Paul ‘Croonin’ Noonan (he’s not called that, I just made that up) says of the background to Sugar High: “Ireland is in ways a microcosm or concentrated dose of the madness that has us all sloshing around in the shit. The song began as a debauched HR Giger vision of the Fianna Fail tent at the Galway Races, with all the boys out of their minds, riding each other…on a Sugar High.”
Were your highlight phrases from that quote ‘sloshing around in the shit’ and ‘out of their minds, riding each other’? Mine were.
Let’s not delay any longer… here’s the vid:
And while we’re here, the lads announced yesterday that they’ll be doing a midnight gig at the Olympia on December 17th as a fundraiser for the Capuchin Day Centre in D7. Tickets go on sale next Wednesday for €18 from the usual.
