Best of the year. (1 Viewer)

[bohs punks]

Best Zine - Loserdom

Best Irish Album - Built in Belfast - By Runnin Riot

Best International album- Contre e siempre by Los Fastidios

Best Gigs- Moutpiece at the Vera in Groningen, Easpa Measa in Castlebar, Restarts in Utrecht.

Best visual artist - The woman from estel

Best Venue - Dalymount

Best Film - The Incredibles.

Best all things taken into consideration band of the year - Runnin Riot

Best new (to me) Bands - Los Langeros, Disfunktional

Best Old band discovered this year - Rattus.

Best Festival - GGI

Most striking occurences of the year - Mayday shenanigans, red ink/murder city.

Most predictable occurence of the year - People starting to emigrate from the Irish punk scene

Biggest loss of the year - Castlebar, Derenzy, Cabra Park

Most ridiculous session of the year- Tunisia - what was that all about eh?

Award for above and beyond the call of duty - the many people of floors of Dublin I've crashed on on too many drunken nights, ggi shit crew,
gig promoters and general event organisers nationwide

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - a positive year, shit loads of stuff going on.

Predictions for 2005 - we are all going to miss the collective efforts of the measa folk more than we realise. Bohs session crew to grow, anti crust backlash in the south and a belfast style spikes and studs scene to emerge.

 

[ian bastardcore]

Best Zine - Ballixed #1 , absolute genius.

Best Irish Album - Whatever Serpents brought out.

Best International albums - Warcry "Maniacs on Pedestals , Ekkaia LP, Disease LP .

Best Gigs- K-town,GGI,Discharge in amsterdam and Disease in ktown.

Best visual artist - Eric Measa , and he has promised to start drawing cider drinking punx and skulls in his new zines again.10 on 10.

Best Venue - Any of the places the kilcoole people use.

Best Film - House of Flying Daggers

Best all things taken into consideration band of the year - The Dagda by miles....

Best new Bands - Burn it to the Ground

Best Old band discovered this year - Any of the old finnish stuff i listen to.

Best Festival - K-town 04

Most striking occurences of the year - Derenzy gettin engaged.

Most predictable occurence of the year - Twats in the dublin scene moaning about shit.You boring pricks.

Dumbest trend of the year - "Bike Punx" : lads cop on , its just a bike.Phrases like "Another hero in the war against traffic" just aren't cool !bog

Biggest loss of the year - My hearing ...

Most ridiculous session of the year - Probably the last night of ktown ,when lynched played for about 6 hours.Or when me and damo got bollixed and stole a certain sellyoutty bands rider.

Award for above and beyond the call of duty - Everyone who has been so supportive of EASPA MEASA this year...You made my year fucking great.

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - Thats a tough one.

Predictions for 2005 - I see things going downhill in a big way around Ireland.The interest isn't there for hardcore punk anymore I dont think.Eh someone else will get married,loads of people are going to leave the country.

 

[jmlcomp]

Best Zine - the guardian

Best Irish Album - serpents, my remorse, easpa measa, wreck of the hesperus

Best International albums - serpents

Best Gigs- nomeansno, the ex, alice donut : amsterdam. jazz funeral. tragedy, the dagda. the can kickers.

Best visual artist - eoin's ever changing mohawk

Best Venue - fred zeppelins remodelling/roof taking off of

Best Film - whale rider

Best all things taken into consideration band of the year - The Dagda by miles....

Best new Bands - the boy you hit is dead, captain insano

Best Old band discovered this year - breach

Best Festival - ladyfest

Most striking occurences of the year - punk gigs in leitrim ????

Most predictable occurence of the year - me turning 30

Dumbest trend of the year - dublin

Biggest loss of the year - the wolfhound pub, the naut

Most ridiculous session of the year - france

Award for above and beyond the call of duty - leo for organising the only gigs worth a fuck in cork this year

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - people beginning to come to gigs in cork, alot of decent bands coming out of cork and ireland in general

Predictions for 2005 - dublin to finally crawl up it's own arse, cork to lose another venue, ireland to lose another band, leo to lose his beard

 

[needtokill]

band of the year - us.obviously.

best band who aren't us - Wreck of the Hesperus, DeNovissimus, Revolution of a Sun, Captain Insano,The boy you hit is dead, Sol Axis

best "woah!when did you grow some balls?" type improvement - Estel

best "in a year's time they will be awesome" style new band - Giant Killer Robots

annoying trend of the year - punks "discovering" black metal and then complaining when they find out (shock!Horror!) that it doesn't have the same ethical or political leanings as punk /opening a zine you think is the new Cometbus and then finding out it's actually from Kilcoole/Bullet belts/d beat/me saying "yeah I've nearly got this book thing finished" and then not actually finishing it/sleep deprivation

cunt of the year - Me. I doubt anyone will argue with that.

female vocalist of the year - leila at 3 am

comedian of the year - ian moore and his whole "yeah I'm going deaf and the doctor says i can't play music anymore/wait till you hear my new band" routine.comedy gold.

Loss of the Year - John Peel

"Nice One" award for being legends - Una.the entire city of Cork. And Ed.And the Red Ink/Murder City folks.

Predictions for 2005 - Revenge.Oh yes, revenge. .|..|

 

[ian bastardcore]

"comedian of the year - ian moore and his whole "yeah I'm going deaf and the doctor says i can't play music anymore/wait till you hear my new band" routine.comedy gold."

explain this one to me jamie.im dying to hear it you sad little piece of shit.im surprised how you know anything about my life as Ive purposely avoided you for the last 6 months cause your a moaning bastard.

Talk shit and ill snap your fucking neck.

 

[the strange guy]

That was the best post of the year.

 

[DeAd_KeV]

best zines(s)- balloxed(of course), loserdom, babyface

best new bands- burn it to the ground, new easpa measa.

best gig- that gig that was suposed to be in the green lizard but ended up in kilcoole with pugets,easpa measa,dagda etc.

best session- halloween, up until the violence and nev/derenzys birthday

best people-derenzy(for all the smoke!),stanto,gary,joann,nev,rob daly,trey and kat-derry-ash for letting us sleep in their gaf so much

worst person- cabra park landlady! (altho she did let me off with the insane amount of money i owed her)

comedian of the year- split between thomas mcarthy and gary glueboy

best visual artist- erm...stanto!

best fest- GGI and DIY fest.|..|

best bands ive discoverd in the past year- defiance ohio, soophie nun squad.

worst loss of the year- rob o'donnel to barcelona

best crew- the cabra park brew crew!!!

 

[Alan Remorse]

leo to lose his beard

that happened.. remember our gig in the kaz with scientific bong? he was bald as a koot.

and even better, there was graffiti on the wall of the kaz that read "all we want is the beard back"

brilliant

 

[Sprinkles]

Best Zine - Boris Belony (all of them)

Best Gigs- the kilcoole show that was supposed to be in the green lizard

Best Venue - the place on upper o connell street (cant remember the name), in the basement.

Best Internation band - Cankickers

Best Film - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind

Best new Band - Burn it to the ground

best new thing to come out of the irish punk scene - red ink/murder city

Most predictable occurence of the year - problems with venue owners in kilcoole over underage drinking, time magazine awarding Bush 'Man of the Year' for the second year in a row.

Biggest loss of the year - meros

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - lots of internal strife

Predictions for 2005 - im with other people on the emmigration prediction

 

[Denver Max]

Best Zine - Lucidity

Best Gigs- Tragedy, Converge

Best Venue - lower deck, voodoo

Best Internation band - blink 182

Best Film - Shaun of the Dead

Best new Band - Based on Reason

best new thing to come out of the irish punk scene - red ink/murder city

Most predictable occurence of the year - ??

Biggest loss of the year - meros

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - people like me are ruining the scene

Predictions for 2005 - everyone turns chaos, eat meat and smash things

 

[Alan Remorse]

well, spose i may as well join in...

Best Gigs- The Bug, Explosions In The Sky, Jazz Funeral

Best Irish Album - Rednecks

Best Venue - Fredz

Best Internation band - Envy

Best Film - Bubba Ho-Tep

Best Irish Band - Revolution Of A Sun

Best my remorse gig - Greystones, last week

Biggest loss of the year - im gonna count the vault in cork as this year

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - you dont have to be afraid of liking popular bands, kids

Predictions for 2005 - boners

 

[mackle]

Best Zine - seek and destroy

Best Irish Album - easpa measa-renounce and dethrone

Best International album- q and not u-power

Best Gigs- pixies, killing spree, yakuza. contraband

Best new (to me) Bands - sunburned hand of the man, black dice, wolf eyes

Best Old band discovered this year - pere ubu

Most predictable occurence of the year - lack of all ages gigs

Biggest loss of the year - john peel

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - good

Predictions for 2005- the dangerfields willl go pop and instead of being punbk will be more like keane, yakuza will go major label and easpa measa will become conservative

 

[Phil]

Best Zine - Brains.

Best International album - Was Send More Paramedics this year?

Best Film - Shaun Of The Dead.

Best new (to me) Bands - Gary.

Best Old band discovered this year - Fang.

Best Festival - I only went to Leeds. That was fun.

Most striking occurences of the year - I went to Leeds in a very last minute dash fashion, was great up until I got stuck in Cardiff train station on the way back for hours with two junkies as the only company.

Most predictable occurence of the year - The terrifying rise of Emo.

Biggest loss of the year - Fitzy (come home )

Most ridiculous session of the year - Leeds. Jesus.

Award for above and beyond the call of duty - That bus driver who let me get to Leeds from the ferry for free.

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - All the way up to 11.

Predictions for 2005 - And yea there shall come a torment like none other to the malignant human race, who have fallen from grace unto decadence, light unto darkness and life unto death. The seas shall run as red and the skies shall burn with flame. Evil shall rule all the land and all goodness in the world shall be erased.

 

[RobSessive]

biggest disapointment: reading posts on this site, is the scene back home really that lame?

Biggest pain in the arse: whiny jaded punx that aren't even 23 years old.

Best zines: The Goblin, Ration#3

Best gigs:hmmm, Easpa Measa at GGI were really great.

Best Movies: Bubba Ho Tep, baadassss, coffee and cigarettes.

Annoying Fad: formuliac boring hardcore, nice one to all the poseurs for forming lame bands and making one of the most energetic and exicting parts of punk boring.

People who should be boycotted: bands who still do the whole DIS thing, jesus get some ideas of your own for shites sake.

unpopular person: probably me after writing this, whatever.

High Hope for 2005: I'm wrong about my prediction

predictions for 2005: go back to Ireland and find everybody has dropped out of the scene and all the decent bands have broken up.
people continue to take for granted or criticise the hard work of others while doing fuck all themselves.

 

[brianMy Remorse]

mmmmm

Best Album: Dillinger Escape Plan "Miss Machine"

Best Irish Album/Demo: too many.. Revolution Of A Sun, Serpents, Langdon Beck, Murdoch... and many more

Best New Irish Band: Captain Insano, The Boy You Hit Is Dead

Best gig: Jazz Funeral both nights.

Best "Scene" (yes thats scene with the ""): Cork, by miles.

Honourable nice people awards: Dylan and Soldiers and Beck crew and Kilcoole Massive, all the bands we've had the privilege of playing with, Momme and Bob in Ballina, and everyone whoputs on shows. Leo and the Rev boys, as always.

Best Zine: Eh... My Zine there like will be out in 2 weeks.... what zines??!!

Predictions for 2005: We all continue to remain single because of spending way too much time on the net, and we all get the gush from wacking off too much to some milf porn site.

oh and cork continuing to be a great place to play.

Best Venue: Freds, Cork. St Patricks Hall Greystones

Wish for 2005: every irish band does at least one irish tour and releases a new cd.

 

[Cormcolash]

That was the best post of the year.

I thought so too!

 

[W.]

Best Zine - Personality liberation front..

Best Irish release - Tenpastseven whatever it was called..

Best Gigs- Thursday,Dillenger escape plan and taking back sunday in leeds, also the strichnein gig in voodoo where everyone was on pills.

Best rap song about that night strichnein played and we all took pills - Big daddy g

Best Venue - Crawdaddy

Best Film - spirited away

Best band of the year - tenpastseven

Best new (to me) Bands - the postal service, blonde redhead, blood brothers

Best Old band discovered this year - Jay z, Jimmy eat world

Best Festival - Leeds

Most striking occurences of the year - Mayday raids on my house, spending over €400 in one hour today on presents, class a drugs.

Most predictable occurence of the year - people getting way too defensive if you question anything they do.. people leaving the country and then straight away going on the internet to say "oh my god i can't believe you are all bickering so much". James cody being the only exception.

Biggest loss of the year - meh

Most ridiculous session of the year- leeds/burnittothegrounds first gig.

Award for above and beyond the call of duty - damo and jill

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - fuck the punx.

Predictions for 2005 - Snoop dogg/Hatebreed/Taking back sunday/Converge rock our puny minds. More cliques!! More rediculous arguments!! More post-hc bands emerging.. for better or worse. Me stanto and gary forming a hiphop collective.
More "bullet for my valentine" style "emo" bands, more pink belts!! More fighting back against the pigs.

 

[W.]

Predictions for 2005 - I see things going downhill in a big way around Ireland.The interest isn't there for hardcore punk anymore I dont think.Eh someone else will get married,loads of people are going to leave the country.

Not sure if i'm with you on this one ian, especially considering the rise of
www.emohardcore.tk and www.punkforit.com
as much as i was jaded with it at the start of the year i feel hardcore (in its many forms) is really on the rise and there's some deadly shit going down.

Forgot to mention the coldspoon conspiracy, my remorse and The Killing Spree in my best of's they're all the ones to watch in 05.

 

[W.]

last night.. me and phil and jules... met pete.. we were rather drunk.. pete is a handsome man and is not bald.. Andy fogarty is more fun than pete though.

 

[pete]

last night.. me and phil and jules... met pete.. we were rather drunk.. pete is a handsome man and is not bald.. Andy fogarty is more fun than pete though.

i think you'll find most people are more fun than me