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G-G-G Galway song from the old Bank of Ireland ad. Does the full song exist?

  • 01-01-2020 7:13am
    #1
    coinop
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 315 ✭✭


    [URL="[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JORbaMkp0NI[/url]"][/url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JORbaMkp0NI

    In the early 2000s, Bank of Ireland ran a series of ads promoting the football championships under the slogan Ask Not What Your County Can Do For You. Arguably the most memorable one was the Galway one with this catchy tune. However the song seems to have joined the elusive category of Lost Media and the internet is no help at finding it. Does anyone know if a full song ever even existed or was the snippet only produced solely for the ad?


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  • #2
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    coinop wrote: »
    [URL="[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JORbaMkp0NI[/url]"][/url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JORbaMkp0NI

    In the early 2000s, Bank of Ireland ran a series of ads promoting the football championships under the slogan Ask Not What Your County Can Do For You. Arguably the most memorable one was the Galway one with this catchy tune. However the song seems to have joined the elusive category of Lost Media and the internet is no help at finding it. Does anyone know if a full song ever even existed or was the snippet only produced solely for the ad?

    I'd say it was produced solely for the ad. I don't ever remember it being played outside of it.


  • #3
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    Wow memory lane, loved that ad. G-g-g-galway!


  • #4
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    That was a great little record shop in the video. In B...B...B...Bray though, not Galway.


  • #5
    coinop
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 315 ✭✭coinop


    So after a bit of sleuthing it appears the track was made by DJ Gaillimh aka Skkatter (never heard of him). The G-G-G Galway song appears as the final track on this 2002 compilation album but I haven't been able to find a copy of the album or even the full song. https://www.discogs.com/Various-NMK-0001/release/128890


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    at1withmyself
    Registered Users Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    coinop wrote: »
    So after a bit of sleuthing it appears the track was made by DJ Gaillimh aka Skkatter (never heard of him). The G-G-G Galway song appears as the final track on this 2002 compilation album but I haven't been able to find a copy of the album or even the full song. https://www.discogs.com/Various-NMK-0001/release/128890

    Try the clubbing forum as a few there might know him.


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  • #7
    Cosmo Kramer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,989 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    at1withmyself wrote: »
    Try the clubbing forum as a few there might know him.

    I remember that ad well. I always thought the song was so bad it had to have been created just as a snippet for the advert, surely that was never an actual song?!


  • #8
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    coinop wrote: »
    So after a bit of sleuthing it appears the track was made by DJ Gaillimh aka Skkatter (never heard of him). The G-G-G Galway song appears as the final track on this 2002 compilation album but I haven't been able to find a copy of the album or even the full song. https://www.discogs.com/Various-NMK-0001/release/128890


    Skkatter used to put out a zine called Slanted + Enchanted in the late 90s.
    Real name (as outlined on Discogs) is Stephen Hennelly - you might get him here


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