Comments on: News : You’re Only Massive Split

By: Off Her Rocker » Blog Archive » Hard Working Class Heroes 2008

Off Her Rocker » Blog Archive » Hard Working Class Heroes 2008 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:07:44 +0000

[...] Unless you’ve been crouched under a rock for the last week, word of the HWCH 2008 has reached your ears. For an alphabetical start we’ve got Angel Pier, BATS and Chequerboard, although I’m unsure why the alphabetically-last contender You’re Only Massive are still listed despite their recent split. [...]

By: nay

nay — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:24:28 +0000

Things were indeed moving for YOM, maybe that’s why they left it at a successful point….
It’s very interesting on the two sides of music and writing.

The new release with Queen Kong isn’t a standard split record of seperate groups but rather seperate genres, skipping between different styles of music performed by You’re Only Massive and QK (who are an indescribable phenomena of their own). That’s an adventurous new motion on the musical side and Maebh must be excited.

The other aspect, words. Megan won the Cuisle Poet of 2007 award and recently sat her Leaving Cert. She’s chosen to step towards writing. Brilliant. She can deliver light and depth in a place inhabited by Anne Enwrights and Sheila Flanagans. We need sexy, gritty writing.

Let’s see what happens but ‘next’ is the keyword. You know there’ll be solo developments.

By: Leigh O'Gorman

Leigh O'Gorman — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:04:10 +0000

shame, but what next..?

By: Ruby

Ruby — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:48:22 +0000

That’s a real shame, seemed like things were really starting to take off for them. It’d be great to see more all female bands getting more profile.