Bulls On Parade Irish Tour '05

seanironmaiden

hi guys, This month, Rage Against The Machine tribute, Bulls On Parade begin the "Battle Of Ireland" Tour. We've just recruited Mr. Ian Harrold on the drums who, I have to say is the biggest RATM fan I've ever met and most definately our best drummer to date.

Last week we had the honour of meeting Rage Against The Machine members, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk... and some guy called Chris but I don't know who he was... We got to hang out with them a during their 3 nights in Brixton Academy, London which was an amazing experience to say the least. I'll be talking to them again on Sunday which is always handy when Kevin, our guitarist needs to figure out an effect on "War Within A Breath" or something.... anyway...enough bragging about that;

this is pretty much how the gigs are looking at the minute.. We're still in the middle of adding some dates so any suggestions are welcome..

Sat, 16th July: Spirit Store, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Fri, 22nd July, Frank Arthurs Bar, Keady, Co. Armagh
Thur, 28th July, Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin
Friday 29th July, Dean Jonathon Swift's, Newry, Co. Down
Sat, 30th July, The Front Page Bar, Belfast


We'll have a website up in the next week or so, so I'll post some photos with the lads from Rage and hopefully some MP3s of our gig on the 16th.

Rock Agus Roll,
Sean,
Vocals- Bulls On Parade

mrshankly

Hi Sean,
Hit Cork - you'll get the crowds no problem. The Half Moon or Savoy Theatre would be perfect venues. Capital of Culture this year too!
Fin.

Keyzer

A RATM tribute band?
Ambitious stuff indeed... Is the voaclist any use at rapping?

How much are the tickets?

ro1798

just saw this have 10 people ready to go when tickets go on salefor the dublin gig?

ronan

feylya

Yes, quite ambitious but they pull it off well. There's no tickets for the gigs. It's usually €10 and you can just pay in at the door.

seanironmaiden

our site just went up.www.bullsonparade.tk it's far from finished. We still have to post some live photos etc. and some Mp3s which we'll record at our gig on the 16th. thanks to Feylya for the help

Mr. CooL ICE

Come to limerick! I missed the metallica and acdc tributes at the weekend.

danniemcq

come to galway!!!

Keyzer

Stick up some mp3's man, i'm dying to hear what you guys sounds like.

Was watching the DVD of the last ever RATM gig last night, wow, what a band..

MunkyHed

About time a Rage tribute band started. Come to Cork, you'll get a massive crowd.

BleakestH

seanironmaiden wrote:

Last week we had the honour of meeting Rage Against The Machine members, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk... and some guy called Chris but I don't know who he was...

Soundgarden>RATM

Don't get me wrong though, I like 'em.

herobear

great to see your site up and running sean

looks good!

you wouldnt believe the problems ive caused at work, with me going to your gig in the TBMC on the 28th for youse guys, but hey you're worth it!

will leeway be supporting you on all these dates ?(me being the leeway whore that i am of course)

and for anybody who's unsure about these guys, dont be
they pull it off, and they rock hard!

feylya

As far as I know, Leeway hasn't been approached for any of the current tour dates. I think they're taking a break from gigging to write some more but I'm not entirely sure.

herobear

well my source is this(http://www.leeway.ie/forum/index.php?showtopic=1472&st=0) post on leeway's forum, but maybe its changed since then.... i dunno

feylya

Oh. I'd forgotten about that. Well, you can ignore my last post so

seanironmaiden

Keyzer wrote:

Stick up some mp3's man, i'm dying to hear what you guys sounds like.
QUOTE]
Will do... recordin the Spirit Store gig next Saturday so they'll be up a day or so later.

Yea, We're thinkin of doin a Southern Ireland Weekend of Waterford, Cork and Gu-Gu-Gu Galway in August any venue suggestions/ contacts? PM me..

Suaimhneach

****in' excellent. I've been meaning to see you guys all year, but always miss the gig by a week or so. You're written in my date book thing so I definitely wont be working.

Legend. Lookin' forward to it already.

seanironmaiden

f*ckin f*ck... Kevin, our geetarist got some lessons from Tom Morello yesterday at Oxegen. he was really helpfull with some of the more elusive effects and stuff. well...those that he remembered anyway, I couldn't believe it when he asked us to hum the riff from no shelter cos he'd forgotten it. lol. the guy is a legend though

Suaimhneach

That's deadly!! I thought it was fantastic hearing them play Rage songs, and even ending their set on a Rage song!! Fukin' excellent like. So pleased, made my night. I even rocked out with my broken toe, miles from the stage with lots of people staring at me, ha... Memories.

seanironmaiden

what's up peoples? Our site has just been updated with some MP3s of songs from our gig last week. It was our first gig with new Drummer Ian Harrold and everything sounded surprisingly good after just 2 practises with him.

I think the songs uploaded are:

1.People Of The Sun (full track)
2. A medley with bits from other songs...

..Haven't listened to the medley cos my speakers are broked but I think it has: War Within A Breath, Take The Power Back, Killing In The Name, Wake Up, Bulls On Parade and maybe some others..

GO LISTEN! www.BullsOnParade.tk

We also got some photos up of us with the guys from RATM so check out the Photos page for them aswell as some of my photos of Audioslave taken from the stage at Oxegen.

Lookin forward to makin our debut up North tomorrow night in Frank Arthurs in Keady, Co. Armagh... not sure what publicity the gig has got in that area but spread the word, should be a great gig.

C ya

Redegg

a fine tribute band.. Id go just to hear 'know your enemy'. pity i live near none of those places.

Suaimhneach

Your playing TBMC this coming thurs, right?

feylya

CORRECT. Temple Bar Music Centre, Thursday 28th July, 8pm, €10. Be there and you might get to meet me

Suaimhneach

Hrm, now to find a friend who isn't broke, is still in the country, isn't Feylya who is free that night, and who wants to see Bulls On Parade!

feylya

To the Pimpdaddy collective with you for your friends. After tonights interesting performance, Bulls On Parade are set to entertain, delight and deafen all on Thursday.

seanironmaiden

OMG, last night was mental, I'm absolutley knackered from it. by the end of it we had crowd surfing, Stage invasions, Female Dancers ,broken bodies, broken glasses, broken tables, broken guitar amps, broken P.A. system...(it was literally ripped in two ) ha ha, and some guy in the crowd set the American flag on fire! :eek: , that was class... if not a bit dngerous.. safety first etc...

Yea, so lookin forward to thursday in TBMC.. should be suitably crazy

Suaimhneach

ha, I'll stand right at the back of the gig so. Don't want to end up crushed, esp judging from the pics on the site, seems to be an all male mosh goin on there....

feylya

Yes, it can be quite boisterous but it will be a good gig. I'll see to that

Suaimhneach

The boisteriousness, or otherwise?

I generally like the moshes, but that looks feirce. I will probably be able to smell the moshy men from miles away anyhoo.

feylya

Otherwise. Doors open at 7.30, €10 admission.

herobear

oooh the site has pics from the january gig, im even in one of them .
im SO looking forwaRD to thursday!

seanironmaiden

I see some girls in the crowd photos.. go on, it'll be like a game of where's wally except with smelly rockers

acquiescefc

Is the site down, I want to listen to your tunes?

dregin

Jesjes wrote:

Hrm, now to find a friend who isn't broke, is still in the country, isn't Feylya who is free that night, and who wants to see Bulls On Parade!

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Dick:
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~dregin/audio/audiofiles/bulls/BoP_Medley.mp3

seanironmaiden

acquiescefc wrote:

Is the site down, I want to listen to your tunes?

www.bullsonparade.tk It's workin fine, check your spellin... there's a few tracks in the Media section. for some reason people of the sun takes ages to download but you can just stream it off the site no problem

acquiescefc

Your a Hanson loving star B...cheers

The other track is only 32k in your folder. Do you have full version?

dregin

Nah, I killed it. The download was goin at 1Kb/s onto a 1gig backbone tbh.

kazaam

hey sean, was talkin to u in town yesterday, ill be at the gig on thurs for sure

seanironmaiden

hmmm, I just downloaded the medley MP3 in like 2 seconds a minute ago, it,s 4.5mb. We'l have to get a different host for the other track cos it's takes forever to download but just left click it and it should play straight away.

I'll record the gig on thursday and stick up loads of songs.. while the stuff on now is good, it was our first gig with our new drummer after only 2 practises .also it was a wierd gig to play in cos it was seated so I'm sure that subconsciously I probably wasn't giving 100% on the vocals. thursday will be 107% though

acquiescefc

Well as last time you played here I cant feckin go. Summer hols part 2 starts on thurs mornin.

Best tribute band ive ever seen tho, apart from Audioslave of course. If you think its just some crap imitation it aint.

They are 'the dogs' as some might say.

Arrange a gig for when im here tho next time ye kuntz!!!!

Suaimhneach

dregin wrote:

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Dick:
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~dregin/audio/audiofiles/bulls/BoP_Medley.mp3

Do ya wanna go to the gig then!??

If we mosh you have to make sure I dont die.

herobear

i'll also be there y'know

and if your lucky, i might introduce ye to the bands

feylya

Yeah. And I'll get her backstage :rolleyes:

Suaimhneach

Only if Dregster can come too.

feylya

Hmmm. No.

Suaimhneach

Go in with each other so!!

I'm sure the band are fair sound and will probably be interacting with the crowd anyway.

Yizar all sad losers is what I am trying to say. :P

feylya

Riiiigggghhhtttt

dregin

oh my christ. groupie HEAVEN!

seanironmaiden

acquiescefc wrote:

Is the site down, I want to listen to your tunes?

Splendid, the whole MP3 business is sorted(ish). Go to the Media section of www.bullsonparade.tk, there you'll find 2 Mp3s, People Of The Sun and then a big crazy mix of several tunes from the Spirit Store gig. There's several versions of each, if you select the (Mirror) version of each it should download real quick unlike before hand. the old ones need to be deleted....
*cough* Paul *cough*

feylya

I know. I left them there on purpose. Fine, I'll go edit it.

Keyzer

Didnt make the Dublin gig, was dying to go though.
Just listened to the stuff on the website, it sounds excellent.
I'm really impressed with the vocals and guitars..

Hope you dont mind some constructive criticsm.
The drummer needs to watch the beat for the beginning of Bulls on Parade and the wah wah bit too, he's a little too fast.
Little bit too much distortion on the lead guitar which kinda drowns out the bass, the bass lines in the RATM songs are cool so it would be a shame for them to suffer.
Having said that, the quality of the mp3's on the site are 100% so that might be why I'm ranting about the distortion...

When you playing Dublin again?