Barretstown has announced the lineup for its 4th annual Inspirations gig on Friday MArch 30th in the Olympia. Lined up on the night are: Sinead O'Connor, An Emotional Fish, Something Happens, The 4 of Us, Republic of Loose, Engine Alley, Lir and Ham Sandwich with more to be announced. The performers will play a mix of their own and their personal favourites on the night. Ray D'Arcy hosts and the night will also feature a short retrospective of Paul Newman's movie work Barretstown is the camp for children with cancer and other life [...]

Non molti sanno che la famosissima hit di Vasco Rossi " Gli Spari Sopra " del 1992 è in realtà una reinterpretazione di " Celebrate ", scritta dalla poco conosciuta band irlandese An Emotional Fish nel 1990. Meno persone ancora hanno ascoltato la versione originale, che vi proponiamo in questo post. Curioso notare come nel brano degli An Emotional Fish nel ritornello venga pronunciata la frase "This party's over" con una forte assonanza all'italiano "Gli spari sopra". Che Vasco abbia notato la cosa e "trovato" il titolo della canzone senza sforzarsi troppo? [...]
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This week on the blog I'm bringing the best posts from my first blog 'Mixtape4Melfi' over to 2uibestow. With the IMRO thing I've decided to delete that first blog altogether from the internet archives! One of the features I had on Mixtape4Melfi was 'Irish Artists on YouTube' ... here's the best of those posts: An Emotional Fish – Time Is On The Wall Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club (formerly known as An Emotional Fish) is an alternative rock band from Dublin, Ireland. An [...]

This week we have at last got water again. Hooray. No oven or hob yet. Boo. But at least we can wash up. Hmmm. Otherwise we've looked at real live cancer cells under the microscope, won at 5-a-side again, and got stuck on the M6 (again). Meanwhile Mrs Mackerel has been larging it down the big smoke taking in a show and staying out late. So it's a good week [...]

What a match to give Ireland the Grand Slam in Rugby. I'm tempted to say it was the most exhilerating two hours of my life! In honour of the great win I give you this report and these sample mp3s! Ireland had beaten France, Italy, England and Scotland before the match yesterday. This set up a winner takes all match with Wales where we would win the Grand Slam [unbeaten in 6 nations] if we managed to beat the Welsh in Wales. Extraordinary by Brendan O'Shea [...]

An Emotional Fish frontman Jerry Fish is releasing a new album this Spring! Best to let his website tell ya about it..... "Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club 'The Beautiful Untrue' The New studio album from 'Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club' entitled: 'The Beautiful Untrue' is scheduled to be released in Ireland on April the 24th. And will also be available to download shortly thereafter all over the planet earth. Produced by Jerry Fish, Recorded by Dick Meaney (The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine) and Mixed by Phil [...]

This mix will be a regular feature of the blog where I will be posting a mix of 7 mp3s with a common theme. It is copied from the sister blog mixtape4melfi.blogspot.com. "Should we always be moving on, but keep returning to the place we started from" Joe Chester - A Drop of Rain Mp3 MySpace Garrett Wall - Rainbox Mp3 MySpace Power of Dreams - Rain Down Mp3 MySpace Cathy Davey - Old [...]

Thought I'd go with something more obscure this time around. An Emotional Fish formed in Dublin back in 1988. There only minor hit in the States was "Celebrate", which only really made a small splash on college stations. Atlantic Records put a fair push behind their debut album, but after getting no major hits out of it, they did considerably less for the follow up. As for the third album, I was aware of its [...]