Phil Lynott Statue

Morning Glory

Is anyone attending the unvailing of the statue today?

6.30pm on Grafton Street,

I expect to see all of the ex members who are playing the tribute gig
in the point tomorrow night to be there.

The Godfather of Irish Rock, its about time he's being recognised.

Alvis

lol! I was just there.

The sculptor wasn't allowed in by one of the guards because he didn't have an ID!!!! Can you believe it? He got fed up and just walked off. The guard firmly believed that anyone without an ID or pass wasn't allowed in. The poor sculptor...

I even have a pic of him at the scene. I swear I could see the anger in his eyes.
(He's on the extreme left of that photo, wearing the black tie with the yellow stripes)

lodgepole

Any pictures of the statue itself?

Alvis

Well... Not really.

I only have one shot of the head, But it's extremely poor quality.
There was a moron standing on a ladder right in front of me behind the barrier so I couldn't get any good shots. Sorry.

The statue was kinda made out of a bronze-colored metal.

pete

here's some of mine

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=373097&postcount=154

goin'_to_the_PS

i wish they would ever make up there mind about putting a scupltor of rory gallaghers guitar on rory gallagher.

speaking of which his mother died a few days ago


....oh yeah... /offtopic

cashback

Alvis wrote:

lol! I was just there.

The sculptor wasn't allowed in by one of the guards because he didn't have an ID!!!! Can you believe it? He got fed up and just walked off. The guard firmly believed that anyone without an ID or pass wasn't allowed in. The poor sculptor...

I even have a pic of him at the scene. I swear I could see the anger in his eyes.
(He's on the extreme left of that photo, wearing the black tie with the yellow stripes)

He does look a bit miffed alright. Wouldn't blame him.

karlh

that ear ring will last about a week!

Frank Cronin

http://www.hotpress.com/photos/view_album.adp?a=2821264

EFC-4eva

seen it, fcukin brilliant!!!!!

spiderlegs

I saw it.Have to say it's a lovely statue and hopefully it won't be de-faced cause it's outside Bruxelles so the Bruxelle's bouncers can look after it!!
I'm real pleased that Phil has finally been properly commemorated as the true poet and artist he was...rock on

Creamy Goodness

i was there today and there were a lot of people posing with this old dude who was signing photographs and getting his picture taken.

anyone know who he is i'll try and describe him as much as i can.

he had black hair, maybe with a little grey in it, it was scruffy and possibly down to his cheekbones in length but he had it swept back.

he was also wearing shades on a pretty crappy day, maybe they are a trademark of his?

he had a goatee which was black and grey.

he had red scabs on his elbows.

the statue itself is brilliant the sculptor did a great job and i'm really fond of the work he done on the trademark fender bass

Sweetness!

Hey Cremo that could have been Brian Robertson you saw signing the photographs coz it sounds alot like him! I'm so happy the Statue is finally up, I'll get to see the Boy every time I go into town now

xtremetothemax

i heard there is an irish neo-nazi site where every1 was goin on about what a disgrace it is 2 hav a statue of an irish black guy. Hard to beleive theres still loadsa racists out there

FX Meister

That would probably be Stormfront.org xtremo.
Cremo, that does sound like Robbo. Saw him at a vibe a few years ago, looked like a total douche bag. Complete aging rock loser. http://www.hotpress.com/photos/getimage.adp?a=2821264&p=2821270&t=photoFile