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Brush Shiels

  • 15-08-2019 6:33pm
    #1
    Dog Man Star
    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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  • #2
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Dog Man Star wrote: »
    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


  • #3
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,808 ✭✭✭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!


  • #4
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


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


  • #5
    s7ryf3925pivug
    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.


  • #6
    Dog Man Star
    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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  • #7
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


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


  • #9
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    Harry Palmr
    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.


  • #11
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    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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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Is he dead or wha?


  • #13
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,808 ✭✭✭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!


  • #14
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Teepinaw
    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...


  • #16
    thelawman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭thelawman


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


  • #17
    Teepinaw
    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


  • #18
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,557 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.


  • #19
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭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.

    The tide is turning…



  • #20
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


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


  • #21
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    ‘Musos’ are always such arseholes.


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  • #22
    Man Vs ManUre
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    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.


  • #23
    Realtai
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Realtai


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

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


  • #24
    Yer Da sells Avon
    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.


  • #25
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


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


  • #26
    subpar
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭subpar


    Brush was a brilliant frontman


  • #27
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,197 ✭✭✭secman


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


  • #28
    FionnK86
    Registered Users Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭FionnK86


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

    Dubs love him.


  • #29
    tigerboon
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    Dog Man Star wrote: »
    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


  • #30
    decky1
    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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  • #31
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Is he dead or wha?

    The hell he is, punk!

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