Don’t Cry For MeMe….
RapturePonies, Adam Lacey and Leigh each tagged me in the Memes…
Rules: having been tagged, list six unknown facts about yourself. Tell your tagger you have posted.
Tag six new sources and personally inform them of their tagee-ness. Their submissions can be done on their own blogs or in the comment box below.
Werrrrgh? I felt a bit averse to posting a meme referencing the useless on this, a music blog.
So here’s a random Musical meme?
1) At a Tisch screening a few years ago, I told Sorcha Brennan to get out of shot so I could take a photo of Butterfly Explosion.
2) My first ever paid job for a band was to follow StoneOcean around Carlow for a day, which is when I met 79Cortinaz. I proceeded to take loads of photos, get ratted drunk, graffiti the toilets and was driven home asleep on my untouched battered sausage and chips.
3) I’m unbearably shy and always full of questions for the bands I meet that I never get to ask because a scamptious mental devil overrides sense with sheer inanity. When photographing The Cribs at Oxegen 2006 I almost blurted “your father should demand a DNA test!” at the youngest Jarman brother.
4) Before landing my work experience at HotPress, I only ever went to Whelans if I was plastered. Then I was barred and didn’t return for about seven years.
5) The first unsigned Irish CD I ever bought was The Jimmy Legs’ EP for £4 in Fibbers, a godawful creation with a neon pink Jack Russel on the cover, inside which they thanked God, their parents and John Player Blue.
6) I’m an awful, deaf, insomniac drummer.
I hereby tag six Irish musicians’ blogs and ask that they reveal six things about their band :
1) Deaf Animal Orchestra
2) The Eclectic
3) Team Fresh
4) Distractors
5) Queen Kong
6) Aortal
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
this sounds like good fun. but will you change our blog from our myspace one to our real one?
-The Eclectic http://thebookoframblings.blogspot.com/
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
No! I won’t be held responsible for Ste’s Universal Fishpaste :p
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
1) only two members of Team Fresh actually like Buckfast
2) Team Fresh own three Bengali Cats that can fetch and answer to their names… Gollum can now say her vowels
3) We got a security guard arrested in Belfast for being too trigger happy with authority and head-butting a fellow skater… the look on his face as the police took him away will make me smile to my grave.
4) A member of Team Fresh spat on an eejit in a Humvee in London. The Humvee driver decided to ram a wee taxi off the road and started shunting it out of the way. As the car drove past The Floorsweeper let fly with a big 4day old tour-gob which arched through the air in front of Marble Arch and landed square on the side of mister Humvee’s face… FREEDOM FOR TOOTING!
5) Team Fresh started out as Rory and Chops dj-ing… Rory lost all his records when his car got stolen in Belfast, so he got a guitar instead… Five years later and we’re back
6) Ah was gloaten up thon heifer when ah bag clapper of shite went and glarred me new shirt hey, cannae be goin oot in thon sir!
We tag
1) And So I Watch You From Afar
2) Axis Of
3) Panama Kings
4) General Fiasco
5) Fighting With Wire
6) La Faro
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Tooting : London Borough of ‘Fresh!
Sure you’re not in denal about Buckie-love? Or have a certain distillery converted you to Bushie-love?
Make sure ya go round all those bands and whip ‘em into participation
May 4th, 2008 at 3:42 am
“…at a Tisch screening a few years ago, I told Sorcha Brennan to get out of shot so I could take a photo of Butterfly Explosion…”
i’ll start the slow clap, shall i?
May 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I thought it was hilarious!
May 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Leigh: I was the first person to slow-clap. “well done Nay, you’ve excelled yourself once again…”
Sorcha : That’s cos you’re nice! Anyone else would’ve spat and forked the evil eye in my direction!
May 4th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
actually…
when i had the butterfly explosion play a set for me at the 3rd electric fix in 2005 (that long ago!!), i announced them on stage as the butterfly implosion - true story
May 4th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
What have you started Nay?? Nice job though. You may have begun something beautiful. And if I was photographing the Butterfly Explosion I would ask all the others to step outta shot EXCEPT Sorcha hahaha!
May 6th, 2008 at 8:55 am
That’s pure class dude! And admitting embarrassing mistakes in such a public domain as this…even classier!
You can come back into the shot now Sorcha!!
May 6th, 2008 at 11:07 am
LOL Cauls, I’d only use ‘classy’ on myself if it was a lifebelt and I was drowning…
I am a changed soul however. No more dancing on tables or sleeping on chips for me!
May 6th, 2008 at 11:29 am
“I am a changed soul however. No more dancing on tables or sleeping on chips for me!”
….no comment
May 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am
it took me ages to figure out what exactly im supposed to do.
ill get back to ya.
you’ll have to elaborate on number six,nay.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Nice one Amy, can’t wait
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
May 6th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
ha ha your honesty is great! 7 bleedin years being barred in whelans, you musta done sumat very bold (o:
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
hmmm…its hard to think of 6 things….
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!!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Ah naaaaah, it wasn’t a seven-year ban, I just didn’t go back again for a looong time because I found Fibbers!
And it’s not all drunkeness! 2/6 isn’t too bad considering I’m not in a band and didnt want it all to be about work. Saying I fall asleep to the same GY!BE song every night is a bit predictable :p
Do let us know yours…
June 4th, 2008 at 10:53 am
1. i have a habit of walking into arguments…apart from a certain photographer i have also had a heated argument with phantom dj laura lee-conboy…although its all fixed now…i good at saying sorry…
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…
June 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
hi ney,long time no see.
sorry for taking so long to get back to you,but dont think we werent thinking about it all the time.talk to you soon:
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
June 4th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
1. Top 3 quotes about You’re Only Massive
*”could have been an unmitigated disaster” (Sara Keating of the Irish Times on Disco-nnect
*”Worst Act I’ve ever seen” - someone on boards.ie
* “I saw your band on the internet!” - Waterford celebrity Carrie Crowley to Megan
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
June 5th, 2008 at 9:29 am
[…] Aortal, Queen Kong and You’re Only Massive have returned their MeMe responses! Makes for some riveting reading: manifestos, assaults and rip-off merchants abound…check it out! […]
June 5th, 2008 at 9:52 am
James: pity you didn’t have that megaphone at the Scissorhands moment! Woulda saved your wait for an ambulance…but what happened with the anti-war rallies? Do you still march?
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!
June 5th, 2008 at 9:58 am
i would also like to know more about grand theft hopkins?
something tells me its not sir anthony hopkins you’re on about?
June 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Mmm, the Gram Theft Hopkins suspense is killing me too!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am
i think YOM still owe us one.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:21 am
this thread is really interesting…esp if all the nominees get back on it…
i nominate-
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!
June 5th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
i think some of my nominees thought i was spamming them unwillingly.ill try again.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Ah I’ve learnt that nominees tend to take a while to get back
What are the chances of three in one day though?!
I’ll do my bit and chase up Distractors and The Eclectic!
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
June 6th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
By the by, isn’t Boss Volenti’s drummer/manager Graham Hopkins?
June 6th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
*nods*
Mmmhmmm!!
June 7th, 2008 at 10:31 am
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.
June 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
like this:
June 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Woooo you’re the first to use the photo option
I take it QK are the unclothed personages in that pic! The centre right chap looks as though his shirt’s been smeared with the blood of a Welsh dragon…
June 7th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
…working on it!
June 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I’m finding out a lot here, possibly too much!
June 9th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Ah pshaaaaw…my answers are just PG rating
June 11th, 2008 at 10:50 am
(1) The name Blasterbra came from a drunken night shared between Jacob from Leaders of Men, Mike from Cane 141 and Anna. Mike showed Anna a retro-bogus-invention book from the 60â??s containing a Blasterbraâ?¦ A bra with with a very mini hi fi system built in. Anna adopted it as a psuedonom for her solo efforts and updated it to being a portable i-pod player and will make one for you if she likes you enough.
(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
June 16th, 2008 at 10:08 am
[…] fell under their spell when a friend lent me their second EP. I’d heard Sophia and met the band briefly at the fall ‘06 Tisch Premieres. At that point Irish music was still opening […]
June 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
The gear lugging experience seems to have scarred poor Blasterbra for life!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:08 am
[…] keeping with the MeMe, I hereby tag seven Irish […]
June 25th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hey Nay,
You didnee ask me but the hell with it, you’re getting a response all the same
-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