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CraftyToePoke
17/08/2011, 2:50 AM
I am chasing the tune that opened up this show in the mid 90's, in Dineen's time there, it was an electronic as opposed to guitar led, but not Bass Odyssey's 'Twilight' track, which I'm almost sure came later. the artist may have been Decal, (or maybe that was the tune, not 100%).

Anyway, having a bit of bother putting my hand to it, and all help appreciated,

Thanks.
BonnieShels
17/08/2011, 7:05 AM
Have put out the feelers. A couple of my mates should know having been avid watchers of the show then.
BonnieShels
17/08/2011, 12:43 PM
Have been told it's Fatboy Slim, Santa Cruz.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D06ZivsDJmc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It boasts both electronically and guitars and is very familiar to me now that I've listened to it.
bluemovie
17/08/2011, 1:53 PM
Brilliant track from great album: "Better Living Through Chemistry". Didn't he also use "Smokebelch" by Sabres of Paradise (Andy 'Screamadelica' Weatherall) as theme music at one point?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGQ3iZZXaJM

Edit: How do you post youtube videos here rather than just giving the link?
BonnieShels
17/08/2011, 2:15 PM
Attach [video ] to the start of the link and [/video ] to the end of the link. Without the spaces after the 'o'.

Only have "Haunted Dancehall" so don't know Smokebelch.
BonnieShels
17/08/2011, 10:04 PM
Got this response from RTÉ today...


A number of tracks were used in Donal’s time on ‘no disco’. He also used to change the track every month in a mash up style with video elements interspersed along a theme.

But I think you might be looking for the track by Fatboy Slim ‘Santa Cruz’ which Donal used in an opening sequence in which he appeared.
The closing titles around this time was by Sabres Of Paradise a track called ‘Smokebelch II (beatless mix)’

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/5/3/129173781420498650.jpg
BonnieShels
17/08/2011, 10:15 PM
Chapter reopened...

An esteemed colleague from this parish just reminded me of this too...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatccHVfuhA
Sullivinho
17/08/2011, 11:09 PM
Ah, No Disco. There's a blast from the past. I used to watch it religiously. That and some weird, late night weekend show with Sean Moncrieff and Barry Murphy. ('Fragmentary Annals of Ireland' anyone?)

Uaneen waxing lyrical about Mercury Rev and a bunch of other stuff I'd never heard of. Happy days.
CraftyToePoke
18/08/2011, 1:17 AM
Bonnieshels, effort appreciated, but its neither of those tunes ! It was quite a minimal sounding progressive beat led track, and I keep thinking Decal was the artist or the tune title, leaning toward artist, but its a long time and a lot of nights out, ago.

Any chance of running the Decal thing past that RTE person who was good enough to reply? or I can, if you are short on time and want to send the contact. After that I may have to just leave it if nothing turns up.
BonnieShels
18/08/2011, 8:02 AM
CTP, it was mo trouble at all. It's the sort of thing that bugs me on a regular basis. When you posted this thread I started thinking and it started to annoy the hell out of me as well. Anyway in the end it was Santa Cruz that was annoying me.
I'll email your man about Decal and see what comes back.
BonnieShels
18/08/2011, 9:35 AM
Right, he got back to me.

There was a track by dECAL and he's going to check the records now for the track name.
BonnieShels
18/08/2011, 10:26 AM
Right finally have an answer...

dECAL- Excelsis (Disco Mix)

Phew.
Kingdom
18/08/2011, 10:54 AM
Happy memories.
BonnieShels
18/08/2011, 11:42 AM
Mostly sad for me as a result of Uaneen's untimely demise. That memorial in Borris-in-Ossory always made me catch my breath.

Loved the show though. One of RTÉ's finest. Discovered Junkster and Doves through it.
CraftyToePoke
18/08/2011, 1:42 PM
Right finally have an answer...

dECAL- Excelsis (Disco Mix)

Phew.

You legend - thank you.

Its been a 15 year plus search, it ends today, here she be.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCKFpukCHU
BonnieShels
18/08/2011, 1:46 PM
There's nothing like that relief at all is there?

Glad to be of service.
BonnieShels
18/08/2011, 6:23 PM
Great watching that video looking at Dublin in it.
CraftyToePoke
19/08/2011, 2:54 AM
Great watching that video looking at Dublin in it.

Its a smasher isnt it? And the tune still sounds good, has stood the time test well, great times for music, No Disco was almost like a good friend for a lot of people I knew, it didnt matter if you were skint on a Thursday as at least No Disco was on. Simpler times.

When chasing that video I also found this, it speaks to the Decal lads after about a minute or so, one of them was also in the band In Motion, remember them?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9iCJ8KlDFo
BonnieShels
19/08/2011, 7:46 AM
Watching Uaneen there actually brought a lump to my throat. Hard to believe she'd be 40 now!

I don't think there's a show like it that's held with such reverence in this country. Quite deservedly so.

EDIT: Talking to a few heads in here and the way they get animated about No Disco is really something.

CTP look what ya started!
Lionel Ritchie
19/08/2011, 10:50 AM
Uaneen was one of the best friends new and alternative Irish music had. Met her once at the Hot Press awards in Belfast back in the late 90's. She was lovely. Came over and chatted with us for an age when there was lots of famous heads about the place she could've been off rubbing shoulders with. Bless her.
CraftyToePoke
20/08/2011, 12:37 PM
CTP look what ya started!

Might just be getting started too !! With any luck. Does your contact have any playlists for the show? Or know if they are available anywhere? They must exist somewhere, I bet there would be some real treasure in those, hours of nostalgic rediscovery. Some really great Irish music around that time also, and music generally, we were fortunate that way, would be nice to dig some of it up again.
freewheel30
20/08/2011, 5:17 PM
When chasing that video I also found this, it speaks to the Decal lads after about a minute or so, one of them was also in the band In Motion, remember them?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9iCJ8KlDFo

Mexican Pets featured at the end there - bit of a forgotten classic this one


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDLGAeIaqQ

By coincidence there was word yesterday that Dineen's Today FM slot is soon to be no more (not sure I ever properly listened to it myself).
BonnieShels
20/08/2011, 5:53 PM
I used to listen to it when it was after Pet Sounds but now its on way too late. Dave Couse is my show of choice on Today FM now.

CTP, I was thinking that myself. But didn't want to broach such a request so soon. I definitely think there's a database there alright.
bennocelt
20/08/2011, 6:32 PM
Might just be getting started to !! With any luck. Does your contact have any playlists for the show? Or know if they are available anywhere? They must exist somewhere, I bet there would be some real treasure in those, hours of nostalgic rediscovery. Some really great Irish music around that time also, and music generally, we were fortunate that way, would be nice to dig some of it up again.

Seconded! I used to stay up with the video recorder at the ready - always had strange and cool music on, what a show
(By the way - their is a show on TG4 that aint half bad either)
CraftyToePoke
21/08/2011, 4:37 AM
Bit of Revelino anyone ?

Happiness Is Mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBfMeXKPtJs&feature=related

Dont Lead Me Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0xyF9cTpY&feature=related


Please God, there will be playlists.
Kingdom
29/08/2011, 3:41 PM
I can directly attribute my demise in school to my awareness of No Disco (was it not Tuesday night's lads?). I'd haul the Portable TV upstairs and watch it with the headphones plugged in. Great times!
She had a great radio show on 2fm also. That was Thurs and Fri nights for sure. I remember waking up for school the morning after the night she passed and having a little cry (I wouldn't be a soft lad either). Teachers went easy on me in school that day also as a few of us were into No Disco in a big way.
I would have been a teensy bit heroworshiping of the Roses, but I remember seeing an interview she did with Ian Brown over in Galway at a Green energy gig (or a Witness forerunner) and seeing the contempt and attitude he showed for one of the most genuine people you could come across was pretty sobering, when it was totally unmerited. I distinctly remember he was eating a shiny Granny Smith.

Loads of deadly songs, and they weren't shy about playing some atrocious music and ripping the crap outta it either.
Some highlights:
Handsome Boy Modelling school
Calexico
Folk Implosion
Doves (As mentioned previously)
DJ Shadow
Laurent Garnier

There was one song as well, kinda hip-hoppy song which I loved, but cannot for the life of me find or remember the title of. I know either "the decepticons" or "the incepticons" was the key line in the lyrics and the video was a kind of space invaders feel to it.

There is a facebook page dedicated to the show, spent plenty of days listening to tunes on that,.

Was I the only one who thought she was a babe? I loved the blue little highlights she'd have. Ok so maybe the hero-worshipping didn't stop!
Kingdom
29/08/2011, 3:43 PM
Have been told it's Fatboy Slim, Santa Cruz.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D06ZivsDJmc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It boasts both electronically and guitars and is very familiar to me now that I've listened to it.

That is an exceptional piece of music. It must have been before I started listening to the show, as I found that on a Skint records best of, called Brassic Beats. Some tune.
Kingdom
29/08/2011, 3:50 PM
Ah, No Disco. There's a blast from the past. I used to watch it religiously. That and some weird, late night weekend show with Sean Moncrieff and Barry Murphy. ('Fragmentary Annals of Ireland' anyone?)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_%28television%29
freewheel30
29/08/2011, 6:37 PM
I would have been a teensy bit heroworshiping of the Roses, but I remember seeing an interview she did with Ian Brown over in Galway at a Green energy gig (or a Witness forerunner) and seeing the contempt and attitude he showed for one of the most genuine people you could come across was pretty sobering, when it was totally unmerited. I distinctly remember he was eating a shiny Granny Smith.



I remember that interview, it was as if he was taking out years of music journalist-generated frustration on poor Uaneen, awful to watch. And, I remember the apple :cool:, I think he got up from where he was and made for the apple on the other side of the room while she was in the middle of a question. Galway, Brown, would prob have been the "Big Day Out" so, think that was around '97.
Kingdom
29/08/2011, 6:52 PM
There was one song as well, kinda hip-hoppy song which I loved, but cannot for the life of me find or remember the title of. I know either "the decepticons" or "the incepticons" was the key line in the lyrics and the video was a kind of space invaders feel to it.

There is a facebook page dedicated to the show, spent plenty of days listening to tunes on that,.

FOund it!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYAQEwv5iE0



I remember that interview, it was as if he was taking out years of music journalist-generated frustration on poor Uaneen, awful to watch. And, I remember the apple :cool:, I think he got up from where he was and made for the apple on the other side of the room while she was in the middle of a question. Galway, Brown, would prob have been the "Big Day Out" so, think that was around '97.

Big Day Out, good man.
BonnieShels
29/08/2011, 10:03 PM
One thing to say Kingdom... I also had a massive ghrá for wee Uaneen. Massive and yes, tears were shed when I heard.
Macy
30/08/2011, 7:55 AM
In fairness, I think Uaneen was around long enough to know Brown's (and the Roses) attitude to journalists by that stage. I've read that it was like a switch - they were nice as could be before interviews, but once the tape started rolling they became untcs.

Dineen was before my time (of living here rather than age unfortunately), but watched it in Uaneen's time and listened to her radio show. Sad day when the news came through.
BonnieShels
12/01/2017, 10:52 PM
I'm sure Crafty Toe Poke already knows but in case he doesn't:

https://thisaintnodisco.ie/

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Also, 5 and a half years later and I never got a response about the playlists. I think I'll give it a bash later.