by Low D Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:24 pm
A music video for Gretta Garbage And The Trashcans' "The Girl With The Luminous Brain"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmCYmTpA ... FkMDk4Zjk=That's pre-Radiators Steve Averill, Pete Holidai, and the late Billy Morley. Making a video in 1988 for a song from 1974 of a band that disbanded in 1975. Steve writes:
Before the Radiators landed from Space, Peter Jet Holidai, Billy Morley and myself gathered under the moniker of ‘Greta Garbage and the Trash Cans’ to dream about
world domination in the era of glam. Photos were taken, logo designed, some cover songs were attempted and one original track was written.
‘The Girl With The Luminous Brain’.
GG&TTC’s existence would be short-lived, as punk took hold and The Radiators From Space stepped forward.
In 1988, over a decade later, a call came from someone in RTE, the national broadcaster, wondering did we have any video material from this long defunct band. The source of this request and exact purpose for the footage is a little unclear. Pete recalls it being for a show called ‘TV Gaga’. Nonetheless we saw an opportunity to have some fun with this strange request. We hastily committed our only song to tape on our Tascam Portastudio. We then found ourselves in the boiler room of RTE with director Declan Lowney (Father Ted, Alan Partridge) and we performed below the now iconic towers of Ringsend.
I should note that the release of steam during the outlandish guitar solo was fortuitous and not a special effect!
We were joined by Paul Wynn on drums(brother of the Radiator’s drummer Jimmy Crashe) and Conor Leonard from ‘The Press’ on bass.
This particular airing was from the popular kids show ‘Dempsey’s Den’ with Ian Dempsey and Zig and Zag.
Looking back it’s a strange mix of glam and new wave, stretched across a decade with hints of the different musical eras.A music video for Gretta Garbage And The Trashcans' "The Girl With The Luminous Brain"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmCYmTpAaPn/?igshid=YzFkMDk4Zjk=
That's pre-Radiators Steve Averill, Pete Holidai, and the late Billy Morley. Making a video in 1988 for a song from 1974 of a band that disbanded in 1975. Steve writes:
[i]Before the Radiators landed from Space, Peter Jet Holidai, Billy Morley and myself gathered under the moniker of ‘Greta Garbage and the Trash Cans’ to dream about
world domination in the era of glam. Photos were taken, logo designed, some cover songs were attempted and one original track was written.
‘The Girl With The Luminous Brain’.
GG&TTC’s existence would be short-lived, as punk took hold and The Radiators From Space stepped forward.
In 1988, over a decade later, a call came from someone in RTE, the national broadcaster, wondering did we have any video material from this long defunct band. The source of this request and exact purpose for the footage is a little unclear. Pete recalls it being for a show called ‘TV Gaga’. Nonetheless we saw an opportunity to have some fun with this strange request. We hastily committed our only song to tape on our Tascam Portastudio. We then found ourselves in the boiler room of RTE with director Declan Lowney (Father Ted, Alan Partridge) and we performed below the now iconic towers of Ringsend.
I should note that the release of steam during the outlandish guitar solo was fortuitous and not a special effect!
We were joined by Paul Wynn on drums(brother of the Radiator’s drummer Jimmy Crashe) and Conor Leonard from ‘The Press’ on bass.
This particular airing was from the popular kids show ‘Dempsey’s Den’ with Ian Dempsey and Zig and Zag.
Looking back it’s a strange mix of glam and new wave, stretched across a decade with hints of the different musical eras.[/i]
