Highly relevant, catchy and almost forgotten single from Galway’s The Illdependents, a recording project of producer ‘Hazo’. This song came from the 1999 Back In The System EP.
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Illdependents – For What Died (1999)
Posted in Music on November 28, 2010| 1 Comment »
“The cocaine of modern music”
Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, tagged Jazz in Dublin on November 22, 2010| 2 Comments »
I’ve always been fascinated by the crusade against jazz music in 1920’s and 1930’s Ireland. A piece in the past on aspects of the hidden history of soccer in the capital touched on a GAA convention in 1930 which called for the banning of “jazz dancing”.
The title of this post comes from an Irish Times report from October 12, 1927. In it, Signor Pietro Mascagni was asked for his opinion on jazz music. “I am for sound in music and against noise” he noted.
This 1938 piece from The Irish Times is among my favourite finds to date however, coming from June 20. The crusade against jazz was very much alive and well in the capital. Other “inferior music” was also condemned. Mad times.
Still, not everyone in Dublin was scared away. Here’s a 1930 ad for a Dublin music shop advertising stocking “the latest jazz tune” among other things.
Give me some time, and I’ll try knock out a piece down the line on jazz in the capital. There’s a fascinating little subculture alright!
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Just For Kicks (1979)
Posted in Music, Social History, tagged berlin, D.C. Nien, jaroc, New Versions, Resistors, Rocky De Valera, sacre bleu, square meal, the atrix, The Teen Commandments, U2, zebra on November 22, 2010| 10 Comments »
(I’ve already written quite extensively on Dublin’s late 1970s/early 1980s Punk & New Wave scene. See The Sense of Ireland (1980), Dave Fanning & The Sportman’s Inn, Classic Dublin Punk/New Wave Singles (The search continues…), Dublin Punk & New Wave Venues (1976-84), The Blades; Revelations (Of 45s) & The Blades Are Sharp, The Atrix, The Spies, & D.C. Nien.)
Just For Kicks was a pivotal 12 track, black vinyl LP compilation, released by Kick records in December 1979, showcasing the very best of unsigned, new wave Dublin bands. U2songs have a considerable bit of information on the compilation here.
Kick Records, based out of 24 Upr. Fitzwilliam Street, was run by former UCDSU president Charlie McNally. He passed away in 2020.
It is a highly rare and coveted collectors item due to its limited pressing, the inclusion of U2 and for the fact that The Edge played bass on the Teen Commandments’ track “Something’s Better than Nothing”. Thus becoming the earliest recorded collaboration by a member of U2 with another act.
The executive producer was Charlie McNally, the recording engineer was Johnny Byrne, the record was ‘assisted by’ Paul Thomas and Master Production was by Windmill Studios. The cover was designed by Martin Devane, the record was pressed by Carlton Productions and printed by Massey Bros. Ltd. Dave Fanning (RTÉ Radio 2) supplied the sleeve notes.
This is the first time any of the songs below have been uploaded online. Enjoy.
The creative front cover of the LP. In the background, a street map of Dublin. The centre picture shows two figures with pints of Guinness for heads spilling drink on a table. Outside the window, Nelson
Side One:
1. U2 – Stories for Boys (U2, Copyright control)
2. Berlin – Stop Stop (Devon, Kick/Foxrock Music)
3. D.C. Nien – Reptile (D.C. Nien, Kick/Foxrock Music)
4. Rocky De Valera & the Gravediggers – Lady Loves to Rock’n’Roll (Rocky, Kick/Foxrock Music)
(Unfortunately this song was scratched on my copy. If anyone could go to the trouble of uploading this song, I’d be extremely grateful)
5. The Resistors – Service With a Smile (McStay, Break Publishing)
6. Sacre Bleu – Mademoiselle Goodnight (AK/Doyle, Raglan Music)
Side Two:
1. The Atrix – Treasure on the Wasteland (The Atrix, Endofearth Songs)
2. New Versions – Tango of Nerves (Byrne/Kiang, Kick/Foxrock Music)
3. Teen Commandments – Something’s Better Than Nothing (Byrne, Kick/Foxrock Music)
4. Zebra – Silent Partners (Deana McCormack, Manuscript)
5. Jaroc – Midnight Charmer (Morgan/McFarlane, Kick/Foxrock Music)
6. Square Meal – Love Attack (Baily/Belton, Darkfox Music)
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“It’ll take more than dairy products to keep us on our knees.”
Posted in Miscellaneous, Music on November 20, 2010| 1 Comment »
Facebook has been buzzing with this fantastic new song about the IMF. It was apparently written, recorded and uploaded online in one evening. Within 24 hours, it has been played nearly 500 times. Major props to SoundMigration.
Céad míle fáilte To the IMF
We hope we meet you on the streets –To fight you to the death.
And we know how you got here -Back room deal and open arms
As you try to suck the life from us – With your structural reformsThey just lit a fuse -Its time for us to choose 2
You must think were fucking stupid —-Feed our fears with blocks of cheese
It’ll take more than dairy products -To keep us on our knees
Don’t talk to us about violence – You hypocritical scum
Just look at all our hospital – An the homeless on the run
Destitution politics – Death by credit card
By you cant kill the love we have – for justice in our heart
Check out the rest of the lyrics here.
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Punky Reggae Party vs. Soundtracksforthem.com (Thurs, 19 Nov.)
Posted in Music on November 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This Thursday sees myself DJ Carax (Punky Reggae Party), old friend DJ Welfare (Kaboogie! / Dubculture) and main man Andy Culture (Worries Outernational) take on the might of Anthrophe and his Soundtracksforthe.com rabble of unwashed bloodclots. Hope to see you there.
From 8:30pm, we’ll be showing two documentaries: Rave Against The Machine (20mins) and then Summer of Rave 1989 (60mins). The music kicks off at 10:30pm.
DJ Carax vs. Antrophe
(10.30 – 11.15) (11.15 – 12.00)
DJ Rodfather vs. Andy Culture
(12.00 – 12.45) (12.45 – 1.30)
Psymonok vs. DJ Welfare
(1.30 – 2.15) (2.15 – 3.00)
This will be free in before 10.30pm and a fiver after that BUT you have to put your name down here to avail of this. If you are coming in late then, mention this guestlist to the door staff.
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There’s a Tempest a comin’
Posted in Events, Miscellaneous, Music, tagged Block T, dublin, gig, Kate Tempest, Slam Poetry on November 11, 2010| 2 Comments »
With all this weeks madness keeping us busy, I neglected to plug the visit to Dublin of an exceptionally talented lyricist and rap artist, a woman who Scroobius Pip has lauded from the high heavens and who tore the Electric Picnic a new one with her performance last summer. I’m talking about Kate Tempest. Brought to my attention by my brother a few months back, I had a listen to a couple of her tracks on youtube and was blown away.
Kate Tempest visits Dublin this Sunday
Slam poetry is something that you either get or don’t. I never really got it until I heard a man by the name of Marty Mulligan stun The Stables in Mullingar into silence with a four minute piece sometime back in 2003 or 2004. So when I heard that himself and my brother were bringing her over, I’ll admit it and say I was f*cking chuffed.
Influenced equally by a love of hip hop and a love of great literature Kate Tempest is a rapper,… poet and playwright. She has performed consistently and comprehensively since she began rapping in battles at 16.
Since then she has continued to develop her skills as a writer and a performer, and has made a name for herself in the UK hip hop, spoken word and live music scenes.
She’s visiting Kelly’s in Galway at 8.30 tomorrow (Friday 12th) and The Stables, Mullingar at 10.00 on Saturday before making her way up to us here in Dublin on Sunday.
She’s hitting the new Grand Social (used to be Pravda, I look forward to seeing what they replaced the murals with) at 8.15pm for a half hour set before heading down to Block T in Smithfield where she’s onstage at 9.45. Trust me folks, you need to see this. I know it’s short notice but tell everyone you know… there’s a Tempest a comin’.
The Facebook event page is here.
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Street Literature
Posted in Music, tagged Ballymun, dublin rap, Hip Hop, Street Literature on November 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
“It’s no rumour ’cause its the same all over Dublin,
whether Blanch, Finglas, Ballymun,
Tallaght,Clondalkin to Crumlin”
I don’t own much in the line of Irish hip hop. Scary Éire, Collie’s excellent Is Ainm Dom and a few other albums are up on the shelf. What I like about these lads is the positivity of what they’re doing, and the fact they make no effort to hide their Dublin accents or backgrounds. These lads are releasing their music under the title ‘Working Class Records’ and there is a sense of pride at the centre of what they’re doing. There’s a lesson in there.
Good luck to you lads, and hopefully we’ll be hearing a lot more of you down the line. The video for ‘Products Of The Environment’ is well worth a look.
Give me a reason by Street Literature
We dont need you any more by Street Literature
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Dublin Live Independent Music Archive Project?
Posted in Dublin History, Music on November 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
While doing a bit of online searching for possible summer student internships for myself, I came across this very interesting PHD studentship from the University of the West of England.
It’s offering a part-time PhD Studentship in Popular Music and Everyday Life as part of the Bristol Live Independent Music Archive Project (BLIMA) which was set up to ‘compile an archive of the city of Bristol’s live independent music scene, from 1950 to the present’. The PhD studentship comprises of ‘an annual bursary of £3,000 plus tuition fees paid for up to five years’.
Wouldn’t it be fantastic to set a similar thing up focusing on Dublin? I wonder who would be interested in funding it: IMRO, Hot Press, The Arts Council, Project Arts Centre, U2 and the boys?
October 1978
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Frank Harte- Singing Voices
Posted in Dublin History, Music, Social History, tagged Dublin singers, Frank Harte, RTE on October 28, 2010| 4 Comments »
“Luke (Kelly) also opened our eyes to the working class songs from the north of England. Songs that we never knew existed before. The geordie songs. The songs of the miners….”
One of my biggest regrets of the summer just gone is missing the excellent Frank Harte Festival, a tribute to one of the cities greatest singers, the late Frank Harte. He was raised only a stones throw from me in Chapelizod. There, his father ran the public house ‘The Tap’. Frank, an architect by trade, was not alone an unrivalled singer but also a collector of songs.
“The thoughts of a song dying with a singer or lying in a book or a tape on a shelf gathering dust fills me with horror.” So wrote Frank in his introduction notes to his timeless ‘Songs of Dublin’ collection.
Singing Voices was a collection of five broadcasts Frank did for RTE. We’ve only stumbled across them here and they all make for excellent listening. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
Songs of work and social protest – The Labouring Voice
Famine Songs – The Hungry Voice
Songs of the capital city – The Dublin Voice
Songs of Emigration – The Irish American Voice
Traditional singing styles in Ireland – The Singers’ Voices
They can be played over here, on the RTE site.
Also, here are two tunes from Frank I had uploaded months ago with the aim of sharing with you to promote the festival. The Shan Van Vocht is a song dealing with the 1798 rebellion, while Building Up And Tearing England Down is a well known song about Irish emigrants in England.
Shan Van Vocht by Frank Harte.
Building Up And Tearing England Down- Frank Harte
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Bomb The Music Industry!
Posted in Events, Music, tagged Bomb The Music Industry!, Ska, Twisted Pepper on October 25, 2010| 1 Comment »
Ever since my cell phone, I never have a pen.
And I don’t speak in English, I speak in predictive text.
Ever since we got our cable, I never have anything to do…..
Feck sake. I can’t make this one as I will be in Glasgow Airport at the time.
I really enjoy the music of Bomb The Music Industry!, I’ve been to see frontman Jeff Rosenstock in the past, in what I remember to have been Greystones. BTMI! are a musical collective from New York who best fit into the punk/ska school. All their music is available online for free, over here. That sums up the bands DIY work ethic pretty well. They also try to ensure as many gigs as possible are All Ages. Unfortunately, the Dublin gig is not so.
The night before this gig, they play Katie Gallaghers in Bray with a 7pm start.
Bomb the Music Industry! plays a blend of several musical styles anchored onto ska and punk. They’re often compared to bands from previous waves of ska such as the Blue Meanies, Fishbone or Big D and the Kids Table that blended a range of influences and experimental effects onto the ska framework common in each band’s respective eras. Bomb the Music Industry! also share similarities with popular ska/punk and punk acts such as Catch-22 and Slapstick.
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Keeping It Peel.
Posted in Events, Music, tagged Football and Music, Keeping It Peel, Peel Sessions, Thin Lizzy on October 25, 2010| 2 Comments »
Football and Music is one of my favourite blogs, despite knowing absolutely nothing about football in the UK it seems to be a very similar passion to those of us who follow the League of Ireland. From Serious Drinking’s Love On The Terraces to the ever classic All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit, the site is a tribute to the connection between the beautiful game and music.
John Peel was a hero to many. The legendary DJ, who died in 2004, had everyone from Planxty to Atari Teenage Riot in for a ‘Peel Session’. Below, to mark the anniversary of his passing and as part of the excellent ‘Keeping It Peel’ idea from Football and Music, we bring you Fools Gold and Emerald from Dubliners Thin Lizzy, from a Peel Session in 1976.
Thin Lizzy- Fools Gold (Peel Session 76)
Thin Lizzy- Emerald (Peel Session 76)
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A Sense of Ireland (1980)
Posted in Music on October 19, 2010| 15 Comments »
The inaugural A Sense of Ireland festival in London in 1980 featured over 90 events in Irish music, theatre, literature, the visual arts, film, crafts, dance, photography, architecture and archeology. The Sounds Of Ireland was the festival’s music showcase featuring the cream of the crop of the island’s punk and new wave bands as well as the legendary Rory Gallagher.
The following two pictures are quite well-known and have been available online for years. However, the third one is a bit of a gem. I found it while flicking through the Hot Press’ ‘U2 File’ (1985). This is first time it has been put up online. The picture was taken by Colm Henry (I suspect he took the second shot as well) and shows the lead singers of five of the most important Dublin New Wave bands.
The Sounds of Ireland (1980)
clockwise from top: the Virgin Prunes, DC Nien, The Atrix and U2. (Taken from the IrishRock.org website)
From 'The U2 File: A Hot Press U2 History', ed. Niall Stokes (Dublin, 1985)
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