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Above from left: Brian Foley, Paul Cleary, and Jake Reilly.

Yesterday.

Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

The Blades are inducted in to Hall of Fame at the Irish Rock ‘n Roll Museum Experience to the delight of their Lambretta/Vespa-borne army.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of The Blades hit ‘Downmarket’.

They play the Academy, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 on December 14.

‘Greasy rockers’, flying deckchairs and bellboy (out of picture).

The Blades

Irish Rock n Roll Museum Experience

For the week that’s in it.

Dublin mods on the seafront in a town called Malice Bray, Co Wicklow in the Summer of 1980, in search of ‘purple hearts’ and greasy rockers.

P-p-p-people tried to put them d-down.

Etc.

Pictures by Martin Maguire via 80sModRevival

Yesterday: They’re Tearing Down The Amusements In Bray

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus