Dublin Opinion

I think that you’re a nice girl,
I’ll take you home and meet my daddy,
And he’ll make a nice cup of tea.” (Elephants For Fun and Profit)

The search for Stump got me thinking about Finbarr Donnelly and Five Go Down To The Sea? Finbarr was the subject of a documentary broadcast on Cork Community Radio a couple of years back, entitled “Get That Monster Off The Stage”. I never heard it, and if anybody has a copy I’d love to have a listen. Thanks to Phoenix Hairpins for posting these MP3s in the first place. The following information comes from a comment left on his site.

Five Go Down To The Sea? were from Cork, Ireland and were originally called Nun Attax. They were fronted by the Northern Irish Finbarr Donnelly who was a legendary figure in Cork from the late seventies onwards. Contemporaries of Microdisney, the band moved to London circa 1984 and released the three EP’s posted here. There were a few radio sessions (one of which featured a track entitled ‘While My Guitar Meryl Streeps’) before the band resurfaced again in 1989, this time calling themselves Beethovven. Their sole release, the 12″ ‘Him Goolie Goolie Dem Man’ was single of the week in NME but unfortunately frontman Donnelly drowned in the Hyde Par serpentine pond after downing a considerable amount of cider. The rest of the band soon moved back to Cork.

The photograph I got from a French blog post which deals specifically with the “Knot A Fish 7″” (released c.1984), the songs of which are posted below.

Enjoy.

 

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