Whipping Boy

Ho-Hum · 12-05-2008 4:48pm #1

Why have I only found about these lads now and what happened to them? I just got the album Heartworm and it's been on repeat for the last week. Definitely the most under rated Irish band.

We Don't need nobody else

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=sLT5s9eoBgo

jtsuited · 12-05-2008 5:07pm

Ho-Hum wrote: »

Why have I only found about these lads now and what happened to them? I just got the album Heartworm and it's been on repeat for the last week. Definitely the most under rated Irish band.

We Don't need nobody else

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=sLT5s9eoBgo

one of my favourite albums from my early teens.

i heard the lead singer was up to something recently enough.

+1 on the underrated irish band point.

Howard the Duck · 12-05-2008 5:45pm

I think they have turned into one of the Christmas get together bands so you might here from them come december when they need money to buy theur Kin some presents

Stiv · 13-05-2008 12:13am

I saw them live a couple of years back (during the summer, incidentally). Was quite drunk for much of the affair but do remember the flashing lights and the frontman dangling his flab over the front of the stage at every opportunity.

Also notable for the horrific warm-up act Jinx Lennon, who had a pint tossed at him and spent the final five minutes of his set screaming "**** Limerick" at the audience.

Amazotheamazing · 13-05-2008 12:51am

Stiv wrote: »

I saw them live a couple of years back (during the summer, incidentally). Was quite drunk for much of the affair but do remember the flashing lights and the frontman dangling his flab over the front of the stage at every opportunity.

Also notable for the horrific warm-up act Jinx Lennon, who had a pint tossed at him and spent the final five minutes of his set screaming "**** Limerick" at the audience.

Was at that gig, in Dolans in Limerick. Jinx Lennon is presumably a day release patient of some sort. Still, great gig, great band. Their self titled third album is well worth checking out.

Stiv · 13-05-2008 1:35am

I think that was it, I'm not from Limerick so I dunno the name. It was in the back room of a pub, I remember.

Earthhorse · 13-05-2008 10:22am

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Their self titled third album is well worth checking out.

I'd go for Submarine over that, personally.

And farbeit from me to knock a free plug if you're looking for more info on the band OP, check out www.valentine69.com.

Captain Darling · 13-05-2008 3:00pm

I saw them in the Warwick in Galway in the mid to late nineties. Ferghal came out wearing something akin to a priests collar and shirt with sexy fishnet tights and high heels. Twas mosh-tastic.

Heartworm should have been bigger.

youcancallmeal · 13-05-2008 3:11pm

I saw them at an Irish festival a few years back and they were shocking. Fearghal came out on stage wearing a motorcycle helmet

It didn't get much better from there. I also heard other stories about a gig of theirs about 2 or 3 Christmases ago and Fearghal came out too drunk to sing most of the songs. I love their albums though, hopefully they might release something more in the future.

jaykay74 · 13-05-2008 4:51pm

Shame how it worked out. sometimes its hard to understand how great songs/albums just don't get out there enough.

fourmations · 13-05-2008 5:44pm

Earthhorse wrote: »

I'd go for Submarine over that, personally.QUOTE]

me too, submarine is amazing

rgds

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Mr E · 13-05-2008 7:39pm

I was at that Whipping Boy gig in Limerick too. It was a good gig, but they weren't what they used to be. The new songs they played were pretty bad.

How Jinx Lennon made it out of there alive will go down as one of the great mysteries of 21st Century Limerick.

jaykay74 · 13-05-2008 9:00pm

Just in case you haven't heard him...

http://www.jinxlennon.com/

youcancallmeal · 13-05-2008 9:57pm

jaykay74 wrote: »

Just in case you haven't heard him...

http://www.jinxlennon.com/

Thats fairly shocking stuff, I'd be embarrassed to be from Dundalk after listening to him.

feylya · 13-05-2008 9:59pm

I've seen Jinx Lennon's show and spoken to him several times. My opinion of him is quite low...

doctor evil · 15-05-2008 5:38am

Doesn' the lead singer have Schizophrenia?, I hope he's manaing it ok.

30txsbzmcu2k9w · 15-05-2008 10:34am

Whipping boy - one third of the holy trinity of irish music that should have been huge in the 90s- Kerbdog and Rollerskate skinny being the other two.
Mckee and Page were the Morrissey/Marr of irish music i reckon.

DerekD Goldfish · 15-05-2008 2:06pm

Michaela Thundering Seaside wrote: »

Whipping boy - one third of the holy trinity of irish music that should have been huge in the 90s- Kerbdog and Rollerskate skinny being the other two.
Mckee and Page were the Morrissey/Marr of irish music i reckon.

Your forgetting Fatima Mansions who also didnt acheive the recognition they deserved
MBV were the only "Irish" band of the time that got the recognition they deserved

Earthhorse · 15-05-2008 2:28pm

doctor evil wrote: »

Doesn' the lead singer have Schizophrenia?, I hope he's manaing it ok.

Eh, I don't think so.

I know on A Natural there's a lyric where he says he's recently been diagnosed with "acute paranoid schizophrenia" but I'm pretty sure it's just that; a lyric.

Ekels · 18-05-2008 9:18pm

Yeah, they are bloody ace. They are hugely under-rated aren't they? By right, we should be hearing When We Were Young on day-time radio very frequently.

Ekels · 18-05-2008 9:20pm

DerekD Goldfish wrote: »

Your forgetting Fatima Mansions who also didnt acheive the recognition they deserved
MBV were the only "Irish" band of the time that got the recognition they deserved

More recently, Turn should have achieved that.

It's odd to think how many Irish bands had the potential........ thread coming..

Butch Cassidy · 09-10-2010 4:08am

Earthhorse wrote: »

Eh, I don't think so.

I know on A Natural there's a lyric where he says he's recently been diagnosed with "acute paranoid schizophrenia" but I'm pretty sure it's just that; a lyric.

Nope, apparently it's legit. <SNIP>

He was working in a kitchen or something last he was seen of...

mosstin · 09-10-2010 4:49am

Ho-Hum wrote: »

Why have I only found about these lads now and what happened to them? I just got the album Heartworm and it's been on repeat for the last week. Definitely the most under rated Irish band.

We Don't need nobody else

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=sLT5s9eoBgo

The most underrated Irish band is a moniker which belongs solely with anything Cathal Coughlan has ever been involved with.

Miguel_Sanchez · 09-10-2010 1:03pm

Butch Cassidy wrote: »

Nope, apparently it's legit. <SNIP>

He was working in a kitchen or something last he was seen of...

Do not post unfounded allegations about members of the band.

Fearghal McKee still plays music with a new band and has by no means disappeared.

Please stop making things up about him, thanks.

Nolanger · 09-10-2010 1:08pm

Ekels wrote: »

They are hugely under-rated aren't they?

They've appeared on a few best Irish rock album lists so in terms of actual success they actually achieved I'd say they're overrated at this stage

seachto7 · 09-10-2010 9:56pm

Michaela Thundering Seaside wrote: »

Whipping boy - one third of the holy trinity of irish music that should have been huge in the 90s- Kerbdog and Rollerskate skinny being the other two.
Mckee and Page were the Morrissey/Marr of irish music i reckon.

I would love to track down some kerbdog albums, nowhere to be found....
I have rollerskate skinny "horsedrawn wishes", great album...

ValJester · 09-10-2010 10:01pm

seachto7 wrote: »

I would love to track down some kerbdog albums, nowhere to be found....
I have rollerskate skinny "horsedrawn wishes", great album...

Really?I found them to be everywhere in charity shops, along with other 90's groups for whom it didn't work out.

seachto7 · 09-10-2010 10:32pm

must check them out...

Dubh Geannain · 15-04-2016 3:15pm

Appeared in the Walking Dead this season.

http://www.talkingdeadpodcast.com/the-talking-dead-252-s6e11-knots-untie/

Specifically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mifMjKT4Tl0

edbrez · 19-05-2016 7:26pm

doctor evil wrote: »

Doesn' the lead singer have Schizophrenia?, I hope he's manaing it ok.

Serves him right. He falsely announced a member of the audience at a New Inn gig in the 1990s was disabled.

UrbanSprawl · 19-05-2016 11:25pm

edbrez wrote: »

Serves him right. He falsely announced a member of the audience at a New Inn gig in the 1990s was disabled.

Look the dude is a legend idk maybe we shouldnt be talking about him ..if whipping boy played the workmans/NCH,played heartworm start to finish,maybe a string section and charged e100 for a ticket I would fcuking go!

Gonzovision · 20-05-2016 10:15am

Please keep it on topic. No more unfounded allegations about members of the band.

UrbanSprawl · 21-05-2016 1:18am

Could well be true but idk its porb a bit unfair to be calling for reunions ..well aware of this bands history but they left an indelible mark on the Irish music landscape.

endacl · 21-05-2016 1:27am

Gonzovision wrote: »

Please keep it on topic. No more unfounded allegations about members of the band.

No more re-animating eight year old threads, that had the last previous post six years ago?

Feck. I think that boy must be well and truly whipped by now... Great band in their day. Powerful live.

UrbanSprawl · 21-05-2016 1:33am

endacl wrote: »

No more re-animating eight year old threads, that had the last previous post six years ago?

Feck. I think that boy must be well and truly whipped by now... Great band in their day. Powerful live.

I agree but there is a definite lack of anything new here ..it all seems to be about auld bands making feeble comebacks and the sheep flocking along to hear it!

Ormus · 26-05-2016 12:20pm

Can any Whipping Boy experts help me to find a song I heard by them on the radio once about 20 years ago. The song started with the lyrics: "When we were kids we used to go over the back wall into old Johnny's scrapyard".

I know it sounds like a line out of "When We Were Young", but it was a completely different song. It's definitely not on Heartworm, which I know like the back of my hand, but I've never heard any of their other stuff.

It was a great song and I'd love to hear it again.

Earthhorse · 26-05-2016 1:04pm

That's "When We Were Young (Philo Version)". It's a poem by Phil Lynott set to the same music. It's a b-side on one of the Heartworm singles.

Ormus · 26-05-2016 1:25pm

Earthhorse wrote: »

That's "When We Were Young (Philo Version)". It's a poem by Phil Lynott set to the same music. It's a b-side on one of the Heartworm singles.

Excellent, thanks a million.

UrbanSprawl · 27-05-2016 9:09pm

Thanks indeed,I hadn't heard it before,puts the a-side in the shade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Ld7ff4VB4

Debil · 31-05-2016 6:46pm

Likewise, hadn't heard it before. Cheers!

"Of him and the boys, poised ..."

Savage!

Ormus · 31-05-2016 8:30pm

Debil wrote: »

Likewise, hadn't heard it before. Cheers!

"Of him and the boys, poised ..."

Savage!

Still sounds as good as when I first heard it. Beautiful lyrics.

UrbanSprawl · 12-08-2020 12:27am

25 year anniversary Heartworm reissue on Vinyl coming soon ..I can still listen to Heartworm and say it still sounds amazing

https://twitter.com/pagep195/status/1292048069224169472?s=20

:cool:

flasher0030 · 12-08-2020 9:37am

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

25 year anniversary Heartworm reissue on Vinyl coming soon ..I can still listen to Heartworm and say it still sounds amazing

https://twitter.com/pagep195/status/1292048069224169472?s=20

:cool:

Listened to the album start to finish on road trip last Sunday. Absolutely amazing. Never tire of it. Need to get new CD though. Starting to skip. Broke my heart.

Granadino · 13-08-2020 4:31pm

Brilliant album. People will start comparing them to the Fontaines

UrbanSprawl · 13-08-2020 9:17pm

Granadino wrote: »

Brilliant album. People will start comparing them to the Fontaines

I actually thought Murder Capital could have being worthy successors.Their front man has that madman look in his eyes.
Someone asked Paul Page on Twitter were was Fergal these times and he has no idea so chances of a reunion gig slim to zero.:(

flasher0030 · 14-08-2020 10:53am

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

I actually thought Murder Capital could have being worthy successors.Their front man has that madman look in his eyes.
Someone asked Paul Page on Twitter were was Fergal these times and he has no idea so chances of a reunion gig slim to zero.:(

I like your taste, Urban. I think the Murder Capital debut is remarkable. I absolutely adore it. But I was trying to get my mates to listen to it. And all I got back was a "its alright". I couldn't understand it.
He's a great frontman. I saw them along with Fontaines at some charity thing some months ago. Murder capital played about 4 songs I think.And Fontaines played about 7/8 tunes. They were good. But I'd take Murder Capital all day long.
Your man does look like some soldier dude that could just lose his head at any moment. I'll never forget the tune Feeling Fades in the Olympia that night.

Back on the Whipping Boy topic - would be lovely to see Fergal taking to the stage in a helmet again. I saw them when I was in college. Didn't realise at the time that I was witnessing something special.

Granadino · 14-08-2020 2:13pm

They'd want to start coming up with their own live tv studio ideas

Murder Capital that is.... it's like a copy of WB LLS appearance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpqN83jQ4dc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AE-axfhMVk

UrbanSprawl · 14-08-2020 10:05pm

Granadino wrote: »

They'd want to start coming up with their own live tv studio ideas Murder Capital that is.... it's like a copy of WB LLS appearance!

Re WB Must have being difficult to perform in front of a crowd of stiffs:pac:
Not a great choice of song by MC on that occasion ..I hope they are working on second hard hitting album.

Some recent uploads of WB footage to youtube.

UrbanSprawl · 27-08-2020 11:42pm

Well no point harping on great band under appreaciated highy appreciated now that the way it goes

NewbridgeIR · 01-09-2020 8:05pm

UrbanSprawl wrote: »

25 year anniversary Heartworm reissue on Vinyl coming soon ..I can still listen to Heartworm and say it still sounds amazing
:

I remember the unsold blue vinyl copies in Virgin and HMV back in 1995. I bought one, a mate bought one and the remaining eight or so seemed to stay there for ages. That happened with a lot of new LPs then.

Hopefully the album will get a 2CD reissue with all the B-Sides and radio edits. Plus maybe some live stuff.

Granadino · 02-09-2020 3:38pm

I picked up Heartworm a few months back, brand new CD on ebay from a UK shop.

Whipping Boy

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