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About Me

Accept No Imitations! The Guireans are the leading exponents of the indigenous and unknown Outer Hebridean musical form known as Avante Gaelic Obscurist Folk Rock. (AGOFR) From their isolated island base in Sandwick the Guireans have attacked every genre of music from danns a'rathaid to death metal since 1979, with a lack of success that surprises no-one who hears them.The Guireans' formula is simple.Take a well known popular song, change the lyrics to address the primary concerns of life on the Island of Lewis - sheep, peats, sgadan 's buntata, the curam, tractors, white settlers, funerals, sheep again, how only our Gaelic is the right Gaelic, whether to join the Free Continuing Associated Presbyterians or stay with the Associated Free Continuity Presbyterians, poaching, the Gut Factory (RIP) and sheep.Play very badly using whatever instruments or domestic items are handy, and record on a poor quality cassette player. Stick the cassette at the back of a drawer for at least 15 years without listening to it before you take it out again.The result is a music that has been variously described as "challenging", "difficult" and "sh*te".See http://www.guireans.com/Guireans_msn/tapeography/tapeography .htm for the full story...

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Member Since: 3/9/2006
Band Website: guireans.com
Band Members: Nobody who'd admit to it.
Influences: K*ntrast, Ch*rsty Al*ne, Cathaidh Ghall, Tigh Nan Guts, S*ndy M*thes*n, Mac an t-Shronaich, Rev Ang*s Sm*th, 4 Cr*wn, Al Cr**, Hen Suppers, Ph*lomena B*gley (Ir*land's Q***n of C**ntry and regular sell-out at the C*ber), The Doctrine of Predestination, Cailean B*w, Coinneach G*bha, B*gie, Geord** G*lidy, Eyeb*lls/D*n H*nl*y & R*bert Plant/W*llie B*rns.
Sounds Like: Nothing you'd pay good money to hear
Record Label: Plook Records
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

www.guireans.com Offline Till June

Fleekeen web disaster, Guireans fans. www.guireans.com will be offline for the rest of May.This has come about because of the cheap rubbish (ie free) internet hosting package we've used, which cuts of...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 06:49:00 GMT

Iain Shaw - A Tribute

Have youse heard the fleekeen excellent cover version of the Ramones' "Blitzkreig Bop" on Iain Shaw's page? (http://www.myspace.com/iainshaw)?In tribute to Stornoway and Glasgow's top fragile chr*st*i...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:17:00 GMT

Guireans not invited to Hearach Dylan/Cash Night Either

Inexplicably the Guireans have yet again been omitted from the line-up at a Dylan/Cash tribute night. This time the Hearach one, which is tonight in thon place that was Macleod's Motel down on the pie...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:50:00 GMT

Guireans not invited to Dylan/Cash Night

As is often the case on these occasions, the Guireans have inexplicably not been invited to play tonight's Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash tribute night at the Woodland Centre. However, knowing this was likely ...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:29:00 GMT

Virtual Cianalas ... Guireans migrate to new wepsite

Ochone ochone, evil top-hatted laird B*ll G*tes, twirling his moustaches and cackling manically, has now set alight the virtual thatch on the online blackhouse that was http://groups.msn.com/TheGuirea...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:52:00 GMT

Lx Intrior RIP Song Competition

Droch am de'n bhliadhna, gu dearbh. The rock gods are dropping like flies this weather, and speaking of flies the latest sad news is the demise of L*x "I'm a Human Fly" Int*rior, frontman of trash roc...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:49:00 GMT

Guireans Manager Coinneach to Join the St**ges?

Och nan och. The Guireans were most distressed to discover that heroic St**ges guitarist R*n Ashet*n expired earlier in the week. We were big massive fans of the Detroit proto punks, and in our opin...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:06:00 GMT

Go Forth and Multiply

Argh. Our original MSN groups site - which contains all the band bios, tapeography and other vital historical type information - has chust been migrated to http:/theguireans.multiply.com. (B*ll G...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:26:00 GMT

AGOFR Works Night Out

Gossip columnists and the papparazzi were out in force last night trailing a posse of top AGOFR celebs around Stornoway. The star-setudded AGOFR Works Night Out was attended by more than 5 G...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:08:00 GMT

Songs From The North (Street, Sandwick)

Fleekeen heng. The Guireans did their first ever live radio session yesterday affa, on what might have been Isles FM's Songs From the North Xmas Special. Top rock'n'roll tastemakers Innes "T...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:46:00 GMT