where is the love for HORSLIPS

seems like a question for scott seward.

Horse lips people unite

xhuxk also liked them apparently

(they are mentioned here and there on the borad -- often, and unaccetably, as THE HORSLIPS -- but till now had no dedicated thread)

I am old too, remember them being talked about on NYC FM radio, but can’t remember actually hearing them.

Hm, seems they played The Bottom Line exactly forty years ago, with Billy Connolly as opener. I certainly didn’t attend, nor do I remember listening to the live broadcast. http://bottomlinearchive.com/chronology_1978

40 years ago less three days, curse my impatience

http://www.thejournal.ie/horslips-nigel-farage-3837774-Feb2018/
“Some of you may have spotted that the saddos in the Eirexit (sic) conference had the feckin’ temerity to use Dearg Doom as a soundtrack and to show the image of the album cover on the big screen. Needless to say, they didn’t ask us,” the band said in a statement"

lol, some of Farage's Irish pals tried to appropriate a piece of their music without permission.

Ha, I almost wrote *almost* forty years ago, or “forty years ago this week”

Hang on, I think there eventually was a song of theirs that got some airplay, but I can’t be horsed to look at their discography right this second, something about “The Man Who Built America,” maybe. I seem to recall some kind of spooky pub rock vocal.

I did listen to the broadcast of at least one of those shows on that list, The Rockpile show, at which Billy Bremner sang “Jailhouse Rock,” in a gargle-with-sandpaper voice to give Lotte Lenya a run for her money, to mark the passing of Elvis Presley exactly a the year before.

What does it mean that I look at those old club listings with an almost La Jetée-like level of nostalgia?

Was probably the second Rockpile show of that year which I heard: https://musiccitymike.net/2014/05/09/classic-concert-dave-edmunds-rockpile-featuring-nick-lowe-the-bottom-line-new-york-ny-october-25-1978/

No, I think it must have been this Rockpile show I heard, http://bbchron.blogspot.com/2014/04/rockpile-1979-08-20-palladium-nyc-ny.html?m=1
I am full of misinformation.

It was indeed the tittle track off The Man Who Built America I heard. Maybe I should finally read that Steve Katz book.

Okay, one more thread preamble digression: a group I associate with them, maybe because I also heard about before they got airplay: Charlie.

the sad thing about horslips is that they broke up RIGHT when they should have started making dubious new wave AOR records. there is always the last proper album to listen to though. cod Stiff genre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=155&v=cviHlTsLLpM

The Man Who Built America is an AOR classic.

the first album is best though. and a big influence on other celt folk people to rock out.

(the first two albums are actually very close in quality...)

they were no Mushroom though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdGrmxg-ho

I just guessed scott would know about them btw.

I would say most people in Ireland only now know Horslips for "Dearg Doom", on account of the riff being reused in the deathless Jackie Charlton-era football anthem "Put Em Under Pressure":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKKEbJNwjO4

The clip of them, looking sort of glammy and silly, playing that on the Old Grey Whistle Test is the only time I've ever heard Horslips.