2007 Eirecore awards (3 Viewers)

[killy kill]

Best Irish gig-Paddys night in freds;tunguska,(R)oas,wrestling with Skubol,Skippy heckling Captain Spaulding 5 hours after they played

Best touring band gig thing;AOFR

Irish release of the year:Hope is Noise-applaud friends the comedy is over

INTL release:Gerda-cosa dico quando non parlo(i love you, Eamonn!)

Silly irish pride moment:seeing Divisions Ruin laying waste to the jaded Berlin crustys

Lowpoint:missing Leechrum. again : (

Highpoint:Seeing Breach gig in Shhtockholm. Nuff said

 

[Janer]

Best international gig on Irish soil : Oi Polloi in the Voodoo

Best overseas fest : Rebellion 2007

Best band at overseas gig : Conflict at Rebellion

Dearest t-shirts at a gig : Crass feeding of the 5000, worked out at almost 21 euros

Still nags away at me : Total shite bands being advertised on these boards as a form of "Punk"

Best promoter : Knockin' Boots

Best new venue while it lasted : Upstairs at the Boom Boom room for the Feb gig Intensive Care/RR/Freebooters and the debut of Ructions

Best new Irish band : Ructions:

Best gig outside of Dublin / Drogheda Punk picnics

Most disappointing aspect of the gig scene : Low attendances...yet this doesn't send out a message that quantity is no substitute for quality!

Still happy with the gig scene : The incredible still low low prices


Best quality bought t-shirt at a gig that has kept it's figure and shape : Fumes and corpses (one withe the tree on red cotton!)

 

[Pat Pockets]

Best Bands - Only Fumes, 1000 Drunken Nights, Lobotomies
Best Weekend - Leechrum
Best before/after gig spot - The Warreners!
Funniest Practice - Apes of wrath in the Hideaway house hahahaha
Best Set - Kidd Blunt/Only Fumes both at Leechrum
Most Hungover gig - That one in seomra spraoi when it was on the quays. Rotten
Hopes for 2008 no fights or cans outside fuckin gigs anymore

 

[GO]

Good man. Well said.

MOTHERFUCKING KUDOS to both of yis.

 

[CITY BABY]

been a quite enough year for me punkrock wise but anyways
Best Live gig in ireland: the subhumans supporting molly in leitrim fuckin top night, ...was that this year???

Best out foriegn gig: Alpha boys school reggae legends in brixton

Best irish release of the year: I dont think I heard any although the social lube stuff on myspace gets the aul thumbs up (do yis have a demo lads??)

best international release: amy winehouse -back to black.one of the best records Ive heard in years

Best zine: a trip to oi! town.

Highlight of the year: Limericks out of nowhere glorious run in the hurling championship. and the freebooters finland tour.

Looking forward to next year: alot more punkin than Ive had the chance to do this year.Maybe the return of punks who listen to and play punk.
a 32 county socialist republic.... or failing that another summer of fantastic hurling.

 

[JenFast]

Best Irish gig-Paddys night in freds;tunguska,(R)oas,wrestling with Skubol,Skippy heckling Captain Spaulding 5 hours after they played

skippy just said to me
"who the fuck are captain spaulding"

haha good times

 

[JenFast]

Best bands of the Year: Putrefaction, [R]evolution of a sun, El Bastardo,
Best drunken buddy: Una
Worst Dancing Caught on Video: Myself and Liadain [oh the shame]
Cutest Kitten of the year: Mine!

Lifetime Achievement Award: Leo

 

[Alan Remorse]

Best bands: Adebisi Shank, Revolution Of A Sun, Terrordactyl, Bats, Only Fumes, Vimanas, much more good shit besides

Best Irish release: Adebisi EP, Only Fumes EP, Herv album

Best thing about scene this year: Loads of great new bands, labels etc.

Worst thing: People accusing folks of "selling out" or some other dumb shit for playing music that isn't hardcore. Also Leo retiring

People who rule: Leo and also the ping pong boys.

 

[Pat Pockets]

Best irish release of the year: I dont think I heard any although the social lube stuff on myspace gets the aul thumbs up (do yis have a demo lads??)

Can definitley sort you out with one, pm us yer address and Ill post it to ya.

 

[Rachel666]

best things about 2007 for me, no particular order: leatherface, discovering pg.99, learning to love coffee, quality kilcoole based bands like enemies, carosah and divisions ruin, livin in the hideaway in the summer, gettin the loan of the morgenmuffel collection (sweet), calming the fuck down, the sarah silverman show, this is england, cougar, goin to the pompidou centre, drainland, bats and terrordactyl. oh and seein devo and battles was deadly too. good moment when i caught one of the famous devo yellow jumpsuits but gave it to martin (its an eternal present, mate). pippa being in home and away and turning 18 after being 15 for the last 4 years, apparently.


worst: the disappearance of Kiss ciders!! anyone with details as to the whereabouts plz pm me!! why i ordered a lead off thomann and its still not here 2 months on. 6th year. that snack a jacks salt and vinegar are no longer veg (fuck).


looks forward to: new music!! finishing school, portfolio, goin mad in the summer, movin out, jammin with friends, leechrum, maybe i'll travel but theres no rush, meetin new people, making a return to punx might be on the cards and really lookin forward to hearing Ended

 

[kenn]

Most reclusive punk: Bohs punk

Most active punk: Damo

Most unpunk: Janer

Nicest people to drive last year :ADEBESI SHANK what dudes

Best gig: Peas and Rice, Ballina

Best Festival: Nuclear Winter Fest

Best prodigal punk returned: Nicky and O dog

Best new band: Putrefaction

Best death of a fad in punk: Black Metal good luck

Funniest punk of the year: Nev Welcome home, sorely missed

Hardest working band: OFAC

Tool of the year: Janer the spanner

Man/ Legend of the year: Gary Moutpiece

Looking forward to in 2008: Driving and meeting nice new people. Less of this sludge shit. More country punks. Even more vans in the punk scene. More threads about tractors. Going to more gigs when I finally finish college. Getting healthy. Starting some new bands.

 

[Alan Remorse]

Best death of a fad in punk: Black Metal good luck

Seconded.

 

[D0njo]

BLACK METAL IST PUNK

It's great having lots of different gigs to go to, really good to hear bands doing there own thing, oi, punk punk, metal, weirdy, post-punk-prog, the downright evil, maybe even pop and it's even betterer with internet rivalries thrown in! More diversity in the new year! Hopefully more venues too

 

[xsteox]

Good stuff: Adebisi shank/Vimanas/Drainland/Bats/Alter of plagues/gz/Leo/u:m/Janer//playing gigs/putting on gigs/.|..|


Bad shit: fighting at gigs/dickheads with cans in and outside venues-jeopardising the use of the venue/ still needing pople for both bands/ amount of people killed while on tour this year

 

[mackle]

Best gigs: Melvins, Acid Mothers Temple, Army of Flying Robots

Biggest let down gig: Mayhem

Best "Local" gigs: DeNovissimis in the Lower Deck in May, Slomatics at Curfew, Altar of Plagues at Mayhem, Tunguska at Nuclear Winter Fest

Best Irish release: Tunguska/Bold and the Beautiful split

Best album: Wolves in the Throne Room, Baroness, Army of Flying Robots

Best Irish bands: DeNovissimis, Slomatics, Tunguska

Best new Irish bands: Drainland, Altar of Plagues, Adebisi Shank, Crowd Control

Bad Buzz of the year: My band splitting up

Beard of the year: Cormac


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[subbuteo !]

best irish and polish in this case tunguska

best newcomers Carosah and division ruin. still haven't seen crowd control so looking forward to that in 08.

best gig ireland gees and dice balllina and Damo fest tipp.

best gig away Nomeansno in Huddesfield

have to mention scubols distro aswell just cause

best buzz playing france & basque (frog and roast beef for those in the know) and later basque & spain (GETERIA!!!!!!!)

best zine two headed dog

best gigs i missed leatherface and high on fire.

good to see more irish bands getting on tour and getting records out!

i dont get all the fiddily diddily but good to see passionate diy music of any kind.

living by a mountain rocks!
my new dog rocks!
been in a band/touring with sound people rocks!
been able to see the starry plough nearly every night rocks!
hot whiskeys rock.....

people getting hurt in crashes sucks!


things i miss meeting tob having a fag outside the lowerdeck .
tea with anto.drinking cans at fighting at gigs.


thanks to the usual suspects damo ,dan galway, danny/tracee and all the gig making people.scubol for the records and pete (ever tempted to lock the whole of eirecore?)

ok looking forward in 2008 to the freebooters and dystopia records.
and mates coming home for visits.making the rock.

 

[quaidox]

"Most listened to: Steampig unreleased 2 cd box set,"

What is this then conor????

 

[bohs punks]

a present from Boz ages ago, all the stuff they recorded but never came out burnt onto cd with lovely boz designed covers- very rare- make me an offer! great stuff - great band- pretty sure it's not for distributing or anyhting, regularly binged on in our gaf in recent years - that and and the gettign over the wall with charlie harper demo

 

[Eddie Gorilla]

Best Live Show: Really really loved Leatherface in Voodoo, Ringers/Lemuria in me gaff, PRF in Greystones

Best Irish Bands: Tunguska, Droppin' Bombs, Putrefraction, OFAC

Best Local Gig Played: Maybe Killiney Beach Abandoned Tearooms gig

Best Local Gig Watched: Drainland in Lower Deck, Smoke n' Thunder in Lower Deck, Apes of Wrath in Voodoo/Lower Deck, various Droppin' Bombs/MO-T gigs, Lynched on Killiney Beach, Estel at fucking Leechrum haha

Best New Irish Bands: Apes of Wrath, Crowd Control, Carosah, Drainland

Best Session: Sunny Rosslare for Kev's birthday in the summer

Looking forward to in 2008: staying with the lads outta bastion in brighton in early january, playing more gigs, hopefully touring/releasing more stuff, starting more bands, hearing new recordings by dropping bombs and apes of wrath if they get around to it, people copping on and being a bit less divisive, UNITY etc.

Thank yous/general respect to: Porco Dio/GZ folk/everyone else putting on cheap deadly gigs and whoever offered Frigits gigs/put us on on tour, Eoin for still doing deadly cheap recordings, Warreners for the sweeeet hospitality, pete for the fact thumped still exists etc.

 

[Daniel]

Estel at fucking Leechrum

Yeah, that was really, really good.