Best of the year. (1 Viewer)

[paul-]

*retracts light hearted gesture of disaproval*

 

[Big d(A)ddy G]

havent been near a computer for ages but mite as well do one these things as well

irish band of the year - tenpastseven

best venue - dalymount

best fest - ggi or fallout

best irish album - easpa measa

best international album - dead prez - revolutionary but gangsta/lawrence arms - greatest story ever told(think that was this year)

best gig - has to be the striknien pills nite good god

best random adventure - when me ger lisa and some others went to diarmuds hotel and stole loadsa booze

best film - shaun of the dead

best band found out about this year - latterman / blood brothers

best gaff - weelers flat (r.i.p)

fattest person who lived in weelers flat - big fat john

sexiest person - fitzy (dave sunshine)

 

[DeAd_KeV]

best fest - ggi or fallout

you didnt come to ggi fool!

 

[jillface]

Best new band of the year: Apostles

Best tooting of one's own horn: Me, just there.

Best thing happening to "the scene": More people trying to put on gigs/events on their own! Rock!

Best festival: GGI/DIY Fest..

Best gig: Isis, without a doubt. Apart from that feckin' culchie standing on me.

Best new member to my gaff: Cian


I suck at things like this.

 

[rape the drummer]

Best Thing this year: Emo

Best fashion trend: tight emo t-shirts

Best fashion accessory: Emo bandana's

Best album: Taking Back Sunday- Where you want to be

Best new found hobby: crying over girls

Best International band(s): Brand New/ Taking Back Sunday

Best Irish band: No emo ones to mention

Worst thing about 2004: Not enough emo, people bitching about emo

Prediction for 2005: Some REAL irish emo bands(not like them wannabe burn it to the ground dickheads)- emo to take off big time in Ireland

 

[rape the drummer]

and now on a much lighter note:

Best Album: Bear vs. Shark- right now you're in the best of hands and if something isn't quite right your doctor will know in a hurry

Best irish band: Disfunktional (amazing!)

Best bands found this year: A Wilhelm Scream/ Waxwing/ blueline medic

Best gig: Against me! despite shitty sound

Best new person(new to me anyway): xAndyx

Best film: American splendour

Prediction for 2005: Burn it to the Ground to become rock stars in Denmark and release a major label debut titled "big in denmark"

 

[oh shit]

blueline medic
i used to go see them in melbourne regularly. still have a tshirt somewhere.
don't you like jawbreaker? they sound exactly the same only better

 

[trev]

they do in their bollix...blueline are decent though...saw em in sydney a few times. did you ever catch the nation blue from taz but based in melbourne?

 

[error type 11]

Got to this a bit late cos I was off da web over Xmas

Best/Only Zine I read - UFC

Best Irish Album - Serpents

Best International albums - Witchcraft

Best Gigs- Isis, Nebula

Best Venue - Whelans still my favourite

Best Film - Dog Soldiers, only saw it for the 1st time on tv a few days ago

Best all things taken into consideration band of the year - Serpents

Best new Bands - the boy you hit is dead, captain insano, Serpents (yeah I know they used to be Already Dead but anyway)

Best Old band discovered this year - cant think of any

Best Festival - Fete de la Musique, bar de la mer, nantes

Most striking occurences of the year - Enjoying american diy country bands so much

Most predictable occurence of the year - That I wouldnt be arsed cutting my hair or shaving

Dumbest trend of the year - Bars removing ashtrays from their tables

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 - Willie and Natalia for organising the Can Kickers/Pine Hill Haints tour twice

Overall impression of irish punk 2004 - I don't take enough notice about whats going on to have an impreession

Predictions for 2005 - I won't stop drinking,I won't stop smoking and I'll go to France to see Neurosis in the summer, oh and some deadly bands will come to Ireland and noone will go to see them

 

[oh shit]

they do in their bollix...blueline are decent though...saw em in sydney a few times. did you ever catch the nation blue from taz but based in melbourne?

yeah,
and day of contempt
not for you
irrelevant
... can't remember the rest, loads of emo/screamo/hardcore bands there. any genre of punk that requires large shorts really

 

[Denver Max]

irrelevant are deadly.|..|

 

[oh shit]

irrelevant are deadly.|..|

yeah very cool, the singer had this spidy moustache too
do you know if they're still around? i haven't checked the resist records site in about a year and a half

 

[Denver Max]

no theyr're not......but i think some of them are in means to an end on common bond records

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

Best International albums - Witchcraft

this album was seriously brilliant! altho, were there any truely original swedish bands ever?

Best Old band discovered this year - cant think of any

flower travellin' band for me - i reckon the likes o'you, sloaner and edser would be way into these lil 70s smoker japs

andrew

 

[rape the drummer]

yeah, when i first heard blueline medic i thought it was jawbreaker, then i thought it was caustic soda(cause its the same guy) then i checked who they actually were because i was a bit confused. their deadly, not as good as jawbreaker's UNFUN album but still really good

i also discovered refused this year who are quite amzing

 

[trev]

yeah,
and day of contempt
not for you
irrelevant
... can't remember the rest, loads of emo/screamo/hardcore bands there. any genre of punk that requires large shorts really

deadstare from sydney were one of my favourite aussie bands. youth crew, beatdown, black metal and thrash all in one. i saw mindsnare play sydney twice and they were unreal live. okay on record.the blurters were great. charcoal human were great. three found dead were just mad. hadnt much time for
not for you and irrelevant. saw day of contempt play with one king down in the aussie equivalent to a gaa clubhouse. someone performed cartwheels across the floor while they played...it may have been a band member!

 

[rotten tropics]

best album-wolf eyes 'burned mind',burmese men s/t

best gigs-lightening bolt at atp,wolf eyes at atp....no gigs in ireland impressed me too much after those

best new irish bands-de novissimus,apostles(obviously)

best new instrument im playing-drums

best thing found in my house-a foot sack

best new hobby-foot sack

best foot sack player-paul

most promising foot sack player-jill

biggest suprise-finding out weeler called his girlfriend 'jill' during sex

 

[Cormcolash]

Most predictable occurence of the year - That I wouldnt be arsed cutting my hair or shaving

Haha splendid!

 

[Willie Willions]

Best Zine - Ballixed (goaan Stanto!)

Best Irish release - Serpents

Best Gigs- Too bleedin many deadly gigs

Best new Bands - Disfunktional, Dischausage, yo!

Best Old band (re)discovered this year - Dayglo Abortions

Best Festival - GGI

Biggest loss of the year - Everyone fucking off to warmer shores, fuckheads!

Most ridiculous session of the year- Shelly and Derenzy's going away, nasty...

Award for above and beyond the call of duty - Damo + Jaill, duders!

Wishlist for 2005 - More fucking Rock, decent drugs, people giving less of a fuck about stoopid shit.

Predictions for 2005 - More fuckers leaving, more rocking out at gigs, more failed love affairs, the steady decline in my sanity and hence, the steady rise in me having a deadly laugh, yo!

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[Eddie Gorilla]

anyway, on the might of princes are fucking amazing.

fucks sake, where can i find anythin by em?! ive been dying to get somethin by em since i saw between resistance and community, they seem really deadly.