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| Name: | Emmet Shinners |
| Homepage URL: | http://longfellow.jimdo.com |
| Comments: | Hey guys, not sure if you even check this page often, but I suppose you have no idea who this is? I was in a band called "X-it" in Limerick and appeared on the Reindeer age album along with your good selves. I am still playing and happened to stumble across your site while trying to find info on the Reindeer age.. hope you are all well and good to see you are still making sounds. take it easy.... :) |
| Name: | Darian Vincent |
| E-mail address: | DV65@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | if you guys can it'd be sweet if you came out to canada i've been listening to your music for a while now and its pretty rad,,, and if you do come out i highly recommend port coquitlam, british columbia,,, best bud you'll ever smoke |
| Name: | andre |
| E-mail address: | andre@deadmonkeyrecords.com |
| Comments: | hi guys,whish i could kick my own arse for missing you this year,physically difficult though.was on holidays. at least i could watch the videos great stuff. not that i wouldnt appreciate cds,but i was just wondering if any of your vinyls(in fact ive only seen one so i dont really know if theres more around)are still available somehow,,if theres any left in any shops or whatever.because i would really love to hold one of those in my hands.... andre |
| Name: | niall |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.thehitchers.eu |
| Comments: | Hi we're cutting this useless old thing adrift so if you happen to wonder into it you probably shouldn't bother posting as we wont be monitoring it. Better off calling into the Myspace page or Bebo page and saying hello there instead. http://www.myspace.com/thehitchersonmyspace http://www.bebo.com/thehitchers-bebo If you need to contact the hitchers you'll get us by emailing fourthreethree"@"eircom.net DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE THE " " BEFORE HITTING THE SEND BUTTON!!! |
| Name: | RAy |
| E-mail address: | Cork |
| Comments: | Yesterday evening I let my drum fall on my copy of "its all well and good until someone..." I really need to get this cd again, can anyone help me? rsmurke@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Tien2k |
| E-mail address: | fujifutsch"at"gmx.de |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.myspace.com/tien2k |
| Comments: | LOL take a look at this site! http://www.amiright.com/real/funnyartist/thehitchers.shtml Damm there was a noob working on this page...... fake Hitchers CD on an original Hitchers page..... |
| Name: | Sackiboy |
| E-mail address: | ask@me.no |
| Comments: | Hi Hitchers! Thanks for the cool music of yours! Too bad i`ve just "found" you 1 week ago, and now I`m not sure if you still are a band, or if you`ve broken up... pls tell me you didn`t split, because your music is just so good! Greez Sackiboy |
| Name: | Mark O'Connor |
| E-mail address: | markoconnorstudios@yahoo.ie |
| Homepage URL: | http://mocstudios.tripod.com |
| Comments: | Nice gig the other night lads. Nice to have ye practicing at my house. The value of the house has skyrocketed now that the sacred crotchets/sound energy of the hitchers are forever embedded in the timbers of the love shack. Long may you run. 3-0! m |
| Name: | the hitchers |
| Comments: | Limericks finest indie-punk-rockers The Hitchers return to Dolans Warehouse, Limerick on Friday 30th of December for their by now annual reunion gig. The band called it a day in 2001 -but for a dozen years previous they travelled the highways and byways of Ireland, the UK and even got further a field a few times. They played virtually anywhere that'd have them, made some records and drank their fill. It's been said that they specialize in delivering high octane, high speed, lo-fi, low brow, amps up to eleven, kit smackin', two and a half minute portions of hum-along heaven. But that's only half the story . . . Uniquely un-fashionable and largely unloved outside their native Limerick in their earlier years -their fortunes changed for the better when the phone rang one day in 1997 -it was legendary BBC1 DJ John Peel, phoning from his home to tell The Hitchers he was at that moment listening to their debut UK release 'Killed It With My Bare Hands', was suitably impressed and wanted them to come to London to do a session for his show. The band recorded their Peel Session with producer Mike Engles at BBC Studios in Maida Vale 4 in July '97. They recorded four tracks -Human Skull, Wannabee, The Urge To Kill, and My Band -three of which later appeared on their second album 'For the want of some Better TV'. Meanwhile their 1997 debut album 'It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye' got rave reviews. At the time the NME said of the record... "a work of lyrical genius...the result is 14 songs you can play whilst washing up and/or shagging without having to break off halfway thru to phone the Samaritans" and garnered The Hitchers a hardcore fanbase in the UK and Ireland. The Hitcher's second single -the double A-side 'You can only love someone/Strachan' turned up in John Peel's Festive 50 in 1997, Peel's annual rundown of the listeners' fifty favourite tracks of the year, 'The John Peel Festive 50' became a Christmas institution more loved than fairy lights and Christmas crackers since its inception in 1976. Listeners of John's BBC Radio 1 show picked the chart by voting for their three favourite tracks of the year before the end of November. The Hitchers featured at No 21 in the 1997 chart which had Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha" at Number one. Peelie continued to play The Hitchers regularly on his show since then, playing "Strachan" as recently as April 2004. Like so many other bands that he helped and encouraged, The Hitchers are very proud and delighted to have been associated with John's show. In the year that John was posthumously inducted in the UKs rock'n'roll hall of fame -The Hitchers will be remembering him in their own little way on December 30th. "Don't miss this band" John Peel BBC Radio One "the best new Irish band I've heard in the last 20 years" Bob Geldof -XFM. "skewed but feckin' marvellous pop . . . like a cross between The Pogues and Stiff Little Fingers" NME "sizzling with attitude, energy and sheer cheek" Hot Press "sounds like The Sawdoctors fronted by Hannibal Lecter" Irish Times |
| Name: | Phoebe |
| E-mail address: | phoebe@comhem.se |
| Comments: | Gawd, I miss all of you guys! You probably (hopefully) don't remember me but I was a devoted (fanatic) fan of your various bands during my five years in limerick. I miss the live music and the atmosphere that I just haven't found anywhere else since. I'm going to have to return to limerick at some stage and overdose on music :) All my love to all of you, especially Niallo and Eric, the Alvin really was an experience! Still have a signed poster lying around somewhere from one of your gigs in the pery.. |
| Name: | Hil |
| E-mail address: | buzzin_boo@yahoo.ie |
| Comments: | Well, today I decided to look up a band I hadn't listened to in a while (I hate people who steal CDs).... I was shocked and appauled by what I saw when I typed "The Hitchers" into Goooooooogle. They should not be allowed to continue to use the name. I am outraged. grrr end |
| Name: | niall |
| E-mail address: | thehitchers"@"eircom.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://remove the "" |
| Comments: | 4-3-3 were recently contacted by a dissatisfied customer who had bought what purported to be a Hitchers CD from a third party website (we warned you to be wide of these). It quickly became apparent that the CD in question was not in fact one of ours. It was listed alongside four other legitimate titles by The Hitchers (Killed It Single, You Can Only Love Someone Single, I Can't Breath Single and Fun & Games LP). The title in question, an image of the cover of which is shown above, was released by a band from the north of England who have been using the moniker "The Hitchers" since 1999. I contacted them back in 2001 through their website and informed them quite casually and without fuss or rancour that there was already a band in existence in Ireland called The Hitchers who had been using the name since 1989, had released two LPs and four singles in the UK under the name and had done several UK tours. I suggested that it was time for them to change their name. The response I got didn't inspire confidence. I believe it was something like "yeah we know all about them..." and that was it. At the time I was all on for taking the matter further but was dissuaded from doing so for the time being as -quite frankly - bands appear and disappear all the time and no harm done. But meanwhile -this English band has continued as before - in full knowledge for at least four and possibly as much as six years that they are using another bands name as their own. Google "the hitchers" now and the majority of the results you get will relate to the activities of these lads. I know it's up to us as a band to defend our band name and our "brand" name - this we intend to do. To paraphrase that great orator George Dubbya Bush "we will strike back at a moment of OUR choosing". When we do take this further all concerned can be assured that we will be prosecuting an aggressive defence of that which is ours. If that means I've to hop on a plane and go to Middlesbrough or London or anywhere else to explain all this to a judge -fine. Thank fuck for Ryan Air. We are a Sword of Damocles dangling over their heads and the sooner they act to put this right the less costly it will be for them. Meanwhile all we can do is ask anyone looking for Hitchers CDs on the www to make sure they're getting the real deal and not some interloper. Check our discography page -if it aint listed -it aint us. Two things before I finish -first I've nothing against these lads (quite like rockabilly actually). I just want them to stop using my name. Second -The Hitchers is a shit name for a band. I always said it sounded like Big Tom & The Mainliners support act. We'd have had far less risk of this carry on if we'd stuck with 'Ten Point Six Rothmans and a Stolen Barrel of Heineken Please'. Niall- March 05 |
| Name: | niall ...again |
| Comments: | Exactly! |
| Name: | Billy Floyd |
| E-mail address: | billyfloyd@yahoo.ca |
| Comments: | Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." |
| Name: | niall |
| Comments: | mmm return poster eh? likes us more than they let on i think. Cmon be nice -admit it you have everything we did -right the way back to 'the streaking chicken e.p. Now ...deep breath ...bring in the LOVE!!! ...and exhale ..blow out the pain!!! ;-D |
| Name: | P.P. |
| E-mail address: | BOLLOXTOYOU@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | Dream about this, wake up and smell the crap band that you are please. |
| Name: | niall |
| Comments: | Oh dear ...looks like yer man from Q magazine has finally caught up with us. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL and thanks for the tirnout on the 26th. |
| Comments: | oh my good dear sweet mofo jeezus. I don't believe it, there are people who actually like this band (sorry about the loose use of the word, band!!) |
| Name: | Never Mind |
| Comments: | Happy New Spears to all! |
| Name: | DKMJ |
| Comments: | Oh happy happy joy joy! |
| Name: | DKMJ |
| Comments: | Oh happy happy joy joy! |
| Name: | Manky Frank |
| Homepage URL: | http://i_Played_bass_with_the_hitchers_for_a_wee_while_and_now_i'm_in_the_gutter.com |
| Comments: | X mass is drawing ever closer.... I reckon an unplugged thingy with all and any ex-hitchers for a pissup around the 27th/28th in the upstairs part of dolans would be a bit of fun.....I can almost taste those awfull men already.......send your requests to... |
| Name: | dropkickmejesus |
| E-mail address: | goalposts@life.com |
| Comments: | whats the story this xmas? is there a hitchers party/gig planned? please, ah go on... |
| Comments: | :-))) I think that might be by the McFly/Busted Middlesbro moniker knackers :-o I'm certain The Pride of Shannonside wouldn't have opted for such a poncified title :-D |
| Name: | Bernie Lomax |
| E-mail address: | turnipfishing@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | whats the story with "unspoken truths", how come its not on the discography page?? |
| Name: | admin |
| Comments: | oops!! accidently cleared the guestbook. ah well. |
| Name: | admin |
| Comments: | oops!! accidently cleared the guestbook. ah well. |
| Name: | Mickey Mac's Sack |
| Comments: | Testing testing, is thing on? |
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