What Happened to the Horslips ?
Paul Dingley
Does anyone know what happened to the band "The Horslips" ?
They turned out a few albums in the 1970s, including "The Tain" and "A Book of
Invasions - A Celtic Symphony" along with a handful of others, but I was
wondering what happened to them, when/if/why they split up, and if any of the
members went onto persue musical careers ?
Cheers - Paul
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Paul Dingley (paul.d...@rivdell.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Does anyone know what happened to the band "The Horslips" ?
: They turned out a few albums in the 1970s, including "The Tain" and "A Book of
: Invasions - A Celtic Symphony" along with a handful of others, but I was
: wondering what happened to them, when/if/why they split up, and if any of the
: members went onto persue musical careers ?
Split up years ago. Their Winter album (what _was_ that title?) is
still a favorite. Someone asked this question a few months ago, and the
answer was that many of the musicians were still active. Their entire
repertoire has been released now on CD.
Tom Kinter
A couple of years ago Charles O'Connor, the guy who played fiddle, mandolin,
concertina, and whatever, came out with a CD called "Angel on the Mantelpiece"
which I like very much. It is all his own compositions I believe.
Horslips was a great band that wove Celtic and Rock into a great sound. My
favorite is "Drive the Cold Winter Away", which is completely traditional
(except for electric bass and keyboard, of course ;-)
Tom
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Kevin Sheils
Lawrence E Mallette wrote:
>
> Paul Dingley (paul.d...@rivdell.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : Does anyone know what happened to the band "The Horslips" ?
>
> : They turned out a few albums in the 1970s, including "The Tain" and "A Book of
> : Invasions - A Celtic Symphony" along with a handful of others, but I was
> : wondering what happened to them, when/if/why they split up, and if any of the
> : members went onto persue musical careers ?
>
> Split up years ago. Their Winter album (what _was_ that title?)
"Drive The Cold Winter Away"
is
> still a favorite. Someone asked this question a few months ago, and the
> answer was that many of the musicians were still active. Their entire
> repertoire has been released now on CD.
All I can add is that one or two of them formed a band called "Host" and
released an album "The Tryal", which certainly should appeal to any
Horslips fan. I guess that this may have been a band formed purely for
the album rather than touring and I've got a feeling it may have been
music to a Stage or TV play.
IIRC there was a set of interviews on the web site of the Irish Music
magazine "Hot Press" some time back which gave some history, I've not
got the URL but a search should find them.
---
Kevin Sheils
http://www.btinternet.com/~haleend
jrr
From the all-music guide (http://www.allmusic.com/):
"Carr and Fean later worked together in an R&B-based band called Zen
Alligator before reuniting with Charles O'Connor in a
folk outfit called Host, and Fean has recorded with Nikki Sudden and
Simon Carmody. Meanwhile, Horslips was the object of
two retrospective collections released in Ireland and England.
Fortunately for the group, they retained ownership of their music
through the OATS label, and this helped facilitate their reissue on
compact disc. -- Bruce Eder"
There has recently been a third best of-type cd release.
also check out
http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/sub/iss20951/horslips.htm
http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/sub/iss21951/horslips.htm
http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/sub/iss21951/horslips.htm
I actually like some of the later stuff the best-Book of Invasions and
Aliens are faves...
Bill Williams
Declan Sinnot, lead guitar in their earlier lineup, had a short lived
duo with Jimmy Mac Carthy, as I remember, and then went on to become
eminence grise for Mary Black. He worked with her from fairly early on
in her career, writing material as well as accompanying her and
p+laying in her band for a number of years.
Last I heard, he was in a similar role for up and coming Cork singer
Sinead Lohan. (Mind you this was the last time I was home in Ireland,
in 1996)
Billy
Liam Mac Liam Music
Barreiro, Portugal
www.ip.pt/paulspage/Bill/music.htm
jrr
David Marcus wrote:
>
> jrr <io...@mailutexas.edu> ++ (Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:25:09 -0600):
>
> >http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/sub/iss20951/horslips.htm
> >http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/sub/iss21951/horslips.htm
> >http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/sub/iss21951/horslips.htm
>
> Try again?
The first one should work, the second doesn't seem to, and the third I
typed wrong. It should be:
http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/sub/iss22951/horslips.htm
-jr