Eoghan, is this a record-breaking thread or wha'? and do record-breaking threads include record-breaking thread enquiries? if not, please ignore this particular message. thanks.

tatoo that there and you just might get those different strokes your talking about, and people who quote jack nicholson generally have a meta-poo in their sham crotch i say do as spinal tap does and get a cucumber down there. now where were the derek smalls davis st hubbins and nigel tuffnel element of WCH

ON THAT VERY VERY SUBJECT........ somebody remarked to me after i got offstage at the workinclass hero thing..that i should never again wear white cords while playing a gig...aparently the outline of my 'scram-dougal' (copyright fishface 2003) was all too visable in the upper trouser area....at least its not big enough to offend anyone i replied...but the person replied...maybe not but it looked big in them tight white cords!!!!! so basically im gonna wear them white cords until they get up and walk away from me on their own..and when that happens im gonna buy another pair...MICKEY MAGNIFYING CORDS ... GIVES EVEN THE MOST MODEST OF BROTHERS A SPORTING CHANCE WITH THE LADIES...AVAILABLE FROM TOPSHOP € 45 EURO .... THE LOOK ON HER (OR HIS) FACE WHEN THEY REALISE THAT THE BEAST WITHIN WAS NOTHING BUT AN ANOREXIC WORM (PRONOUNCED WUR-IM IF UR HONEST-TO-JAYSUS!!).....PRICELESS!

ya i need me a pair of them me little fish balls need a lift what do you think love of my life shewolf?

Stumbled upon on that "Working Class" gig. Shower of f**kin chancers, "working class" my hole, half of you don't even work. That aside, The Things, Listo & Subtonics, three diverse sounds but f**kin top. guaranteed if these boys were English from D4 or Blackrock with Mammy & Daddy sponsoring studio time & promotional tours in the U.S. they would be getting serious radio play. "don't go selling your soul" and be proud of the "green shirt"

the green shirt wha??? yeeeeeeeoooowwwww!!!!!! random punter..is your name breda brady by anychance?

Random punter, you're clearly a dangerous spacer with chips on both shoulders. And you obviously have not one iota as to how the music business works. Nobody gets records deals because they have money or who their parents are. if they did we all would have been subjected to dire recordings from alexandria richards, scarlett paige, james jagger et al the reason why the biz end of the music biz is so cutthroat and dangerous, is because it boils down to one tangible and hard thing MONEY. if you ain't good enough (or s**te but marketable enough) to shift records by the ton and make everyone lots of fun/corrupting MONEY then you go nowhere with companies. £, $, €, in whatever langauge you want to put it, is the bottom line on the dotted line. money talks and bulls**t walks, though i'd say yours waddles about feebly. i've never heard such unadulterated nonsense in all my life, its misconceptions such as yours that keeps this world propagating morons. it doesn't matter where you hail from if you haven't got it you haven't got it and if you do it's instantly recognisable, whether it's spoken in plummy tones or drawling dublinese. just for the record there are very few bands in the world famous or otherwise that have made it where the members all came from comfortable backgrounds v. few (the strokes still really remain to be seen how authentic they are i have my doubts) adn there are very good reasons for this, which i won't expound here because you clearly wouldn't understand and i don't cast pearls before swines. it must be terrible to be stupid.

Random Punter I gather was referring to The Thrills. Now I ain't a major fan of their music but i have no problem with them being successful - i'd rather see them do well then a Louis Walsh act, at least they play instruments and write. To be honest I think it's really sad that they kind of had to move away from Ireland to get any real recognition here - they move awy start getting attention from the likes of the nme and Ireland's like 'Oh the Thrills we loovvve them' and that sucks big time - and it's a real Irish thing to begrudge them doing well - i hate that s**t - I'm delighted that an Irish band are getting so much recognition around the world for a change. Does their class or background have any meaning in this context...no i don't believe it does and I think that people that have to resort to slagging a band on the basis of their accents or where they come from is pathetic - by all means if you don't like a band fine - but have a better argument then that...it's too easy. And again i'm not into hearing people with chips on their shoulder s**ting on about how 'real' they are cos they are 'working' class - you don't choose the life you are born into but you do choose the life you lead. Amen.

but Dromed you are missing a vital point.... they're southsiders :)

i saw them last night supporting the stones and all i gotta say is they abused an opportunity. they just stood there, never acknowledged the crowd, and god knows there were enough interested people who had actually bothered to go see them. each guy in the band might as well have been playing by himself or with himself- they were being that self indulgent. they were boring and the singer has very bad projection, the best sound equipment nad system and you still couldn't make out the lyrics of songs. poppy yes tolerable perhaps but boring boring boringzzzzzzzzzzzz. sorry nodded off there. if any of the great bands that i've seen playing recently around dublin were up there last night they would have beem milkin the chance, playing to the crowd and thouroughly getting into their own gig! its so sad, but lets be constructive there's gotta be a serious way to get the good ones up there?

Random punter, you're clearly a dangerous spacer with chips on both shoulders. money talks and bulls**t walks, though i'd say yours waddles about feebly. adn there are very good reasons for this, which i won't expound here because you clearly wouldn't understand and i don't cast pearls before swines. it must be terrible to be stupid. Just a few extracts from shewolfs's reply to Random punter's message. Having reviewed random punter's message I certainly didn't see anything that would make me think he/she was either a "dangerous spacer" or "stupid". I think shewolf you are missing the whole point of this forum, which is to express an opinion or comment on the Irish music scene. It certainly wasn't set up for people to launch scathing attacks on other members or to question their intellect. While random punter's views appear to be a bit clouded he/she was merely expressing an opinion. In addition, I didn't see any where in his/her message where a specific band was being "slagged off" - point to "Dromed". Getting back to "Shewolf" - I have read a number of your messages on this forum and while you appear to have a well rounded knowledge of music and of the Irish music scene you are one of a species that is becoming very prevalent in Dublin these days - a "music snob". I would imagine that you are an individual who sits in a room most evenings listening to your vast collection of cds and can't wait to log on to forum such as this to let everybody know how much you know about music "alexandria richards, scarlett paige, james jagger et al". A forum like this provides you with the perfect vehicle to drive home your knowledge because I would imagine you have no friends and those you once had now stay away because they are frightened of you and your superior intellect-check out your spelling of and " adn ". I realise I have wandered down the path of the hypocritical with my last comments but it had to be said. By the way I think it's great for any Irish act to sell loads of records whether it be The Thrills, Westlife or Sammy Mumba (MMMMMM) we should never ridicule an act for who writes or produces their songs lets just get the songs out there and let our beautiful Irish voices be heard. Respect to The Things-you're going to make it boys.

no story, you're missing the point, this forum is to express your opinion and opinion's are subjective and individual. not some wishy washy bulls**t oh its irish they sell loads so they are great. some of us aren't so starry eyed to lose our critical faculties. as for sitting around just listening to records or trying to be intellectual about it, its merely a question of being an articulate individual who happens to know stuff, and i think if you're going to say something you should have points or illustrations as to what you mean to back it up. You know nothing about me story and you are obviously the scathingly critical person here to pick up on mere slights of the keyboard such as adn. which anybody else would realise is and. ADN another thing nobody's ridiculing anyone just speaking their honest minds on what they think of the music, the only time i savage someone is when they venture off the discussion of music to wander into personal abuse then i give as good as i get. to make a pathetic generalisation about class like random punter did without any valid argument shows stupidity to me as well as being clearly in a bubble as to how the biz works and i'm entitled to say it whatever way i want, its flattering you think i have some superior knowledge that you think i'm showing off but actually i'm just saying it like it is for me, which isn't flattering to you, if i were you i'd rethink your story and be more discerning in your support for Irish music though being the liberal i am if manufactured muzak is your thing then so be it.

Worst thread ever.

"Thrills, Westlife or Sammy Mumba (MMMMMM) we should never ridicule an act for who writes or produces their songs lets just get the songs out there and let our beautiful Irish voices be heard." Jesus Christ. "our"? I personally don't have any beautiful Irish voices. I have a crap voice. What does it matter than anybody is Irish? Should any band mean anything to me just they are from the same place. The only reason a band would be of interest because of where they're from would be in seeing how the environment and culture they lived in affected their music. I don't think the Thrills have been musically affected by irish culture unless it made them look elsewhere for influence. The idea of being proud of someone else's achievements just because they are from the same place as you seems strange to me.

Kaboom!!

i spoke to the singer out of the thrills conor one night in the village not that long ago, i was a bit locked and i was telling him that having heard his album properly i liked it and that i thought it was great that a group of lads from dublin were gettin written about by nme and the music press all over the planet and that people were liking their stuff, the impression i got was that he was humbled and genuinely appreciative of the success his band has achieved. he seemed like a fairly honest-to-jaysus person and he was a complete gentleman to me. thats about as good as i expect from any person be they from foxrock, ballybock, coolock, the airport out in knock, london, paris, peckham..weather they are bass player in listo or lead singer of the rolling stones... the fact is that the thrills owe nothing to us, no band does..irish or otherwise. like everyone else they will have good and bad days, ,make positive and negative career choices and in the end of the day they will hope that they can look back and go at least we f**kin did something....fair f**ks to the thrills. and fair f**ks to any irish person thats in a band and can look at their success asa positive thing as opposed to looking at them and thinking 'that should be me!!' there is a piece of the pie for us all, how big a piece just depends on how hungry we are. coveting the success of those around us will get us nowhere

....and so say all of us!!!!

Beautifully put Dirty!

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