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Lost Luggage

2011-06-20T15:12:00.000-07:00

Luggage links have been re-upped.

The Great Western Squares at Rockin' Road Festival 2011

2011-06-02T05:56:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of Conor Talbot

Rockin' Road Festival 2011

2011-01-27T05:52:00.000-08:00

These years Rockin' Road Festival features a Great Western Squares reunion and spazzmo garage rockers Moutpiece among others. Fun for all the family. It's not 'til May so you've lots of time to polish the car and grow a quiff or a fringe.

Re-ups

2011-01-26T13:30:00.000-08:00

Pet Lamb and Joyrider links have been re-upped.

Your babies grew up to be cowboys

2010-10-08T07:55:00.000-07:00

Gary Fitzpatrick
Gary is still playing regularly. His main band these days is The Sick and Indigent Song Club. They've released two albums on Millenium Boy Records and are currently planning an album of sea shantys which will be recorded in a maritime museum. He also plays solo, and with Barry McCormack and Christine Beepbeep. He collects banjo's, banjourines, banjo mandolins, banjo ukuleles etc.

Oona Fortune
Oona DJs every Sunday in The Gypsy Rose and various other nights in Dublin and London. She's currently singing country with Oona and the Devils, and rockabilly with Oona Fortune and the Pavement Kings.

Gary O' Growney
Gary has gone up the country and we haven't heard much from him recently.

Stan Erraught
Stan is working on becoming a doctor of philosophy. When he's not doing that he plays cricket with the Bohs supporters cricket team.

Tim Rogers
Tim is based in Westport and plays with Tim Rogers and the Clew Bay Critters.

Alan Murphy
Alan is working on a studio based project with Eugene Ryder who he previously played with in Venus Envy.

Pat McGauley
After The Squares Pat played bass with The Dudley Corporation and Joan of Arse but is not involved with them at the moment.

Marc Carolan
Marc is doing live sound for Muse.

How they had more fun

2010-09-21T13:37:00.000-07:00

Pat Clafferty
Is currently in his own words "jamming out some tunes with two nice chaps up in the wilds of Inishowen, Co. Donegal. No internet stuff. No home demos. No myspace. Just good old fashioned live melodic rock 'n roll with vintage amps, drums and bass." Keep an eye out for them playing in and around Derry.

Brian Gough
Is still playing guitar and making the odd piece of electronic music (mainly for his own amusement). He did a remix for Halfset a few years ago, and has done some work with David Turpin.
He also does the odd bit of graphic design.

Fin O' Leary
Is not playing music with anyone at the moment. In recent years he has played with A Lazarus Soul and Nina Hynes.

John Duff
Is missing in action. If anyone has any info pass it on.

Derrick Dalton
Unfortunately Derrick died two years ago. His last band was Crumb. This year saw the release of an album of solo recordings as Aeromodeller on the yesboyicecream/disques fridge label.

Jill Hahn
Is playing a lot of trad music nowadays, on the mandolin, tenor guitar and tenor banjo. She will hopfully be recording a CD's worth of trad tunes sometime next year.

Eric Stover
Eric was until very recently the last in a long line of drummers for Dunshaughlin indie rock behemoths Large Mound. He's currently providing a rock steady beat for completely devolved ace power pop slingers Retarded Cop.

Eric Butterfield
Eric's main project in recent years is Sons of the Golden West. He played guitar and drums on their self-titled CD. They're no longer performing live but continue as a recording project. He also plays guitar in another band called The Commissioners which performs in San Francisco/Oakland clubs.

I'm not sure if I got all the various members of the early line-ups included. Feel free to pass on any relevant info for inclusion.

Time heals all wounds

2010-09-09T08:01:00.001-07:00

The further adventures of Female Hercules

Female Hercules continued on for many years becoming a truly great live band whipping up a storm where ever they played. In their live incarnation they were often joined on keyboards by John Hegarty, and occassionally the infamous Benny Sessions. They released a couple more EPs. You can get them on the snazzy new rekcollecter blog, but over the years they slowly ground to a halt, never really officially breaking up.
Singer and guitarist Michael 'Conzo" Connerty re-joined spazzmo garage punks Moutpiece where he continues to whip up a storm on a regular basis.

After a number of years of inactivity Female Hercules have played twice in 2010 so who knows what the future holds?

Gone

2010-09-09T07:45:00.000-07:00

What did Joyrider do next?

After leaving blunt Joyrider released a bunch of singles and an album on Pardox records.
Simon Haddock is currently playing with Trucker Diablo.
Phil Woolsey was in Roque Junior but they don't seem to be active anymore.
I've no more information and the web is not yielding much.
If anyone has any info pass it on and I'll add it to the post.

Rekcollector

2010-09-09T05:08:00.000-07:00

Check out blunt's sister blog, it will feature some rare and lost gems from back in the day.

http://rekcollector.blogspot.com/

Where did their plans go?

2010-09-02T08:24:00.000-07:00

or what the members of Pet Lamb did next, musically speaking.

Dylan Philips
Dylan is currently the main song writer in The Dinah Brand, the line-up of which also features Dave Lacey.
http://dinahbrand.com

http://myspace.com/dinahbrand

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dinah-Brand/120727647962884

They have a second album called I Can Walk Through coming out soon on
transduction records.com

Brian Mooney
Brian is currently in the Stuttgart based band Three Pin Din
www.myspace.com/threepindin

James Lillis
James makes music as http://www.myspace.com/pain.man
and takes photographs as http://phiary.com/diary/james

Kevin Talbot
Kevin makes music under the name The Keystone Kops. Don't tell him I told you though.
http://www.myspace.com/keystonekopsrock
http://www.last.fm/music/THE+KEYSTONE+KOPS

Dave Lacey
Dave has been heavily active in improvised music collaborating with local and international musicians and is also one of the driving forces behind the I+E Festival in Dublin. At the moment he is collaborating with Alan O' Boyle from Decal as Legion of Two. They are currently working on their second album.
http://www.legionoftwo.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thelegionoftwo
http://www.facebook.com/legionoftwo
http://www.last.fm/music/Legion+Of+Two

Road Records farewell party

2010-08-31T03:04:00.000-07:00

Sept. 10 at The Button Factory 8 'til late featuring a rare performance by Female Hercules.

Full line-up is:
The Redneck Manifesto
Female Hercules
Legion Of Two
Patrick Kelleher and his Cold Dead Hands
Cian Nugent
& Road Records DJ’s
Tickets available from Sound Cellar, City Discs and tickets.ie

http://umack.com/

mission accomplished

2010-08-27T06:30:00.000-07:00

That completes the postings for the blunt catalogue.
If any links have gone dead just let me know in the comments and I'll get them re-upped.

blunt 017 - Pet Lamb - Tenderness

2010-08-27T05:47:00.000-07:00

And here we are back where it all started with Pet Lamb, after them having been through the big label grinder. This was the last release on the blunt label. I've added an extra track to this post, a remix of Six String Goal by Decal that didn't feature on the cd.

Download: here

blind 2 -The Great Western Squares - Almost Sober

2010-08-27T05:36:00.000-07:00

Download: here

http://www.myspace.com/thegreatwesternsquares

blind 1 - The Great Western Squares - Judas Steer

2010-08-27T04:13:00.000-07:00

Once again blunt worked with Independent Records on this release.
For more information about the roots of The Great Western Squares check out the Dead Elvis Archive.

Dowload: here

blunt 016 - Mexican Pets - Humbucker

2010-08-22T04:53:00.001-07:00

The band broke up shortly after the release of this album.

Download: here

This was the last time the band played live until they reformed briefly for two gigs in 2006.

blunt 015 - Mexican Pets - Supermarket

2010-08-19T02:40:00.000-07:00

Download: here

A Night in Memory of Derrick Dalton

2010-08-12T07:54:00.000-07:00

Derrick was the first bass player in Mexican Pets.
€12 entry includes a copy of the Aeromodeller album 'First Flight' and the Crumb 7 inch 'Like Goodbye'. Tickets available from tickets.ie. All profits go to the charity Aware.

blunt 014 - Mexican Pets - The Voice of Trucker Youth

2010-08-09T09:23:00.000-07:00

This gave a cd release to the songs that were on all four vinyl records by Mexican Pets Subside, HowTo Have More Fun, Diana The Moon and Where's My Pony?

blunt 013 - Mexican Pets - Nobody's Working Title

2010-08-06T09:28:00.000-07:00

This was a re-release of the cd that had originally appeared on Independent and featured the 6 tracks which blunt had previously released on vinyl as Subside and How To Have More Fun. The illustration on the cd is by Kellie Strom.

blunt 012 / indcd 006 - Luggage - Comical Life ep

2010-08-02T07:37:00.001-07:00

Download: here

blunt 011 - Mexican Pets - Where's My Pony ?

2010-08-02T07:23:00.000-07:00

Download: here

blunt 010 / indcd 005 - Luggage - Meantime ep

2010-07-30T08:51:00.000-07:00

As you can see by the catalogue number this was a joint release by blunt and Independent.
It was the first blunt release to come out on cd. It was also available on 7 inch vinyl.
More information about Luggage here.

Download: here

blunt 009 - Mexican Pets - Diana The Moon

2010-07-30T06:19:00.000-07:00

Download: here

blunt 008 - Mexican Pets - How To Have More Fun

2010-07-26T14:19:00.001-07:00

Download: here

blunt 007 - Mexican Pets - Subside

2010-07-26T13:52:00.000-07:00

By this time Paul had left Ireland to seek his fortune on foreign shores effectively leaving Dan and Andy to run blunt. This release was the first of many collaborations with Dave at Independent records . The tracks on this record and the next one were licensed from Independent where they were originally released on a cd called "Nobody's Working Title".

http://www.myspace.com/mexicanpets
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mexican-Pets/105602932807916?v=desc

Download: here

"Noisy nights in Dublin"

2010-07-26T11:57:00.001-07:00

There's some beautiful posters by Kellie Strom on his blog here
http://airforceamazons.blogspot.com/2008/02/noisy-nights-in-dublin.html
and
http://airforceamazons.blogspot.com/2008/04/noisy-nights-in-dublin-2.html

knee jerk 001 - zip up your boots for the show bands

2010-07-23T04:58:00.001-07:00

This compilation was put together when a big music business seminar came to town. It features all the bands that blunt worked with and many more.
The only thing I remember about it was a few gigs on a boat moored outside The Funnel where I met the A&R man who signed Pet Lamb and Wormhole to Roadrunner Records. He had moved on to greener pastures by then. The cover was done by Niall McCormack.
I believe U2 got the name for their song "Zip Up Your Boots" when Paul McGuinness played them a copy of this one day in Marrakesh in an attempt to show them what the kids are into these days.

Download: here

blunt 006 - Female Hercules - Record Player

2010-07-23T02:58:00.001-07:00

Download: here

Female Hercules - Inside You

2010-07-23T02:55:00.000-07:00

blunt 005 - Female Hercules - Painkiller

2010-07-23T02:38:00.000-07:00

Finally we released a regular black vinyl 7 inch. However it's got 4 tracks on and plays at 33.

http://www.myspace.com/femalehercules

Download: here

blunt 004 - Joyrider - Getting That Joke Now

2010-07-22T08:44:00.000-07:00

Joyrider were from Portadown and not part of the Dublin scene as such, but they were mates of Andy's so that's how we ended up working with them.

Download: here

blunt 003 - Joyrider - Dweeb King

2010-07-22T08:27:00.001-07:00

At this point Andy became involved with the label.
http://www.last.fm/music/Joyrider

Download: here

Dead Elvis

2010-07-21T04:39:00.000-07:00

Dead Elvis was a record label in Dublin around the same time as blunt.
Check it out here
http://deadelvisarchive.tumblr.com/

And while I'm at it, there's a whole load of interesting Irish stuff here
http://diyirishhardcorepunkarchive.blogspot.com/

blunt 002 - Pet Lamb - Spent

2010-07-18T05:28:00.000-07:00

Soon followed by this masterpiece. One-sided 12 inch vinyl again.

Download: here

blunt 001 - Pet Lamb - Paranoid from the Neck Down

2010-07-16T16:24:00.000-07:00

So Paul and Dan decided to start a record label. One sided 12 inch vinyl. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Can't remember how many of these were made, 500 or 1000.
Here's some Pet Lamb links -
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Pet-Lamb/137369510007?ref=ts
http://www.myspace.com/petlamb1
http://www.last.fm/music/Pet+Lamb
http://petlambdublin.blogspot.com/

Download: here

A documentary featuring some of the people that will be mentioned on this blog

2010-07-15T06:04:00.001-07:00

Hello

2010-07-15T05:36:00.000-07:00

This is a blog about blunt Records, a record label that existed in Dublin Ireland in the 1990s.