Post by goldenhordeman on Oct 28, 2008 10:01:13 GMT
I lifted this "review" from Horde's myspace page - nice paragraph on WHY we all love the Horde
This excerpt was sent in from the book 'Clandestines' by Ramor Ryan:
Horde Story
"... we found ourselves at stage front as Simon grabbed the stage mic and began with his usual drawl - “We're the Golden Horde and we come from Dublin. Are you ready to rock and roll?..” and a guitar mish-mash plunged us into the opening song Paula and complete bedlam at the stage front.
As Golden Horde gigs went, it rocked. Although I missed the usual sea of familiar faces in the mosh pit of the Horde Dublin contingent, the Kerry locals clearly knew how to have a good time and everyone went bonkers, jumping about. In the spirit of unbounded bon homie, anyone who fell onto the floor was dragged back up by legions of comradely arms. Unlike some of the more notoriously macho mosh pits, the Horde pit was girl friendly and here in Kerry, the girls and boys swung around in each others arms, crushed together, delirious, ecstatic and enchanted. Waves of frenetic guitar-fueled psychosis washed over us, and time stood still as the mosh pit became the whole of the universe. “ Are you enjoying yourselves?” screamed Simon in his Joey Ramone drawl, more like a command than a question. “We're gonna play a song for you and its called...Everything Under the Sun,” and like a ballistic missile off went the band and its alter-ego the mosh pit once more...
As the night stretched out and the Horde thumped out one of their notoriously long sets, it was clear the management wanted everyone to go home, and not smash up their premises in some crazed Horde inspired delirium. The band went out with a bang, playing 100 Boys and Sammy flung his guitar away like some rapturous lovesick lenashee.
A strange silence enveloped us. We stood there blinking and disbelieving that it could possibly be all over, a mob of sweat-dripping and delighted zealots wishing that the music and the mosh pit would go on forever and life could always be so.
"
This excerpt was sent in from the book 'Clandestines' by Ramor Ryan:
Horde Story
"... we found ourselves at stage front as Simon grabbed the stage mic and began with his usual drawl - “We're the Golden Horde and we come from Dublin. Are you ready to rock and roll?..” and a guitar mish-mash plunged us into the opening song Paula and complete bedlam at the stage front.
As Golden Horde gigs went, it rocked. Although I missed the usual sea of familiar faces in the mosh pit of the Horde Dublin contingent, the Kerry locals clearly knew how to have a good time and everyone went bonkers, jumping about. In the spirit of unbounded bon homie, anyone who fell onto the floor was dragged back up by legions of comradely arms. Unlike some of the more notoriously macho mosh pits, the Horde pit was girl friendly and here in Kerry, the girls and boys swung around in each others arms, crushed together, delirious, ecstatic and enchanted. Waves of frenetic guitar-fueled psychosis washed over us, and time stood still as the mosh pit became the whole of the universe. “ Are you enjoying yourselves?” screamed Simon in his Joey Ramone drawl, more like a command than a question. “We're gonna play a song for you and its called...Everything Under the Sun,” and like a ballistic missile off went the band and its alter-ego the mosh pit once more...
As the night stretched out and the Horde thumped out one of their notoriously long sets, it was clear the management wanted everyone to go home, and not smash up their premises in some crazed Horde inspired delirium. The band went out with a bang, playing 100 Boys and Sammy flung his guitar away like some rapturous lovesick lenashee.
A strange silence enveloped us. We stood there blinking and disbelieving that it could possibly be all over, a mob of sweat-dripping and delighted zealots wishing that the music and the mosh pit would go on forever and life could always be so.
"