Rollerskate Skinny – Speed To My Side
Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, readers Anto S and Gorugeen fondly recall 1990s Dublin noise boffins Rollerskate Skinny.
Dubbed Ireland’s answer to Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips, the band comprised Ken Griffin, Ger Griffin (no relation), Steve Murray and Jimi Shields (brother of My Bloody Valentine‘s Kevin) and were named after a phrase in J.D. Salinger‘s novel The Catcher In The Rye.
Speed To My Side is a single from their second and final album Horsedrawn Wishes, released by WEA in 1996.
Gorugeen writes:
“I’ve lovely memories of bopping to this song in Fibbers many, many moons ago.”
Nick says: That’s about the size of it.
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Loved this track, never realised there was an actual link to MBV (apart from the sonic one).