Stockton's Wing - Beautiful Affair

At the height of their powers, here's a clip of the band performing at the much-maligned Self Aid in 1986.
Nice song from ireland's answer to Wet Wet Wet.

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[coldphinger]

Saw them back in the day's of "The Lark in the Park" in Blackrock Park, good band with decent tunes and managing to incorporate an Irish influnce into contemporary music. Two decades later we have feckin Boyzone and Westloife, where did it all go wrong :-(

[slimskinshin]

Talentless cunts????? What ?you obviosly dont know who is on stage that day, old light pop music yes. You foulmouthed uneducated mut.

[metal1313]

@Drrummer beatles are great band that were all things to all people boyband, innovative rock/pop band the stones are a great band too. the way they mixed up american music blues soul country etc etc made them leaders of the pack and as far as led zep goes sure they half inched a lot of blues songs and got credit for it but the way they played blues ( very very loud and heavy) was second to none.

[metal1313]

@Drrummer yeah drummer that is a relevant point. but stocktons wing right there in that moment in time sounded like some godawful pub/wedding band trying to play music (reggae)  they really know nothing about. their trad crossed with pop and reggae sounds godawful. horselips would wipe the floor with em by the way.

[Drrummer]

Respond to this video... Oh, and by the way, you can't compare these bands with the Beatles, Stones or Zep. Sure those three bands in themselves are in almost three different genres of their own. Try comparing Stockton's Wing to The Chieftans, Kila or Planxty. Then you might have a relevant discussion going.

[Drrummer]

@metal1313 Beatles=greatest boyband ever, Stones=excellent marketing team, Zeppelin=innovative imitators of really good bands.

[metal1313]

@Drrummer beatles stones led zepplin

[Drrummer]

@metal1313 Okay, then name three bands that you consider to be good.

[metal1313]

@Drrummer yeah right. this is fake white reggae mixed with trad and it sounds bloody awful. these guys are just a pub band or a wedding band with delusions of grandeur. nobody cares about em these days. all i see are sad sacks reminiscing about "the good old days".

[Drrummer]

@metal1313 Typical metal-head. Always think that if it isn't hard and fast then it isn't music.

[diarmuid14]

my mum heared this on i102104 hahaha lol

[metal1313]

@slimskinshin i do know who was on that day! i am the uneducated one am i? try spelling "obviously" properly before you accuse people of not being educated. oh stocktons wing were are and always will be talentless cunts.