Rubberbandits Strike Again

[PaddyJoe]

Their 'Horse Outside' video has now had 566,042 views on YouTube.
Rude, NSFW, very Limerick and very funny:D
YouTube - Rubberbandits - Horse Outside

[joekilgobinet]

Very good. Anything better than X Factor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[5intheface]

Very good. Anything better than X Factor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The anti xfactor vote this year is for 'Cage Against The Machine' 4 min 33 secs of utter silence from (or not from) John Cage. 60,000 facebook followers.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/music/music-news/2010/12/10/cage-against-the-machine-music-stars-line-up-for-a-silent-night-this-christmas-100252-27800714/

[mutley]

The anti xfactor vote this year is for 'Cage Against The Machine' 4 min 33 secs of utter silence from (or not from) John Cage. 60,000 facebook followers.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/music/music-news/2010/12/10/cage-against-the-machine-music-stars-line-up-for-a-silent-night-this-christmas-100252-27800714/

Fuk John cage I won't do what he tells me :-)

[moss]

Fuk John cage I won't do what he tells me :-)

Grab your own coat when ya get BvB's ;)

[joekilgobinet]

Luimhneach Abu

[People Korps]

Their 'Horse Outside' video has now had 566,042 views on YouTube.
Rude, NSFW, very Limerick and very funny:D
YouTube - Rubberbandits - Horse Outside (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8)

actually the main man is a Brit, but I did not tell yess all

[C. Flower]

actually the main man is a Brit

A good mover, tho'. They have a natural sense of rhythm, you know.

[PaddyJoe]

actually the main man is a Brit, but I did not tell yess all
Wha? Best Limerick Brit accent I ever heard:) Spill the beans so...

[People Korps]

No I shall spill no beans

[People Korps]

A good mover, tho'. They have a natural sense of rhythm, you know.

Limerick not Kingstown me dear

[Sam Lord]

I can see that going viral like the youtube of the ex-pat effing and blinding. It should cement the country's reputation.

[PaddyJoe]

Spectator:

Clearly, this song should top the Irish Christmas charts. The ghosts of Yeats, Kavanagh and all the other lads have nothing on the Rubberbandits. The Plain People of Ireland have a horse outside and they're going to ride it. Warning: this song contains a considerable amount of huge quantity of profanity. Warning too: if you're Irish or have spent heaps of time in Ireland you may also find it very funny.:D
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/6532780/a-horse-outside.thtml

[People Korps]

like the youtube of the ex-pat effing and blinding.[/B]

re the interviewer has anyone established his bone fides? The whole clip screams comedy esp after it was promoted so by global anti Irish media...ye ss are all pretty thick really.

[Sam Lord]

re the interviewer has anyone established his bone fides? The whole clip screams comedy esp after it was promoted so by global anti Irish media...ye ss are all pretty thick really.

Clearly staged ... but people have bought in everywhere.

[People Korps]

I can see that going viral like the youtube of the ex-pat effing and blinding. It should cement the country's reputation.

You are THICK and unimaginative .....THICK and unimaginative
THICK THICK THICK and unimaginative

I cant use the R word but you are RRRRRRRRR ask CF what the word might be she might tell u


For Allah's sake look before you leap

[PaddyJoe]

PK, what dont' you like? It is genuine and funny and has real people in it.

[People Korps]

Clearly staged ... but people have bought in everywhere.

as you have based on your last post

[Sam Lord]

as you have based on your last post

Because I said that it had gone viral ? Get a grip ..

[People Korps]

PK, what dont' you like? It is genuine and funny and has real people in it.

I dont like papers like the Guardian claiming its a real interview and not a skit.
I am not willing to go back to being a thick paddy for international consumption and neither should you be.....please
wise up , dont let international; racist stereo types overwhelm you ffs]

[People Korps]

Because I said that it had gone viral ? Get a grip ..

grrr night Sam

[Commonwealth of Lands]

I dont like papers like the Guardian claiming its a real interview and not a skit.
I am not willing to go back to being a thick paddy for international consumption and neither should you be.....please
wise up , dont let international; racist stereo types overwhelm you ffs]

It's bad enough that PK is a rabid one-issue (anti-Ganley) fanatic but now that I find that he/she can't see the humour in a pop video, I decided to use the Ignore function for the first time. But I get this message:

"People Korps is a moderator/admin and you are not allowed to ignore him or her."

WTF? What standards are you using here for mods? Seriously, PK ruins a lot of threads with an obsession about Libertas and Ganley, and now we have this humourless diatribe about a song? FFS...

[C. Flower]

Limerick not Kingstown me dear

I was thinking Essex :confused:

[C. Flower]

It's bad enough that PK is a rabid one-issue (anti-Ganley) fanatic but now that I find that he/she can't see the humour in a pop video, I decided to use the Ignore function for the first time. But I get this message:

"People Korps is a moderator/admin and you are not allowed to ignore him or her."

WTF? What standards are you using here for mods? Seriously, PK ruins a lot of threads with an obsession about Libertas and Ganley, and now we have this humourless diatribe about a song? FFS...

Odd. PK is not a Mod at present. I just put him on ignore with no difficulty. :)
But then I am an Admin. Would anyone else like to try ?

[TotalMayhem]

Would anyone else like to try ?

Avec plaisir ;)

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2624/20101212102424capture.png

[C. Flower]

Thanks. People Korps doesn't have Moderator powers, but something seems to have got stuck from when he did. I'll check it out. In the meantime, Ireland_Sucks (who might perhaps consider a name change), will have to look the other way when he posts.

[IrishTonyO]

Childish trash, hopefully next time they will forget to make holes in the bags before they put them over their heads

[C. Flower]

Childish trash, hopefully next time they will forget to make holes in the bags before they put them over their heads

:D:D:D

Do you feel the same about the "W****" Banker video?

I posted it, because it was clearly a spoof, but seemed to both explain the banks crisis quite well, and also gave vent to some of the anger and frustration people feel. But I think that Irish people outside Ireland in particular, who are listening to all kinds of rubbish and insults about Ireland, and who had no part in the boom, see these things as playing to stereotyping and making things worse.

[thecat]

Childish trash, hopefully next time they will forget to make holes in the bags before they put them over their heads

I think we need a sense of humour now more than ever, take it as it is, abit of light relief!

[C. Flower]

It's bad enough that PK is a rabid one-issue (anti-Ganley) fanatic but now that I find that he/she can't see the humour in a pop video, I decided to use the Ignore function for the first time. But I get this message:

"People Korps is a moderator/admin and you are not allowed to ignore him or her."

WTF? What standards are you using here for mods? Seriously, PK ruins a lot of threads with an obsession about Libertas and Ganley, and now we have this humourless diatribe about a song? FFS...

The site Moderators without exception do a good job. That includes PK at the time he was a Moderator. He is now a Mod, only on the Food Forum and for that reason can't be put on ignore. By rights, this should be dealt with on a Site Feedback thread, but as you are a new member, I'm making an exception.

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[Sam Lord]

I think we need a sense of humour now more than ever, take it as it is, abit of light relief!

"Grab me by the ponytail and ride me like a horse ....."

Irish women will no doubt be delighted in the way their standing is enhanced by this bit of funny, light relief ....

[Kev Bar]

Let us play......


< In Site Feedback, please>

Would it be possible to revert to the fascinating topic of the Rubberbandits and their work ?

Mod CF

Have I been bold?

And my religous trope has been trampled on.

Neigh to you!

[C. Flower]

"Grab me by the ponytail and ride me like a horse ....."

Irish women will no doubt be delighted in the way their standing is enhanced by this bit of funny, light relief ....

Refreshing to find you rushing to defend the virtue of Irish womanhood, Sam Lord. :)

[TotalMayhem]

Limerick Post: Willie O’Dea: “Rubberbandits Will Be Bigger Than U2″ (http://www.limerickpost.ie/index.php/navigation-mainmenu-30/local-news/2577-willie-odea-backs-bandits.html)


WILLIE O'DEA TD has backed The Rubberbandits not only to become Christmas No 1, but to become bigger than U2.

Deputy O'Dea said he doesn't take the slightest bit of offense to the comedy outfit of Mr Chrome and Blind Boy who have satirised him in the guise of Willie O'DJ.

"You should never lose the ability to laugh at yourself," said Deputy Willie O'Dea.

Responding to the Rubberbandits epic rise to the top he said:

"These guys are going to be bigger than U2

"I'd love to see them get the Christmas No 1.

"We'll give them any support we can to get them there".

A Song for Willie O'Dea which was penned by the group earlier this year following his resignation as Minister for Defence has over 215,000 hits on Youtube.

The bandit's local TD has seen the video and has not failed to recognise their talent.

"I'm absolutely thrilled as this has a lot of resonance with young people.

"It has all happened so quickly it's absolutely wonderful and a huge boost to Limerick".

YouTube - Rubberbandits, Song for Willie O' Dea

[Sam Lord]

Refreshing to find you rushing to defend the virtue of Irish womanhood, Sam Lord. :)

It would be refreshing but it was their dignity rather than their virtue I was concerned with. When a young man, I must confess, I assiduously devoted myself to undermining the latter.

[TotalMayhem]

This 'Disgrace' is now subject of Duffy's Shyteline

[electionlit]

Willies getting a lambasting!

[Kev Bar]

Willies getting a lambasting!

Think it's time for "bags of glue".

[electionlit]

Brilliant Willie Tries to dismiss a former FF lord Mayor of Dublin and Euro candidate Eiblin Byrne!!

[TotalMayhem]

Unreal ... elsewhere we're being shafted, raped and sold out and these people are getting all worked up over a f*cking song. :D

[C. Flower]

Unreal ... elsewhere we're being shafted, raped and sold out and these people are getting all worked up over a f*cking song. :D

Yes - so wrapped up with keeping up appearances, and what people think of us, but completely ignoring a very real act of economic war against us.

It's the front parlour attitude run amok. Lenihan has liquidated the country "to keep up appearances".

[TotalMayhem]

Joe Duffy has just announced: "He's a national hero, Blind Boy is."

Does that mean, Blind Boy has replaced James Connolly, whom he presented for "Ireland's Greatest", as Joe Duffy's preference?

Good night and God bless.

[C. Flower]

Joe Duffy has just announced: "He's a national hero, Blind Boy is."

Good night and God bless.

He's picking up on the twitter feedback


BREAKING: Blind Boy of Rubberbandits heals nation's heart, scientists claim joy possible again #liveline

Interview of the Rubberbandits by Una Mullally, last summer

http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/sep/13/willie-odea-could-skin-up-a-joint-on-the-roof-of-a/

[TotalMayhem]

BREAKING: Blind Boy of Rubberbandits heals nation's heart, scientists claim joy possible again #liveline

With a few bags of glue ... :D

[Gruffalo]

"Grab me by the ponytail and ride me like a horse ....."

Irish women will no doubt be delighted in the way their standing is enhanced by this bit of funny, light relief ....

Ah C'mon Sam, are you trying to suggest that women never talk in a filthy or degrading manner. Some of the most graphic filth I heard during the year I was home came out of the mouths of women.

[Kev Bar]

Joe "freeze the fees and **** the state" Duffy mentioned blasphemy and child protection laws.

Listen something is profoundly wrong when Willie O Dea is the only man making sense and stopping the moral minority trying to silence the human majority.

'You're a joke' says moral minor.

"Yes," says Blindboy.

"And you don't get it."

Lyrics read out like edicts.

Blind Boy gives lesson in "context".

And Joe lets them whine on.

(Savage will you do a Hutchence on him)

Whine...is everything up for grabs...whine...is nothing sacred.

STOP IT.

The horror. The horror.

That FF lady is a ditz - and she seems to have no inkling about how she is psychologically incapable of assisting the vulernable children she professes to care about.

Call in an air strike.

Kill the beasts.

Ans disembowell that woman.

[DCon]

The whineline coverage is here if anyone cares: http://www.youtube.com/user/Rubberbandits

[Dr. FIVE]

Listen something is profoundly wrong when Willie O Dea is the only man making sense and stopping the moral minority trying to silence the human majority.



Christ, puts this whole bailout business in perspective.

[Sam Lord]

Listen something is profoundly wrong when Willie O Dea is the only man making sense and stopping the moral minority trying to silence the human majority.



Something is profoundly wrong indeed when Willie O'Dea makes sense on any topic to anyone at all.

Your society is regressing rapidly... in all spheres. Cultural, social, economic ....

[C. Flower]

Something is profoundly wrong indeed when Willie O'Dea makes sense on any topic to anyone at all.

Your society is regressing rapidly... in all spheres. Cultural, social, economic ....

It's one pop song / satire. There's been a comedy famine in Ireland for the last ten years with of all kinds of horrors masquerading as satire.

I don't like this thing, it is insulting and has a disturbing dark edge to it combined with an evilly catchy tune. But can you really extrapolate a cultural collapse from it? When was the golden age ?

In social and political terms, I think things are coming on in leaps and bounds.

The economy is in a tail spin. I think that will effect the more expensive art forms like theatre, film and classical music far more than it will pop.

[C. Flower]

It's one pop song / satire. There's been a comedy famine in Ireland for the last ten years with of all kinds of horrors masquerading as satire.

I don't like this thing, it is insulting and has a disturbing dark edge to it combined with an evilly catchy tune. But can you really extrapolate a cultural collapse from it? When was the golden age ?

In social and political terms, I think things are coming on in leaps and bounds.

The economy is in a tail spin. I think that will effect the more expensive art forms like theatre, film and classical music far more than it will pop.


I take all that back. The thing has gone completely viral. Everybody loves it, even the people who hate it. It is Ireland.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/1216/1224285643246.html

[Kev Bar]

I take all that back. The thing has gone completely viral. Everybody loves it, even the people who hate it. It is Ireland.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/1216/1224285643246.html

Woman, you are nothing if not fickle.

Our best friend FOT has endorsed it. So it IS culturally acceptable.

[Sam Lord]

Some of the most graphic filth I heard during the year I was home came out of the mouths of women.

I'm sorry to hear that ...

[Sam Lord]

I take all that back. The thing has gone completely viral. Everybody loves it, even the people who hate it. It is Ireland.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/1216/1224285643246.html

The new Ireland in the making ... riding horses, and dragging women around by the hair. Probably living in caves too by the time the foreign financiers are finished with you.

Didn't Hegel say that History always repeated itself ....:D

I wonder what Ernie O'Malley and the men and women of his generation would make of it.

[moss]

The new Ireland in the making ... riding horses, and dragging women around by the hair. Probably living in caves too by the time the foreign financiers are finished with you.

Didn't Hegel say that History always repeated itself ....:D

I wonder what Ernie O'Malley and the men and women of his generation would make of it.

Lighten up, Mr Missionary :cool:

[C. Flower]

The new Ireland in the making ... riding horses, and dragging women around by the hair. Probably living in caves too by the time the foreign financiers are finished with you.

Didn't Hegel say that History always repeated itself ....:D

I wonder what Ernie O'Malley and the men and women of his generation would make of it.


Ireland's been driven back more than once.





Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce



Karl Marx

[Kev Bar]

Lighten up, Mr Missionary :cool:

That your position?

[Kev Bar]

Ireland's been driven back more than once.



Karl Marx


<Mod. CF>

[moss]

That your position?

No, my calling :)

[C. Flower]

<Mod. CF>

I know. I'm just not in humour for humour today. :(

[wickedfairy]

I think is a lot more catchy than an awful lot of stuff out there at the mo, and it IS funny. The church and the clampers lol!

[C. Flower]

I know. I'm just not in humour for humour today. :(


I was IMFfed.

[Sam Lord]

Unreal ... elsewhere we're being shafted, raped and sold out and these people are getting all worked up over a f*cking song. :D

Actually, the situation of the country is what really irritates me about the song. When I read that it might be the Number 1 it struck me ..... this means that there will be no real fightback. This reflects the predominant consciousness of the Irish people.

Wily Willie grasped it in a flash.

Going viral is nothing. This could become a story for the ages.

[C. Flower]

Actually, the situation of the country is what really irritates me about the song. When I read that it might be the Number 1 it struck me ..... this means that there will be no real fightback. This reflects the predominant consciousness of the Irish people.

Wily Willie grasped it in a flash.

Going viral is nothing. This could become a story for the ages.


So, conciousness is going to determine being from now on, is it?

I totally disagree. The Rubberbandits won't determine Irish history any more than did that mournful old Anglo Irish git, Yeats. It won't take the form that you or I dictate for it, but it will happen.

Btw, by a "real fightback", do you mean one that wins ?

[Justin Casey]

The Rubberbandits/Joe Duffy - "Horse Outside"

[Sam Lord]

So, conciousness is going to determine being from now on, is it?


That appears to me to be an altogether bigger and entirely separate question. You should not be so hasty in applying formula you have learned by rote onto every opinion that contains similar words. I was really only commenting on the consciousness of the Irish people at this point in time. It seems to be to a great extent a rubberbandits consciousness. If there is music being produced and going viral that reflect a consciousness of resistance to the destruction of the country please feel free to point me in it's direction. This could change over time, of course. I wasn't ruling that out.



I totally disagree. The Rubberbandits won't determine Irish history ....?

Did someone make that extraordinary claim ...?




Btw, by a "real fightback", do you mean one that wins ?


Would significant mean something to you if real does not?

[moss]

Actually, the situation of the country is what really irritates me about the song. When I read that it might be the Number 1 it struck me ..... this means that there will be no real fightback. This reflects the predominant consciousness of the Irish people.

Wily Willie grasped it in a flash.

Going viral is nothing. This could become a story for the ages.

Ah the land of saints and scholars, I'm in mourning, for that is what we surely were, until them rubberbastards appeared, like.

[C. Flower]

QUOTE=Sam Lord;103373]
Actually, the situation of the country is what really irritates me about the song. When I read that it might be the Number 1 it struck me ..... this means that there will be no real fightback. This reflects the predominant consciousness of the Irish people.



QUOTE=Sam Lord;103373]That appears to me to be an altogether bigger and entirely separate question. You should not be so hasty in applying formula you have learned by rote onto every opinion that contains similar words. I was really only commenting on the consciousness of the Irish people at this point in time. It seems to be to a great extent a rubberbandits consciousness. If there is music being produced and going viral that reflect a consciousness of resistance to the destruction of the country please feel free to point me in it's direction. This could change over time, of course. I wasn't ruling that out..


What makes you think it's a separate, bigger question ? It's a general law and seems to me to be relevant. Conciousness can be out of klter with our real existence for a certain time, but being, our real objective existence, will inevitably force its way through when there is a conflict between the two. What will make people fight back is the loss of their jobs, wage cuts, loss of services, police repression of opposition, forced emigration of their friends and family, suicides of their friends and families, international events they observe etc. all these things being the consequences of an unprecedented international economic crisis - i.e. their "being". Going against that is the Press, RTE, the Church, propoganda of political parties and the general weight of "bourgeois consciousness", including most culture, telling us that everything will be OK, stay at home and watch the X-factor. The more the working class, and middle-class allies, can overcome that and replace it with scientific and class conscious thinking, the more it becomes possible to win battles and ultimately make a social revolution. If you're saying that conscious currently is not revolutionary, I'd agree with you, but add that the word revolution is frequently heard here now, and not from political activists.

Why do you say that I've learned this "by rote"? :p Do you think I've got no understanding or experience of what being and conciousness are, and how they interact ? These things aren't abstractions and everyone is familar with them: conciousness is complex because there's a constant conflict between our old thinking, class interests and changing reality, but being is straightforward enough - life in the material world of which we are a part.

Now that you say you are talking about lack of a fightback in the present in Ireland, not the future, perhaps we agree? What is true is that there has been an enormously costly delay in fighting back over the past two years. The "Shock doctrine" has been yet again successfully applied, and the level of conciousness (and class composition of the population) has had a role in that.



The Rubberbandits won't determine Irish history ....?



Did someone make that extraordinary claim ...?


If you re-read your original remarks... the loss of sovereignty to the IMF and EU is historic enough - I understood you to say that "Rubberbandits consciousness" indicated that people would not fight back.



Would significant mean something to you if real does not?

There's been political activity and change in the last two years, hundreds of thousands of people have been on demonstrations. But I don't think this is what you mean by "real" or "signficant" and it certainly wasn't adequate, effective or proportionate.

In looking at where peoples' consciousness/thinking is, there is change - some people have moved left and others to the right. The opinion polls and the shift away from the Church both reflect very real and significant changes in consciousness. I don't think a viral youtube is without meaning, but not in the way you originally framed it. Nor do I think that everyone who watches this particular one takes the same things from it.

[Lá an Lúbáin]

I watched it and I like the bad words and have a notion for the durty wan in the vidya.

That's what I extracted consciously or unconsciously from this cultural sweetmeat.

[moss]

I watched it and I like the bad words and have a notion for the durty wan in the vidya.

That's what I extracted consciously or unconsciously from this cultural sweetmeat.


Take two tickets ya uncouth slimeball

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/nov2009/8/8/george-bush-snr-pic-rex-features-858484931.jpg

[Lá an Lúbáin]

Take two tickets ya uncouth slimeball

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/nov2009/8/8/george-bush-snr-pic-rex-features-858484931.jpg

Surely , you mean 'one of these' as observed in the ditty under discussion. I'll tell ye, their singularly incorrect use of a proximal demonstrative upset me greatly.

[wickedfairy]

I wonder has Billy Piper any plans to sue?

[Sam Lord]

Ah the land of saints and scholars, I'm in mourning, for that is what we surely were, until them rubberbastards appeared, like.



Don't mourn. Put a paperbag on your head and keep dancing ...

[moss]

Don't mourn. Put a paperbag on your head and keep dancing ...

A variation on the bag theme ?? And north Americanised too.

Like it :D

[Munnkeyman]

I wonder has Billy Piper any plans to sue?

She might lose and then would forever be known as Billie "Face like a Horse" Piper

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/billie%20piper.jpghttp://www.zug.com/daily/journal/graphics/071009_horse_face.jpg

[charley]

300,000 hits since last night,it's being viewed enough anyway. Couldn't they find a real Subaru,some **** with a jap-import Toyota Levin.

[moss]

300,000 hits since last night,it's being viewed enough anyway. Couldn't they find a real Subaru,some **** with a jap-import Toyota Levin.

Donegal much ?? lol

[Sam Lord]

Consciousness can be out of klter with our real existence for a certain time, but being, our real objective existence, will inevitably force its way through when there is a conflict between the two.


Perhaps, but even if true the gap between the Rubberbandits and radical consciousness is so large that it would probably take at least two generations of objective existence to close it.




If you re-read your original remarks... the loss of sovereignty to the IMF and EU is historic enough - I understood you to say that "Rubberbandits consciousness" indicated that people would not fight back.



Yes. But rubberbandits consciousness is a consciousness that embraces the rubberbandits ... not one caused by the rubberbandits. Though their backward and trite musical efforts certainly feeds a backward and trite consciousness.

[C. Flower]

[QUOTE=Sam Lord;103450]Perhaps, but even if true the gap between the Rubberbandits and radical consciousness is so large that it would probably take at least two generations of objective existence to close it.


You watching the wrong gap ;) 'Tis the one between being + consciousness that will cause the real trouble.


Yes. But rubberbandits consciousness is a consciousness that embraces the rubberbandits ... not one caused by the rubberbandits.

You're forcing me to go and listen to the damn thing again. As yet, I've not embraced it.


Though their backward and trite musical efforts certainly feeds a backward and trite consciousness.

Rubbertarded bandwidths ?

[PaddyJoe]

Bandits are on the Late Late tonight. I wonder will Willie O'Dea ring in?

[Lá an Lúbáin]

Bandits are on the Late Late tonight. I wonder will Willie O'Dea ring in?

Nah, he's out canvasing and doing his dacent hash drops.

[DCon]

Bandits are on the Late Late tonight. I wonder will Willie O'Dea ring in?

apparently they will not be on as they did not want to be censored

[C. Flower]

apparently they will not be on as they did not want to be censored

Principles ? Whodathoughtit ?

Or did they not want to chance being outed ? :confused:

[PaddyJoe]

apparently they will not be on as they did not want to be censored
Nah, here they go:D

[C. Flower]

Nah, here they go:D

Wearing Spar :D

[Munnkeyman]

Can't they speak properly

Brilliant:D:D:D

[C. Flower]

There are Health and Safety issues re plastic bags over heads. "Don't try this at home"...

[moss]

Seriously edited tune.

[moss]

Theres sams fella on now

[Lá an Lúbáin]

Well, the real O'Dea with a few yokes in him might have livened it up.

[C. Flower]

Theres sams fella on now


:D...

[DCon]

Or did they not want to chance being outed ? :confused:

They are already out


However, the Irish Independent has learned that Ireland's most-talked-about act come from the more leafier suburbs of Limerick city.

Both aged in their mid-20s, Dave Chambers (Blind Boy Boat Club) and Bob McGlynn (Mr Chrome) have been friends since their days in secondary school at Ard Scoil Ris on the northside of Limerick.

It was here that Chambers and McGlynn began a series of prank phone calls that were recorded on to cassette and later CD, gaining them fame and notoriety around Limerick.

From the very plush Ennis Road area of Limerick, Chambers is described locally as the brains of the operation.

"He was always big into music and they provided great fun to everyone back in the day with the wind-up phone calls," one former student said.

Chambers also attended Limerick School of Art and Design as a student of graphics and is understood to be completing a masters in psychology.

The other masked bandit, Mr Chrome, is simply known as 'Bob' to his friends. From Caherdavin, he was trained to dance at an early age by his mother, and is the singer and dancer in 'Horse Outside'.

McGlynn studied model-making in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, before going on to work on the set of 'The Tudors'.

The third member, who often plays Willie O'Dea, is well-known DJ, Paul Webb. From the Raheen suburb, Webb plays the decks for The Rubberbandits and acted as the priest in 'Horse Outside'. Webb has a show on Spin South West and has performed at some of the biggest clubs in the country and abroad.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/jokers-unmasked-as-middleclass-lads-2464672.html

[PaddyJoe]

There is an eerie air of the eighties about. Country is fecked; its all home made boggers on the LLS; RTE will devote 50% of the 6 and 9 news to Dublin airport tearful reunions and even more tearful departures. Even the ads are all last year because they can't afford to make new ones. The arrogance is gone and we are going back to being plucky losers who can always have a laugh.
Time to get the Roddy Doyle videos out.

[5intheface]

Stupid affected accent, ridiculous gimmicky costume, utter lack of humour and no discernable talent whatsoever.

But enough about Turbidy, I like horse.

[moss]

They are already out



http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/jokers-unmasked-as-middleclass-lads-2464672.html


Surely that can't be right.

I'm fairly sure our esteemed ganley fighting member PK knows that these fellas aren't Irish, but english.

Surely our resident FFer can be wrong :eek:

[C. Flower]

Galvin admits to owning 80 pairs of shoes and watching Fashion TV :confused::D:D

[Lá an Lúbáin]

Galvin admits to owning 80 pairs of shoes and watching Fashion TV :confused::D:D

Sporting a Jarvis Cocker outfit and an Mahmoud Ahmadinejad granda shirt. WTF?

[PaddyJoe]

Galvin admits to owning 80 pairs of shoes and watching Fashion TV :confused::D:D
A pity he wouldn't admit to being a petulant, mean spirited, dirty second rate footballer;)

[5intheface]

A pity he wouldn't admit to being a petulant, mean spirited, dirty second rate footballer;)

Who bounces blackboard dusters off pupils' heads.

[PaddyJoe]

Who bounces blackboard dusters off pupils' heads.
Given the amount of talent that Kerry have it has always amazed me that they put up with a **** like him:


A 15-year-old student was hit on the face by a blackboard duster thrown by Mr Galvin while he conducted a class in St Brendan’s College, Killarney, where he is an Irish teacher.

The student’s family, who are refusing to comment on the incident, has put the matter in the hands of a Killarney solicitor.

It was also learned the family is "very upset" by a report that the incident was accidental, which they are disputing.

Read more: http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/school-quiet-on-galvin-duster-incident-110769.html#ixzz18Prmr1X3

[5intheface]

Given the amount of talent that Kerry have it has always amazed me that they put up with a **** like him:

He never struck me as part of the machine. The book slapping was high camp.

[PaddyJoe]

He never struck me as part of the machine. The book slapping was high camp.
Yes, very un-Kerry like. So long as doesn't reinvent himself as a meeja personality. I really don't want to see that ugly gawb looking back at me every time the tv goes on.

[moss]

Galvin admits to owning 80 pairs of shoes and watching Fashion TV :confused::D:D


He never struck me as part of the machine. The book slapping was high camp.

I smell a book launch

[Lá an Lúbáin]

I smell a book launch

He is the subject of some documentary on Pravda in the new year about Studio 54, Donna Summer and himself.

[C. Flower]

On the Republic of Telly, now, for anyone interested.

[PaddyJoe]

Rubberbandits new single out this weekend. They were on the John Murray show this morning just after nine but stuff at that kind of day is just background noise so I don't really know what the upshot was.
The new single afaik is a remake of this touching and romantic ditty:
YouTube - Rubber Bandits - I wanna fight your father -Live in Cork

[C. Flower]

I wanna fight your father as Gaeilge -

YouTube - Rubberbandits, I wanna fight your father (As Gaeilge)

[DCon]

The lads have gotten a comedy series with Channel 4


imerick outfit The Rubberbandits could well become the replacement for British hit sitcom 'The Inbetweeners' after being invited to make a TV pilot for Channel 4.

The commission will be the first comedy filmed by the channel in Ireland since 'Father Ted', and comes as a result of the success of the first of a series of online sketches made by The Rubberbandits for the Channel 4 website.


The new Rubberbandits sketches can be seen at channel4.com/blaps, with further sketches aired online every Thursday for six weeks until December 15. The band begins a UK tour this Sunday.


http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/irsquove-a-channel-4-series-outside-rubberbandits-to-make-uk-pilot-2932332.html

http://comedyblaps.channel4.com/#/the-concert

[Griska]

Meh.
One trick pony.

[Kev Bar]

Meh.
One trick pony.

Piebald surely?

[fluffybiscuits]

Piebald surely?

damn your Piebald, I have a Connemara outside ...:p

[antiestablishmentarian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaZsBxWeiQ&feature=relatedNew single, with a double-album out next week. A Christmas number 1?

[Sam Lord]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaZsBxWeiQ&feature=relatedNew single, with a double-album out next week. A Christmas number 1?

If there is ever a World Championship for dumbness these guys would give Ireland a fighting chance.

[antiestablishmentarian]

If there is every a World Championship for dumbness these guys would give Ireland a fighting chance.
:)
If we entered the present cabinet, we'd win it hands-down.

[DCon]

The Rubberbandits will be on Channel 4 on Friday night, for anyone who can drag themselves away from the Toy Show

They were just interviewed on Newstalk. Called Sean Sherlock a "snake in a suit"

[DCon]

The Rubberbandits will be on Channel 4 on Friday night, for anyone who can drag themselves away from the Toy Show

They were just interviewed on Newstalk. Called Sean Sherlock a "snake in a suit"

on now