{"id":1742,"date":"2010-01-01T04:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2010-01-01T04:53:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T04:53:02","slug":"guitar-heroes-at-the-bbc-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Heroes At The BBC: IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! What a way to start 2010!<\/p>\n<p>This week the BBC has been showing a further series of\u00a0 Guitar Heroes (tonight was number 4, and there are 6 in total).<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, they showed Horslips playing Dearg Doom from their 1974 The T\u00e1in album.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2169\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2169\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2169 lazyload\" title=\"Horslips circa 1974\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/horslips_580x4111.jpg\" alt=\"Horslips circa 1974\" width=\"450\" height=\"319\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 450px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 450\/319;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horslips circa 1974<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Horslips (<a title=\"Horslips Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horslips.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website here<\/a>) were one of the best bands of all time, but being folk-rock fusion they never hit mainstream. They were the first band I ever saw live (at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 1978). Brilliant guitar and keyboards, they flipped effortlessly between heavy rock &#8211; and I mean proper heavy rock, not that laryngitis-fuelled crap you get now &#8211; and acoustic traditional Irish folk.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, here is the Dearg Doom segment from the BBC programme:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1742-1\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/horslips_19741.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/horslips_19741.flv\">https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/horslips_19741.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>They released another album ( Rollback )\u00a0a couple of years ago &#8211; a semi-acoustic\u00a0retake on their older stuff with some newer tracks. I wish they&#8217;d tour again.<\/p>\n<p>I really recommend checking out some of their stuff. The album The Book Of Invasions is incredible, and holds up well considering it was released way back\u00a0in 1976! Also take a look at The Man Who Built America (the album tour I went to).<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT 01801\/2010:<\/strong> Worth pointing out that the episodes can be <a title=\"BBC Site - View Episodes Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00pjk73\/Guitar_Heroes_at_the_BBC_Part_IV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> viewed online using the BBC iPlayer<\/a> . Don&#8217;t forget they are only viewable for a limited time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! What a way to start 2010! This week the BBC has been showing a further series of\u00a0 Guitar Heroes (tonight was number 4, and there are 6 in total). Tonight, they showed Horslips playing Dearg Doom from their 1974 The T\u00e1in album. Horslips (website here) were one of the best bands of all time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}