QuoteI was at that too, the lead singer put the capo on his guitar 2 frets down, and when the rest of the band joined in they were all out of key!
Melaton.
Possibly the best band I've ever seen. And they are gone now. I'll never forget that Witnness. Stumbling into a tent and seeing these boys and thinking "I wish i was them". ****ing brilliant band.
DCFC
I would define "made it" as ...
1.being in a position after your initial wave of success that allows you to carry on making or supplementing your living as a professional writer/musician/performer. (By that standard Irish acts such as The Frames and even the utterly vile Aslan have to some degree or other "made it")
or maybe
2. Being in a position after your wave of success where you can step out of the music business altogether with enough to set yourself up doing something else or clear a mortgage. (Curiously by this second standard acts as big as Frankie Goes To Hollywood (multi-million sellers) never "made it".)
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Agreed, I wouldn't count bands like The Frames or Aslan in this category.
My tuppence is Blink, thought they were a bit nifty in those days, mind you haven't heard any of their stuff in years and years.
more bass
Pity JJ72 are no more , as others said they showed a lot of promise , I think their debut album is one of the best debut albums i've heard
Are they gone though? I thought they just replaced Hilary* with some other lass.Originally Posted by gustavo
They were on top of the pops once. By many peoples standard that constitutes "making it" despite the fact an average wedding band gets more for an appearance than an act performing on totp used get.
*Surely the sweetest sound in the entire universe is that of my balls slapping hard against Hilarys @rse.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
The Fountainhead.
Nobody knows us, we don't care
I concur with the sweetest sound notion however replacing you with me but i can confirm they are no more indeed they replaced sweet Hilary for their second album
My Little Funhouse supported Guns N Roses at Slane. thats "made it" in my book! \m/
you gowl!
Kerbdog
Kerbdog seem to be very popular
That's "flash-in-the-pan" in my book.
Have Boot Disk, will travel
Every time a thread on Irish Bands comes up I mention the same name, and I make no apology for doing so again, in fact it's particularly apt here, ladies and gentlemen, I give you, The Stars of Heaven. They should have been HUGE.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Five Go Down To The Sea, Stump, The Blades, Stars Of Heaven, Sharkbait, The Gorehounds, Those Handsome Devils, The Outcasts. Happy days indeed.
They say what about the meek?
I say they’ve got a bloody cheek
Gepetto.......they were on the verge when their singer went to teach in the Caribbean instead.
My Little Funhouse were vile.
I used dub them My Little Leppard.
Still though ...they were on Geffen for a time I s'pose.
"You stuck your hand into the cookie JAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!"
Who the hell from Kilkenny has a cookie jar I ask of you?
Their lead singer maybe ...he stuck his hands in it again and again and again as I recall too.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Maybe they've ****ed off to California once and for all!
Quoting years at random since 1975
Paranoid visions.
But given that they were a DIY punk ethos type band, not making it probably counts as making it for them. So I'm not sure now.
And did the Golden Horde make it or what?
Aah, the Baby Snakes in the Underground, the Baggot, the New Inn, those warehouse parties. Frank Rynne was a rock god, it's all coming back to me...
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