Aslan News

Introduction: (Aslan – Vicar Street programme) Late July in the year 2000. The Sydney Metro, Australia. The curtain comes down, the house lights go up, but 1,200 delirious souls are going nowhere. They’ve just seen Aslan raise the rafters of this famous venue. They’ve demanded – and got – a half-dozen encores and still they want [...]

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MICHAEL O’HARA MEETS THE PRECIOUS STONES, A BAND ANXIOUS TO PUT SOME BLOOD IN THE MUSIC 30.7.92 This has been your obligatory Aslan mention. Joe Jewell, aptly-named lead singer and guitarist with Dublin band, The Precious Stones, takes yet another puff from yet another cigarette, and continues. Earnestly. How good are we? He seems a little taken aback by [...]

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Are Aslan Ireland’s answer to Bad News or the hottest thing out of Dublin since U-know-you? TERRY STAUNTON braves the on-tour jalopy to find out. ”CHRISTY DIGNAM! I WANT YOUR SEXI” She can’t be more than 12 years old, this colleen crying out in carnal frenzy. Tears are streaming down her innocent cheeks as the object of [...]

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Written by Dave De Sylvia Wednesday, 13 June 2007 The Platinum Collection www.sputnikmusic.com – 13th June 2007 - Reviewed by Dave De Sylvia There’s something about being tipped to be the next U2 that really irks me. It’s not so much that it’s an honour dished out so often as to render it close to meaningless, nor that [...]

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Christy Dignam sits on the vaulted steps of Emi’s apulent Ailesbury Road building, smoking a fag in the autumn sun. “Have ye got a crack pipe’” he jokes as I approach. I’d been thinking it might be tricky getting Dignam onto the subject of drugs ‘ perhaps he’d finally grown tired of speaking openly about his [...]

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Source: Pim Street Productions Myspace Blog Date: 30th May 2006 Its been a staggering 25 years since you first started and now youve released your platinum collection, charting this amazing journey. What does it mean to you? Billy ‘Well after we received the lifetime achievement award earlier in the year we thought wed like to give the fans something, something [...]

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Aslan to get Lifetime Achievement award 26/01/2005 – 14:19:54 Aslan will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement award at this year?s Meteor Awards in recognition of their contribution to Irish music in the past 22 years. The band will also perform as the closing act of the show which will be hosted by comedian Ed Byrne in The [...]

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“Before we get into this,” says Christy Dignam, “let me tell you a little story”. He recounts how a fan once told him the meaning of one of Dignam’s songs; only it was not the meaning Dignam had intended; the lead singer with Dublin band Aslan had a moment of clarity when he realized, “If [...]

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Billy McGuinness, keyboard player with Aslan, one of Ireland’s most enduring live acts, discusses the obstacles they’ve overcome and their plans for the future. Aslan have been thrilling Irish audiences throughout the country since 1982. The Finglas 5 have overcome well publicised difficulties, including Christy’s drug problem and the subsequent split, the widespread and obviously inaccurate [...]

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Aslan singer Christy Dignam has revealed drugs cost him his marriage.The frontman – who kicked his heroin habit in a tough Thai detox centre last October – has split from his wife. Christy 44 told Star Sunday “I’d been with Kathryn since I was 14 years old but I pushed it too far and she couldn’t [...]

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