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 […]
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I’m hoping to have a retrospective of Barry McCormack’s work soon for Dublin Opinion. In the meantime I just want to highlight his gig tonight in Crawdaddy, on the occasion of the launch of his new album, Night Visiting.
Songs from the new album are available for listening on his myspace profile.
Barry’s older work is […]
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Below are the three songs from the Subterraneans´1987 release on Mother Records, SLUM, which I picked up on Amazon last week. The brief biog of the band comes from the wonderful Irish Punk and New Wave Discography.
Enjoy.
Formed circa1982. Carling/Hot Press Band of 1986 which should have led to a single on WEA but the label […]
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Last year I went looking for something to put up by the Great Western Squares but couldn’t find anything. Sean’s post about The Sewing Room got me looking again, and sure enough, something’s popped up. It’s their cover of “Ace Of Spades” and damn fine it is too. Their second album, Ammost Sober, is going […]
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A couple of years ago I gave my friend Colm all of my vinyl records as I was moving house (again) and didn’t have a record player and didn’t have any room for them. He kindly took them off me, and tonight he kindly offered them back. A couple of months ago I bought a […]
I'm Hardly Ever Wrong [2:56m]:
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Great Expectations [2:11m]:
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I Want To Say What Goes Without Saying [3:51m]:
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There Is There Are That's All [2:17m]:
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Just came across this excellent little video of Jinx Lennon’s song ´My Guitar is a Magic Wand´.
Enjoy.
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It took me a long time to get into the Frames, and when it finally happened, I was quite surprised and not a little embarrassed. As it stands, For the Birds is rarely off my MP3 player. The song below is taken from it.
For the band’s wikipedia entry, click here.
The official site, click here. […]
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Thanks to Reekussunfare for this. A clip of the Blades miming to “Downmarker” outside the RTE studios in Donnybrook, sometime in the early 1980s.
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Apologies to regular visitors here but we’ve slowed up considerably on the posts recently. For myself, I seem to have contracted a dose of Joycean Paralysis or Dublin Sleeping Sickness since I got back from a trip there for 10 days in April. I know Conor has a document to submit at the end of […]
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(Photo by Graham Keogh.)
A lot has been written about Jinx Lennon. All positive, and all well-deserved. A true original voice. He’s been the subject of RTE’s Arts Lives, clips from which are available on YouTube here.
From his website biog:
Jinx takes the word singer songwriter,douses it liberally with petrol lights it up and then takes a […]
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