tony crotty (drums, guitar) / ruth gordon (keyboards, drums, vocals) / ronan leonard (vocals, songs) / kevin mcnally (guitar and other stringed things, vocals) / david nelligan (guitar, vocals) / paddy rahilly (bass, vocals)
other people come and go; all the people who've played with us in the past are all still friends of ours,
(we're like the opposite of the fall....)
Influences
people: niall hassett, roy keane, tim robbins, bob geldof, ricky gervais, chris morris, eric cantona, russell brand, leagues o'toole, steve fanagan
musically: the band, arab strap, malcolm middleton, the dirty three, oasis, m.ward, the sawdoctors, nick cave (as well as the bad seeds), aidan moffat, jonathan richman, pink nasty, richmond fontaine, jape, buck 65, warren zevon, lou reed, hawksley workman, john cale, the frames, tegan and sara, smog loudon wainright 3 (not his gobshite son), ger wolfe, andy irvine, will oldham & matt sweeney, the sawdoctors, r.e.m., alasdair roberts, adem, p.j. harvey, U2, wilco, velvet ungerground amongst many others
mix cds/tapes and music tip-offs by peter tangey, holly williamson, aidan rielly, richie delaney, jimmy pluggd and many others
nb - this is ronan's opinion, i'm sure everyone else has their own take on things
Sounds Like
you tell us, i've listened to so much music in my life, a lot of it has slipped in to me and it comes out too.
the girls of summer are a band from cork, formed by ronan leonard many years ago. the band is made up of an ever changing groups of musicians. Currently they are a six piece band, they release their next new EP on April 18.
the hard bit is, of course, to try and describe what 6 people do with instruments and voices by writing it down. the songs come are written from a very personal approach (some say "uncomfortable", other says "emotional", a minority say very little but seem to like it very much). I suppose just listen to what we've up on the music player thing and you can make up your own mind. feedback would be appreciated.
Hey girls, thanks a mil, am in the studio as we speak workin on the new album so should be hearing it all soon! That track "Realise" you like is also being played on www.rivergibbsfm.com excellent online radio show with Phil Orange, big supporter of unsigned acts and independent record labels, so check him out. Hope its all been going well for you guys ;-)
The Stórsveit Nix Noltes new album, Royal Family - Divorce, is now available as a download + cd on the fabulous grapewire.net website. To enjoy the critically acclaimed eleven piece big band..s original arrangements of ten bulgarian folk songs in a phsycadelic punkrock outfit with a twist, check this out. Good times!
Storsveit Nix Noltes Royal Family-Divorce CD and Download link
Storsveit Nix Noltes on the grape
It's been a while...the silence here has been a long story but we're glad to be climbing back, we'd love to reconnect with all of our friends so please excuse the mass nature of this comment as i hope to send it to as many of our neglected friends as possible today.
Please read our new blog on our front page re: apologies for more info on the long silence. I hope you'll be forgiving and look forward to hearing from you Here's a vid for you to peek at if you wish, i've been sending it all over the place today and last week and it's been amazingly well received so far... feel free to share, blog, play, add or forward it. It features Coldplays politik and is called Cold belief
I'm going to sent the vid out in messages too and more bulletins etc too so forgive me if it appears more than once in your world in the next couple of days.
much love peace and passion
She phoenix
she phoenix fire & light productions in Assoc. with LTHf
...weaving the threads from the ashes... ...it's a kind of magic...
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Brendan is also playing in his home town of killarney upstairs in Courtneys on the 20th of December at 8pm.
Tickets for the Bewley's show are selling fast. So please go to roadrecords and ask for more information.
