-When I joined Red Kid I had no idea where the name came from, and I was too afraid to ask, so now when people ask me I just make something up on the spot

- JonnyBoy RedKid snores like a mofo, and the only person who can sleep in a room beside him is me! Once at a party in my house, I stuck jonny on the couch, and left him to it. What I didn’t know was 8 other people were trying to sleep there…one person actually tried to suffocate him.

- RoRedKid and I once had a drunken fight in Stuttgart after a gig. I tried to punch him but hit a cigarette machine instead, rupturing my knuckle. It was the first night of our tour….but i soldiered on!

- DannyBoyRedkid can fix anything. He seems happiest when something breaks and he’s gotta fix it (especially anything to do with cars)

-RoRedKid and our manager Paul spend about 2 hours a day on the phone to each other. The other 22 hours Ro is on the phone to his missus.

- AidanRedKid, the new boy, JonnyBoy realised that we have a lot in common- we all live in the same street, we all worked as barmen for a long while, we all like movies, and we all have a serious problem with absinthe/tequila/any hard liquor when we get pissed.

We tag

-Walter Mitty and the Realists

-Vesta Varro

-The Hot Sprockets

-The Red Labels

-The Amazing Few

(2) In one year Blasterbra went through 5 drummerâ??s in order to find our perfect lucky number 6, Peadar. Heâ??s nice.

(3) Last year Blasterbra ventured all the way to the big smoke to record our first demo. We didnâ??t realise that the morning after we parked the car up for the night would be Dublin Marathon and all the roads leading to my sisters appartment (with all our gear inside) would be closed off for the day! Long story short, if anyone saw a young handsome male and a snazzy looking female pushing an orange amp balancing on top of a Marshall stack ALL THE WAY up Grafton street THAT WAS US…and going back up again weighed down by guitars, bags, pedal boards and what not. It was pretty funny once we stopped crying.

(4) At the tender age of 17 Anna was named one of the ten best songwriters under the age of 20 in the Jacob Songwriting Contest and performed in Vicar Street when she was supposed to be doing her leaving cert mocks. The same year her song â??Pedestalâ?? (feat. Ashley Keating of The Frank & Walters on drums) was played to 16,000 Muse fans in Italy before they took to the stage!

(5) Day jobs? Evan (Guitar) owns an art gallery with his brother (The White Room Gallery, Galway)â?¦ (which is also our practice space) and is a framer (not farmer) by trade. Stephen (Bass) is a full time bassist and is just finishing up a year on a contract where he got paid to play sold out stadiums from Europe, to the US to Oz! â?¦heâ??s all ours again very soon! Anna (singer/guitar) has a degree in English and Classics and a Masters in Arts Management and is currently writing her thesis. Peadar our drummer is a drum teacher and has just completed the building of his very own recording studio!

(6) Evan is the 7th son and can heal warts! It’s honestly true!

We tagâ?¦.

Vertigo Smyth http://www.myspace.com/vertigosmyth

Ghundi http://www.myspace.com/ghundighundi

Floyd Soul & The Wolf http://www.myspace.com/floydsoul

So Cow http://www.myspace.com/socow

Laura Sheeran http://www.myspace.com/laurasheeranmusic

I like it too James, the MeMe originated on Rick O’Shea’s blog a while back and re-emerged recently but is in truth just another round-robin blog survey. Fun though

asha (she got stories!) www.myspace.com/ashadoes

carla brunell www.myspace.com/carlabrunell

jamie mcdonald www.myspace.com/jamiemcdonald

ali and the dts www.myspace.com/aliandthedts

gina moore www.myspace.com/ginamooremusic

and yeah i still go on marches an all…but no more screeching thru the megaphone unfortunately as i cant even talk after never mind sing….
hope asha replies…that girl been barred from every pub in dublin!

QK :The WSBD video moment is actually lovely, I can imagine how randomly wonderful it would have felt…not that I’ve ever had a footballer-in-hot tub moment. Dayum.

YOM: I know I shouldn’t scandalise but…oooh? How very curmudgeonly!
And Herve is soooo cool we really can’t hold that against Megan. In her place I probably would have babbled and lost the middle of the sentence!

2. You’re Only Massive contains one Young Poet of the Year ‘07 and one Trinity College Entrance Exhibitioner amongst their members. Bam!

3. You’re Only Massive’s most rock ‘n roll moment was playing at the Shell for Sea Benefit gig in the Lower Deck. After our set, Herve complemented Megan on her DJing and Megan turned to Maebh (while her face was inches away from Herve’s) and said: “Breakcore legend Herve thinks I’m the shit”.

4. You’re Only Massive are hereby declaring beef with a drummer of a certain Irish band they supported in February, who not only disappeared after we repeatedly asked for the agreed amount of dough at the end of the night, but has been ignoring myspace msgs / phone calls / text messages ever since. Except for one dismissive text claiming it to be a measly amount (maybe to him, not to us). Sorry, Grand Theft Hopkins, but you’ve left us with no other choice.

5. You’re Only Massive will dance for love / money / Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

We tag:
Fink: www.notalittlepony.com
St. Catherine’s Home for Lazy Infants: http://www.myspace.com/lazyinfants
Sylvan: http://www.myspace.com/sylvan1
Untz: http://www.myspace.com/untzspace
Supernova Scotia: http://www.myspace.com/supernovascotiaband

1) Other names considered for Queen Kong when the band was being formed: KGB, Gay Best Friend, Carry On Camping,Camp David,Party Blaster, Golden Hell, Best Friends, Barrier Method, the Dick Van Dykes, Broken English, Mint, the Lovelies, Gash, That’s How They Caught Gary, Best Friends For Ever(This could have been viable,as BFFE gets graffitied a lot.).
Now you know how much worse things could have turned out.

2) Number of Queen Kong songs where the title isn’t mentioned in the lyrics:five(Bourgeois, Bloody Mama,David Bowie,Boot,7 Foot Giant)

3) Woman’s World Top Tip :Never do a gig when the promoter’s logo is bigger than any of the bands’. You won’t come out of it happy. Apply this also to anything using the words “showcase” or “underground”.

4) Number of Threads mentioning “Queen Kong” on Freakscene.com/forum: 201

5) Some of the bands Watchwords from it’s original manifesto, published in 2002, include:
No member is to ever be seen or photographed playing or even near a musical instrument.
Never acknowledge the presence or existence of the audience.
Only ever used electronic percussion.
Snippets of Dialogue from films are the only words to be heard “spoken” on stage.
No Chicks allowed in the band.

This manifesto has been revoked and reinstated several times over the years. We like manifestos.

6) The nearest thing we have to a real honest to god rock n roll story is when we were sitting around with We Should Be Dead after a gig,just chewing the cud talking about life in general,things were winding down when suddenly the TV no-one was watching filled up with their logo. Their video for “Forget Romance,Let’s Dance” came on at 2 in the morning right after they had finished their set!
everyone forgot about going to bed and scenes broke out kind of like pictures you see of footballers from the 70’s celebrating in the jacuzzi after the FA Cup final.
Not exactly Led Zepplin with the shark,but a lovely moment all the same.

We tag:

The Refuseniks www.myspace.com/therefuseniksmusic
You’re Only Massive www.myspace.com/youreonlymassive
Hooray for Humans www.myspace.com/hoorayforhumansband
Ugly Megan www.myspace.com/iloveuglymegan
Blasterbra www.myspace.com/blasterbra
the grunts www.myspace.com/thegrunts777

2. i got my teeth and nose broken after a gig by a load of idiots walking down georges street who insisted i was ‘edward scissorhands’ to which i stupidly replied ‘come back here and say that’…and they did…big mouth strikes again…

3. i met our bassist conor in a previous incarnation when i was a furious megaphone carrying socialist antiwar preacher and he used to wander about with me chanting and screaming and getting batons bounced off our skulls by the lovely dublin constabulary….

4. i once spend an evening completely plastered trying to convince a room full of rockers that the Carpenters cd i put on was brilliant cos she was a tragic icon and had a beautiful voice…they didnt buy it….

5. me and an old drummer were carried out of eamonn dorans a bouncer holding each limb as we refused to move from our comfy dungeon seats just becuase mr.bono had decided to pop in with the fun lovin criminals… we passed him (on our backs being carried with pints in hands) on the stairs..i remember laughing cos he was really very very small….

6. me and ex drummer were chased out of wicklow one night by a gang of locals…there were some girls at one of the bars eyeing up me friend when after a while a local lad comes up to us and says ‘do ye fancy her?’ i thought to myself shit this is a trick question cos if you say no then he’s gonna be pissed off that yer insultin the local girls but if u say yes then he’s gonna say she’s his sister..or girlfriend…either way we were f**ked.. then the barman asks US to leave for causing trouble…ran outside and grabbed their bins then threw em in the door…then we ran for our lives up the hill with a crowd of irate locals chasin us…slept in a field…not good…

will get back to ye with the 6 nominees…

Do let us know yours…

i’d have to talk to the other lads anyway so that it all wasnt just ‘well one time i was drunk and did this..’ although they’re nice lads so probably dont have mouths that get them into half as much trouble as i do…
nice one with the 7 year ban from a bar…pretty impressive feat!!!

What’s to elaborate…hrrrm? I love drums, bom-chk-a-chk-bom…they’re such brilliant stress relief and coupled with the weight of cameras, help bulk up my scrawny arms.
I’m no bloody good though: damaged my arm as a kid (a whole other Meme) and co-ordination’s banjaxed.
I get into the swing of it at home and have a laugh but ultimately freeze and make a show of myself if I ever attempt in public and with the amount of booze and bands I meet, is far too often

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