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Category Archives: Demo Tape
Change
In the beginning was the word and the word was change. The Honey Thieves – Change
Posted in DAT, Demo Tape, Dublin, nineties, Rock, Rock and Roll
Tagged Dave Lavelle, Derek Turner, Sean Ryan, The Honey Thieves
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no account revolution
Then there was the time I was working in the RTÉ CEL studios recording those things you hear on the radio between those other things you hear on the radio. I can’t say it wasn’t a comfortable and pleasant enough … Continue reading
John Maguire feeding his pigs
One of the tracks on the Swinging Swine recordings that Padraig posted is a version of a traditional song called Molly Bawn Lowry. This stood out right away for my ears as one of the most interesting tracks on the … Continue reading
Tension – Interference Sessions
Just as lost for words as I was 20 minutes ago on the last post, but this has to get up here before the JCR party that people are putting together this weekend in Dublin. Nothing more to say, this … Continue reading
Posted in DAT, Demo Tape, Dublin, punk, Rock
Tagged DAT, Demo, Interference Studio, tension
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it’s gettin’ hard to read between the lines
It has been a while yet here is another auld tape that was promised before the year was out. But it’s just gone election time, just gone promises time, it is time now for the unfulfiling to begin, – time … Continue reading
“Nobody knows what beauty is”
This was a huge hit back in the late 80′s, recognized as the definitive work on the subjective nature of ugliness. As the 90′s progressed, the true profundity of the lyric came to be popularly understood and assimilated, culminating in … Continue reading
You could have been the best..
Here are three demo tracks from The Joys that were on a cassette and let me say, in this moment, I am really fucking enjoying listening to them. The Joys were a hard working band tipped for the big time, … Continue reading
Father
This session was the 21st-24th of December 1991, or thereabouts. I was intensely depressed, on and off, for a number of days after this recording. It was Emily’s first Christmas and we lived in a house in Dalkey with an … Continue reading
What we see is all around.
The auld lagunas mentales were making their way into the project, and it was starting to bother me; I knew I remembered 3 things. 1) I did a few sessions in Lansdowne studios with the AMEK Mozart, going for a … Continue reading
Debra Demos
Ok, it’s Conamara comes to Dublin and back to the distant past again with a couple of tracks from the 3am demo sessions with Debra Wallace. I won’t clutter up these powerful vocals with any more bla.bla..blog.. Jaysus!, mind those … Continue reading
