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Disco Dublin#6-#10
 DDD#10
Fucking great night! One of the very best so far!
Donaghmede r'n'b psycho-mod combo The
Things conquered like tank commanders with
electric guitars storming Carnaby Street, Neil Moore
the singer an impressive lunatic leaping all over
the stage, lying on the stage, shrieking splendidly
through Things originals like True To You, Live
A Lie*, When I'm High* and Listen My Friend
as Vinnie Duggan's guitar squealed triumphantly. What
an adrenaline blast!
With Jimmy Cullen on drums, Robbie Brady on bass and
Ruari Paxton on keyboards, these cats have got it....
if they'd've been playing London yonks ago they'd
have given The Yardbirds and The Action
a run for the honey in their hips. The Things
climaxed with a wild thrash through The Yardbirds'
Stroll On, Vinnie's guitar rasping Jeff Beck-like
and Neil collapsing into Jimmy's drums. Trashed stage
or not, the happily-blasted DDD audience demanded
an encore which they delivered forcibly with Them's
Gloria. There's something special about this group
- attitude/youth/shapes/the right noise.
The Things - AMAZING!!!
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These tracks are downloadable from Soundweb.ie
[above] : The Things @ DDD#10: Neil,
Ruari, Vinnie, Jimmy and Robbie chill-out post-gig
Photo
by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom
DJs at DDD#10
Steve Rapid: fucking rapid, his best set yet!
The Pretty Things throttling McGuire's Eve
Of Destruction, The Score racing through The
Fabs' Please Please Me, The Creation [Biff
Bam Bow!], The Electric Prunes [Get Me To The
World On Time]. The Bongos [Barbarella], The
Count Bishops [I Want Candy], the unreleased track
English Road by Kimberley Rue from The Soft
Boys, The Seeds [Pushin' Too Hard],The
Vipers [Nothings For Today] etc etc. and mega
yeah!
Thomas And Duncan from Pugwash:
brilliant!
Zappa [Peaches And Regalia], Fire [My
Father's Name Is Fred], The Small Faces [Ogden's
Nut Gone Flake], Pink Floyd with Syd [Lucifer
Sam], Beck [New Pollution], Turtles
[Buzzsaw], The Undertones, Who, Kinks, Smiths
[What Difference Does It Make?], Hendrix, VU, Elvis
Costello and Attractions [Pump It Up], Pugwash's
own Monorail from their album Almanac
and climaxing with The Monkees chortling through
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone and TRex and the
mental tale of the Metal Guru.
BPF:
Motorhead [God Save The Queen], Love
[My Little Red Book], Bowie [Friday On My Mind],
The Sweet [Ballroom Blitz], Tony James Bootleg
Mix#13 [BRMC/Heartbreakers/Gen X/Led Zep], The
Pretty Things [Don't Bring Me Down], Elvis
[Little Sister], Wanda Jackson [Let's Have
A Party], Ramones [Let's Dance], Jimi Hendix
If 60s Was 90s fucked up brilliant dance mix, Primal
Scream with Kate Moss on lead vocals singing Lee
Hazlewood's Some Velvet Morning, Iggy [Real
Wild Child + The Passenger], Mott The Hoople
[All The Way From Memphis], The Misunderstood
[Who Do You Love?], Teenage Cows Tony James Bootleg
Mix, the ten-minute mix of Stone Roses'
Fools Gold, winding down [Winding down? You must be
fucking joking! Going over the cliff at full blast,
more like!] with The Amboy Dukes featuring Ted
Nugent twanging and screeching at full volume
through Baby Please Don't Go...
Whew! DDD#10: "What a night, well it really was, uh,
such a night!"
DDD#9
Steve Wall from The
Walls turntabled splendidly while Radiators
from Space duo Steve Rapid and Pete
Holidai shared the stage for the first time in
over 20 years with their head-to-head Battle Of The
DJs - climaxing with Pete's astounding mix of The
Flamin' Groovies' Teenage Head and Clockwork Orange!
BPF played everything from The Sweet
to Primal Scream to The Pretty Things
to The D4!
 At
DDD#8 psycho ceilidh combo Neck
raised the roof with an astounding assault of fiddles,
flutes and torrential twanging, while Female Hercules
kicked out the jams in fine punk fettle. DJs Thomas
And Duncan from Pugwash
played everything from The Action to Bowie, The Who
to The Smiths to Howlin' Wolf! BPF simply went
bonkers on the decks airing everything from rare Tony
James mixes to Elvis to The Stone Roses and
Joy Division!!!
Female Hercules kickin' it @ DDD#8
Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom
 Ahead
of the rest of the world as usual, DDD#7 marked
The 25th Anniversary Of The Death Of Elvis
when barnstorming rockabilly combo Aces Wild
performed live, playing early Sun Records rockers
by Elvis, Scotty and Bill - That's Alright
Mama, Baby Let's Play House, Good Rockin' Tonight
- as well as tracks by that other tear-it-up Memphis
threesome The Johnny Burnette Rock'n'Roll Trio
- mixed in with Aces Wild originals like Wild Wild
Woman and Catch The Pigeon.
Aces Wild line-up: Fozi on lead vocals and rhythm
guitar, Dave on Gretsch guitar, Tom on stand-up drums
+ Mojo on double bass. Shakin'!!!
Aces Wild tear it up @ DDD#7, waking
Elvis from a snooze!
Photo by BPF using Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom
At DDD#6: The Sex Pixels
kicked the bollocks into the net with a roaring reprise
of Rotten and Cos sharpest moments, screaming through
Bodies, EMI, Pretty Vacant and God Save The Queen
with splendid effect. Johnny, Steve, Paul and
Sid were certainly in the building, sounding uncanningly
like the four oiks - and Sid - who forever
- thank God - changed the face and sound of rock'n'roll.
Pete Holidai
from punk pioneers The Radiators From Space
delivered a tremendous two-tiered set, revving up
with a grand slam of glam [Sparks/Roxy/Bowie
etc] before putting the icing out to bake with a collection
of seminal Irish punk records specially gathered for
the occasion from his mum's attic - among them The
Undertones, The Rats and of course The Radiators
themselves. A mighty rockin' set, as thought-out as
Gavin Friday's triumph at DDD#2. Fair
play t'you, Pete.
Previously unsurpassed intellectual heights were reached
in the questions from our hero BP Fallon on
stage, quizzing the DDDers for the free copies of
Sinéad
O'Connor's thumping Troy remixes [Sample:
"With what letter does Sinéad O'Connor's second
name begin?" "Oh!" the audience shrieked in multi-voiced
unison]. Being a wise old fuck, BP gave the lash to
a bunch of Tony
James bootleg mixes to the party-groovers'
obvious delight, as well as whacking in some dance
mixes of Hendrix and the afore-mentioned Ms O'Connor.
Mr Fallon completed the night with the song that has
become something of a DDD theme song, T Rex's
Hot Love. Yes, and it was hot, love. See ya every
Friday!
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