During #internationalzinemonth, I'm posting song by Irish zine editors once a week.
This week:
Extravision - Our City
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l8sqAGt7uFM
Leigh Arthur was the lead singer of Extravision (+ the great Irish feminist punk band Sissy) & is now a solo artist. She is also a photographer and has made zones of her gig photos, including The Last Gig Vol. 1 and 2. This song is not about zines but it is very very good!
Atomic Horsebox - Donnelly
"Down the Kampus on a Saturday night, madman on the rampage, we're only there for the moment when Nun Attax take the stage...."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qaQhQzFfRCE
1 of at least 4 tribute songs about Finbarr Donnelly (Nun Attax/Five Go Down To The Sea?/Beethoven), who died #onthisday in 1989. RIP.
#IrishPunk #punc
Happy Birthday, Jello Biafra!
Dead Kennedys - Bleed For Me (1980)
Today is the first day of Irish Independent Bookshop Week! This was the best song I could come up with....
The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_eCl9dsE030
"I don't know the books that you read...."
July is International #Zine Month, so every week I'll be posting music by Irish zine editors!
First up:
The Radiators From Space - Press Gang
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ae07d-8d7Ag
"Media poison in my bloodstream, newsprint venom, in my veins!"
Steve Rapid of the Radiators, aka Steve Averill, wrote two issues of the punk zine Raw Power. He was the original lead singer of the Radiators (although he doesn't sing lead here).
Happy Birthday, Paul Weller!
Guardian interview, May 2024:
«At his gig, I noticed he had a Palestinian flag on display, though he made no mention of it during the performance. [...] “Am I against genocides and ethnic cleansing? Yes, I am, funnily enough,” he says. “I can’t understand why more people aren’t up in arms about what’s going on. We should be ashamed of ourselves, I think.”»
The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down (1985)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k5HfOipwvts
#punc #punk #mod #PaulWeller
Happy #WorldGothDay!
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong
"And I see it now...I had a weird dream, watch but don't touch!"
Today is Cathal Coughlan's anniversary.
Cathal Coughlan - This Building
"Oh, no, don't be like that - or the bossman won't invite us back...."
Patrick Fitzgerald - Ragged Generation (For Real)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mFEZGeZr0Qc
"I say up the revolution, and up your dad!"
#songoftheday
Virgin Prunes - Caucasian Walk
"Like a crazy singer in a band that's lost the words..."
And after a long Clash weekend, here's a return to our more usual programming with a slice of Irish freak-psych from the 60s:
Éire Apparent - Yes, I Need Someone
The Clash - White Riot
"All the power in the hands of the people rich enough to buy it/While we walk the streets, too chicken to even try it"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IvG3is7Bm1w
Another one for International Clash Day, although it's not Irish....
#songoftheday:
Today is International Clash Day.
The Radiators From Space - Joe Strummer
"Where's Joe when you need him? / Joe's brown bread"
#songoftheday:
#RIP to Liberace, who died this day in 1987.
Eddie Nil has been known to call himself the Punk Liberace, as he does on this song....
The Nilz - Ginger Jesus
#songoftheday:
Sissy - Not In My Head
"I will fight / I won't go away"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bi02-RIDL9A
RIP Sissy, one of the great Irish feminist punk bands of the 2010s. #Bohs fans may like the music video.....
The Radiators From Space - Under Clery's Clock (live)
https://theradiatorsfromspace.bandcamp.com/track/under-clerys-clock
"Burgh Quay at night, in this dark and stinking place...."
February is LGBT+ history month in Ireland, so here's some Irish gay punk history. The Radiators, live at the Aid to Fight Aids benefit in 1987.
#irishpunk #queerpunk #irishrock #punc
M(h)aol - Kim Is A Punk Type Dog
"Old never looked so good"
#songoftheday:
Toxic Waste - Dear Little Dinosaur
"What visions do you see? What dreams do you pursue?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HaApvFYzhgs
I've been posting a lot of new wave this week, but it all comes to a screeching halt with Belfast #anarchopunk band Toxic Waste.
#punk #irishpunk #punc
The Fatima Mansions - Belong Nowhere
"No right to more than birth and death for the privileged drones of the former West"
The Atrix - Treasure On The Wasteland
"Put me in a regime that doesn't have to daydream"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UX6BSk2kDkQ
Another lost Irish noo wave classic. For more about The Atrix, see this piece from Sunday Miscellany: https://fanningsessions.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/sunday-miscellany-the-atrix/
#newwave #irishpunk #punk #punc
