best of 2003 (1 Viewer)

[bohs punks]

my tuppence worth....

best gig - paprkika corp in kilkenny

best album irish - easpa measa

best album international- killing joke

best festival - castlebar all dayer / warzone

best zine - nosebleed

most hyped act - knifed

most striking occurence of the year - emergence of the "black bloc" / squatters.

most predictable occurence of the year - baby boom

biggest loss of the year - joe strummer / bastard youth

what ireland most needs in 2004 - more street punk and less crust.

 

[xConorx]

best gig - count me out, manchester

best album irish - none

best album international- turin brakes

best festival - leeds GUTG alldayer

best zine - You're My Boy, Blue

most hyped act - knifed

most striking occurence of the year - more nazi stickers in belfast

most predictable occurence of the year - same ol shite

biggest loss of the year - Girosfor sure, and Count Me Out & xCanaanx splitting

what ireland most needs in 2004 - fuck, more youthcrew bands

 

[the strange guy]

Best quote - "This is'nt some bandwagon lifestylers have jumped on"

 

[mc moley]

the best gz gig was that gig fisted sister played at. that was hillarious.
that was b yth's last gig too wasnt it? or did puget play?

 

[my sherona]

yer man captain tornado played, mad fukker, and the only reason you thought it was the best was coz you got stuck into,yer one, whats her name, studies in wales....

 

[needtokill]

best gig - Oxbow/Turbonegro(both Whelans) / Bastard Youth (Warzone fest)/ Boxed In

worst gig -The Last Chance

best album irish - Kid Blunt/Puget Split (heheh..yes,I have heard it) / Estel "a guide in times of great danger"

best album international- Brainoil

best festival - Warzone

best zine - Boris Beloney / Lucidity/ UFC

most hyped act - The Naut (I'm sorry, I really just don't get this band at all) / Tragedy

most striking occurence of the year - Willie pissing on Conor at Warzone

most predictable occurence of the year - Gout doing another "farewell gig" (cough..)/ Easpa Measa losing a guitarist / Excuse for Escape flaking out of Dublin gigs

"respect where respect is due" award - The 'measa again for soldiering on against all the hassle when weaker bands would have cracked (no, I'm not taking the piss folks, i mean it)

biggest loss of the year - Kevin Gallagher

bands I will miss - Shank, Bastard Youth, Fuktifino with Kollin jumping around, Hickey

"David Lee Roth" award for legendary services to rock n roll - Ken Sweeney

comic genius of the year - Stephen Blunt

irritating thing of the year - the word "pos"/ the crust mullet / d-beat/the venue problem

new band of the year - (r)Evolution of a Sun 's current formation

quote of the year - "we can't be arsed playing Dublin" Noel (r)Evolution of a Sun

cop out of the year - (r)Evolution of a Sun changing their tune when the Converge support came their way in..you guessed it..Dublin

band name of the year - The Boy You Hit Is Dead

emo bastard of the year - weeler

saviours of the scene - The Coolies/ Holy Virility folks

cunts of the year - M.A.R.C's empire...if I ever see them again it'll be too soon..

piss up of the year - eamonn doran's the day after Boxed In

what ireland most needs in 2004 - a law forcing "the Angelus" to be replaced with "Greed" by the SWANS on Rte / more really fucking heavy bands/ Punks listening to Voivod and Autopsy instead of At The Gates

 

[W.]

i dont think i could ever top last years best of.. but here goes..


best gig - Funeral for a friend/ Kilcoole gigs..

best album irish - ??

best album international- War all the time, thursday

best festival - warzone

worst drug fuelled decadent shambollic drug party - warzone

best zine - mine! or maybe never thank a bogul..

most striking occurence of the year - Hackler

most predictable occurence of the year - me and ian moore selling out, getting jobs and buying guns.. Who didn't see that coming.

biggest loss of the year - about €400 in Madrid!

what ireland most needs in 2004 - Less drinking more thinking, also more black bloc action!!

best eirecore member - Oly, the strange guy.. What can I say - I love you and I hate you.

worst eirecore member - ZyklonBZombie, I don't know what you are!?

most predictable scene dropout - emmmmm...

worst scene fashion trend - being a cunt

best fashion trend - bit at the back, why did i cut it off!!

 

[xConorx]

worst gig -The Last Chance

Do tell...

 

[needtokill]

Do tell...

saw them in Bradford during the summer
very "professional" if you know what i mean
semed very much like a band going through the motions
i left after 3 songs

 

[mc moley]

whats her name, studies in wales....

you were gonna go to wales to ya fecker....what was her name, interailing girl......
emma is coming over here for xmas so it looks like we'l never meke it over to wales im afraid. oh well john. maybe sometime next year! (u know what im takin about)

 

[xConorx]

saw them in Bradford during the summer
very "professional" if you know what i mean
semed very much like a band going through the motions
i left after 3 songs

flip, maybe you caught them on a bad day. Any time I seen them they were passionate and energetic, and amazing!
ah well, maybe you'll enjoy them at the fest in Feb.
(I hope this doesn't sound like I am trying to advertise them or something stupid, I mean I don't give that much of a fuck whether other people like them)

 

[ian bastardcore]

best gig - Tragedy ( Amsterdam)/ Uro ( Flensburg)

best album irish - ??

best album international- From Ashes Rise/Victims split 12",Blacken the Skies cd

best festival - Obscene Extreme in Czech , i was fucked,

best irish band - Already Dead/Lynch Brothers

best zine ireland - weelers

best international zine - Inside Front

most striking occurence of the year - chaos rob in jail

most predictable occurence of the year - chaos rob in jail

biggest loss of the year - my mind in amsterdam

what ireland most needs in 2004 - a miracle on may1st

best prank - weelers child porn allegations/police investigation

 

[error type 11]

best gig - High on Fire/Mastodon Nottingham

worst gig -Some truly dire bands in the wolfhound one Saturday night

best album irish - Scald - headworm

best album international- Darkest Hour's new one

best festival - Warzone

best zine - UFC

biggest loss of the year - Warzonefest

irritating thing of the year - an affliction of scabies a few months ago

new band of the year - The Naut

quote of the year - Its just you, me and bucky (A very drunk me to a mate at giros)

band name of the year - The Boy You Hit Is Dead

cunts of the year - dickhead that jumped me for my cans a few weeks ago, making the statement to the guards that led to that cunts arrest made me smile

piss up of the year - Trip to Amsterdam to see the residents

what ireland most needs in 2004 - Abaddon Incarnate to tour constantly and ram their grindcore down everyones necks twice weekly

 

[jmlcomp]

best gig - narcosis, residents in amsterdam

best zine - UFC

biggest loss of the year - Warzonefest, tophi

irritating thing of the year - working during gigs

new band of the year - The Naut, already dead

quote of the year - pour chris ce pa de conri

piss up of the year - Trip to Amsterdam to see the residents

what ireland most needs in 2004 - somewhere to jam in cork

 

[Phil]

Best band found - Send More Paramedics.
Best band lost - The Horror who used to be the Deadbeats.
Worst band with the same name - The Horror who used to be Voorhees.
Best film - Pirates of the Caribbean.
Best hilarious joke nobody else understands or cares about - Getting Jerry Lonely to sign my Undead t-shirt.
Best new thing on the tv - Little Britain (give Gary a week, he'll be all over this)

 

[Winty]

Best gig: Children of Fall and Yaphet Kotto in Leipzig. Narcosis/Funeral Diner in Dublin

Best festival: Warzone

Best Irish release: Easpa Measa, Scio Bong

Best album: 1000 travels of Jawaharlal

Best newcomers: The Killing Spree, The Serpents

What Ireland needs in 2004: Cat-O-Nine-Tails

Worst thing: no bananas incident

 

[rape the drummer]

ian, the may 1st protest has been moved from ireland(hasn't it?)....i couldn't be bothered with a best of

 

[Super Dexta]

best gig - narcosis for the music, boxed in for the buzz, puget sound's ;ast one also for the buzz, probably others i can't remember

worst band name - serpents

best cat - mine

best mammy - mine for making me the asschapel/myownlies/scibong/a.d. t-shirt

most under-rated genre - edge metal

most impressive culchie record collection - kenny (where do you get dead nation and scholastic deth 7"s in millstreet???)

coldest toes - mine

best zine - mine, only becasue nobody else has mentioned it!

best eirecore member - oly

hottest members of the scene - classified!!!!

weirdest thing - the crust mullet

 

[scrawlzine]

best gig - Asschapel in Belfast

best irish release - Limpwrist / Knifed 7"...haven't heard the split 12" yet...

best irish band - The Killing Spree / Scald / current (R)evolution of a Sun line-up

best album international- Cult of Luna "The Beyond" / Tarantula Hawk

best festival - warzone / K-town

best zine - Unfit for Consumption (I can't count Fortean Times as a zine)

most hyped act - Turbo Negro

most striking occurence of the year - abduction by fairies

biggest disappointment - Lyncher refusing to grow the beard he promised

most predictable occurence of the year - yes, people having kids...STOP NOW!

biggest loss of the year - bastard youth / my distortion pedal / warzone centre

what ireland most needs in 2004 - more crust, less feckin street punk and the mass production and forced ingestion of psychadelic substances upon the population.

 

[yames]

Winty No-Bananas!!