@William HELLHASEYIS Proud Irish never claimed otherwise. You don't like bland pop. I get it. Happens were poppy enough but not bad in the day. Forget Georgia a better tune for me.
It was the first video I put up to test the then new RU-vid service, hence quality is rubbish as bandwidth was much harder to come by. I am pretty sure I was only on dial-up at the time.
I saw these guys at the Stone Pony, Asbury Park NJ in 1991. Great high energy show. Yes, the chorus does reminded us of Teen Spirit. Some undertones of That Petrol Emotion's 1990's Chemcrazy album. Lots of great tunes from the 1989 - 1993 period....
Awesome I saw these guys live at the Bottom Line (a classic club in NYC that doesn't exist anymore). A great rock band without an ego that just rock the shit out of the house. I would love to fly to Ireland and see them do a revival show. And I'd like to take a hot latin lady to see it. Yeah, I'm 40 and old but this rock memory makes me feel good and young.
The song that made it all possible Heard this blasting outta my college radio and sprinted to my record store Phenomenal record Never liked the band name
... I remember buying this CD single from a now defunct (aren't they all?) record shop in Bletchley back when it was released....haven't heard it for the best part of 20 years, but that sounded just as great as I remember it. What a cracking slice of Indie Pop!....
The subtitle for this song used to be "Petrol". Ray reckoned that the chorus sounded like the band "That Petrol Emotion", again pre-dating Teen Spirit.
Was it 'Hello' or 'Parachute' that was kept off Number One in Ireland by Miley Byrne from Glenroe's song 'Byroad from Glenroe'? Strange times. Tom Dunne (the singer)is now a presenter on Newstalk radio in Ireland Monday-Friday 9-12 mornings. Good Show too.
Great song but never liked the proper name - Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello (petrol). First trip to tipp comes to mind. And then I immediately think of The Stunning "Brewing up a storm". Anyone who was camping at the first trip to tipp knows why. What a weekend. Drove from Cavan to Tipp to land at the campsite late at night and realise we had forgotten our tents. 6 of us slept in a toyota corolla all weekend. Sore necks on Monday. We were awoken at sunrise the next morning by chanting. It was then we realised we had parked right beside a marquee load of hare krishna's. They fed us vegetarian curry all weekend and on the Sunday afternoon, while they were chanting my brother bust in between them all saying "Ah jaysus, do yis not know any other songs? Here. We'll teach ya an easy one." Meself and himself jumped into the middle of them and started dancing round singing "Ole, Ole" and they all joined in. We made the headlines in the newpaper when the media were summing up how the weekend went "Ole, Ole chanting soccer fans dancing with the Hare Krishna's!" Such a fabulous crowd of people. Such a crackin' weekend. Never to be forgotten.
ah I've only seen her about 4 or 5 times in that time. She's from Douglas (Cork) but must have moved to Bishopstown (my home place) many years ago. last time I saw her she was working in the Tesco store in Ballincollig a couple of miles west of Bishopstown (all Cork)
I saw a few on that tour. Sadly I couldn't make it over for any dates on the Something Happens American Fun Tour next year, but made up for it by seeing most on the Where's Ray? Tour, after they'd run out of funny acronyms. Happy days.
Ah...those were the days......when you bounced along to Alan playing 'Skippy', and waited for Tom to slag off Ray, lol. I miss The Underground and The Baggot Inn. *sigh*
This song and the album (Stuck Together With God's Glue) is some of the best rock and roll ever. Even their next two albums (Bedlam A Go-Go/Alan, Elvis and Me) are terrific. Another sad example of poor marketing, at least in the USA. These guys should be HUGE. Tom Dunne is a stupendous vocalist.
still don't , should have a wife and kids at this stage. i'm not that bothered though. there is always one woman - a might have been. Her name was Aoife, she has a kid now (not mine of course). ah he's all grown up by now. Aoife and I haven't said hello in 16 years ...
I used to get to hang around with these guys back in the day as my friend went out with Ray for a while - he gave her that poncho and I had her on my shoulders at Feile 90 waving it around overhead. I'm also friendly with one of the guys from That Petrol Emotion, so I can hear where the song came from as well as where it ended up (in Seattle). Foo Fighters could and should rock the sh!t out of this - it would almost be like saying thanks.
