Horslips ride again

[anglocelt39]

Doors 6.30 tomorrow night and Tom Dunne and co doing the warm up act. Anybody care to speculate on
the ETA of the main attraction on stage. Might be looking to knock the max out of the pre gig festivities.

Did young Corr hit them for six last night?

[Shamrock Shore]

Horslips will be on at about 20.30 and play until 23.00

I only caught the last Sharon Corr number. She sounded ok I spose but she didn't strip on stage or anything like that as far as I know.

Tony the band did 'The Warm Sweet Breath of Love' in one of the practice gigs in Drogheda but it obviously got dropped to meet the 23.00 finish up deadline. I would loved to have heard 'Guests of the Nation' but the band cannot be all things to all men.

[armaghniac]

Guests of the Nation would be great, but hopefully they played Shamrock Shore!!

[Shamrock Shore]

No sir they did not 

In truth I have a fair few 'bootleg' live albums and I would be pretty sure in my mind that they never played Shamrock Shore live, ever.

[comeontheredhands]

brilliant show - great music and good auld banter with the crowd - hair lines may have receeded and waistlines expanded (and thats 90% of the male audience) but the boys got us all going again - re-open the astoria !!

[longrunsthefox]

It was burnt to the ground last year    i take it they will perform again next year... I couldn't wait another 29 years. 

[Shamrock Shore]

Wow!

Just home - didn't meet up with Hardy (logistics dear boy) but what a show.

What a show. Better than Belfast? The band thought so but to me it's like asking a parent on who their favourite child is.

To quote Fr. Ted - "They all have lovely bottoms"

Now - more drink!

[Sandino]

Shamrock Shore, Wow, Indeed!

What an incredible night. I never thought that I would ever experience Trouble or Dearg Doom live again in my life. Now, to have heard them twice in three days was indeed totally awesome. I was so pleased that they did such a variety of music.

Another great gig, for me the Belfast one was about the occasion and the Dublin one was all about the music.

Which was best? I'm not sure. Perhaps Dublin did just shade it for me. It doesn't matter which was best anyway.

I think that if they choose to they could be bigger this time than the last lime.

Glastonbury?

[armaghniac]

I never thought that I would ever experience Trouble or Dearg Doom live again in my life

Likewise. A great night was had at the O2. Magnificant occasion.

[anglocelt39]

That was some crack.

loved the old images on screen.

the stiffs up in the seats seemed to be having a right royal time

[Shamrock Shore]

Less of your "stiff" remarks you young whippersnapper.

Would you believe Gay Byrne was there! I couldn't believe it. I would have put him down for classical music and such like.

Gay Byrne at a Horslips gig - kinda like seeing Dana at an orgy.

[The Real Laoislad]

Less of your "stiff" remarks you young whippersnapper.

Would you believe Gay Byrne was there! I couldn't believe it. I would have put him down for classical music and such like.

Gay Byrne at a Horslips gig - kinda like seeing Dana at an orgy.

What about Gnevin and Tankie doing Riverdance to Hey Mirinda

[Shamrock Shore]

Times review was ecstatic. Indo was curate's egg.

The lad in the Indo didn't like Feans's solos. Obviously not an air guitar nut like alot of us there brought up on the 24 hour version of 'Furniture' they used to do in the 70s, and the blistering Dearg Doom on 'The Belfast Gigs'.

They will be back again now that they have tasted blood again.

[Hardy]

Magic night. Sorry to miss a session with SS but one of the great gigs. Mrs Fiddler loved it too and she would only be slightly Horslips-aware. Some on RTE today calling it gig of the year (one gig of the decade), though they would probably admit to an in-house bias.

I expected a great occasion and a celebration, but I wasn't really expecting to be blown away by the music. The band was incredibly tight and you'd swear they'd been playing every night for the past 29 years.  And this wasn't just a nostalgia gig, this was brilliant music and playing that stood up in its own right. A tour de force by Charles O'Connor and spine tingling guitar from Fean. A night never to be forgotten.

[Hardy]

PS - sorry to report I failed to keep my promise to stay in my seat.