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About Me

the girls of summer are a band from cork, formed by ronan leonard many years ago. the band is made up of an ever changing groups of musicians. Currently they are a six piece band, they release their next new EP on April 18.

the hard bit is, of course, to try and describe what 6 people do with instruments and voices by writing it down. the songs come are written from a very personal approach (some say "uncomfortable", other says "emotional", a minority say very little but seem to like it very much). I suppose just listen to what we've up on the music player thing and you can make up your own mind. feedback would be appreciated.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/10/2006
Band Website: corksongs.com
Band Members: tony crotty (drums, guitar) / ruth gordon (keyboards, drums, vocals) / ronan leonard (vocals, songs) / kevin mcnally (guitar and other stringed things, vocals) / david nelligan (guitar, vocals) / paddy rahilly (bass, vocals)
other people come and go; all the people who've played with us in the past are all still friends of ours,
(we're like the opposite of the fall....)
Influences: people: niall hassett, roy keane, tim robbins, bob geldof, ricky gervais, chris morris, eric cantona, russell brand, leagues o'toole, steve fanagan

musically: the band, arab strap, malcolm middleton, the dirty three, oasis, m.ward, the sawdoctors, nick cave (as well as the bad seeds), aidan moffat, jonathan richman, pink nasty, richmond fontaine, jape, buck 65, warren zevon, lou reed, hawksley workman, john cale, the frames, tegan and sara, smog loudon wainright 3 (not his gobshite son), ger wolfe, andy irvine, will oldham & matt sweeney, the sawdoctors, r.e.m., alasdair roberts, adem, p.j. harvey, U2, wilco, velvet ungerground amongst many others

mix cds/tapes and music tip-offs by peter tangey, holly williamson, aidan rielly, richie delaney, jimmy pluggd and many others

nb - this is ronan's opinion, i'm sure everyone else has their own take on things
Sounds Like: you tell us, i've listened to so much music in my life, a lot of it has slipped in to me and it comes out too.
Record Label: corksongs
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

4 months update!!! new tips

hey how has it been so long?sorry to anyone who keeps an eye out for usRobert Blake is back in the country, an old friend of GOS for years. check out his myspace (in our friends list) for detailsGOS a...
Posted by the girls of summer on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:31:00 PST

NEW MUSIC UP, NEW TIP TO HELP YOU GET DOWN

happy new year from all the girls of summer!hope you had a good one, we've kinda gone on hiatus, but like the magnificent seven, we will ride againi'm as sick as anyone from the fake spam on myspace ...
Posted by the girls of summer on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:31:00 PST

what’s making us smile

heya folksthis is what is making us smile at GOS HQ these dayswww.myspace.com/computersings, our friends in bristol had a party without us with this guycredit card is burning hot after buying everythi...
Posted by the girls of summer on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:57:00 PST

update

hey guyssorry we've been out of touch so much recentlywe've been on a hiatus (still are I suppose)ruth, david and paddy are doing great things with Random Friend Selecterand me (ronan) has being do a ...
Posted by the girls of summer on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:18:00 PST

miss paula flynn

heya folksbeen listening to this great singer the last few daysmiss paula flynnshe's irish and you might have heard singing with our old mucker jinx lennon over the last year or threeshe's brilliantcu...
Posted by the girls of summer on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:32:00 PST

another band we want to let you know about

http://www.myspace.com/vikingmosesthis guy rocked my world at the last greenman festival, and on a few occasions beforehandi met him first in chicago and was the nicest person I met in america, ever!e...
Posted by the girls of summer on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:16:00 PST

as one great band goes, another great band comes along - The Immediate / SIlta

hey folkshope life is good with all of yeanyway we're enjoying our hiatus, mostly induced by us all going away to different festivals, playing gigs with our other bands and ruth is very involved with ...
Posted by the girls of summer on Tue, 15 May 2007 08:33:00 PST

ladyfest cork

there is a great movement called ladyfestand finally there is one mooted for corkin a nutshellLadyFest Cork is a community based, not-for-profit event. It is intended to celebrate and encourage the ta...
Posted by the girls of summer on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:51:00 PST

alanis morrissette video

hey folksjust stumbled across this, it's really funnyfair play to alanis for taking the pissalanis morissette video of black eyed peas...
Posted by the girls of summer on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:05:00 PST

video of recording

hey folkswe did some recording for our new record last week and this is a wee snippet of how one of those songs came out as "we lay down some tracks" - that's industry talk ya seeThe Girls Of Summer r...
Posted by the girls of summer on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:43:00 PST