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Beware the Jacket!
While researching my review of Boyzone’s comeback single (yes, sometimes I do research!), I came across this rather rather odd Wiki-fact about the late Stephen Gately:
On one visit to a hospital he met a child who fell in love with his jacket—Gately allowed her to have it; she was dead within the hour.
On the subject of the single, incidentally: That the Boyz wish to pay (slightly mawkish) tribute to their tragic friend and band-mate is understandable. That they have chosen, however, to do so through the medium of reggae-lite? Fuckin’ righteous, mon…
(Thanks to Colin for the tech support, by the way!)
February 2nd, 2010.
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:09 am
If Christ had a bike he’d be on it.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:31 am
my sister and I heard this on the radio on our way to work t’other morning. Her immediate reaction was “woah, is that the UB40s backwards?”
My immediate reaction was a mental double check I hadn’t drank a full bottle of Benelyn tickly cough the night before.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:39 am
UB40 is definitely the touchstone here. I just wish they’d gone the whole hog and done the accents too!
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:48 pm
It’s the kind of sentence you read a few times, also it’s a fact inserted after mentioning his own death. A wiki special.
Looking at the video, they have recreated the feeling of walking in on a grieving family that is strange to you and all the awkwardness that comes with it. “Oh, I didn’t know him at all… but sorry for your loss.”
Song is simple and respectful till the organ kicks in, then it just feels weird.
(No bother btw, simple job)
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I gotta give props to Keith Duffy (@0:45) for not being able to act, even when he surely doesn’t have to act.
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Are they having a seance @ 2.29??
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
@ Alison – or a really weird game of cards..
I-I-I…
Christ, just went to pick up my laundry there and I was humming that song in the queue.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I was listening to the beginning of it thinking yeah its alright then Bang! Reggae organ! Love to Jah!
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm
And when I say alright I mean mediocore pop rubbish.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm
And when I say alright I mean mediocre pop rubbish.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:53 pm
If you like the song Chris, there’s no shame in admitting it
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Confused-how does Steven Gately appear on his own tribute single??
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:12 pm
@ Denise – it was recorded in 2007, but Mika (who wrote it) wouldn’t let them release it as he thought their version was too cheesy.
After Gately died, he relented and allowed them release it as a tribute.
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Ok, I think that makes sense. Its not that bad a track. There seriously giving UB40 a run for their money!!
February 4th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
[…] into the toilet, having not eaten anything in 48 hours… and guess what fucking song was stuck in my head. I-I-I… I lay my heart down on yo flo-o-o-r… February 4th, […]
February 4th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
There used to be something on Mikey Graham’s Wiki page that said something along the lines of him having an argument with some bloke that involved “a bag of oranges and a snooker club. They never spoke again.” But it’s been edited out! Damn. Wish I’d saved it.
February 4th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
All time greatest (Irish music-related) Wiki-hack I ever saw was Gavin Friday’s a few years ago, in which it said he had lobbied the Irish government to change the names of all the days of the week to Friday in his honour… amongst other things!
February 4th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
I love that your definition of “research” is checking Wikipedia. Rock on, Eoin. Rock on!
February 5th, 2010 at 12:28 am
@ ST – hey, if Woodward and Bernstein were alive today (well they are, but…) I’m sure they’d use Wikipedia too
February 5th, 2010 at 11:08 am
@ST: ah fair is fair, there is an effort to importance ratio to be considered here, if Eoin was investigating the arrest of Fianna Fail staffers breaking into the Travellers Friend to steal Enda Kenny’s facebook password then I’m sure he’d be in a basement carpark somewhere getting a manilla portfolio from John “Greensleeves” Gormley at this very minute
February 5th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
@Zingelbert Bambledack – I have passed this information on to the Daily Mail as a “reliable insider source”.
Have however protected the identity of Greensleeves. Know you would want me to respect the privacy of those that use pseudonyms.