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.
I just stuck up two new songs on my page there. After this there are only two more to go and then the whole album will have been put up (not all in one go though, obvioulsy).
Have a listen and let me know what you think. Hope you like them! My current favourite is up there too...
Sorry bout the group mail (despite your name being cunningly added into the first line. How did I do that?)
Anyways, stuck up some new recordings of songs we did in the album session in Electrical Audio. None of the songs are mastered yet and there are a couple of tweaks here and there to be done but I thought I"d stick em up so you could get a listen before the album is released.
I"m gonna rotate the songs on an as unyet decided basis (weekly, biweekly, triweekly even??) and include songs that didn"t make the final cut. Watch out for them...
The songs up now are There You Stand, This Is How We Play and Home.
finally got a chance to listen to your songs, was living in dial-up for ages, broadband! never take it for granted! Anyway, great lyrics, great sound. Lookin forward to doin business :-)Off to France tomorrow, but do keep in touch. x meadhbh b
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