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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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Just came across this excellent little video of Jinx Lennon’s song ´My Guitar is a Magic Wand´.
Enjoy.

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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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the expression ‘working classes’ shall include mechanics, artizans, labourers, and others working for wages, hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others except members of their own family; and persons, other than domestic servants, whose income in any case does not exceed an average of 60/- […]

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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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There’s an old photograph of Dan that I wish you could-a seen
Of him and the boys posed, standing in St. Stephen’s Green
Ya see, they were a part of the great freedom dream
But they were caught and detained and are locked inside the frame
of the photograph (Shades of a blue orphanage)
It took me a while […]

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About a year ago, a number of Irish left-wing bloggers met up in Cusack´s pub on the North Strand Road in order to talk about creating a new online left-wing journal. Today, the journal finally went online. It´s name is the Irish Left Review, and it can be found here.
The idea for the journal is […]

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For what use is anything
If I don’t have the wisdom and warmth
Of my past generations
If I need strength
To take bad on,
I just look back to
where I came from. (My national pride)
Formed in 1978 by Kevin Rowland, Al Archer and Pete Williams, Dexy´s Midnight Runner´s first hit was “Burn it down”, a song that looked at […]

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(L-R: Ricky Dineen, Mick Stack, and Finbarr Donnelly)
A couple of months ago, as part of our Great Irish Bands series, we did a short post on Five Go Down To The Sea? and Finbarr Donnelly.
On Friday (15 February), a radio documentary on the life and times of Donnelly was released as a podcast. […]

 

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A few years ago, a little earlier in my ‘crank’ phase ( I assume I’m still in it - why else would I be posting this up ? ), I sent an e-mail to somebody in Dublin Corporation suggesting they should name something after Liam Whelan. Their reply was something along the lines that if […]

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