It’s Friday!
OK, we could all do with a lift this weekend. What better way to take our minds off the lockdown than with another music competition?
This week I want to know what song [1960-2020] by an Irish artist is the most underrated?
Reply below and you could be in with a chance to win a golden-leafed €25 Golden Discs voucher.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my parish priest.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines MUST close at Saturday 6am.
Nick says: Good luck!
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Let me start with this gem from the brilliant Lir with Wikerman.
Totally underrated band, unfortunately ran into legality issues and have since broken up.
But a class tune.
https://youtu.be/8tqGR1CRd58
Enjoy
Sure, if I told you the answer to this one, well, then it wouldn’t be the most underrated song anymore..!!!
Gemma Hayes – Home
https://youtu.be/LKvbnAjr6UU
Another good one. Saw her live in the back of a pub in Kilkenny many moon’s ago.
Name that pub, anyone?
Apologies for the apostrophe.
Matt The Millars, or Langtons?
Nope.
Cleere’s, big ears.
Thanks for playing, GiggidyGoo.
Cleere’s?
A photo finish – Time: 4:17pm – unless Bodger has the seconds, or nanoseconds, as the case may be.
Don’t worry Mr. Madigan, I’ll send you a €25 voucher that will never arrive.
Ah now. If anyone is owed a voucher please write to me or Nick at broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. There was a long delay with the lockdown but a bunch has been sent out to winners. I’m sure some here can, er, ‘vouch’ for that.
got both of mine, Christmas shopping.. done
Cheers Ben. I’d settle for a pint in Cleere’s. oh wait…
Janet doesn’t count.
She’d sell her soul for a pair of warm socks!
what’s left of it
There’s always enough.
Janet got 2? One of them was mine!
Janet won two…brrrrrapppppp
Never in Cleere’s. Had a few good nights in KK though. Stayed in the Club House Hotel a few times. You needed a GPS to find the room though. Langston’s and Matt’s were the lovely ones at the time.
Cleere’s is a fine spot. Billy Byrne’s too.
On a good night this place can be fun
https://www.holeinthewall.ie/
Lovely? Lively
Langton’s (hotel) was mental, back in the day!
Bring back the day!
@Janet
How’s the hoovering going, any musical tips?
‘Tis a Friday!
I just finished the dusting so ready to go ! Got to get through this lot see if I’m inspired !
Hope they’re wireless headphones!
Seriously, surely you have some recommended tunes?
haha everything is sexier with bluetooth,
not sure if they are underrated or already mentioned but I really enjoy this shower,
The Gloaming, The Hare
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0r3az3aXE&feature=share
poo wrong link ( that was earlier a dedication to Johnny ;))
here is The Hare
https://youtu.be/eIElM6iMdiY
; )
Anything from Gemma’s album Night On My Side
The 4 of Us – She hits me
https://youtu.be/EGx6CrR47z8
love this
+ 1
Nice. Can’t understand why these guys weren’t mega.
Agreed, used to go to see them live a lot bitd.
+ 1
I saw them a few years ago in Whelans, down to just two, the brothers Declan and Brendan. Still brilliant.
Whipping Boy – When we were young
https://youtu.be/mifMjKT4Tl0
You wish.
Acunamanacana by Stoat.https://youtu.be/sXb_WPrkGFs
Nick,am very curious to hear your choice, sympathy for the dishevelled, great name, will have to wait until later.
tell the priest to stay safe, and don’t leave the parish.
HappyFriday
eamonn
This wonderful tune from, The Danger Is – All For Love.
Why these guys didn’t make it is beyond me, unique vocals, catchy and brilliant live.
https://youtu.be/YCrWyWvZCr4
Enjoy
Really nice- drums on a bad reverb at the start for some reason.
Was that video shot in RTÉ studio 8? I had a blazing row with my last girlfriend while recording in that studio- we had too much in common- she liked tall skinny men and while recording- she found out that so did I.
Seriously that happened- poor Phil Cooke didn’t know where to look.
SOQ, girlfriend? I thought your username stood for Some Old Queen!
Ha, I should have read to the end of your comment before I typed that.
Lucy Jones Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggZkYBzOMgk
The brilliant Revelino with She’s Got The Face, brilliant band from back in the day and still as fresh today.
https://youtu.be/nbwQPeSgZtI
Enjoy
Hard Street – Energy Orchard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_5mak0OJDo
A staple of London’s Irish pub rock scene for years Energy Orchard were a fabulous live band who never quite matched their early promise thanks to terrible management by their record company.
But on a Saturday night when the Mean Fiddler was jammed and they were on fire there was no-one better.
Happy days.
Sailor Town for me- I felt Joby Fox’s bum recently- still as pert as ever- he asked me to btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlpDKqJ3B-A
Simple Kid – Serotonin – I’d argue the Kid is one of the most underrated Irish artists full stop. He quit the business for a number of years due to lack of success but is back making music again, and it’s still great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm_VziGiI08
A House – Why me?
https://youtu.be/TTVh3IBfm0Q
OMG, for once, I have to agree with you Bertie.
Nice pick.
“Alexa, define backhanded compliment….”
Alexa is a lying biatch!
Straight up.
The Brilliant Trees – Talent
https://youtu.be/2tjjnMgT4JU
(what a riff!)
Pony Club – Dorset Street
https://youtu.be/pE222oFqJ_o
Fight like apes – Jack Summers-
Off their first album, Jake Summers features the feel good flavor of FLA’s signature sound. Included in the package are the witty and hilarious lyrics delivered with urgency by singer May-Kay.
Those guys should have big and not fading away after three (excellent) albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNSoWSvyX4
Cry Before Dawn: Gone Forever- a great emigrant’s lament. A fantastic recognisably “Irish” tune and certainly underrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB9DXZessX0
Great choice.
(We used to jokingly call them ‘Tears After Midnight’) The hall in the video is Dun Mhuire, Wexford.
+ 1
Everything from Jack L.
A-House.
The Stunning.
Underrated, defined as not as globally popular as U2.
Jack L is still the sexiest man on earth.
Absolutely incredible live – would recommend the Opera House in Cork for best experience.
As per last week’s post, Jack L and the Black Romantics live in the DA club was one of the highlights of my early 20s….
Halley’s Comet passing through the Pleiades was mine – 1986, I think!
In fairness, some serious roses there.
And now something a bit different, went too see these guys live and they were amazing. The energy on stage overflowed into the crowd and it was mesmerising.
Adebisi Shank – International Dreambeat
https://youtu.be/UNW4yF5Drn8
That’s brilliant! Never heard of these guys.
Cheers Papi,
Well worth checking out,
in a similar vain the brilliant,
And So I Watch You From Afar – S Is for…
Unbelievable live, and completely underrated!
I’ll hopefully be back later with some evening tunes!!
https://youtu.be/wABtJGNSl8c
The supremely gifted songwriter, Sean Milllar aka Dr Millar released an album called The Bitter Lie in the mid-nineties. Almost every song tells a tale of growing up in the aftermath of Dev’s Ireland from the 60’s to the 90’s. A Good Little Country and St Stephen make me rage ever so slightly. Alcohol Problem lives true even today and Your Not Paranoid speaks to his humour.
But Happy Can Be is a quirky but gorgeous little love song that is so perfectly Irish.
https://youtu.be/6qRveNgZ6UY – for a more recent live recording.
Check the album out here…. https://seanmillar.bandcamp.com/album/the-bitter-lie
The fellah should be a household name.
Also, Nick, if your Parish Priest is judge, force him to listen to St Stephen….
An emotional fish: grey matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCPncYGlZaI
an infinitely more cerebral (couldnt resist) little brother to the puking and fighting in the pubs “celebrate”.
a lovely early 80s video of a snowy dublin and lyrics like “i drilled a hole in my head to let the sun shine through.”
whats not to love?
I think that’s a great tune, hell, even ‘Celebrate’ is a good tune.
However, I believe someone here really – and I mean really – hates Gerard Whelan.
I can’t be the only one.
Shouldn’t detract from the quality of the earlier tunes.
Perfect anthems for an emerging Ireland.
Here’s a Ger Whelan-free version in Italian from Vasco Rossi
https://youtu.be/p3Bobi4h-gg
The genre isn’t really my cup of tea, but I’ll never understand how Mama’s Boys didn’t have a UK or US top ten hit with Needle in the Groove. Great tune, great video (for the time),and great hair. Fermanagh never sounded so good. https://youtu.be/n0uywUcZlm8 Far worse bands found success.
Gerard Whelan is a ledge.
End of …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThChRCjPeak
Two, both of a similar theme, underrated but shouldn’t be
Rí Rá, 25 o clock in the morning
https://youtu.be/7ngRJq2lNmk
Scary Eire, hould your whisht
https://youtu.be/3qmaIdQ_-wU
Scullion; Eyelids Into Snow:
Original line-up with the late Greg Boland, Philip King’s high harmonies and gentleman-troubadour, Sonny Condell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9i0sNbaWNY
+1.
a laid back No Disco classic from way back: The Jubilee Allstars “Keep on Chewin'”
Bonus of some great 90s Dublin footage in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb7EIdCwm8o
Disconauts should not be forgotten.
Can’t find an appropriate deep house track on youtube.
Perhaps someone else may have better luck.
https://youtu.be/TtQJZPHt7cM
Horslips King of the Fairies. Great bit of Irish prog rock and a lovely bit of film.
Public Image Ltd -The Flowers of Romance-Banging The Door.
A defiant tour de force,the pivotal forerunner of techno and industrial music and ‘uneasy’ music.
A spare and mesmerizing album,with no Jah Wobble,described as ‘Arabesque’ due to its tonalities and chants,often sounding Middle Eastern or from another world.
The cover features style icon and edgy rock n roll chic, Jen Lee with a red flower between her teeth a la carmen and the pestle from Vivian’s then stylist Yvonne God’s kitchen.Lee went on to become one most influential and powerful women in music as co-owner of Rough Trade.
Banging the Door has been described as remorseless,starting out with…Lydon spitting at you.
“What do you want? You’re irritating, go away/It’s not my fault that you’re lonely.”
“Why worry now? You’re not dead yet/You’ve got a whole lifetime to correct it/You’re wasting, admiring hating…
HELLO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbAgiTN2gM
“This week I want to know what song [1960-2020] by an Irish artist is the most underrated?”
Good shot, sniper.
Irish.
Don’t you hate these competitions?
you spilt something on yourself again, Lydon is in Venice Beach today probably having his cup morning joe strolling the boardwalk,he wrote that song after M15 raided and wrecked his flat again in London for supporting the IRA,you’d better let him know he’s not Irish as he emigrated to La over getting harassed for being “Irish”.
Banging The Door is sometimes described as the sound of the cops knocking-but given you still live with your elderly mother in a little village, wtf would you know about being “Irish” in London or music…..
Cool story bro.
..oh his mum Eileen was from Carrigrohane,his dad from Tuam but i let him know next time i see him having a smoke and a cup coffee outside The Green Goddess,that his seminal groundbreaking work, doesn’t quite qualify for the ‘sheet weekly song competition…as he’s not “Irish” enough for you!
Yeah
His mam was well known and very much part of the London Cork/ Co Kilburn / Dagenham Yank scene in the La Salette club
My Aunty Sheila (by marriage to my Uncle Bernie ) and her sister Maureen who never married but all but lived with the Foran’s in Kilburn, now long gone, rip, but all very much missed, were great pals with Eileen.
They’d bring over and back parcels etc for each other. Aunty Maureen had her own car so was always over via the Inishfallen with news and stuff.
Not sure about this, I do remember talk in the house on-time about the Lyndon’s living in the same estate as Bernie and Sheila
Massive fabulous flats in fairness
I’ll ask my Dad – if not him
My brother definitely as he lived with them for a while in the early 80s and to this day is still over and back,
Himself and their two sons, my cousins, are all season ticket holders (Chelsea)
Limericks Apex Twin has a bit Rotten in him,Lydon’s a fixture and has been in the LA post punk art and music scene for years, in my opinion he is by far the most gifted and influential Irish musician of his generation.
“When police carry out wishes from government, without any law being in place, you are living in a police state and it is no longer a democracy. When you are held under house arrest, when no crime has been committed, you are living in a police state and it is no longer a democracy. You didn’t think this could happen did you? Do you know what rights you could lose next, can you guess? You have been warned.”
He just released sorry ‘dropped’ some new tracks here)
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72357
Aphex Twin – Stone In Focus
There is a ten hour version, but if you have a chill Saturday ahead, this is not worst way start,with nice cup coffee and a spliff.An old friend has a NY weed deliver business, went from 2,000 a day to 10,000 a day,high grade flower/grass.
Have a great weekend V,sorry hear about the pubs but cannabis sales are off the charts:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86g1aop6a8
someone was spoofing you, frillz
holloway all the way, as he says himself
and an unapologetic arsenal fan
Nearly forgot this gem, which i heard on MT usa wayyyyyyyyy back and which was a staple of the show for a few months
the subterraneans: game show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAAEF8MibY
Probably not underrated here in Ireland, but for the life of me, I can’t understand why this wasn’t a worldwide hit.
Sultans of Ping – Where’s Me Jumper?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM
Best wedding song ever!
Class!
Fun fact, I once accidentally headbutted the guitar player. Intentionally headbutted Roy Keane once too.
And on vocals?
Dr Niall O’Flatherty, Senior Lecturer in the History of European Political Thought, King’s College London.
As you were, Otis.
or this:
https://youtu.be/S1ttnP3ICO4
on rhythm guitar – Dr Breffni O’Rourke, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Trinity College Dublin
talking of underrated Irish bands / songs, you could include a few Toasted Heretic ones. never made it beyond cult status even in Ireland. maybe a little ahead of their time.
“The sun goes down on Galway Bay
The daughter goes down on me
Her dad’s not due till one or maybe two
And I’m as happy as I’ll ever be…”
Good Man, Julian Gough.
Stoat – Oh Happy Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQBPZLHYPk
How this song has only had 1300 views on youtube in 8 years I’ll never know, it’s unbelievably good. It’s criminally underrated, it’s an amazing song, not just an amazing irish song. It’s catchy but lyrically gifted.
I’m also happy to see it’s not the only song by Stoat nominated!
Stoat. Criminally ignored and under appreciated. Such a pity. I too was chuffed to see I was not the only Stoat fan.
Rocky de Valera & The Rhythm Kings – John Wayne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5zseUnXZrc
They don’t make them like this anymore!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mbObxMAIHE
The Ultra Montanes – Ageing Starlet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbHh7ynKPgU
The Stars Of Heaven – Lights Of Tetouan
just one of my favourite ever songs
nomos
I will set you free
https://youtu.be/L4e98qLz8XI
upliftment of the utmost order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxO-VTcuA8
Villagers – Nothing Arrived
maybe not the greatest singer – i know bertie doesn’t rate him – but an extraordinary songwriter
By jove Brother he’s a new one to me but that’s a cracker.
Lady Charger just wandered into the man-cave to ask who was singing that gorgeous song.
there may be hope for you yet, charger
here’s another for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr0UXg9qq3Y&list=PL98EF12AC0EA10FA9&index=26
As you know yourself Brother even the roughest of diamonds has some smooth edges.
In my younger days I often wooed the gals with some lachrymose bedsit music but the beast in me was always caged by frail and fragile bonds.
A cad and a bounder will always be a rotter.
Two of my favourite Irish voices.I wish Juliet Turner was still making music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34bg294BiOs
I once saw brian kennedy in the queen of tarts cafe on dame street
I watched him consume his own bodyweight (at least) in cake in the span of not more than 25 minutes
(that is NOT a homophobic comment )
@Brother Barabbas
As a homophobe, I am deeply offended.
What about that other Turner, Pierce. Wicklow Hills.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nzLafI_Qamg
Nice one. Always liked that.
Cake or no cake, his late brother, Bap Kennedy, had a sweeter voice. Moonlight Kiss.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zbJsKsdnqZc
As a homophobic homosexualist I need scale before I will converse any further- imperial or metric is fine- preferably with pics.
Also agree with your comment on Bap Lilly but neither were very helpful to up-and-coming artists back in the day- rude in fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trLZFWX6HeY
Mic’s Heyday
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2AGNN9JWi8
The National Prayer Breakfast – Feeding Frenzy
Tony Koklin – Claude Monet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbEs5ipZDE
He definitely knows that he’s not van Gogh, but he may be Claude Monet!
Blink – Going to Nepal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpvIcnH0S-E
Forget yer 182’s, this is the original Blink
Nina Hynes – Mono Prix
Don’t seem to be able to post links for some reason
To the rescue:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcw6GADsiaI
A Ben in need is a Ben indeed
; )
Putting this one into yere playlists again
Stump’s Charlton Heston Veston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWa3ouFWwJs
RIP Mick xV
Fair Play V, Had totally not remembered that. thanks
More Cork?
Nun Attax – White Cortina
https://youtu.be/xux51enxSxw
Straight outta Glounthane.
Microdisney – Birthday Girl
https://youtu.be/JVK4896R4DU
Irish music is not my forte so looking forward to going through these later !
From the opening unforgettable line to the brilliant chorus the fantastic,
Sack (not Sacks as on YouTube) and
Laughter lines!!
https://youtu.be/-h9N5X5RUow
The Idiots Pinned from the 1993 Demo on Dirt records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQzFYp9Adpg&ab_channel=YT2006 A lovely ditty about sharing a squat with a heroin addicted Rentboy who overdosed on a number of occasions.
OR
Into paradise:- Gently Falls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpKWF0t0G4&ab_channel=IntoParadise-Topic
Another lovely tune about suicide. and a failed love affair.
Dublin Bands of the 90’s. Great Tunes, Miserable lyrics. No money. Little hope. Hand rolled cigarettes. Cans. But we were young. God we were young.
The Idiots were a great band! Brilliant live, first time I ever saw a bass player using pedals!
I was going to suggest Beretta by Turn, but listening back it hasn’t held up as well as this gem from a band who never seemed to get the attention they deserved
The Ambience Affair – Devil in the Detail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkGQJKZrEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhbs3u9AUbA
Le Galaxie – Midnight Midnight
knew nothing about la galaxie but ended up at a gig in the workmans. had reluctantly taken an e; kicked in as this got going – that moment when, before you realise it, your eyes are closed, your head’s swaying gently – and this tune is on loud. it was great.
A sentiment that I was taught from an early age and is still embedded in my DNA.
This little beauty,
Pugwash – It’s Nice Too Be Nice
https://youtu.be/bgVwfeCgZKQ
Especially in these strange times!
What about these power pop beauty by The Blades. You were feet will be tapping to this.
https://youtu.be/8GSfHOVmkF8
Top choice DOC.
great tune, Paul Cleary, to my mind is a national treasure
This one from the partisans is another classic
Lyric of the day – he beat me black and blue, it’s a colourful life without you
https://youtu.be/YtX_iXP5Fkw
This one used to rattle the windows up and down our street back in the day.
Been known to upset car alarms too.
Oisín Lunny the Irish connection and DJ one.
Halcyon days
Marxman
From the underrated album 33 revolutions per minute
All about eve
https://youtu.be/QSPF9a6lCL8
I had a bit of thing for Marxman and “Sad affair” back in my teenage days…. I think it was banned on radio (unless I’m mistaken……)
Not only an underrated song/band but this video is fantastic, Made over 10 years ago on a shoestring budget
The Gandhis – Mr Data
https://youtu.be/uELLIiAwWM0
Enjoy
Leslie Dowdall – Wonderful Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4hHrdgRDpI
Young Muchacho nearly once asked Leslie out, nearly. I know she would have said yes.
A House, Kick Me Again Jesus.
Christ, their gigs were so great. (There went the) good times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62QoeaGvPNU
For a cHO
The Gorehounds
Ten pair of shoes, from the album semtex
https://youtu.be/Rk-e3rDPrm8
I am open to correction on the Irish aspect of this,but I am going to chance my arm anyhow. I saw them once in the backroom of a wexford pub,it was a massive night.
There is also this great catchy ditty by Stepaside. It’s one hell of a tune.
https://youtu.be/YHcs5qE6d_8
Used to listen to this while conttemplating more of my wages going to the gent who owned my bedsit
than to feed me… oh woe,
Moving hearts
Landlord.
https://youtu.be/UCHNt-HUvW4
Declan Sinnott
I love the noise it makes
https://youtu.be/CCyte0_WBKQ
As my favourite detective Columbo would say Just one more thing. This is a great number 1 by No Sweat from 1989 produced by Joe Elliot from Def Leppard. Sadly the band is no more and the lead singer Paul Quinn is now a wedding singer. https://youtu.be/HNkIsmEJt-o
The Lookalikes – Can I take You Home Tonight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJdOfK25sU
This homegrown group could hold their own with the best international competition at the time.
My favourite Christmas song
Frank Kelly – Christmas Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkF7fpw-wI
Yes, that is Father Jack telling Nuala what a slurry head she is.
That Petrol Emotion
Creeping to the Cross
https://youtu.be/aV-iLn2Li0o
The last time I got a bloody lip in a moshpit was leaping around like a lunatic to this lot this lot,you know what happens when you meet yourself ?
A fairwell gig in a venue who’s name escapes me now. In the Angel, london.
Good times.
Loved ‘That Petrol Emotion’ back in the day.
Preferred trying to harmonise rather than moshing – albeit from the safety of my walkman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8
The Fatima Mansions-Only Losers Take The Bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjYat5b7hYY
The Frank And Walters – After All
Rollerskate Skinny – Speed to My Side https://youtu.be/QpFRIu8skLc
Loved that tune when it came out
I remembered this one just after I submitted my Stoat pic. Supremely listenable song. I’ve lovely memories of bopping to Speed to my Side in Fibbers many many moons ago.
The old Fibbers. The place I heard Nirvana for the first time.
Can’t beat the first.
lots of firsts in fibbers ;)
Ah yes. Teen spirit played six times one night. Fun, fun.
4 Rhythm – Maniac (Sound Crowd)
An absolute classic, absolutely trashed in the years since release by plonkers shouting over it. This mix in particular by Mark Kavanagh and Tim Hannigan brings me right back!
Grab your white gloves, your whistles and a tub of vicks for the backpack.
Whats your name? What have you had? Reach for the lasers. Oi Oi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdSixxuMxto&feature=emb_title
I honestly don’t think these are underated, at least not in my house, but they definitely should be up there with the greats,
Kila, glanaidh mé
https://youtu.be/Hoz5HRcLWX8
And when you see these live, with up to thirty people on stage giving it socks, you’ve seen a bloody good show.
What about a bit of Fish go Deep?
The Jazz
https://youtu.be/biwGNuoaEyQ
Super!
I was lucky enough too see this artist live and she was sublime. Then I was fortunate enough too get too know her and fell in love with her, but alas that was many moons ago.
Valerie Francis – Punches
https://youtu.be/vI_VH7gxapg
How about Noggin from Ste Brown. Catchy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E9LpqRNznBs
One of a kind: Michael O’Shea performs ‘Mo Chara’ live on ‘The Live Mike’, RTE 1980. Performance involves the use of paint brushes and a converted door that he found in Germany. Mike Murphy doesn’t know what to make of him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ka7I2Cbheo
This gorgeous piece of music by the beautiful
Zoe Conway and John Mcintyre, translated, I Will Find Solace, utterly spine tingling!
https://youtu.be/LwGL1p3cB4g
Enjoy
It has to be the last May release of Living For The Lockdown by Gama Bomb :)
Recorded by the band members in lockdown in Dublin and London. This is a fun, energetic, topical ride!
Explosive from the start with a proper deadly old skool thrash metal sound that Gama Bomb do so well it will have you bouncing off the walls of your living room, kitchen or wherever you are bound to in the confines of your own house.
This sound really takes me back to my early days of thrash metal and having a proper laugh without a care in the world.
And lord knows we all need to shut off for a bit and let loose now and again… Put away all the delicate ornaments, whack it up to eleven and go mental :0)
(proceeds went to Dublin Simon Community for this too… Great bunch o’ lads, they’re the bomb!)
Lyrics… GAMA BOMB, Living for the Lockdown!
Nowhere to go
Nothing to do
Drinking in the daytime
Living in a curfew
Watching the news
How long can it last?
My personal hygiene Is a thing of the past
I don’t know when I can get out
But when I do we’re gonna paint the town
Drinking, dancing, and messing around
‘Till then we are Living for the lockdown
I am on Zoom
You are on Zoom
Asleep on the bog
Eating in the bedroom
You’ve run out of hash
Fifteen viewings of Tango And Cash
The hardest thing
Is usually the right thing
I’d go insane
If it wasn’t for The Tiger King
Dreaming of a pint
On the other side
A small price to pay
For saving a life
https://youtu.be/5YD6kA8FJ9M
In fairness, Clampers, South Park already did this.
And, it was way funnier.
https://piratebay.live/torrent/36630817/South.Park.S00E42.The.Pandemic.Special.1080p.AAC.2.0-PRiCK%5BTGx%5D
This is humour.
Yeah but did they do it with a thrash metal soundtrack… Hmmmm.
I’ll have to find another link to see that special :)
Granny’s Intentions – Maybe (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuwF3uBZq3g
Solid rocker -Gary Moore guesting on lead guitar adds a touch of class. Band name is not very rock ‘n roll though!
Play loud…
Pillow Queens – Liffey
https://youtu.be/ZxHQbL11gzM
And lyrical genius from the Mothership
“He always beat me at Subbuteo
’cause he flicked the kick
And I didn’t know”
The Undertones – My Perfect Cousin
https://youtu.be/Pgqa3cVOxUc
The most underrated and ignored Irish act since 1960, and still the most important that keeps on keepin on is RiRa.
https://youtu.be/1CNsvjKuzFk
If it’s underrated you’re after, then look no further than the Afro Celts.. bridged trad, Afro and techno.. sublime.. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDEMdRO_f-WzGt79Amjx6nzyug&feature=share&playnext=1
“…a hymn book skimmed my ear
but I was only grazed
I dived for cover
as the sawn-off Bibles blazed
in the gore I gasped
“Was it something I said?”
then a solid granite altar
hit me on the head
a collection plate plunged deep into my groin they marched off discussing
the Battle of the Boyne…”
Skewering the North’s religious dysfunction since 1985.
Andy White – Religious Persuasion
https://youtu.be/nZCO0W05nCU
And finally from me, a song that is perfect for bedtime, the amazingly underrated Hidden Highways, these guys should have been massive.
What they did in studio they easily reproduced live, absolutely loved them.
https://youtu.be/MybJVHwmYjI
As always thank you too everyone who contributed today and more then likely tomorrow (looking forward to the picks)
Makes my weekends!
And to Nick and Golden Disc for their continued support for Irish music!
If these are some of the underrated songs it’s fair too say we’ve a pretty good standard of artists in our little ol country.
We’re gonna need some creamy pints for this one.
Liam Devally – An Poc ar Buille
https://youtu.be/nqD8MZHC5Lw
Ha! Brilliant!
Sure why not have another beauty from Donegal based Dean Maywood. This is proper country and not the shite you see on TG4 and the Late Late. https://youtu.be/6MQVyfxmSaM
Most of the acts listed here are completely overrated!
These guys on the other hand…
The late Alec Finn, RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHFIqOjeW7U
Another band I’m surprised didn’t make it bigger
Something Happens – Burn Clear
https://youtu.be/Ihs_EFPxKJk
Probably better known for their provocative “Dublin is Dead” T-shirt.
Puppy Love Bomb – I’m Not Listening
https://youtu.be/qkQxpGNhzKM
Sacred Heart Hotel ~ Stars of Heaven