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Brush Shiels

  • 15-08-2019 6:33pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭


    No, Brush Shiels isn't a strip of plastic glued to the bottom of a brush to stop a build up of grime, it's a hairy, bald bottom of a brush with a build up of grime.

    He used to appear regularly, always grossly hungover on The Beatbox with Ian Dempsey back in the early 1990s, having spent the night drinking with some oul **** in Bruxelles.

    He would splutter out some **** about who was out drinking with him, usually drug dealers, and would get angry when challenged about the top 10.

    I saw him on a bicycle once, cycling through Rathmines. I threw three potatoes at him, I think they were Maris Pipers. All three missed his face, but he was very, very angry, let me tells you. I bought chips from the local chip shop that evening, but even with the extra expense, I never regretted flinging those potatoes at his big angry cycling RTE licence payer funded hungover head.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,647 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    No, Brush Shiels isn't a strip of plastic glued to the bottom of a brush to stop a build up of grime, it's a hairy, bald bottom of a brush with a build up of grime.

    He used to appear regularly, always grossly hungover on The Beatbox with Ian Dempsey back in the early 1990s, having spent the night drinking with some oul **** in Bruxelles.

    He would splutter out some **** about who was out drinking with him, usually drug dealers, and would get angry when challenged about the top 10.

    I saw him on a bicycle once, cycling through Rathmines. I threw three potatoes at him, I think they were Maris Pipers. All three missed his face, but he was very, very angry, let me tells you.

    Lay off the booze lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Rock n roll man! Saw him a couple of days ago on telly, a phil lynott tribute programme.
    Didnt know phil n him were in the same band in the early years.
    He's still no oil painting, i can confirm for ya! A belt of a spud might have helped in that department!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I never minded him, it was just that beret he wore. It looked silly on that perfectly globe-shaped head of his.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    I saw Louie Walsh once when I was leaving the pub where the Screen used to be.

    I shouted "Louie Walsh!"

    He turned in my direction, but I hadn't planned any further.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 410 ✭✭Dog Man Star


    enricoh wrote: »
    Rock n roll man! Saw him a couple of days ago on telly, a phil lynott tribute programme.
    Didnt know phil n him were in the same band in the early years.
    He's still no oil painting, i can confirm for ya! A belt of a spud might have helped in that department!

    I remember so clearly when I wanted to hear Haddaway's "What is love?", this long haired grease monkey was talking about Vibe for Philo.

    Is he dead yet? If not, I will happily finish him off. I mean kill him, not give him a hand job. Can you imagine the state of his flute? Like Philomena Lynott, all bush with a mouthy slot.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Yeah, he used to be reeled out as music pundit on RTE throughout the 80s and 90s based on his association with Philo.

    Another pundit was BP Fallon. Was Marc Bolan's manager. Probably had more legitimate claim to be a music pundit. He used to refer to people as cats and was very strange looking and very well spoken. Had a show on 2fm I think, once a week where he would interview famous crazy cats from the music industry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    He developed as a more virulent strain of the Smiley Bolger.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭cml387


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Yeah, he used to be reeled out as music pundit on RTE throughout the 80s and 90s based on his association with Philo.

    Another pundit was BP Fallon. Was Marc Bolan's manager. Probably had more legitimate claim to be a music pundit. He used to refer to people as cats and was very strange looking and very well spoken. Had a show on 2fm I think, once a week where he would interview famous crazy cats from the music industry.

    Also appeared on TOTP with John Lennon and the Plastic Ono band.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    BF Fallon was Led Zeps tour PR hack for a while so he must know a few stories. Brush was a great guitarist and good value for a rock and roll ancedote in a land with very little rock and roll but plenty of tall tales.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    BF Fallon was Led Zeps tour PR hack for a while so he must know a few stories. Brush was a great guitarist and good value for a rock and roll ancedote in a land with very little rock and roll but plenty of tall tales.

    I'd say BP"s autobiography would be pretty juicy, alright!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Is he dead or wha?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭enricoh


    I can imagine bp fallon getting dolled up in flares, wig, medallions n a line of sneachta . Strutting around in disco stu of the Simpsons mode!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    enricoh wrote: »
    I can imagine bp fallon getting dolled up in flares, wig, medallions n a line of sneachta . Strutting around in disco stu of the Simpsons mode!

    Nah, BP was the human embodiment of early glam. If you put his speech to music you'd end up with a nifty T-Rex number. A genuinely cool cat, though. Like a time traveller from the hippest corner if 1974.


  • Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Teepinaw


    Ah the Beatbox
    I seem to remember Smiley Bolger turning up every week, wearing a Lir T-Shirt and spouting about how great this band was...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭thelawman


    wasn’t it Smiley Bolger who was on TV every week spouting on about Engine Alley ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Teepinaw


    thelawman wrote: »
    wasn’t it Smiley Bolger who was on TV every week spouting on about Engine Alley ?

    Probably.
    But I remember the Lir T-Shirt too


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    The minute I saw this thread, I thought Brush had joined all those other rockers who are performing in the Great Gig In The Sky.

    I think he was lead guitarist in a band called Sdid Row back in the late '60s - he is supposed to have spotted the talent of a very young Phil Lynott. He also was on TV a good bit on music shows back on the 80s and early 90s.

    Brush was part of the first wave of Irish rock music which was in the background behind the dreadful showbands - before Thin Lizzy, The Boomtown Rats and of course U2 propelled Irish rock into the big time.


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


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I think he was lead guitarist in a band called Sdid Row back in the late '60s - he is supposed to have spotted the talent of a very young Phil Lynott. He also was on TV a good bit on music shows back on the 80s and early 90s.

    He was the bass player, and a damned good one too. Gary Moore was “lead” guitar. Phil Lynott was originally in the band but was, sort of, kicked out but before he left Brush Shiels taught him the bass.

    Some of his “Skid Row” stuff is well worth checking out.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    He went berserk on Liveline one day saying he was running around the field seeing angels if I remember correctly


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    ‘Musos’ are always such arseholes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,355 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Is he dead or wha?

    Yeah. Some fella hit him in the head with a rake of spuds as he was cycling through Rathmines. He fell and was run over by the 15A bus. He got decapitated.


  • Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Realtai


    Jesus, he must be getting his old age pension by now!

    How old is he anyway...90 or something?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Realtai wrote: »
    Jesus, he must be getting his old age pension by now!

    How old is he anyway...90 or something?

    He's 73, but seems to have been the same age for the last 30 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    he used to appear on anything goes back in the day giving guitar lessons alongside anghus mcanally


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭subpar


    Brush was a brilliant frontman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭secman


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭FionnK86


    Played a street festival with him in Celbridge two years ago.

    Dubs love him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    I saw him on a bicycle once, cycling through Rathmines. I threw three potatoes at him, I think they were Maris Pipers. All three missed his face, but he was very, very angry, let me tells you. I bought chips from the local chip shop that evening, but even with the extra expense, I never regretted flinging those potatoes at his big angry cycling RTE licence payer funded hungover head.

    Maris Piper are probably the best for making chips with. You could've saved 50p


  • Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭decky1


    jesus guy's you're a bit hard on him, as they say 'your never a prophet in your own country', see him load of times fantastic guitarist, love the way he can turn the ballads into rock songs , spoke to him just after they unveiled the statue of Phil and had the concert in the point he got to sing one song that night, he said they put on the invite 'that he was to come alone' was there that night the whole thing was a farce they should have called it 'the Gary Moore show'cos he got to play all night.Brush deserved more respect that night as he was a life long pal of Phil's.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Is he dead or wha?

    The hell he is, punk!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    He's a great singer


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    Teepinaw wrote: »
    Ah the Beatbox
    I seem to remember Smiley Bolger turning up every week, wearing a Lir T-Shirt and spouting about how great this band was...

    I also remember him being interviewed from his hospital bed after getting the living daylights bate out of him at a Lizzy tribute gig in Limerick when the older brother of some young one he was trying it on with took exception. Two black eyes and his head in sling he was still demanding Ian Dempsey play something by Lir.


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


    Teepinaw wrote: »
    Ah the Beatbox
    I seem to remember Smiley Bolger turning up every week, wearing a Lir T-Shirt and spouting about how great this band was...

    He sent some AC/DC money to a guy I went to school with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Nah, BP was the human embodiment of early glam. If you put his speech to music you'd end up with a nifty T-Rex number. A genuinely cool cat, though. Like a time traveller from the hippest corner if 1974.

    Always thought 'the Beep' was a bit of a hanger-on & for a guy who'd seen it all, a bit of a bore too tbh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    I saw Louie Walsh once when I was leaving the pub where the Screen used to be.

    I shouted "Louie Walsh!"

    He turned in my direction, but I hadn't planned any further.

    I did the exact same on the train down to Trip to Tipp with Brush Shiels, actually. I saw him and shouted "Oh, its yer man" didn't know who he was other than someone I recognised from telly.

    He turned around and I had absolutely nothing to follow it up with so just sat there in silence sipping a can.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    On recent reflection it could have been BP Fallon. Both are a bit alike and of similar ilk.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fatknacker wrote: »
    On recent reflection it could have been BP Fallon. Both are a bit alike and of similar ilk.

    Beep beep, the name dropper supreme. Dining out on a passing acquaintance with Marc Bolan in 1971.


  • Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    ‘Musos’ are always such arseholes.

    Aren't you a bit of trad 'muso' yourself, Johnnyboy?


    Hmmm...?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Is he dead or wha?

    No. All three potatoes missed and the op had to buy chips that day.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Back in the 80s it seemed like Brush was on the Late Late every other week (when other guests were scarce)? Always reminded me of a Dublinese version of Nosferatu in a beret :)

    ...ah jaysus lads, dat takes me back to Philo ....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    fatknacker wrote: »
    I did the exact same on the train down to Trip to Tipp with Brush Shiels, actually. I saw him and shouted "Oh, its yer man" didn't know who he was other than someone I recognised from telly.

    He turned around and I had absolutely nothing to follow it up with so just sat there in silence sipping a can.

    I did the same with Bob Dylan a few weeks back. It was when he was playing Kilkenny.

    Anyway I obviously know who he was but I shouted “it’s that guy!” as my mind went blank. Bob turns around from his entourage and stares me down for 5 terrifying seconds. Waiting for me to get the name. Then he’s had enough and he turns back.i leave quietly.

    EDIT:

    Now that I think about it that mightn’t have been Dylan at all. I was on Killarney not Kilkenny. It was a week later and the guy I shouted at was a red head.


  • Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    I saw him play a gig for Galway RTC Rag week back in the late nineties, or maybe 2000. He put on a good show. Admittedly i'd around fifteen pints in me by the time he started playing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    The Brush was a legend on the pubs and clubs circuit around the country in the 1980's. You were always guaranteed a good night of music and stories when he was on stage.

    He always claimed he could rock up any song ...



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,544 ✭✭✭Seanachai


    I saw him on a doc about the song 'Old Town' by Phil Lynott the other night, he got very emotional at the end when talking about Philo. He played at my cousin's wedding, I've often seen him and smiley Bolger at rock gigs in town.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Aren't you a bit of trad 'muso' yourself, Johnnyboy?


    Hmmm...?

    I play for the love of it, Utter. And for the fanny of course.


  • Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Marty Xavier


    Fields of Athenry metal version yeuuuuk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    I play for the love of it, Utter. And for the fanny of course.

    Trad music is the best for fanny alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Fields of Athenry metal version yeuuuuk

    usually sung up north in westh Belfast...surrounded by p!ssed up Celtic clad RaHeads

    *good ol'Brush doing his bit for the peace process


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,149 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Does he still do "funny Friday" on Liveline?

    Oh how we laughed!!

    He was the opening act at SelfAid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    For some reason, I immediately though you were talking about a different brush.


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