{"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":"

Wow! What a way to start 2010!<\/p>\n

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

Tonight, they showed Horslips playing Dearg Doom from their 1974 The T\u00e1in album.<\/p>\n

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Horslips circa 1974<\/p><\/div>\n

Horslips (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 – and I mean proper heavy rock, not that laryngitis-fuelled crap you get now – and acoustic traditional Irish folk.<\/p>\n

In fact, here is the Dearg Doom segment from the BBC programme:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/horslips_19741.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

They released another album ( Rollback )\u00a0a couple of years ago – a semi-acoustic\u00a0retake on their older stuff with some newer tracks. I wish they’d tour again.<\/p>\n

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

EDIT 01801\/2010:<\/strong> Worth pointing out that the episodes can be viewed online using the BBC iPlayer<\/a> . Don’t forget they are only viewable for a limited time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t