When We Were Young...
Paul PageThoughts, recollections, stories. Whipping Boy: what might have been...
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Track 17: "And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
The day after you sign to a major record label doesn’t feel any different to the day before.
Any sense of jubilation is short-lived - the goal of securing a recording contract was such a big thing, particularly in the eighties and ninetie...
After hours: The night the Velvets came to town...
It’s February 13th, 1992. A quiet Thursday evening.
We are hauling our equipment through the glistening rain soaked streets of Dublin, en route to the Baggot Inn, situated on the more salubrious south side of the city.
We have been waitin...
Track 16: 'Here's your ticket, pack your bag, it's time for jumping overboard...
It became obvious pretty quickly that the interest from Sony/Columbia was serious.
Our skepticism turned to incredulity before it dawned on us: ‘this is really happening.’
Sony paid for another studio session - a three song demo. Word fil...
Track 15: 'I wish that life could be just like a photograph...'
Holed up in our squalid rehearsal room in the north inner city, we closed ranks, fuelled by a fierce sense of injustice after the bruising experience with Liquid Records, and a feeling that we had been callously cast aside.
There was a spa...
Track 14: 'It's the beginning of a new age...'
There were nights when we felt untouchable.
When I close my eyes, I can almost feel it, I can return there; the sights, the sounds, the smells.
‘Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances we...
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Guitarist with 90s Dublin band Whipping Boy. Amateur photographer. Sweaty runner.
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