Posted in Photography, Politics on November 2, 2011| 1 Comment »
Today sees the repayment of an unsecured Anglo Irish Bank bond of E700,000,000, which the state has no obligation to pay but will. It seems a more than fitting day to post these great images from a recent action highlighting a very peculiar aspect of the baNAMA republic in the form of buildings in the city which sit empty, boarded-up and out of our hands.
Posted in Music on November 1, 2011| 37 Comments »
Updated – Dec 2021
Starting with The Radiators From Space’s ‘Television Screen’ in April 1977 and finishing with The Blades’ ‘Downmarket’ in October 1983. Two of the greatest songs ever to come out of this city.
This was actually a quite a big undertaking:
1. I went through the full list of all Irish Punk & New Wave bands, figuring out which ones were from Dublin.
2. I made sure all these bands were 1st wave i.e. active before 1983
3. Out of them, I picked out the ones that actually released singles. (A surprising number of seminal Dublin punks never got signed or only ever release one single!)
4. Then, I had to find out which singles were already on Youtube and which weren’t. Trying to fill the gaps best I could.
So without further ado, here’s what should be a complete list of Dublin 1st wave punk/new wave singles released from 1977 to 1983.
How can you help?
As you can see, there’s quite a few gaps. I’m suggesting people if they have a single which is currently not digitzed and on Youtube do one of three things:
– Digitize it and upload it
– Give it to me and I can digitize it, upload it and hand it back
– Give to me, I can digitize, upload it and give it a lovely new home!
Finally, if you can help with dates for any of the single release dates (those marked ‘?’) please let me know.
Johnny Thunders with The Radiators From Space, 1977.
1977
April
The Radiators From Space – Television Screen / Love Detective
Aug
The Boomtown Rats – Lookin’ After Number 1 / Born To Burn / Barefootin’ (Live)
Sep
The Radiators From Space – Enemies / Psychotic Reactions
The Radiators From Space – Sunday World / (Why Can’t I Be A) Teenager In Love [Live version not single]
Nov
The Boomtown Rats – Mary Of The 4th Form (Alternate Version) / Do The Rat
Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, nd. Photographer – Danny Clifford
1978
May
The Radiators From Space – Million Dollar Hero / Blitzin’ At The Ritz (live)
The Boomtown Rats – She’s So Modern / Lying Again
June
The Boomtown Rats – Like Clockwork / Dún Laoghaire
Revolver – Silently Screaming / On The Run
October (Recorded)
The Vipers – I’ve Got You / No Such Thing
The Atrix, c. 1979
1979
?
Strange Movements – Dancing In The Ghetto / Amuse Yourself
The Romantiks – Said If You Needed Me / Little Queenie
Square Meal – Love Attack / Hold On
June
The Radiators From Space – Let’s Talk About The Weather / Hucklebuck /Try And Stop Me
Sacre Bleu – Broken Promises / Mademoiselle Goodnight
July
The Atrix – The Moon Is Puce / Wendy’s In Amsterdam
The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays / It’s All The Rage
Aug
The Radiators From Space – Kitty Ricketts / Song of the Faithful Departed (Acoustic)
Oct
The Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap / So Strange
Sacre Bleu – Move It / Just Another Saturday Night
Nov
The Defenders – Happy Surfin’ Santa / Xmas Up On Venus
Dec
The Boomtown Rats – Diamond Smiles / Late Last Night
Berlin – Over 21 / Waiting For The Future
Tony Koklin – Cinderella / Living With The Times
U2, Dandelion Market.
1980
?
Katmandu – I Can Make The Future / Australia [TV version not single version] [Belfast, Dublin-based]
Square Meal – Someone’s Out To Git Ya / Another Boy
The Alligators – Thrill Power / Having A Party // Just A Little Bit
The Boddis EP:
– Big Self – Concrete Curtains [Belfast]
– The Departure – Stop
– The peridots – Precious Blood
– Chant! Chant! Chant! – What Do You Know?
The Resistors (For Jeanie EP) – Jeanie / Takeaway Love / End of the Line
The Spies – Thinking About The Sun / Hippy Hangover
Feb
The Boomtown Rats – Someone’s Looking at You / When The Night Comes
DC Nien – Nightclub / Things Japanese
U2 – Another Day / Twilight
May
U2 – 11 O’Clock Tick Tock / Touch [remastered version not single]
July
The Radiators From Space – Stranger Than Fiction / Prison Bars / Who Are The Strangers?
Soul Survivors – Move On / Done Stayin’ Around
Aug
U2 – A Day Without Me [remastered version] / Things to Make and Do [album version]
Sep
The Radiators From Space – Dancing Years / Electric Shares, Sunday World, Enemies (On Stage At The Roundhouse London, Feb 1978)
The Blades – Hot For You / The Reunion
Oct
The Atrix – Treasure On The Wasteland / Graphite Pile
U2 – I Will Follow / Boy-Girl (live)
Nov
The Boomtown Rats – Banana Republic / Man At The Top
Berlin – Boyfriends / Central Station
The Blades, nd.
1981
?
New Versions – Like Gordon of Khartoum / What You Want
The Shade – 6:05 / Talk To Me
The Sussed – Don’t Swim On The East Coast / I Wanna Conform
The Blades – Ghost Of A Chance / Real Emotion
The Threat – Lullaby in C / High Cost Of Living
Tokyo Olympics – Dance Movement // Some Kind Of Wonderful – Just Like Me
The Zen Alligators – Call Me Lucky / The Ticket
Jan
Tony Koklin – Claude Monet / Lucky Man
Feb
The Virgin Prunes – Twenty Tens (I’ve been smoking all night) / Revenge / The Children Are Crying / …Greylight
The Brown Thomas Band / The BTs – My Life / Murder On Their Minds
April
The Radiators From Space – Song Of The Faithful Departed / They’re Looting The Town
The Peridots – Open Season / Calm
June
The Zen Alligators – Who Can That Someone Be? / Berlin Wall
July
Chant! Chant! Chant! – Quicksand / Play Safe
Aug
The Virgin Prunes – Moments and Mine / In The Greylight/War
Oct
The Atrix – Procession / The Eleventh Hour
The Teen Commandments – Private World / Italian Girls
Dec
Tokyo Olympics – Radio (Turns Her On) / Radio 2
Tokyo Olympics, 1982
1982
?
A Further Room – Psychedelic Disco / Strange In Rome
The Alsations – 5 Honours And A 175 / Denise Denise
The Camino Organisation – Human Voices // Executivity / The Bust Up Of Love
Kissed Air – Kariba / Kissed Air [Belfast, Dublin-based]
Pop Mecanics – Soldier Boys / It Feels Like I’m Alone Again
Stano – Room / Town
The Shade – Watching You / Touch Sensitive
The Tabs – Million Miles / Gotta Get Away
The Fashions – All I Own In Dublin (Are The Bars) / The Secrets Of Young Brides
The Zen Alligators – You Make My Day (Radio mix) / People Who Make People’s Day
Jan
Autobop – Secrets / Advertising
March
The Blades – The Bride Wore White / Animation
April
Tokyo Olympics – One Step From Paradise / Paradise (Disco Mix)
June
The Zen Alligators – The Invisible Man / The Scorpio Function
Oct
The Blades – Revelations Of Heartbreak / Rules of Love
Nov
Tokyo Olympics – Shot By Love / Shot By Love (Instrumental)
Kissed Air – Out of the Night / Change of Attention
The Zen Alligators, nd.
1983
May
Very Mental – Slaughtered and Maimed EP
June
The Zen Alligators – I Never Forget A Face / Caught In The Crossfire // Side One – Diary Of A Forgotten War
July
Resistors – That’s It / Steal My Love
Oct
The Blades – Downmarket / You Never Ask
Posted in Music on October 31, 2011| 5 Comments »
A cool snap of Rockin’ Kev from the Evening Herald dating back to 1976.
Kevin Connolly, Evening Hearld 1976
The text reads:
Dublin’s only genuine Teddy Boy, Kevin Connolly, keeps on rocking at the R. & R. Disco.
I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin at the Magnet reunion earlier this year. He’s still as sharply dressed as ever!
Credit to Garry from Where Were You? for uploading this image onto their FB page:
Piece from February 1973 on Rockin Kev. The Sunday Independent.
Posted in Events, Music on October 31, 2011| 1 Comment »
So ‘Sir’ David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan, legendary British reggae DJ, told the packed crowd in Twisted Pepper last night halfway through his amazing 2.5hr set.
Definitely one of the best gigs I’ve been to in Dublin. Everyone should see this guy in action at least once in their lives.
Rodigan in action. Twisted Pepper, 30 Oct 2011. (Picture - Carax)
Posted in Music on October 27, 2011| 2 Comments »
One of our cities greatest journalists and songwriters. We wish him all the best as he bravely battles Parkinson’s.
Here’s two versions, 25 years apart, of his classic ‘Take A Walk On The Northside’. Enjoy.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2011| 2 Comments »
Posters depicting Sean Gallagher as not quite the Irish Obama spotted earlier tonight it seems. Change, Hope, Progress, Envelopes.
Posted in Dublin History, Social History on October 26, 2011| 1 Comment »
There’s a rather unusual plaque found above Farrington’s pub in Temple Bar, unusual in that it commemorates an event many with an interest in the history of the capital will be familiar with, yet the plaque itself is easily missed and many are unaware of its presence.
The plaque commemorates Constable Patrick Keena and Sergeant Stephen Kelly of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, shot on duty in the area on October 31st, 1867. While Kelly would survive, Kenna would lose his life. Of course that was the year of the Fenian Rising of 1867 which occurred months prior, a rising which had seen the Fenians issue a radical proclamation which proclaimed a provisional republican government,and a proclamation which read of its solidarity with republicans of the world, noting “our cause is your cause”
We appeal to force as a last resort… unable to endure any longer the curse of a monarchical government, we aim at founding a Republic based on universal suffrage, which shall secure to all the intrinsic value of their labour. The soil of Ireland, at present in possession of an oligarchy, belongs to us, the Irish people and to us it must be restored. We declare also in favour of absolute liberty of conscience and the separation of Church and State. We intend no war against the people of England; our war is against the aristocratic locusts, whether English or Irish, who have eaten the verdure of our fields.
Barry Kenerk has written a wonderful and engaging work on the shootings entitled ‘Shadow of the Brotherhood: The Temple Bar Shootings’, and John Dorney of The Irish Story has written a fine review of the work here, which provides great context to the events of that day.
Of course, the plaque is not the only feature in Dublin marking the history of the DMP. A constable and officer of the force are represented today in stonework above the doors of Pearse Street Garda Station, or Great Brunswick Street Police Station as it was once known. Both these figures, and the Temple Bar plaque, are easy to miss.
Posted in Dublin History, Miscellaneous on October 25, 2011| 1 Comment »
A round up of Dublin related news stories for this week.
1. First English edition of Ulysses among attractions at new Dublin museum
The first English language copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses is among attractions at a new Dublin museum opened to fill the gap left by the closure of the capital’s civic museum nearly a decade ago. A death mask of the writer himself is also one of the 400 artefacts – all of which were donated by the people of the city – on display at The Little Museum of Dublin.
Director Trevor White said: “This is the people’s museum of Dublin.” Sited on St Stephen’s Green, he said it served as a biography for the city, mapping its history during the 20th century. “It charts the social, cultural and political history of the city through artefacts donated by ordinary Dubliners,” he explained. Dublin Civic Museum on South William Street closed down in 2003 after 50 years. Mr White said its closure had left a huge void. “Since the civic museum closed, Dublin hasn’t had a museum of its own,” he said. The project, supported by Dublin City Council, has been just five months in the making. – The Irish Independent (21/10/11)
The Little Museum of Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson
2. Veteran (Dublin) journalist Cathal O’Shannon dies at 83
Cathal O’Shannon, who has died aged 83, was a mould- breaking journalist in the print and broadcasting media over several decades. He worked with The Irish Times , RTÉ and the BBC and as a public relations consultant in a long and distinguished career.
Born into what he described as a “household full of books” in Marino, north Dublin, he lied about his age and joined the Royal Air Force in the second World War with his friend Fred O’Donovan, who later became chairman of the RTÉ Authority. After three years in the Far East he returned to Dublin and was hired on the journalistic staff by Irish Times editor RM Smyllie in 1949. For some years he used the name Cathal Óg O’Shannon to distinguish himself from his father, Cathal O’Shannon, a trade unionist and columnist with the since defunct Evening Press . – The Irish Times (24/10/11)
Cathal O'Shannon (1928 - 2011)
3. Flash floods spark emergency in Dublin
Two people died and hundreds were stranded in Ireland after torrential rain closed roads and rail lines, left shops and homes under water and led to Dublin being put on an emergency footing. More than one month’s rain fell on Dublin in 24 hours, causing rivers to break their banks and flooding the country’s largest shopping centre. – The Guardian (25/10/11)
A piece of garden decking, still with pot plants intact, floats down the Liffey near Heuston Station, Dublin. Image: @AlanWall77
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2011| 1 Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2011| 2 Comments »
Crazy stuff this, two images just posted to Facebook by hotspots.ie Stay inside and stay warm folks!
Posted in Miscellaneous, Photography, Politics on October 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Spotted this morning on Amien’s Street…
Kangaroo Courts ahead!
Good stuff… Silly billies must not have read stipulations with regard putting up posters on O’Connell Street though… Walking down this morning circa 8:00 there were twenty or so attached to traffic lights on the main strip; no sign of them at 12:30!
Posted in Street Art on October 23, 2011| 2 Comments »
ADW’s Pricks And Mortar show over the weekend was excellent, and seemed to attract a huge crowd of Dubliners over the course of it. What I like most about ADW’s work is that not only is it visually pleasing, it often packs a punch and has something to say. His ‘Blues Brothers’ image of Cowen and Lenihan on the eve of a budget made its way across European newspapers for good reason, and indeed his ‘tribute’ to a certain customer of Fagan’s in Drumcondra, depicted with Celtic Tiger facepaint, was another favourite with Dubliners.
One of the most visually striking pieces in the show were the blocks shown above, depicting Monopoly money. Pieces like this complimented the art on the walls nicely, and a bit randomly the concrete blocks were for sale, costing less than a round of drinks. Trusting the brother to never miss an opportunity, it’s in our gaff now. A very unusual and heavy bit of street art indeed!
Well done to ADW on a great show, and long may he continue to redecorate the walls of the capital.
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