Stolen from Wikipedia: "The Pale are an Irish band of varying genres including: eastern european, reggae, ska, bluegrass, world music, and pop. They were formed in Dublin in 1990 with Matthew Devereux on vocals, Shane Wearen on mandolin, Sean Molloy on Bass, and a drum machine. They released an award winning debut album on A&M records in 1992 called Here's One We Made Earlier. The debut album and live shows received critical praise internationally. The singles from that debut Dogs With No Tails, Butterfly, and Shut Up Venus did well in both Ireland and the UK.
The highest chart positions came in Turkey, Israel and France, and have given rise to successful cover versions of their songs released in Turkey. As the group have toured they have added and subtracted instruments and players to the line-up. The mainstay of the group has remained the sound conjured up by Matthew and Shane - one of ethnic fusion."
The Pale - Butterfly
The Pale - Dog With No Tail
The Pale - A Boy Named Sue (from Podge & Rodge)
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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Ah, the Pale. They were the band playing on my freshers night in Cork in 1992!! Put on a great live show back then. Was a fan for a while because of that, but i find it hard to listen to them nowadays cos the production doesn't seem that good.
I did hear some sort of electronica stuff by Matthew Devereux a few years ago that sounded really good, which was a bit surprising since i hadn't heard anything from them in ages. No idea what it was called though [edit: Did a quick check and it was under his own name on psychonavigation records, check out http://www.myspace.com/matthewdevereux ].
Good memories though. Cheers.
MMM...My memory is coming back too of the good old 'Dogs with no tails' which I heard on the radio recently, I decided to have a little search for anything pale related. If you check out their myspace page there's a link there to download all of the 'here's one' album and their new stuff: http://www.myspace.com/thepaleie also, new tracks are available on their website: www.thepale.ie
Check out 'Chocolate factory, gives a good idea perhaps as to what their new album will be like, production sounds all good to me.
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