This gig is nothing to do with me but I don't think that Tinnitus Promo posts on here at all and this should be good fun.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/run-with-very-special-guests-twitcher-and-howlbux-tickets-1538578552869
The few Rún tracks that I have heard so far are great. If you're into Woven Skull or Gnod then you'll probably dig this.
The album was released this morning.
https://run-ireland.bandcamp.com/album/r-n
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Raging I have to miss it, looking forward to giving the album a spin anyway though
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on August 22, 2025, 11:06:06 AMRaging I have to miss it, looking forward to giving the album a spin anyway though
You didn't miss a whole lot in terms of the gig - it was fairly average for the most part.
However - myself and the rest of the assembled crowd for the gig upstairs were treated to what
must be one of the most bizarre gig-going experiences of my 30-year attendance of rock n' roll shows - in Cork at any rate.
We started off in Callanan's - I wasn't drinking becasue I had to give my dad a hand doing some donkey work in his garden the next morning.
Wandered over to the venue about half nine because we got the word that things were running a little later than usual. My buddies - Chuckles and Flint - were up ahead of me, I was on the phone to my dad making sure that we were all set for the job the following morning. I heard Chuckles shout something back down the street at me but I didn't catch it fully.
Inaudible... "Right gaff?!" Inaudible... "Fuckin' Berlin or something!"
"Go on in" I shouted back "I'll be there in a second"
Flint was looking in the window quizically. Chuckles was talking to the female bouncer on the door and shouted over at me "Is the gig upstairs, Stout?"
I was listening to my da talk about Spurs' chances against Man City and I gave the boys a thumbs up. In they went.
Got off the phone finally and wandered up to the door of Dali. The bouncer and a low-sized lad with a moustache were on the door. (I think the lad might be a lighting/sound engineer for the venue.)
"Are you going to the gig upstairs? Or just in for a drink?" the bouncer asked me.
"The gig upstairs" says I
"Right, go on ahead." said the moustache.
I pushed through the door of the bar and was still saying thanks to the security when I landed inside and was standing in the middle of a drag queen's act. The show was being performed by a very tall Asian person who was bopping to the strains of Erasure's banger "A Little Respect".
"Not really that bizarre" I hear you say, dear reader...
Well, no, it's not - until I add in the fact that most of the patrons were middle-aged men sitting COMPLETELY BILLY BOLLOCKS NAKED in the fucking main bar watching this show. Absolutely starkers apart from shoes/sandals. I cut through them and got to the stairs that lead to the venue. I had to look back to make sure that I wasn't hallucinating from
the lack of drink.
I wasn't...
Spoiler
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Made my way upstairs to where Rún were due to play and found the lads at the bar - Chuckles double-over laughing his bollocks off and point at Flint who was looking fairly shocked.
"Here" said Flint, to me - "what
the fuck is happening downstairs?"
"I don't know."
"You said that you come to gigs here all the time but!"
"I do but I've never seen that kind of carry on in here. Sure look we're here now."
"Flint. Bad news" says Chuckles after surveying the taps on offer - "No IPAs or anything on up here - you'll have to go back to the downstairs bar. It's your round."
"Oh for fu... I'll give you my Revolut card, Chuck."
"Nah, Flinty - you can go get the beer downstairs"
"I'll have a Beamish. You can have the same. I'm staying up here."
A while later Flinty asked where the jacks were and headed off in the direction that I had pointed in.
The toilets in Dali (for anyone not familiar) are a set of urinals in one door and a series of all gender stalls through another (though I have never had to use this side). All the toilets are shared between the upstairs and downstairs bars.
Flinty comes back from the toilets absolutely fuming - "Fuck sake! The drag queen is doing a costume change in there!!! In by the urinals!"
Yet again, myself and Chuckles are helpless with laughter as Flint tries to reason with himself.
Rún finally kick off - it must be about 2315hrs at this point - and, as I said, they're only OK. The crowd seems smaller than it was was the supports.
Then I notice that two of the naked oul lads have arrived up at the gig and are down the front - where they stay for the rest of the show.
Spoiler
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Not a bother - or a stitch of clothing - on them.
Bizarre carry on.
Couldn't get through the Rún album. Really liked the first tune released, second not as much and wasn't feeling the album.
Ah fuck what a tale :laugh: my spoilers aren't working for some reason I will have to figure it out
Hahaha hahaha was it some sort of nudist get together. Bloody hell
Haha!, I was only in there a few months back for the Mastiff gig;, I didn't even know down stairs was a gay bar!.There was a couple of cross dressers milling about that night alright; but this seems levels above! :laugh: