Comments on: GREAT IRISH BANDS,PART III: THE STARS OF HEAVEN http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: sonofstan http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-72473 sonofstan Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:29:04 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-72473 Hijacking this to pay my respects to Alex Chilton, who died yesterday. He was a big part of why the Stars got together in the first place and why we sounded, or tried to sound, as we did..... Not that that is of any consequence. I don't have musical heroes really, I love records, and know that musicians are just people too, only a little worse, but Alex was nearly one, mainly because he knew that too. 43 years avoiding a career is heroic. Hijacking this to pay my respects to Alex Chilton, who died yesterday. He was a big part of why the Stars got together in the first place and why we sounded, or tried to sound, as we did…..

Not that that is of any consequence. I don’t have musical heroes really, I love records, and know that musicians are just people too, only a little worse, but Alex was nearly one, mainly because he knew that too. 43 years avoiding a career is heroic.

]]> By: mark hallinan http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-72108 mark hallinan Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:34:27 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-72108 What everything but the girl is The Stars of Heaven track the Light of Tetuon its from their Speak Slowly? . Heard it first on a Tom Dunne compilation . We want to play the cover on a podcast :Lawlessandrelentless.com Thanks Yours sincerely Mark What everything but the girl is The Stars of Heaven track the Light of Tetuon its from their Speak Slowly? . Heard it first on a Tom Dunne compilation . We want to play the cover on a podcast :Lawlessandrelentless.com
Thanks
Yours sincerely
Mark

]]> By: Dec http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-72080 Dec Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:34:04 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-72080 2 dodgy things about the Underground were: Sound engineer and mixing desk in the back/storage room (there wasn't room for either in the main room). Made it sound worse. Some journos and other industry movers/shakers weren't able to stay there for too long because the sound was too bad for their (already damaged) hearing. That could be why it didn't get as well written up as (say) The Maggoty Bin. Walking right past the stage to get to the toilets. Getting hit in the head by a guitar or bass was something I always looked out for after I heard about it happening to some girl at a Something Happens gig there. I'm sure there were other dodgy things about the place, but those are the 2 I remember the most. It shut down just before the Rock Garden opened, and someone else ran it as a dodgy late night drinking spot (with a restaurant license, but I never saw any food being served there), then it was the city's first ever cyber cafe (with dialup access on 2 Apple Macs). 2 dodgy things about the Underground were:

Sound engineer and mixing desk in the back/storage room (there wasn’t room for either in the main room). Made it sound worse. Some journos and other industry movers/shakers weren’t able to stay there for too long because the sound was too bad for their (already damaged) hearing. That could be why it didn’t get as well written up as (say) The Maggoty Bin.

Walking right past the stage to get to the toilets. Getting hit in the head by a guitar or bass was something I always looked out for after I heard about it happening to some girl at a Something Happens gig there.

I’m sure there were other dodgy things about the place, but those are the 2 I remember the most.

It shut down just before the Rock Garden opened, and someone else ran it as a dodgy late night drinking spot (with a restaurant license, but I never saw any food being served there), then it was the city’s first ever cyber cafe (with dialup access on 2 Apple Macs).

]]> By: The Stars Of Heaven « The Fanning Sessions Archive http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-70364 The Stars Of Heaven « The Fanning Sessions Archive Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:46:16 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-70364 [...] the disappointment. As it turns out The Stars Of Heaven had called it a day. Watch the band perform here and if you like what you hear, do yourself a favour and get a copy of the 2006 reissues on [...] […] the disappointment. As it turns out The Stars Of Heaven had called it a day. Watch the band perform here and if you like what you hear, do yourself a favour and get a copy of the 2006 reissues on […]

]]> By: Dublin Opinion » Blog Archive » GREAT IRISH BANDS, PART 32: THE SEWING ROOM http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-68867 Dublin Opinion » Blog Archive » GREAT IRISH BANDS, PART 32: THE SEWING ROOM Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:10:32 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-68867 [...] Sewing Room was comprised of members of two bands already covered by the series, Hey Paulette, and The Stars of Heaven - while Sean already talked about the Sewing Room in another post. Oh well. No matter. I picked up [...] […] Sewing Room was comprised of members of two bands already covered by the series, Hey Paulette, and The Stars of Heaven - while Sean already talked about the Sewing Room in another post. Oh well. No matter. I picked up […]

]]> By: Dublin Opinion » Blog Archive » THE STARS OF HEAVEN: REPRISE http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-49690 Dublin Opinion » Blog Archive » THE STARS OF HEAVEN: REPRISE Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:02:57 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-49690 [...] already covered The Stars of Heaven in our Great Irish Bands series, but all this talk of 80s music has me running to the Web to see what’s out there. [...] […] already covered The Stars of Heaven in our Great Irish Bands series, but all this talk of 80s music has me running to the Web to see what’s out there. […]

]]> By: Seán Báite http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-17573 Seán Báite Sat, 26 May 2007 09:03:03 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/24/great-irish-songs-part-iii/#comment-17573 Ben, ye've changed it from 'Forgotten' to 'Great' Irish songs... I thought that with the former you were going to be running with the ball for a while. Ta for the Stars - they hardly look arsed in the video, bless 'em - but they were a great band... ochón ! The memory of that square lives on with the latest project of that Fitzpatrick fella (Great Western Squares etc.) : http://www.myspace.com/sickandindigentsongclub I had the fleeting impression I was depressed at the mo (Back to 77 with the Sodgers of Destiny/shit weather etc.), but that fleeting glimpse of late 80s Dublin makes me realise I'm exuberantly happy - compared with f%%%ing that..... Ben, ye’ve changed it from ‘Forgotten’ to ‘Great’ Irish songs… I thought that with the former you were going to be running with the ball for a while.
Ta for the Stars - they hardly look arsed in the video, bless ‘em - but they were a great band… ochón !
The memory of that square lives on with the latest project of that Fitzpatrick fella (Great Western Squares etc.) :
http://www.myspace.com/sickandindigentsongclub
I had the fleeting impression I was depressed at the mo (Back to 77 with the Sodgers of Destiny/shit weather etc.), but that fleeting glimpse of late 80s Dublin makes me realise I’m exuberantly happy - compared with f%%%ing that…..

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