Question from wELL 11/10/11

Kells or Navan?

Answer

Now this is toughie... while both towns boast significant aesthetic beauty (ahem!), i'll have to break it down. Kells is a town i have familiar feelings for... I was best man at the archetypal Kells man wedding, I know and have drank with half of Kells, certain people from Kells (you know who you are) introduced me to the coolest sounds of all time like My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Marychain, it was a Kells band who inspired me to not be a mouthy critic and to start my own band. So taking all of that into account... Navan

Nev

Question from Dylan 11/10/11

Can you please post up the lyrics to Tunnels and Only Cunts Buy Vinyl cause i cant make all the words out and its been wrecking my head for ages ! Thanks :)

Answer

Ah Dylan, you've no idea how often we get asked for the lyrics to our hits (never). Here ya go, now don't be disappointed with their mediocrity

Tunnels

Every time I feel like letting go 
Happens all the time I cant say no 
Theres a beast thats living deep within 
Theres a beast destroying everything 

As I run the walls keep closing in 
A claustrophobic ring thats tunnelling 
All emotions straight right to the brain 
All emotions bursting every vein 

She is no good for me I know 
Every time I taste her lips it shows 
Theres a circle turning every night.. 
Tunnels without lights. 

When a loose tongue, lashes like a whip 
And theres no control deck on this ship 
A misanthropic murmur through the waves 
A misanthropic murmur: jealous rage 

Drink, reflect and rebuild, drink, reflect 
And rebuilding all the relationships wrecked 
Theres a storm that passed by here last night 
Theres a storm with me, for the rest of my life

Only Cunts Buy Vinyl

Scenesters, skinny jeans 
Acting like its 1979 

Tiny ties, wears scarfs inside, 
Don’t know what world you’re from, it’s not mine. 

Love all the typical 
Burroughs, Orwell, Thompson, Gertrude Stein 

Shoe gaze, new wave, any craze 
Pitchfork shapes your pseudo muso mind.  

You summer in, Berlin… cause that’s where the cool folks go! 
You’re studying Nietzsche, Cause that’s what the cool folk know! 

Guest list, Elitist 
God forbid you’d ever wait in line 

Dining out with girls who pout, 
Boring those trout faced harlots with your knowledge of wine

Question from Sarah 11/10/11

I have a serious problem and at this stage I don’t know where or who to turn to, so hopefully you can help.

I’m a girl and have been going out with my boyfriend for almost 3 and a half years now. Over this time I have found out that he was cheating on me a few times. At first I thought it was me so I started to dress up,do role play and try to be an overall more exciting gf. And for a time I thought everything was back to normal.

I believed that he had changed his ways but I recently found out that he was cheating on me with my best friend for the best part of a year. I was devastated and hurt and really wanted to get him and my so called friend back.  I did something really stupid…I slept with a lot of guys unprotected so as to get a STD so I could then pass it onto him and my “best friend”…unfortunately one should be careful for what they wish for. I got herpes and passed it onto my boyfriend last week.

But then things took a turn for the worse. Just 2days ago I found out that they are expecting a child. I know I have given my bf herpes and I know that giving a pregnant woman this type of disease can be harmful for the child. I really don’t know what to do…one part of me is wishing them harm, another part of me doesn’t want to harm this unborn child..i;m so confused and feel stupid if I tell anyone the true story that I actually tried to get a std!

Please help me YM

Sarah

Answer

Well now Sarah, I honestly don't know what to say to you here. I must commend your imaginative revenge scheme. However it did backfire on your morality though didn't it?? If I were you I'd just say nothing to no one. Thanks for the question.

Question from JAMMAN  13/09/2011

Where do yas do your recordings? Looking to start doing my own stuff and don't know where to go?

Answer

All of our releases have been recorded with Shane Cullen in K9 Studio he seems to be the man of the moment for dublin recording these days, he's just done the new Squarehead album and stuff for The Last Days of 1984 which has bloggers the world over wetting their panties. He also does all the live sessions for Phantom FM's ICON show too. He's easy on the eye and has Super Nintendo hooked up to a big screen projector for all you nerds out there.

Question from Diarmuid 13/09/11

Apart from the YM what other new Irish bands would you recommend that i mightn't have heard of yet?

Answer

I'm all about this Moths stuff at the moment... touching electronic music that belongs in the same playground as Boards Of Canada or Luke Abbott. The lad's only a kid who's just done his leaving and by god i hate him for it! 

Check out my favourite track of his '<3'

<3 by MOTHS

Another current favourite is hotly tipped Last Days Of !984

The first time i heard their track Rivers Edge, my first reaction to swoon was immediately consumed by furious jealousy. This is the best compliment I can give any song! So I have finally come to terms with it's greatness and can appreciate it like you will now...

▲▲L▲ST D∆YS OF 1984▲▲ - RIVER'S EDGE (Radio Edit) by ▲▲L▲ST D∆YS OF 1984▲▲

As you can probably tell  by now i'm all about the electronic boyo's at the moment, so I may aswell tell you about my favourite electronic Irish act, The Holy Roman Army. I fell in love with the brother/ sister combo, Chris and Laura Coffey, when we did a gig with them a few years back in Whelans. Their debut album How The Light Gets In  released in June 09 is beautiful. Their follow up was an EP of five cover songs Desecrations, which sounds on paper like a wrong turn but in reality displayed the bands ability to interpret classic tracks in their own blissed out style.  Next up is their second album, which i do believe, is nearing completion. A few months back we were given a sneak preview of one of the tracks off it Rope and by golly, it blew me away:

Rope (demo) by theholyromanarmy

So there you go... and if you're broke, Moths and Last Days of 1984 tracks are free to download on Soundcloud and you can get HRA's Desecrations for nought on Band Camp. 

Question from Mur  31/08/11

I work in an office with mostly men and have become really friendly with one guy in particular.
We just hit it off straight away and share loads of interests. We have a laugh too as our sense of humour is very similar. We even wear our hair the same way.

Although my girlfriends never met him she's always niggling at me with jealous comments. She's even threatened to come round to the office and 'jimmy 'ead butt the cunt'.

What can I do?

Answer

Hmmm this is one of the more interesting questions we've received, thanks. From reading your question i can immediately identify that there are some 'trust issues' at play here. Have you tried talking to your partner? Let her know how important she is to you, communication is key to success in any trusting relationship... then she is way more likely to turn a blind eye to your blatant homosexual tendancies and you'll be blowing that guy before you can say 'Appletini's after work mate?'

Question from G4NT0 31/8/11

First off, I want an answer from every one in the band please.......
If there was one song you wish you had written from day dot till now, what would it be?

Answer

Darren reckons Time To Pretend by MGMT, Willy's is Under Pressure by David Bowie/ Queen, Gerry's is Barely Legal by The Strokes and Nev's is Days by The Kinks.

Question from Jack 11/08/11

Favourite guilty pleasure?

Answer

In no particular order:

Teen movies (10 Things I Hate About You, Just My Luck etc.), Limp Bizkit, Battered Sausages, The E Channel, Bryan McFadden's Twitter Account (I find it hard to articulate my hatred for him, all i know is that reading his tweets justifies it and hence gives me pleasure), hating stuff before i've seen it/ heard it purely just to go against the grain (Dark Knight)

Question from Anon 11/8/11

Who is the dude of the band??

Answer: 

Willy is definitely the dude in the band. He’s got a willy on him like a dude.

Question from Ian:  11/8/11

When yee coming to Sydney Nev? I hear the opera house has a few spare slots over the xmas period.

Answer: 

Soon! We’ll be the ones with spotty backs and GAA shorts on Bondi Beach… hold on, there’s already a thousand fitting that description already… I’ll just text ye when I arrive.