数珠つなぎで踊ってたじゃない？

歌詞の初めに出て来るワード Karl Marx は、あの有名なドイツの社会主義者であり、経済学者のマルクスのこと。

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曲調がToy Dollsに似た感じのおちゃらけたPunk Rock 。

Toy Dolls のLive を見た事があるけれどノリと勢いOnly。

後はお客を巻き込んで騒ぐというのが面白かった。

だから、こういうPunk Rock, Indie Rockは、気を抜いてノリで聴けば良い。

でも、Sultans Of Pin FCには、どこか物悲しさが伝わって来るからボケーっとノリだけでは聴いていてダメな気がして来るから不思議だ。

それは、やはり、歌詞の捻くれ者具合のせいね。

青臭い少年にも思える男の笑い話に、無くしたセーターが大事なハートのように思えて来る。

ただ、単にディスコで踊れ！と言ってる掛け声が、

苦しい現実から逃避しろ！と言ってる情けない人間の自白に聞こえてきてしまう。

あー、またLyraの深読み。

Impact

Band members

Following a number of line up changes the band came to the attention of the UK and Irish music press,  when “Where’s Me Jumper” was released in 1992.

After several other independently released singles,  the band signed to Epic Records,  through a deal organised by Rhythm King Records’ Martin Heath.

With Epic, the band released their debut album Casual Sex In The Cineplex,  and its follow up Teengae Drug, with additional tracks gaining a Japan – only release.

Teenage Drug was renamed Teenage Planet Sexy War in Japan, and included the single “Michiko”.

Renaming themselves as The Sultans, they released their third album Good Year For Troublein 1996. However, the album cover’s artwork caused problems, as major record chains like HMV and Virgin decided that the display of bondage and S&M was too explicit.  By this time, Rhythm King had been absorbed into  Arista Records, as Martin Heath became the head of the department. The record label released the band from their recording contract.

Following a split 1996, McCarthy joined the band Pharmacy, O’Flaherty was involved in producing the Japanese girl band Mika Bomb, while McFeely formed the rock and roll band, Sister, and later recruited a former member of The Young Offenders, Steve Hackett. McCarthy moved to Stockholm where he taught English.  Vocalist Niall O’Flaherty subsequently pursued a career in academia.

The band reformed as The Sultans of Ping in 2005, and played a number of gigs with Jim Bob of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine.

In 2006, the group played a show with Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe, and his band The Family Mahone,  as part of Manchester’s  yearly Irish Festival. The band played several subsequent gigs in 2007, at the Brixton Academy in London (with Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine), in Glasgow, and in Roscommon.

They have played a number of gigs in 2008 including Southend, London and Cork.

Drummer Morty McCarthy has written a book on Cork slang entitled Dowtcha Boy. The title of the song “Give Him a Ball and a Yard of Grass”, which appeared on their first album, about Nottingham Forest player Nigel Cough based on a quote from football manager Brian Clough about John Robertson.

The song contains several more of his sayings in its lyrics. This was given away free with Nottingham Forest Fanzine ‘Brian’ as a one track flexi -disk in April 1992.

The band were announced as the support act for Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine’s ‘Norf and Sarf’ show at London’s Brixton Academy in November 2011.

In April 2015, the Sultans played a one-off sold out gig at the Soundhouse, Leicester.

Today Niall O’Flaherty is a Lecturer in the History of European Political Thought at King’s College London. specialising in 18th and 19th-century thinkers such as Thomas Robert Malthus and Charles Darwin.

Pat O’Connell is in banking in London. Alan McFeely moved into film music. Morty McCarthy teaches English in Sweden.

Discography