Irish acts of the 80's/90's- where are they now ?

**CF1989** · 14/01/2010, 2:55 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

petecole, I'm only allowing that because PoD's guitar player is my brother in law and I'd like to see the Cork gig full, but be advised that if you lift a 5 year old thread or post commercial spam on Foot.ie again, you'll be our on your ear. It's just pure ignorant, period.

so we can post anything we want to help family? or is it one rule for us and another for someone else.

no disrespect, just a question

**dahamsta** · 14/01/2010, 3:26 PM

No, I can make exceptions for my family, what with me paying the bills and all. That ok with you?

**twoenz** · 14/01/2010, 8:22 PM

Jeez, since this thread started you could add the Thrills to the list of "where are they nows" and their first album was only out!

**TonyD** · 14/01/2010, 9:15 PM

Best Irish band ever and no mention here yet ? Scandalous! I give you the very wonderful Stars of Heaven.

**CF1989** · 14/01/2010, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

No, I can make exceptions for my family, what with me paying the bills and all. That ok with you?

yeah no bother, no need to get snappy sir

**stann** · 15/01/2010, 12:38 AM

What's Cathal Coughlan up to these days I wonder?
Mocrodisney and Fatima Mansions were two of the best acts ever spawned on these shores.

**endabob1** · 15/01/2010, 5:39 AM

I had A-House - I am the greatest, on in the car this morning, still sounds good 18 years on. There was a lot of decent bands in the mid 80's to mid 90's but most of them had no more than a couple of good tunes and weren't able to sustain anything beyond an album or a couple of EP's

**The Good Son** · 15/01/2010, 7:08 AM

Originally Posted by stann

What's Cathal Coughlan up to these days I wonder?
Mocrodisney and Fatima Mansions were two of the best acts ever spawned on these shores.

He's released a few solo albums since. All of them not bad in my opinion (Black River Falls is my favourite of his solo stuff), but nothing to match Microdisney or The Mansions. The last update on his site is from last Summer, where he mentions he's recording a new album. Still does the odd live gig every now and then as well.

**Macy** · 15/01/2010, 8:28 AM

Originally Posted by Pauro 76

Whipping Boy 'Heartworm', class album. Not sure whatever happened to them..

They did a few gigs a couple years ago, including the Olympia, and re-released Submarine. At least one of them is a Civil Servant (for the where are they now? element).

**twoenz** · 15/01/2010, 8:35 AM

I'm a wee bit young for this thread, and coming from the North I missed a lot of these bands (and Aslan thank Christ) but after finding this tune on a Tom Dunne that my dad bought me so I wouldn't be homesick when I was in America, this instantly became one of my favourite Irish songs of all time:

**Lionel Ritchie** · 15/01/2010, 9:00 AM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

I'm actually not a fan of that album, I think the later stuff with Ian on guitar has much more presence. I'm not sure if he or the original guitar player is with them for the reunion, if he isn't I wouldn't bother going.

Partial agreement. Ian (didn't know they had anyone else play guitar with them -Craig Walker himself aside) certainly completed the jigsaw for the live sound and the second record probably sounds better than I,E &I for his involvement. But the songs, like Slowdown, to my ear aren't as strong as those on the first album.

Age old problem ...a couple of decades to write your first album and a couple of months to write your second.

For the purposes of further informing the thread -Ian also plays (bass) with The Sultans of Ping these days I believe.

**petecole** · 15/01/2010, 9:37 AM

Hi all,

Sorry to have spammed! I am helping out Power of Dreams, so I did a Google search on 'Irish bands 90s'' and I found this thread...

The fantastic Ian Olney IS playing with the band on the reunion tour.

Cheers,

Pete

**endabob1** · 15/01/2010, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

Partial agreement. Ian (didn't know they had anyone else play guitar with them -Craig Walker himself aside) certainly completed the jigsaw for the live sound and the second record probably sounds better than I,E &I for his involvement. But the songs, like Slowdown, to my ear aren't as strong as those on the first album.

Age old problem ...a couple of decades to write your first album and a couple of months to write your second.

For the purposes of further informing the thread -Ian also plays (bass) with The Sultans of Ping these days I believe.

Having never seen them live I can't comment on the live sound but I agree that the songs on the first album were much stronger. I felt that they became much harder and the poppy edge went which was a shame, I think Ash went down a similar road, they started getting grungier and lost the catchy power pop side which was what I liked about them.

**dahamsta** · 15/01/2010, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

Partial agreement. Ian (didn't know they had anyone else play guitar with them -Craig Walker himself aside) certainly completed the jigsaw for the live sound and the second record probably sounds better than I,E &I for his involvement. But the songs, like Slowdown, to my ear aren't as strong as those on the first album.

You're probably right, I'm not a big lyrics or musical style person, just one of those annoying "I know what I like" people. So while 2 Hell might fall down on lyrics or form, I love the power of it, whereas Immigrants comes off very wishy-washy.

For the purposes of further informing the thread -Ian also plays (bass) with The Sultans of Ping these days I believe.

That's right! I was too young to appreciate them in the raw first time round but I went to one of their gigs in Cork a while back and I'd great craic altogether. I totally wasn't expecting everyone to fall over.

Originally Posted by petecole

Sorry to have spammed! I am helping out Power of Dreams, so I did a Google search on 'Irish bands 90s'' and I found this thread...

Apology accepted. It's not the best way to promote things, it just annoys forum admins and users. It's generally a good idea to ask a forum admin or moderator first if you're coming to a forum just to post something commercial.

The fantastic Ian Olney IS playing with the band on the reunion tour.

I'm not sure how he'd react to "fantastic", but that's great to hear.

Originally Posted by endabob1

Having never seen them live I can't comment on the live sound

I'd strongly recommend seeing them live, they're corking on stage.

adam

**TonyD** · 10/02/2010, 8:16 PM

As I was saying. Pure bloody genius. Still listen to these guys all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBw3kuLWtmw

**stann** · 10/02/2010, 11:51 PM

As we're now YT-ing...

To illustrate the previous point...

Oh and also what TonyD said, though this is far and away my favourite...

**stann** · 11/02/2010, 12:05 AM

Also, would definitely be interested to know whatever happened to these lads!

**Block G Raptor** · 15/02/2010, 6:50 PM

Anyone Remember/Ever hear of Scary Eire. a Hip Hop outfit from the Mid-Lands (kildare I think)
seen some of there stuff on youtube recently, A real walk down memory lane, Dole Queue is as relevent today as it was in the early 90's

**Bluebeard** · 15/02/2010, 8:39 PM

Jaysus, I haven't heard the name in ages. I think I may have had one of their singles on cassette single

**bennocelt** · 16/02/2010, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

Anyone Remember/Ever hear of Scary Eire. a Hip Hop outfit from the Mid-Lands (kildare I think)
seen some of there stuff on youtube recently, A real walk down memory lane, Dole Queue is as relevent today as it was in the early 90's

Was one not from "Tulla" - tullamore, and one from Dublin?
In fact i never heard of them when they were around but have since then thanks to the wonders of YouTube - how did they not make it? And surely The Dole Q song would make it if re released?