| "Unbeknownst to me, at the time of choosing 'Dearg Doom' by prog-rockers The Horslips, it's a huge anthem for people over there. So I did it in my '80s Fleetwood Mac-meets-home-recorded-drum-machine kinda thing... then someone from The Horslips actually said that he really liked it, and that was a huge sigh of relief for me." Emm Gryner |
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| Come Back Horslips...an unofficial Horslips tribute page |
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| Featuring Horslips-inspired tunes from some people with access to Mp3 technology. |
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| There it is so far. But send us your Horslips-inspired Mp3 or .wav file and we'll post it for the uncaring world to ignore. |
| "Not bad for a couple of Cockney twats, even if I do say meself." Mark Cunningham |
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| "In 1976, at 16 years of age, Joe watched Johnny Fean playing in Horslips at a club in Tralee, Co Kerry. Joe was so inspired he went out and bought an electric guitar." |
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| Sitting Bull’s favorite Horslips song was “Trouble (with a capital T)" from The Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony. |
| *Just a taste of the whole song. Buy the CD HERE |
| Geronimo, on the other hand, preferred “Dearg Doom” from The Táin |
| *Just a taste of the whole song. Buy the CD HERE. |
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| "I started listening to Horslips when I was 10 - we
were all influenced by them. No one in Ireland would
have ever heard this tune if not for Horslips; they
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| "Jim Lockhart once advised us to make music that was true to ourselves, rather than for commercial considerations, and we have always stuck with that..." Mark Cloud |
| "Peace in Your Eyes" (Cheryl Cloud/Mark Cloud) and "The Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime" (Trad., arr. Common Ground), Red Flannel Music, BMI All rights reserved. & "Absent Minded Woman" (Trad., arr. Common Ground), Red Flannel Music, BMI All rights reserved. |
| "When I wrote Ms. Houlihan, I imagined it with driving bass & drums and
psycho fiddle. When The Shots
recorded it, it had a different feel. I like both versions.
Ms. Houlihan is definitely a song that echoes the music and attitude of Horslips." Barry Mullis |
| *Just a taste of the whole song. Buy the CD HERE. |
| Est. 1 January, 2005 "You shall have a fishy when the boat gets in." |
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| "Yes we have been influenced by Horslips, I try to mix traditional tunes with my own stuff and rock it up a bit! We have an electric fiddle in the group which helps a lot, we currently play O’Neill’s March* at all our gigs! I think anyone playing Irish folk rock today must have been influenced by Horslips somewhere along the line!" Paul Knighton |
| My favourite Horslips albums are "Dancehall Sweethearts" and "The
Tain." For me personally the musical arrangements on these and their other records are amazing, not a moment on a track was left to chance, there is always a melodic guitar/instrument part playing an interesting melody, add this to the quality of songwriting that is on these records and you have something very special. John Bassett |
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| *Just a taste of the whole song. Buy the CD HERE. |
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| "We call ourselves the Milesians to celebrate this ancient link between Ireland and Spain, to remind ourselves of our common heritage, and to remember the past, from where the future comes." |
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Had your back to the wall, Now it's free for alI The American Way |
| *The CD version this time! * *Call it what they will, they play it right fine. |
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| Jacky Beauchene vocals & Christian Reigneau lyrics |
| Great Review of the Band HERE. |
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| "Bonjour de France à tous les fans de Horslips."
Christian Reigneau |
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| *Just a taste of the whole song. Buy the CD HERE. |
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| "Tis of a famous highwayman
A story I will tell; His name was Willie Brennan, And in Ireland he did dwell..." |
| "As soon as we heard the opening chords of “Furniture” I started dishing out candles..." MORE |
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| "Things began to change in 1978 when Pat, John and Tommy became huge fans of a celtic rock band called Horslips. So much so, they put their fiddles and pipes down and formed their own rock band called Pulse. Pat on guitar, John on bass and vocals and Tommy on drums. The boys followed Horslips around attending nearly every show possible and became good friends with them. Barry Devlin, (Horslips bass player) heard through the grapevine that the young brothers had their own band and were very good. Barry decided to visit the kids at their home to hear them rehearse. He was so impressed he immediately offered them the support slot on Horslips next tour in Ireland in 1979 - which for the boys, was a dream come true, and that was the beginning." From the Official Celtus Site |
| *Just a taste of the whole song. Email LINDY for Celtus and Mama's Boys CDs Now Available: "Moonchild" digitally remastered and with bonus tracks |
| "We were taken aback by their long-haired hippie image, all the equipment and the punters going crazy at the front of the stage." John McManus |
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| “King of the Fairies is my first ever Horslips song. It's a fav of mine after these past 2 years, so here it is in all its glory! Fantasia is for that Great Plane in the Sky. Johnny Fean taught me the phasing effect, which I will be forever grateful for.” Chris Somers |
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| “I found a few old original LPs in the house which belonged to my parents and loaned them to Ryan to listen to. They’re all themed in Irish mythology and it was a choice of whether to do The Tain or The Book of Invasions and we went for the latter because it was more historical.” Michael Rafferty |
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| My one and only 11-year old nephew David shows signs that his obsession with speed-death- grunge-ozzy-riffola-prog-trad- metal-noise music is not a passing fad. So much so that I have found it necessary to introduce him to "Spinal Tap" at an early age. |
| But, teaching him the riff to "Dearg Doom" over the Holidays - gratifyingly, he played it back to me in better shape than I had handed it to him - something blindingly obvious about this Tradition thing struck me for the first time...
I wasn't teaching him "O'Neill's Cavalry" on the guitar, I was teaching him "Dearg Doom" or, as his mother refers to it "that football thing". And it is "Dearg Doom" that will almost certainly replace "O'Neill's" in the Tradition, as it is passed along. Philip Chevron, Official Guestbook, 3 January 2004 |
| *Just a taste of the whole song. Buy the CD HERE. |
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| KING OF THE FAIRIES Horslips' version of this traditional tune appears on Dancehall Sweethearts, Horslips Live, Tracks from the Vaults, and Belfast Gigs. |
| DEARG DOOM Appears on The Táin, Horslips Live, Tracks from the Vaults, The Belfast Gigs, and the Best of Horslips double CD. |
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| TROUBLE (With a Capital T) Appears on The Book of Invasions, Belfast Gigs, the Best of Horslips double CD, and Rollback |
| SHAKIN' ALL OVER Appears on The Belfast Gigs. |
| Horslips tunes covered - Alpha by tune after new |
| Inspired by Horslips - Alpha by artist after new |
| Copyright (c) 2005 - 2008 by L. Templeton San Francisco, California |
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| “Joe's lads are a nice, tight four-piece who play a judicious mix of their own stuff and covers of blues numbers. They're talented musicians who know how to have a good time and to infuse the music with their passion. I played the new CD on the way home, and I can see that the title track, Endless Days and Nights, is going to become a big favourite with me.” Shaz Wheeler |
| Buy their new CD by email at Electric Blueshouse Band |
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| FANTASIA appears on The Book of Invasions. See also Fantasia, as performed by the Horslips Tribute Band. |
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| You speak in whispers of the devils I have slain By the fire of my silver Devil’s Blade, And still you dare to flaunt yourself at me. I don't want you, I don't need you, I don't love you, Can't you see... |
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| "The Horslips? What a band! Fathom is so influenced by the Horslips that we have tried to become a modern day version of them. The seminal thrust that Horslips put forward in prog/celtic rock is largely unknown to the modern rocker and rock fan. Fathom is taking that Horslip-like concept and injecting it with even more traditional celtic music and yet more battle laden guitar riffs that hack and parry like a veritable claymore brandishing highlander!" John DiBartolo |
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| "Horslips are a map to the treasure, taking tunes from the past and modernising the tales and traditions for the present. They set the standard and laid the foundation for fusing the old and the new". Damien McCarron |
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| *This file is in m4a format. Please see note in Guestbook. |
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Drums: Dave Lynch Vocals: Tadhg Dennehy Bass: Cormac "Dote" Connolly |
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| “Tattoo'd Lady [is our] tribute to the great late Rory Gallagher, the greatest there ever was.” Chris Somers |
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| … with the renowned Mary Custy on fiddle it makes for an interesting and very listenable musical fusion, a bit like Horslips on acid… |
| “I don't think anyone who wasn't around at the time though can really
know just how special they were. I think that Rory, Lizzy and Horslips were venerated in a way that even U2 will never know.” Gerry Doyle |
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| "Somehow, I don't know if I brought it up or somebody brought it up: Horslips. Someone said 'Hey, we gotta get together and do a Horslips tribute.'" Drummer Joe D'Andrea |
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| The Dun Ringles Myspace.com site Stornoway, Scotland |
| "It may surprise many folk that a band from the Celtic heartland of Scotland should choose an Irish band as one of their main influences rather than, say Runrig or Wolfstone. It's not as if we're short of
decent folk rock bands in Scotland, but for some reason all four of us seemed drawn to the music of Horslips.
The obvious connections between the Hebrides and Ireland are there to see, in the inventive updating (and amplification!) of old reels and jigs and also in the continuation of the bardic tradition in the storytelling throughout their albums. It was also the ease in which Horslips could change from full on 'rawk and roll' to a ditty with whistle and bodhran in the blink of an eye that grabbed our attentions. Another important factor for us (and a purely selfish one) was that in our small community, we were about the only ones who had discovered Horslips. It gave us all a great sense of pride converting someone else to this great secret from Ireland. It's fantastic seeing the present day resurgence in Horslips. It can only be a matter of time until they come and do a tour of the Hebrides!" Iain Watson |
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| Website note: a Led Zeppelin tribute band from Cork and influenced by Rory Gallagher, Physical Graffiti did include a Horslips classic Johnny's Wedding in their live set. |
| NOT WANTED ON VOYAGE Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 David Creedon's "Ghosts of the Faithful Departed" |
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