The Thrills

Orando Broom

seachto7 wrote: »

So back on topic, I was only talking about them with a buddy the weekend, and he said one of them was a dj in London or something.
I remember they were on MTV a lot for a while. SUrely they made a few quid out of it. But what I'd like to know about them, and about other bands as well, is what do they do now to make a few quid, seeing as they a) seem to have split up, therefore don't do gigs or sell albums, and b) need to make a few quid!

I'd imagine back to thier previous carers or forge into TV or something.

Look at Blur, Dave Rowantree went back to Law and Alex James went farming fulltime.

Was it The Immediate that broke up on the cusp of a breakthrough, is it just yer man from the Villagers left in music?

JerryHandbag

To be fair Big Sur was a great tune....but even then its hard to listen to the singer. Imagine if a real singer sang that song.

Miguel_Sanchez

Orando Broom wrote: »

Was it The Immediate that broke up on the cusp of a breakthrough?

From the way Conor O'Brien tells it they had all been in the band since they were young enough and two of the guys decided that it wasn't what they wanted to do for a career so they broke up.

They were doing reasonably well and were quite liked - I remember at the time their album came out it charted well above Humanzi's (who were being shoved down our throats as the 'next big thing'). The Immediate did it with little or no advertising push behind them though, relying actually on decent songs and gigs rather than haircuts and image.

I'm not sure what became of the other guys from The Immediate - I think they went back to or continued on in college.

kiwi_40

Well, guitarist Daniel Ryan manages Little Green Cars (!) and dabbles in juicing. Bassist Padraic McMahon works in LinkedIn, drummer Ben Carrigan plugs away a film/TV composer and pianist Kevin Horan is a touring musician with Little Green Cars. Lead singer Conor Deasy was reported to have been working on a solo album in 2012, but we’re still awaiting that.

Anesthetize

kiwi_40 wrote: »

Well, guitarist Daniel Ryan manages Little Green Cars (!) and dabbles in juicing. Bassist Padraic McMahon works in LinkedIn, drummer Ben Carrigan plugs away a film/TV composer and pianist Kevin Horan is a touring musician with Little Green Cars. Lead singer Conor Deasy was reported to have been working on a solo album in 2012, but we’re still awaiting that.

Thanks for bumping this thread after 8 years and reminding me of this terrible band. They were a distant memory.

kiwi_40

Dude your welcome, time to bring the Thrills back......

sweetie

Miguel_Sanchez wrote:

I'm not sure what became of the other guys from The Immediate - I think they went back to or continued on in college.

Peter Twomey is a DJ in the garage bar and a school teacher I believe.

kiwi_40

Cool

Arghus

I remember hearing them live a couple of times on the radio and the tv back in their heyday; the singer could not sing for sht in a live setting. At the time I hadn't seen a lot of bands play live, so I just assumed all singers sounded kack live. I've since come to realise that your man from The Thrills was a deluxe in the ineptitude department.

Anesthetize

kiwi_40 wrote: »

Dude your welcome, time to bring the Thrills back......

My welcome?

iomega

The first thrills album, so much for the city is very good, IMHO. Lots really well crafted songs on it. I see it in pretty much every charity shop now.
The two things against them were the American lilt of the vocals & that they're weren't working class heroes. Class doesn't come into it for me. If I like the music that's enough. There's just as many **** bands from council estates as anywhere else.

sweetie

I see that Conor Deasy is in a band called Tomorrows and playing the Lab on friday with Anderson and Paddy Hanna as part of culture night.

Owl.

I would never have gone out of my way to listen to them but never minded hearing them either.

DavyD_83

I had an almost irrational hatred for The Thrills.
Being dragged to see them at a festival at some stage did not improve my opinion.
Actually, after seeing them there, everybody agreed they weren't great.

dulpit

All I can think of is this:

endacl

DavyD_83 wrote: »

I had an almost irrational hatred for The Thrills.
Being dragged to see them at a festival at some stage did not improve my opinion.
Actually, after seeing them there, everybody agreed they weren't great.

Of all the hatred you’ve ever had, that’s was probably the most rational.

UrbanSprawl

I did like a couple of songs so whatever happened to the thrills?