Hit The Parade (Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, Galway)

I know I’m a bit late with posting this but better late than never with my photo from Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. I was at the parade with my family so could only manage a hopeful snap here and there (not easy with an almost 2 year old on my shoulders…)
Luckily for me I had perfect timing with this photo and captured a nice reflection of the crowd in the musician’s trumpet.

Post title taken from the song ‘Hit The Parade’, from the album Bedlam a Go-Go by Something Happens, an Irish band from the late 1980s – early 1990s. I remember seeing them at Lark By The Lee in 1984 or 1985, a free music festival in Cork. Lead singer Tom Dunne had a very successful radio show on Today FM but unfortunately has now moved to a weekday morning slot on Newstalk. With Donal Dineen and Tom Dunne gone from music shows the Irish airwaves are a lot poorer for quality music

We are, we are, we are The Frank And Walters

Lost In Music

Just in case you haven’t noticed or guessed every post here has a musical title that’s related to the photo(s). Sister Sledge have a song called Lost In Music and it fits this man browsing in HMV, Limerick perfectly. It vaguely reminds me of DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing album cover (vaguely I said)

We’re lost in music
Caught in a trap
No turnin’ back
We’re lost in music

Music Bands Mish-Mash

Seeing as every photo post on this site has a relevant musical title I thought I’d add this post. Tom Dunne of Newstalk today mentioned music bands mish mash and asked people to text, tweet in their mish-mashes. A novel, fun idea and also a way to show what bands you like.
These are some of the ones that I came up with (could do this for hours):
* Emperor of The Sun,
* Empire Of Ice Cream
* Etienne De La Soul Crecy
* The Frank Black and Walters
* The Gomez! Team
* GrooveArmadaRider
* The The Smiths
* British Morrissey Power
* A-Ha House
* The Jesus and Jones Mary Chain
* The Sultana of Ping
* Tom Petty shop Boyz To men
* Modest Mouse On Mars
* Mylo Bloody Valentine
* British Silver Sea Power

The last two are ‘internal’ mish mashes:
* James Brown
* Lambchop

Can you think of any good, clever ones?
Cheers,
Pa

We are the Music Makers

I’ve often walked past this music store in Galway City and thought to myself that the guitars sitting in the window would make a nice photo. So last week I popped in and asked the owner of this music store could I take some photos in his store. He said no problem and I spent a while snapping away.