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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I was in George’s Arcade on Saturday, having a look through their Irish singles section, when I came across this from Blue in Heaven. I remember seeing them live a couple of times, the last time being the Lark in the Park in St. Annes’ sometime in the late 1980s. As far as I know […]
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I came across an old tape today, of a Vincent Browne Show special on Brendan Behan from 1998, on the occasion of what would have been the author’s 75th birthday. His guests that night included Carolyn Swift, Ulick O’Connor, and Brian Behan. It’s about forty minutes long, and the tape runs out before the end […]
Vincent Browne, Brendan Behan Speical:
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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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Another purchase from St. Vincent de Paul. This one ties into my own little history of this city. I used to play drums in a couple of bands, one of which was the Wrycatchers. I would easily rank us as one of the worst bands ever to grace the stage at the Underground on Dame […]
Trainwalkers - Girl I Used To Know [3:44m]:
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I picked this up in the St. Vincent de Paul’s shop on Sean MacDermott Street, and I have to say the most daring and radical part of the whole album is the cover. (The lady’s plan for that honey she has there, I have to say, match my own.) Anyway, the blurb on the back […]
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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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