Directed by the late Bob Collins (1945 – 2000), who also had a hand in the production of the video for Phil Lynott’s Old Town, The Blades’ Bride Wore White captures great street scenes of a grey, 1980s Dublin.
In the Hotpress National Poll of 1982, The Bride Wore White was voted best single while The Blades were voted ‘the most promising act in Ireland’ and Paul Cleary ‘best Irish songwriter’.
Note: Your able to buy The Blades two album boxset, Those Were The Days, here at the Reekus Records website.
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Saw them live about four times around 1984-85. They used to dedicate a cover of ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ to the Dunnes Stores strikers.
Yeah, they had solid politics. Way better than any of the other bands active during the period.
One of their last gestures was to shun Self Aid, a ‘backslapping’ concert to” highlight the chronic unemployment problem in Ireland at the time” and instead played the socialist Rock the System Concert in Liberty Hall in 1986.
Anyone know the derelict building with iron balconies they filmed the video at?
P.
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