This morning.
Via The Beatles:
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Thank Fergus it’s Friday.
That means another weekly music competition. With the solstice almost upon us, it seems an apt time to ask: What’s your favourite song about or which mentions winter?
Reply below to be in with a chance of winning a tinsel-strewn €25 Golden Discs voucher.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my good elf.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close at 5.45pm 10pm Saturday 11am.
Nick says: Good luck!
last week’s winners here
The Floors – She Floated Into Heaven
Concluding our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, put your hands together for 1990s art-rock acolytes The Floors who were led by Carlow-born renaissance man David Donohue.
The Floors major releases were their debut Truths And Distortions (top) on the legendary Setanta label in 1992 and Superbe on the Dead Elvis imprint in 1996.
This live recording was filmed by Darragh Byrne in the Hole In The Wall bar in Kilkenny and features Donohue in great form alongside Luka Bloom and Ken Nolan who accompany him on guitars.
Nick says: And we all float on.
Nick adds: Thanks for a great series.
Earlier: You May Stream This
Praise be to Pipkin!
Reader Andy Pipkin has very kindly made a Spotify playlist featuring most of the songs featured in our You May Remember This series.
We are humbled and grateful.
Andy writes:
“With only a week to go before the big guy arrives, look at it as an early Christmas pressie. I’ve called it, Now That’s What I Call Underrated. Hope your readers enjoy it.”
Now That’s What I Call Underrated (Spotify)
Nick says: Santy Pipkin.
Previously: You May Remember This on Broadsheet
Chasing Abbey – Lately
Anyone for pizza?
Tullamore dance trio Outro, Bee Fade and Teddy C aka Chasing Abbey go on an Offaly big adventure for their new video.
Directed by the band and Usman Akhtar, the video features Instagram influencers Niamh Cullen and Bonnie Ryan as well as James ‘Exchequer Street Boy’ Kavanagh in the leading roles.
Teddy C explains:
“The song is about finding that special bond with someone, embracing the good and the bad and believing in a future with that person.
“It hints at a mutual understanding that things have the potential to go further between these two people. There is a sense that no matter what has happened or will happen, they will find a way.”
A new acoustic version of Lately has just been released.
Nick says: Abbey Christmas!
Stump – Charlton Heston
Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, BS contributor Vanessa holds a torch for lovable Cork eccentrics Stump, who were led by the late, great Mick Lynch (top second right).
Charlton Heston was a single from their 1988 album on Ensign Records A Fierce Pancake which received regular airplay at the time on the Dave Fanning Show on 2FM.
The video was directed by Tim Pope, one of the leading music promo directors of that time.
Nick says: … put his vest on.
Dublin shoppers throwing around money at Christmas since Nineteen hundred and splash. 🎅🏽 pic.twitter.com/jyi308GNbG
— Photos of Dublin (@PhotosOfDublin) December 17, 2020
Year, anyone?
Ross Breen – Merry Christmas At First Light
Have yourself a very synthful Christmas.
Kildare singer/songwriter Ross Breen (top) gets the keyboards out to deliver a seasonal ditty for our times that was written and recorded during lockdown.
Ross says:
“I come from a background of family and social life where gatherings with music are intrinsic to the enjoyment of Christmas. For many, music is a tie binding us together during this period. Art can unify when restrictions keep us apart.
“[the song] envisages the close of 2020, how we will be engaging with our families, friends and partners during this time, and how it will be different to what we’ve known before.”
Nick says: A bright new dawn.
Mother – We Will Dance Again
Buzz O’Neill Maxwell writes:
Our lovely pals at Mother [old school club night located at Lost Lane, Dublin. for disco loving queer folk and their friends] made this… there is something in my eye ( not the vaccine :)
Words: Cormac Cashman; music: Daithí; videographer: Joe McGovern and narration by Shaun Dunne.
Mother merch here
Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford
Wales will move into Tier 4 restrictions on Christmas Eve. This is just cruel now.https://t.co/59c2uS3gG2
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) December 16, 2020
Utterly Daffyt.
Coronavirus control plan: alert levels in Wales (WalesGov)
Covid: Boxing Day sales off in Wales ahead of lockdown on 28 December (BBC)
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