ahead in the opinion polls even after years of one of the worst governments we've seen for a century, we're not going to get it by uniting with an ineffectual Labour Party that sits on its hands when it's time to oppose the Tories.
At least in an Independent Scotland we'll have far more of a social consensus than we apparently have with the country to the south of us who have facilitated the "normalisation" of the far right, consistently vote in parties (inc. Labour) who are, as I've pointed out, far to the right of Harold Macmillan, and are moving further in that direction on a daily basis.
And, anyway, what did national boundaries ever have to do with support for progressive politics?
We weren't part of South Africa when we opposed apartheid.
We weren't Vietnamese when we opposed that war.
We weren't American when we agitated for Civil Rights.
We weren't Germans or Italians when we opposed Nazism and Fascism.
The International Brigades weren't, by definition, Spanish!
An Independent Scotland has the capacity, and the will, to be an example to the world, and to reach out a hand to other struggles and to the less-fortunate. The UK is showing little sign of that at the moment, and hasn't done so for a long time.
@alanoneill3065
John MacLean 1879-1923
19 June 2013 ·
Krassivy, Krassivy
by Hugh MacDiarmid
Scotland has had few men whose names
Matter- or should matter- to intelligent people,
But of these MacLean, next to Burns, was the greatest
But it should be of him, to every Scotsman and Scotswoman
To the end of time, as it was of Lenin in Russia.
When you might talk to a woman who had been
A young girl in 1917 and find that the name of Stalin lit no fires
But when you asked her if she had seen Lenin
Her eyes lighted up and her reply
Was the Russian word which means
Both beautiful and red.
Lenin, she said, was "krassivy, krassivy".
John MacLean too was krassivy, krassivy
A description no other Scot has ever deserved.
@auguritutto
My Scottish Glasgow born 1899 father always used to speak very heartily about J M. Very very many thanks for this video opportunity.
@saorisealba
John MacLean was a Scottish schoolteacher ("Dominie" in Scots) and Marxist educator who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1918 for agitating against the carnage of World War 1. Due to popular outrage and demonstrations, he was released after 7 months but the harsh treatment he received in prison seriously damaged his health and he died a few years later.
@dubskj01
I remember being "lifted" for non-payment of a fine and taken to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
It just so happens that the day before there was a protest taking place in Pollok Park in opposition to the planned route for the M77 motorway through woodlands and an area of natural beauty.
Some of those protesting had been arrested and were being held to appear on the same day as I was to appear for not paying my fine.
One of the protesters was the firebrand and local political activist Tommy Sheridan, who was sharing a cell with me that day.
We spoke at length about the story of John MacLean and the protests in George Square when the Westminster Home Secretary at that time, a certain Winston Churchill sent tanks in to break the protest which John MacLean led and addressed crowds from the front of Glasgow City Chambers.
"Alba gu bràth"
@hamishmaxwell-stewart969
That is quite a story! My first job was in Glasgow. The people that I met made me a socialist for life.
@nacho1560
John McLean, red McLean. The working class has changed since John's time but ffs, we still must keep this man's beliefs in the forefront. Fantastic man.
@tedtheranger
a true leader of the working class people,will we see the likes again
@springbean19
We need more men like him, right now!
@davidmogg281
Spring Bean m
@nacho1560
Amazing to see the crowds who thronged to see him and hear his message. A very caring man who cared for his fellow man very deeply and gave his life for that cause.
@glasgowgrad
I would like to start a campaign to get George Square in Glasgow renamed John MacLean Square. Anybody interested?