Promoting the Next Gig: Horslips Tribute Band

They'll be happening tomorrow night at the History of Horslips exhibition and then back at the INF Hall, Omagh on Thursday, October 13.


(Poster for Bar Mono, Letterkenny, August)

www.horslips.tk

From Johnny Fean's Gig Calendar

Táin Festival
October 27 - 31 Dundalk

Be sure to check out the line-up on Saturday!

And Johnny is back at the Cobblestone on Friday, November 18th!

More from the Email Suggestion Bag

The contributor of the excellent Johnny Fean interview Ollie Byrne in the Irish View has come through with some equally excellent* resources on bands mentioned in that article.

Here's a great picture of
Johnny Fean when in the band Jeremiah Henry

Looks like a bio could be contributed there!

And here's an index with quite a number of names from the Horslips histories and memories of people I talk to on-line:

Irish Beat Group Archives

On the to-do list is to write to the web curator of this site and express my admiration for a very well-done and important gathering of info.

(Edited to soften the "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" quality of excellence. I just happen to like the word!)

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!

"Jerry called his jeep Dearg Doom"

Insomnia put to use again in updating the main page of Come Back Horslips to focus on the History of Horslips Exhibition 2005 which will open this week! Details at the official site.

Then a quick spin through the Blogger search tool, which yielded the following item.

Somewhere in Cork, Penelope Stone, a UCC student working on her masters in Astrophysics has a friend named Jerry. Jerry is possibly a Horslips fan:

Realization

True. Not exactly Horslips-related news, but fun nonetheless.

Carr's Cocktail Shack ON AIR TODAY

Tune your dial to 92.1 FM or your browser to Choice FM

Two drinks at Carr's Cocktail Shack,
and I go wild.

(Photo of 'The Hell Cat' courtesy of
The Devil-Ettes of San Francisco)

Don't leave me hanging on the Tara Telephone

One of the projects that I've been slowly working on throughout the summer for Come Back Horslips, is a history and online exhibit of the poems and art of Tara Telephone.



Visit the main Tara Telephone page of my project so far and you'll read the basic history that usually appears on other sites. Scroll down a bit and read from Mark Cunningham's Hot Press article on Horslips, which shows how Tara Telephone brought together rock voices and literary traditions in a wild, experimental mix. And some traditional music thrown in for good measure.

I know this story. It's the Haight-Ashbury in the 60s, North Beach in the 50s, Greenwich Village in the 30s and 40s, Paris in the 20s...and right now in any number of crossroads of urban culture and young people ready to take it on.

Obviously I only learned about Tara Telephone through reading Horslips' histories but in April I made an exciting discovery of a connection between Tara Telephone and Gallery Press.

I'd been a fan of the Gallery Press catalog ever since I bought my first volumes of Ciaran Carson's poetry, and that predates my discovery of Horslips. Finding this link encouraged me to look for Tara Telephone publications and learn as much as possible about the group.

Much work has now been done. A bit more to do, but a couple of people have seen a preview and say it is looking good. I'm torn between making each page available as it is finished or waiting until the whole collection (as far as I have it) can go live. And at that point I'll also figure out how to situate it on the site.

But the Tara Telephone link of recently updated pages has moved off the top of my site screen and I want to give the links to the pages already live:

Tara Telephone
Tara Telephone Introduction
A Tale of Love, Poster Poem 2