Vaguely remember seeing them at the Finsbury Park Fleadh. Honestly can't remember which year, though. I liked them enough to buy one of the albums, but never got really hooked.
I suspect that may have been part of it. I was on a massive Irish music jag at the time and buying CDs regularly, so they may also have been buried under releases from other bands. I'm now off to fall down a YouTube rabbit hole and find people like Marxmen, Fatima Mansions, A House ...!
Signed to U2's Mother Records and when I put them on in Glasgow their crew were all guys from U2's Dublin mafia. The TM and I bonded over something or rather and spent ages chatting. He told me some interesting stories! They were big in Ireland, "Celebrate" was a big hit there and on US College Radio. IIRC Atlantic brought them over to do a "College Tour" outwith term time and the momentum didn't last. Same thing happened to Superstar from Glasgow.
KCRW played "Celebrate" a lot back in the day and I always expected they'd be huge in a few years. I still love that song so much.
They really should have been.
Vaguely remember seeing them at the Finsbury Park Fleadh. Honestly can't remember which year, though. I liked them enough to buy one of the albums, but never got really hooked.
I think some bands are better live than on record. Maybe they were one of them.
I suspect that may have been part of it. I was on a massive Irish music jag at the time and buying CDs regularly, so they may also have been buried under releases from other bands. I'm now off to fall down a YouTube rabbit hole and find people like Marxmen, Fatima Mansions, A House ...!
Signed to U2's Mother Records and when I put them on in Glasgow their crew were all guys from U2's Dublin mafia. The TM and I bonded over something or rather and spent ages chatting. He told me some interesting stories! They were big in Ireland, "Celebrate" was a big hit there and on US College Radio. IIRC Atlantic brought them over to do a "College Tour" outwith term time and the momentum didn't last. Same thing happened to Superstar from Glasgow.
Great band and great video - can't believe I'd never heard of them
“a dangerously confidential storyteller with a face of cherubic cruelty.” Love that! And the track, which I’d never heard before, but wow!