Dublin Opinion

I’ve been meaning to post Wormhole for a while now. Donagh mentioned them to me during the week, so that was the prod I needed to get it done.
I know very little about the band, having only picked up their Chicks Dig Scars CD last year second-hand. Thankfully, there’s a couple of websites dedicated […]

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We’ve been running our Great Irish Bands posts for about two years now, and today marks an expansion in the series. Below is a documentary/podcast on the Jubilee Allstars, one of the best bands of the 1990s. It’s based around a set of interviews held with three of the former members - Barry McCormack, […]

 

 Let Evening Bring Them Home: The Story of the Jubilee Allstars: Play Now | Play in Popup

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I’m working on a podcast documentary about the Jubilee Allstars at the moment, and I’m hoping to have it finished by the end of the month. As a bit of a run-up to it, here’s a single they put out with ROAD Records and Alpha Relish in 1999. The song is Lamplight, which ended up […]

 

 Lamplight [2:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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I’m doing a bit of research for an upcoming series of programmes on DCTV which will look at left-wing media in Ireland from the 1970s to today. Basically, I’m taking photos of old newspapers and journals and putting them into pdfs so people can read and talk about them. In order to copy the […]

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I know very little about Peter Delaney, but his song “if you become impossible” I absolutely adore. Have a listen below.
His myspace is here.
Enjoy.

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As promised last week, side two of the Gorehound’s 1989 album, Semtex.
Enjoy.

 

 Cargo Cult: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 The Day My Love Turned Sour: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Hall of Imbeciles: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Ten Pairs of Shoes [2:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie: Play Now | Play in Popup

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[Taken from irishrock.org.]
Following on from Seán’s post about the Gorehounds and haircuts, below is side one of their only album. I picked it up on Ebay and it arrived today. I hope that none of the members of the band mind the transfer to MP3. Any complaints and of course I´ll take it down. […]

 

 Ruby: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Sinking Down: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Eyeball Soup [2:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 The Drop Starts Here: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 The General: Play Now | Play in Popup

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[the disappointingly quiff-free Gorehounds from irishrock.org ]
Mentioning any of the bands to follow makes perfect sense to me following on from the death last week of the Cramps’ Lux Interior. My original intention, a couple of months ago, had been to post on The Gorehounds - often summed up as Dublin’s very own version […]

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I saw the Golden Horde play only once, and that was in McGonagles off Grafton Street sometime in the late 1980s. I first came across them in Hot Press, especially during what I now know was their “Hotwire” years - 1983-86 - and was more than a little intrigued by their collaboration with Robert Anton […]

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This is a case of “great bands” eating itself here, as the Sewing Room was comprised of members of two bands already covered by the series, Hey Paulette, and The Stars of Heaven - while Sean already talked about the Sewing Room in another post. Oh well. No matter. I picked up their album […]

 

 Mobile: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Whole Days: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Instrumental: Play Now | Play in Popup

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