The Inflatable Sideshow

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I was born out of the ashes of two great Galway bands; II Toke Pass – Reggae/Ska/Buckfast covers band and Big Bag of Sticks – Reggae/Ska/Trad/Punk band. My first rehearsal was in the Oslo Hotel in Salthill Galway. Peat, Dave, Dara and Keith we're already there for two days and had set-up Rory's drum kit that Dave sat in on. You should've seen the look on his face when he saw his beloved kit just fired together; not at all in the exacting way he did it. It was a look of terror, anger and containment!!! From there I moved up to Bransky's and rehearsed for a solid year before doing any gigs at all. The intro to "Think Who You Confess To" came about in Bransky's. At a rehearsal one day a carpenter friend of mine was varnishing a pair of scoop sub bass bins he'd built for another friend of mine who ran drum'n'bass (known as Jungle back then!!) "parties" 'round Galway. The intense fumes of the industrial grade varnish in a non ventilated Bransky's and the bifter I'd just had and of course my immense collective talent produced the intro to one of my favorite tracks.... in fact; Dave came up with the idea! I toured Eire for 5 ages (1997-2002) in the back of various vehicles; but the most memorabe of these was Tze’s (also known as the great Pat Toman from up there in Down) Mercedes time machine; it seemed to slow time to about 1/3 of it’s normal speed so I experienced every minute of every diesel inhaling trip in crystal clear detail. I pumped out my “eclectic blend” of mellow crazy j

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Foxtrot

The Swinging Reflective: Favourite Moments of Mutual Ecstasy (disc 2)

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The Swinging Reflective: Favourite Moments of Mutual Ecstasy

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Delux

The Swinging Reflective - Favourite Moments Of Mutual Ecstasy

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Unsorted

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The Swinging Reflective (Favourite Moments of Mutual Ecstasy)

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The Swinging Reflective

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DOOM

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.Chalice.

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The Swinging Reflective: Favourite Moments of Mutual Ecstacy

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Foxtrot (Coil and Friends)

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