Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

ska/mod/80s scene in ireland

Options
  • 13-01-2011 5:58pm
    #1
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭


    Is there anything going on like this in ireland such as nights/weekends with cover bands like the jam,the clash,the specials,the kinks,getting kitted out,the auld pork pie hat is looking for an outing.


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    mod_fest.jpg


  • Options
    #3
    dasdog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,665 ✭✭✭dasdog


    My ska friends of that era seem to go to some kind of reunion every other week. Saw this on one of their facebook pages today.


    The very Specials will play their 1st show of 2011 at The Workmans Club, Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 (Next door to the Clarence Hotel) on Saturday 19th Feb.

    Doors open at 8pm and The very Specials will be onstage at 9pm sharp.


  • Options
    #4
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Thanks guys,think ill go for the jam even though they are down to just foxton now,must have been something to do with foxton playing with wellar last year,they are like children.
    Would love to see the specials tribute but the ole employment sit leaves a decision on the trip up to the big schomke.


  • Options
    #5
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Also ska-tribute band Special Brew on Saturday 05/02/2011 in The Odeon, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.


  • Options
    #6
    MightyMighty737
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭MightyMighty737


    tipptom wrote: »
    Thanks guys,think ill go for the jam even though they are down to just foxton now,must have been something to do with foxton playing with wellar last year,they are like children.
    Would love to see the specials tribute but the ole employment sit leaves a decision on the trip up to the big schomke.

    Is that The Jam though? Sounds like a tribute act. Just so ya don't show up expecting the real deal.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    i think the foggy dew and the mezz in temple bar have ska nites


  • Options
    #8
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    MightyMighty737 wrote: »
    Is that The Jam though? Sounds like a tribute act. Just so ya don't show up expecting the real deal.
    No,its just bruce foxton from the original line.seen them in dolans a couple of years ago and buckler was with him as well,but they must have fallen out as well.Be great to turn up and see wellar fronting up,paddy power would give good odds on that.


  • Options
    #9
    windsurfer99ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭windsurfer99ie


    tipptom wrote: »
    No,its just bruce foxton from the original line.seen them in dolans a couple of years ago and buckler was with him as well,but they must have fallen out as well.Be great to turn up and see wellar fronting up,paddy power would give good odds on that.

    Foxton's wife died a couple of years ago and Weller went to the funeral. Vice versa when Paul's Dad died. It resulted in Foxton playing bass on a couple of "Wake Up The Nation" tracks. Subsequently, Foxton played onstage with Weller at a big local charity gig in Woking (it was for a well known local who had died).

    Meanwhile, Foxton and Buckler had been working together in "From The Jam". As I understand it, Buckler took umbrage at the reconciliation between Weller and Foxton.He threw all his toys out of the pram and left "From The Jam". There is little chance of a reconciliation between Buckler and Weller, and in any case, it is unlikely that Paul (who received a Mercury nomination for Wake Up The Nation) would have any interest in reforming The Jam.

    Paul included a good number of Jam songs in his set list when he played at the Olympia. Well worth seeing !


  • Options
    #10
    tipptom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    windsurfer99ie wrote: »
    Foxton's wife died a couple of years ago and Weller went to the funeral. Vice versa when Paul's Dad died. It resulted in Foxton playing bass on a couple of "Wake Up The Nation" tracks. Subsequently, Foxton played onstage with Weller at a big local charity gig in Woking (it was for a well known local who had died).

    Meanwhile, Foxton and Buckler had been working together in "From The Jam". As I understand it, Buckler took umbrage at the reconciliation between Weller and Foxton.He threw all his toys out of the pram and left "From The Jam". There is little chance of a reconciliation between Buckler and Weller, and in any case, it is unlikely that Paul (who received a Mercury nomination for Wake Up The Nation) would have any interest in reforming The Jam.

    Paul included a good number of Jam songs in his set list when he played at the Olympia. Well worth seeing !
    I was kinda guessing thats why buckler pulled out but didnot know for sure,read somewhere that wellar said after working with foxton that it could never happen with buckler as to much had been said to go back.


Advertisement