The Way We Were - Come Back Horslips in 2005

Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of my unofficial fansite as a live site. I had forgotten it myself until scrolling down to the bottom of my homepage the other day to check visitor stats. But yes: New Years Day 2007 marks two years of Comebackhorslips.com. (Or geocities.com/comebackhorslips as it was then) And sure enough, the original version of my nighttime and weekend obsession is still up and running.

Submitted for your scornful amusement and derision:

geocities.com/comebackhorslips/home

(Links now direct to the owned domain, so we don't exceed our bandwidth within ten minutes as used to happen back in those days!)

Trouble (with a Capital T) in my Pants

Not only is Midnight Hawk a Horslips fan, Midnight Hawk is a fan of the much-overlooked Unfortunate Cup of Tea album:

From The World of Pants

Put your playlist on shuffle. Document the first 20 songs that come up and add 'In My Pants.'

We have two Horslips mentions on Midnight Hawk's list. I'm not going to steal the humor by repeating the titles, but I'm off to do this with my own playlist now. Must admit that "A Pair of Brown Eyes in My Pants" and "Three Polkas in My Pants" is a promising start!

Daybreak

First piece of Horslips-related news concerns the publication of a new book from the Cork University Press.

Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock

Here's what Dave Fanning has to say in Hot Press:

"An excellent and thorough analysis of the development of Irish rock music over the past four decades. It is astute and erudite in its assessment of the many different strands Irish music has taken during that period, economic and concise in its delivery, and intelligently leavens its more theoretical meditations with witty, humourous and insightful flourishes."

With the concept of picking a signature song and group to represent each of the last forty years, Beautiful Day makes the right choice for 1976.

I've had the opportunity now to read this entry and it bodes well for a book of insights and surprises. I'll also need to add some of the entry's information to the Annotated Horslips lyric page on Trouble (With a Capital T).