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Brush Shiels

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  • #102
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    Brush Shiels, BP Fallon and Smiley Bolger are like this interchangeable fug of Irish establishment musos from your childhood that you're not quite sure exactly what they did.

    Ah, now, I think that’s pretty harsh on Shiels and, possibly, a little harsh on Fallon.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #103
    Marty Xavier
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Marty Xavier


    not at all


  • #104
    NeinNeinNein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭NeinNeinNein


    He was originally nicknamed 'Brush' due to being employed as a painter and decorator with Dublin Corporation prior to launching his rock career.


  • #105
    fryup
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    dasdog wrote: »
    Remember having to put up with this chancers audio bollocks before Ireland's football games. God it's beyond dreadful.

    wah :confused: elaborate please


  • #106
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    He made a music video in the 1980s with Geldof, de Burgh, and U2 called Bands Against Drugs.


  • #107
    EmmetSpiceland
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    fryup wrote: »
    wah :confused: elaborate please

    They used to wheel him out before, or during half time, soccer, GAA and rugby matches to sing “The Fields of Athenry”.

    It would just be him, a microphone, his leather jacket and his beret doing overhead claps and shouting “C’mon!” in between lines of the song.

    Not great. Really not great.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #108
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    dasdog wrote: »
    This is how your career ends up when you ask Phil Lynott to leave your band.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZE6q4gYgg


    Remember having to put up with this chancers audio bollocks before Ireland's football games. God it's beyond dreadful.

    Ah Self Aid.
    Probably the bleakest day in irish history.


  • #109
    [Deleted User]
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    dasdog wrote: »
    This is how your career ends up when you ask Phil Lynott to leave your band.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZE6q4gYgg


    Remember having to put up with this chancers audio bollocks before Ireland's football games. God it's beyond dreadful.

    80’s Ireland was a grim place


  • #110
    [Deleted User]
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    The comparisons with others made me chuckle because its so true.

    Brush Shiels, BP Fallon and Smiley Bolger are like this interchangeable fug of Irish establishment musos from your childhood that you're not quite sure exactly what they did.

    In my mind, I’d also include guggi and Gavin Friday in that cabal


  • #111
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Deleted User wrote: »
    In my mind, I’d also include guggi and Gavin Friday in that cabal

    Guggi, now there's an enigma, looks like something that was dragged sideways out of a skip, claims to be an artist but has never produced anything of any regard.

    Also, he was trending on Twitter earlier for the most bizarre of reasons

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9748435/bradley-cooper-romantic-getaway-lady-gaga-mistaken-identity/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=sunshowbiztwitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1566163893

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  • #112
    jpm4
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    There was a poster on the old metalireland forum that used to post as Brush "How r ya lads, me hobbies include beret collecting, anecdote telling, turning songs into medleys". V funny.

    Those vids of him on YouTube calling out Sebastian Bach for stealing the name Skid Row are also pretty special.


  • #113
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Deleted User wrote: »
    In my mind, I’d also include guggi and Gavin Friday in that cabal
    Virgin Prunes did some excellent stuff to be fair though.


  • #114
    Hangdogroad
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    In my mind, I’d also include guggi and Gavin Friday in that cabal

    Go way outa that. The Virgin Prunes are legends.


  • #115
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    I always thought Guggi was a bit of a pr1ck until I met him at a mutual friend's mother's funeral. He seemed humbled that I recognised him. We hasd 10 or 15 minutes of a chat and he came across as sound.


  • #116
    Super-Rush
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    About 15 years ago when I was a wedding DJ, I played after him and his band. Really sound bloke.


  • #117
    Marty Xavier
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Marty Xavier


    That's enough of that please more cringe stories instead thanks


  • #118
    adox
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    He promoted Lir and where did that get them.

    Jaysus they were a great band back in the day. Very talented musicians.


  • #119
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Except for the keyboard player, right twat.


  • #120
    Subacio
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Subacio


    secman wrote: »
    Brush played for a while with Bohemians FC , his brother Mo Shiels played for St Patricks Athletic FC.

    I remember Brush told the story of how he finished with football.

    He went to training with Bohs, and some guy came in with a blackboard and started drawing formations and set pieces on it.

    Tactics weren't for Brush.


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  • #121
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Smiley Bolger used to live around the corner for me when I was young. In the 90s, I was in a grindcore band (noisy and completely talentless). We had a gig one night in the Earl Grattan in Capel Street. Met him on the road one day and jokingly told him to drop by. He actually did, and gave us a mention on The Beatbox the next day, which if you're 17 and it's the 90s, was pretty cool.

    BP Fallon inexplicably appears at the beginning of this Dead Weather video (one of Jack White from the White Stripes other bands)



    Used to hang around with a guy who's dad (Bernard Cheevers) was in Skid Row with Brush Shiels.


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