Taken from Horslips - Return of the Dancehall Sweethearts DVD: www.celticnote.com/dvd/moo26 Written by Eamon Carr/Barry Devlin/Johnny Fean/Jim Lockhart/Charles O'Connor Published by Crashed Music (p) 2010 Horslips Records www.horslips.ie
Wow. Such an underrated band. Had a ticket for their last ever gig. Then feckin covid hit. Now it’s never gonna happen. So sad about that. Anyways guys, you gave such joy with your talent, and in the process taught so many young ppl in the 70s more about Irish history than the schools ever did. Adh mor agaibh go leir. X
As soon as I heard of my nephew’s birth in stab city, I made a playlist with this as the first track. He’s going to grow up hearing Ireland’s finest rock and roll 👌
Saw them 78,reduced to doing the dreadful dancehall circuit. Fountain bleu in longford. Their spark was gone but they still did a tight set, had the crowd rockin".
@@Driver2616 I think maybe cuz a lot of people who were kids in the 70s and aren't Irish, have never heard of The Horslips or heard their music. I heard them for the first time 2 yrs ago, and I've been playing guitar since 1979... anyway.. 😎🤘🕊
@George Duffy i will. thanx fer the tip. i was bought up on weird music frm all over the world so experimental duznt really register... BBubububut..when i first 'knowingly' heard the horslips i.e. not in a cider induced dope smoking teenage coma subconciously aware of Gong etc... to my mind Horslips reminded me slightly of the incredible string band. 🎙😎 🎸🌌🌠🎶
They certainly weren't underrated in Ireland....(and still aren't!) Every venue they ever played was jammed wall-to wall with sweaty teenagers listening to our old traditional tunes being played in a new and exciting way...
Happy to meet sorry to part. The song furniture. The Tain. The two albums that mafe this band stand out from the crowd. I haven't seen that clip from the old gtey whistle test before, now it's on my favourites list. Great band live.
I stand corrected! I do remember a TOTP clip tho, and that music chart show was essential viewing back in the day! We loved it. It's been awful finding out about Saville and the rest...a real stain on that decade of immense music greats!
@@Deedee-ee1sg it was the only chart show on TV at the time, whole lotta love was the music they used for the chart countdown but it was played by a band called C.C.S.the Whistle Test was on but that was on late and usually live so ran on sometimes, totp is where I seen Queen do bohemian rhapsody when it was shown for the first time ever I was about 6 maybe 7 but that's when music found me been with me ever since, still remember as a kid, Suzi Quatro, slade, T-Rex and all that stuff, later in the 70's probably 77/78 my dad would let me stay up late and watch the Whistle Test with him, I would have been 10 or 11, still remember it, sorry I went on a ramble, the Whistle Test and TOTP could be easily mixed up especially from that era 👍😎
Great Irish band my first time seeing them was in the RDS ballsbridge dublin with Declan Sinnot a fantastic guitarist what a band before their time Rory Gallagher Thin lizzy boomtown rats U2 so many other's
@@silverkitty2503 According to Last.fm - '"Dearg Doom" translates roughly as "Red Destroyer". It is in reference to Irish mythical warrior Cúchulainn - meaning "Hound of Ulster". A name he inherited as a reparation for killing a wolfhound. The song is a take on the Irish folk tune written for battle: O'neills cavalry/march. The track is from the album "The Tain" referencing Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) which tells the story of a cattle raid in the middle of a War between Ulster and Connaught. The hero of this story was Cúchulainn.
The whole album The Tain was brilliant. It was a rock version of the Tain Bo Cuiailnge, better known as the Cattle Raid of Cooley. My favourite track on this LP was always Ferdia’s song where the great Irish hero Cuchulainn kills his best friend Ferdia.
@@patoconnell37 Aha! Good to know.^^ Thanks for letting me know what that was. It reminded me a bit of this with Vietnamese high-fret guitar ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_nTTyxdPpr0.html Also, what was that weird grey/silver hand about? Any insights would be appreciated.
It's a banging tune from a great Irish band although the lead singer is from Middlesbrough and has connections with Whitby. Not heard the album, sounds like it's worth a listen. Surprised this band weren't bigger in the Seventies
The Táin (pronounced Tawn; it's Irish for cattle- raid (or herd, depending on the context) was Horslips 3rd. album and yes, they remain my favourite band of all time. If you're lucky enough to get a vinyl (yep, VINYL) copy, disengage the record-player clutch/speed control at the very, very end of 'Time to Kill' (final track, side 2) and run it backwards (using light pressure via your finger) - great! Enjoy!
An English music journalist once opined that if they had released their albums in a different order, they would have been bigger than U2 (but not as irritating, natch).
It could also be pre-recorded by the BBC - they had a practice at the time on OGWT of recording the instruments and then filming with live vocals over the pre-recorded instrumental tracks
they did not mine in their live concerts!!! Out of this world performers and musicians live! How dare thee! Probably had to mimic if it was TOTPs. T'was the law
@@Jack-hy1zq Why would you listen to it looped for 15 minutes? I like it and I'd have turned it over at 4 minutes. Before I judge you. Are you into self flagellation?
