Snow Patrol are not Irish. But your point stands…
Thanks Farmer, but I wasnt extolling the virtues of Snow Patrol, I was simply calling The Thrills a crowd of whiny cunts.
Do The Thrills still exist as a band?
No. Maybe? Someone robbed their laptop which contained all their songs to be for their next album… they gave up after that.
That was my original question before being sidetracked by the Snow Patrol query (who are in no way as offensive as the wannabe surf heads).
Acc to their wiki they’re on an extended hiatus and a Best Of (WTF) was released in '11 which wasnt even deemed worthy of a store release and is only available on Amazon.
This is the best thing the Thrills did…
No mate, the best thing they ever did was to break up.
The great Irish scene of the late 70s and early 80s. Great bands like Auto da Fe, Stepaside, the Lookalikes, The Atrix, Nun Attax, the Blue Cortinas, Thee Amazing Colossal Men, Guernica (featuring Father Ted’s Joe Rooney) and of course the Golden Horde.
Then the slightly later U2 copyist scene. Blue in Heaven, Tuesday Blue, Cry Before Dawn and the one that so nearly made it, Cactus World News
Hiatus Sidney, hiatus.
They got that wrong. In fairness.
[quote=“myboyblue, post: 761058, member: 180”]That was my original question before being sidetracked by the Snow Patrol query (who are in no way as offensive as the wannabe surf heads).
Acc to their wiki they’re on an extended hiatus and a Best Of (WTF) was released in '11 which wasnt even deemed worthy of a store release and is only available on Amazon.[/quote]
I cannot stand Snow Patrol but they were very briefly palatable and their Reindeer Section work is ok and they are therefore infinitely more acceptable than The Thrills. Barmy is badly wrong here.
Ignoring all the music for bedwetters that SP have churned out, spitting games knocks seven bells out of anything the thrills ever did
One other era for me. The funk explosion in the USA in the early to mid 70s. I was fortunate to see James Brown perform live at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1974. I missed out on seeing Parliament/Funkadelic a year or two later due to a bit of a snafu. And I regret that to this day.
Cry before dawn had serious potential. The Only decent thing to come out of Wexford bar Strawberries in the 80’s.
Indeed, those of us old enough to remember still constantly extoll the virtues of the legendary strawberry harvests of the 80’s. Happy times, their like will not be seen again.
Any love for Phoenix? I saw them live at Glastonbury and enjoyed them and am watching a skyplus viewing of them on Jools and again sound decent live… Their albums are so so though and sounds like they are trying too much.
Anyone listening to Jason Isbell?
fucking hell , that’s a tremendous shout there:clap: the orb are phenomenal
i documented my music history in the dance music thread but that time around the mid 90’s was powerful.
i could never understand around the 00’s and fellas all mopey listening to shit like the thrills and david gray, no wonder this generation have issues with depression today, I used to be jumping around the place listening to The future sound of London, orbital and for many reasons Everything is wrong by Moby will forever be part of me and i can listen to it anywhere…
Leftism by Leftfield is an astonishing piece of work in fairness , Maxinque by Tricky is something i can put on anytime also