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Easpa Géag - Disco Pigs

In between our hectic schedules of “being condescending cunts to foreigners” and “making paddys look bad”, we’re also a band who like to create music. Here’s a taster of what we get up to when we’re alone in our bedrooms.

You can download the track for free from our Soundcloud profile and share it far and wide if you’re in such a mood.

Samples used:

• Irish Jam
• Perez Prado - Guaglione
• Exxon Valdez - Do My Thing
• Nurse With Wound - Cooloorta Moon
• The Chalets - Two Chord Song
• Republic Of Loose - Na Na Na Na Na Na
• Sultans Of Ping F.C - Where’s Me Jumper?
• Father Ted
• Funky Junction - Fireball

It’s probably the straightest remix we’ve done for this album, but fuck it, you’ll get the general idea. We also made this track using the broadest possible definition of Irish, there’s probably more “cheating” done on this track than on the rest of the album combined.

Some Justifications:

Nurse With Wound is (mostly) made up of English musician Steven Stapleton, though as he’s (and this by proxy, NWW) called Ireland his home for quite a while now, as well as referencing Celtic culture repeatedly, we decided to count him as an honorary Irishman.

Similarly, Perez Prado is pretty famously Cuban. He’s also fantastic if you want to do a bit of musical exploration and look into Mambo. However, due to it’s inclusion in a fairly iconic Guinness ad in the early 90’s (yes, we’re all old enough to remember it firsthand) we decided among us that it was sufficiently buried within the average Irish persons mind to, again, count as “culturally Irish”.

Misc Trivia:

Funky Junction only ever recorded one album, one of those dirt cheap, incredibly tacky “cover” albums you could buy in Woolworths. Theirs was ostensibly a tribute to Deep Purple, but featured several songs not even remotely connected to the band.

However, the most notable aspect of the record - aside from how truly dire it is - is that Funky Junction were, in fact, Thin Lizzy, who were in desperate need of the cash. They also recruited some friends from fellow Dublin band Elmer Fudd, who have sadly disappeared into the mists of time, to round out the line up. The organist, “Mojo” Lennox, would later also find fame as a member of Blodwyn Pig, who are awesome if you’re into slightly silly, proggish 70’s Folk Rock.

Also, the song is named after a very good (if quite disturbing) Irish movie, starring Cillian Murphy, which you should check out if you’re into some very frank portrayals of sexual jealously and psychosis. The artwork is taken from the movie poster for The Butcher Boy, yet another very good if (only slightly) less disturbing Irish movie, but alas we don’t know who did the original painting.

Bout time there was some music on this blog. Fucking musicians, amirite?

This is fantastic! You should probably follow these people, they mostly post about Irish music. But it’s very, very good Irish music.