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U2 tribute band
Posted by acurtis on 4 July 2009 - 2:54pm.
Reading an older post regarding 'The 2', I remember a Dublin based outfit called The Joshua Trio who used to do their best to deflate the band egos. Fave song title that I recall was ' the edge has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray'. Anyone know what happened to them? Think they were around early 90's?
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I remember them being
on J Woss Channel 4 show in the late 80's. Think Arthur Matthews who went on to write 'Father Ted' 'Big Train', 'Fast Show' etc was in the band.
That rings a bell
That rings a bell actually... Thanks!
To the tune of 'All Kinds Of Everything'
Leather hats and ponytails
A bass out of tune
Nelson Mandela
and Martin Luther King
All kinds of everything
Remind me of U2.
Paul Woodful
I think the band included Paul Woodful (and perhaps The Golden Horde's Simon Carmody) who went on to be Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly and the Hairy Bowsies who were a piss-take of the Dubliners/ Fureys/ Wolfe Tones.
I think, reading between the lines, Woodful and Arthur (Fr Ted) Matthews made a few quid from the play I Keano, and could be on the pig's back financially.
Ding Dong is a brilliant dissection of rebel song Repubiclanism, especially 'The Craic We Had The Day We Died For Ireland'
http://www.last.fm/music/Ding+Dong+Denny+O%27Reilly+and+The+Hairy+Bowsie...