PRESENTED BY PAULINE FREEMAN
FROM THE MORGAN HOTEL IN TEMPLE BAR
Wake Hooverville literally exploded onto the Dublin music scene in November 2008 with their energetic, intoxicating blend of americana, roots, blues, folk and country. Their debut performance will forever be etched into the minds of all who attended that fateful night in Peadar Kearneys. After witnessing the fatal electrocution of a female singer songwriter, (which subsequently rendered the venue in complete darkness) the lads stepped up to the plate and took instruments in hand. They proceeded to pull stools into the middle of the packed (and now-candlelit) venue and unloaded with an unplugged set that took the dublin gig scene by the scruff of it's scrawney neck and spat in it's face aghast. 'The sheer stage prescence and quality of music from those boys was mesmerising!' an onlooker said. Paddy Byrne of Dublin City Paramedics admitted he was incapable of leaving the scene once under the spell of Wake Hooverville. 'We were so taken by these guys, we simply pulled up stools and gazed with slackened jaws' he said 'it wasn't until the boys had left the stage that we went about removing the charred, still-smoking remains of the previous act' 'It was a hard act to follow' joked Wake Hoovervilles' Keiron Brennan 'she put on an electrifying performance.... I was shocked.. There was such a buzz about her and by the end it was Electric Ladyland.' Inevitably, the only way was up - the band were turning down offers and requests to play venues simply due to exess demand. When asked what this hysteria was like, Stephen Curran simply said 'Eh........... ehhhh........ ehhh..... hmmm..... eh, I don't really know..... eh..... I think it was ehhhh..... I dunno' and then went for a shower. The band toured extensively and finished in The Roisin Dubh in Galway in February. It was here that they were approached by Texan oil tycoon Wolf Bannister. Wolf offered the boys a multimillion dollar record deal that very night and promised them global success. 'you guys already have the talent' he said 'i'm merely presenting you to the world' That very night the band sacked their manager Brian Hughes due to what was described as inappropriate behaviour and irreconcilable differences. When interviewed the next day, the manager had only one thing to say 'Hughsey........... Bop!' 'The timing was incredible' said Wake's Dar Gaffney 'I couldn't get work anywhere.... I hadn't worked as an electrician since installing the sound desk in Peadar Kearneys the day before our debut' The following week the boys boarded a plane bound for Heuston, Texas to sign off on the paperwork that would undoubtedly make them the greatest band to ever live. The plane had to make an unscheduled stop in shannon as it had run out of food and alchohol. 'Call this first class?' Mark slurred at the emotional hostesses 'I haven't even got an ashtray... had to stub me ciggies out on the carpet' Tragically, that plane would never make in to Heuston. After a catastrophic engine failure, the plane would plummet like a lead zeppelin into the atlantic. As the story goes, four members of the band played until the plane smashed into the sea. Graham Crowley had a threesome with the hostesses in the gally. When boats steamed to the site on a rescue mission, all that was found was Oil and Blood.
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