It's a big day for Emperor Of Ice Cream fans as following a very long hiatus the band release the video for 'Lambent Eyes', the first taster from their debut album which was recorded in 1995 for Sony but then left on a shelf. That got very dusty.
As we reported the other day, they're both appearing on FIFA Records, the Leeside independent run by Ashley Keating from The Frank & Walters.
Recalling those mad Corkchester days of yore, John 'Haggis' Hegarty says: “There was a real sense of excitement on the music scene in Cork at the time. We were going to see bands like Pavement, Mercury Rev, Rollerskate Skinny, Sonic Youth and Nirvana in venues like Sir Henry’s and Nancy Spain's. We were hurtling towards the end of the century and discovering new music every week. I do look back on it as a bit of a golden time for music, maybe everyone does with parts of their youth. But it did seem like one of those times that only happens every once in a while.”
What went right and subsequently wrong will doubtless be discussed in a 2020 issue of Hot Press!