Clippings
This little piece
appeared in The Irish Sunday paper The Sunday Tribune 0n March 24th 02
Another sporty write-up. This time in
May 02 Observer Sport Monthly with both Messrs. Nicholson and Stevenson shooting
wide on a couple of the facts. There aint no mention of any rebound in
'Strachan'but still nice of him to call the song 'Purely Magnificent'. Also the
hapless person Gordon Strachan glides past on the sleeve of the single is not
Arsenals Lee Dixon but Coventry Citys Steve Ogrisovic.
We've recently unearthed a cache of early press clippings. Here's one from August 1989 when The Hitchers teamed up with They Do It With Mirrors for a double header.
Limerick band They Do It With Mirrors photographed in 1990. Top L-R: Darragh Dukes (Guitar), Shane Collins (Bass), Damien Clifford (Drums). Below: Kevin Brew (Vocals). The band later released two EPs 'The Last Real Baby' and 'Ox' on the Setanta label (home of The Frank & Walters and The Divine Comedy) by which time Ger Fitzgerald had replaced Shane Collins on Bass. They Do It With Mirrors did several shows with The Hitchers and by all accounts there was a strong rapport (or was it a dubious camraderie?!?!?) between both bands. Niall Quinn recalls,
"I thought they were wonderful. Their songs were very strong and I'm not saying that simply because we'd have had some common ground in terms of influences. Their stuff was far better arranged and worked out than ours was. They had bridges and middle 8's and short'n'sweet chorus' while we were taking Amajor, Dmajor and Emajor 'round the block uninterrupted for three and a half minutes. So I think you could say we looked up to them quite a bit. Not just in The Hitchers either, during my few months in The Cranberry Saw Us I used often attempt to blatantly rip them off but the fact is I'd neither Kevins brain nor Darraghs riffs so I never came close to managing it. In spring/summer 1990 they demo'd a couple of songs -'My K-nee' and 'Sober' and I'm telling you I wore out a couple of copies of the tape wishing I could write tunes like those."
They Do It With Mirrors split in the mid 90's. Darragh now has a band called Headgear -which also features Kevin. Shane went on to form an acoustic band called Mamadoo. Damien spent much of early 2003 composing a drums and voice oddessey to be performed at Nialls wedding.
This one's also 1989 -September this time and a review of another granary show supporting a band from Dublin called Cactus World News (whose rider we inadvertently helped ourselves to out of sheer innocence!!!)
March 1990 Limerick Leader snap of the boys collecting their oversized novelty cheque having just won the "skool band 90" (nyih!!!) competition in Cork. Anyone notice how both Niall and Eoin seem to have developed bad doses of the Jimmy Hills?
March 1990 Limerick Tribune
Though still trading as The Cranberry Saw Us this gig was one of the first shows by The Cranberries as the world knows them today.
A November 1990 review of the Blame It On His Hormones EP
