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| Paradise in the Picturehouse 1990 The Girl with the Curl Romeo's on Fire Got to Get Away Roll and Tumble Half Past Two Brewing Up a Storm This Happy Girl An Empty Feeling *Paradise was re-released in 2003 with extra bonus tracks |
| Once Around The World 1992 Everything That Rises Brewing Up a Storm She's on my Mind December Sky I'll be Around Rusty Old River She's not there Turn it on All I can do Mr. Ginger Heads are gonna roll A Delicate Web |
| Tightrope 1993 The Hurt Inside Town for Sale Half Past Two Frank the Tramp Wish we'd never met Tightrope Walker All out of Luck Mr. Ginger Men Without Souls *The Mountain |
| Milking the Hits 1994 Got to Get Away Half Past Two Romeo's on Fire Brewing Up a Storm Heads Rusty Old River Everything That Rises December Sky She's on my Mind Mr. Ginger Subterranean Homesick Blues Wish We Never Met Town for Sale Tightrope Walker |
| The Stunning Years |
THE STUNNING Steve Wall - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica Joe Wall - Bass, Vocals Derek Murray - Lead Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals Cormac Dunne - Drums Jimmy Higgins - Trumpet, Keyboard, Accordion & Percussion Donal Duggan & Ronan Kavanagh also played their part in the early days |
| During his years at Galway RTC, Steve Wall was guitarist with local band New Testament, an involvement which lasted for 3 years. He relocated to Dublin and after a rollercoaster period (including a 'failing acting career' and a motorbike crash) he decided to return to the world of 'rock and roll'. An advert placed in Hot Press secured numerous replies and along with brother Joe on bass, they moved back to Galway and The Stunning were born. The Stunning's first gig as The Stunning (the line up had played under the ridiculous name King Cotton at the first Killybeggs Rock Festival) was at the Hilltop in Galway on Valentine's night 1987. A year later they released their debut single 'Got to Get Away' and it hit no. 17 in the charts. They built up steady support around Ireland but were still surprised when their independently released debut mini-album spent 5 weeks at the top of the Irish album charts and sold in excess of 30,000 albums following it's 1990 release. All through 1990 there were sold out signs everywhere they played - a massive crowd of 700 disgruntled fans were turned away from a Midnight at the Olympia gig in Dublin. They also featured at the first Feile in Thurles, a venue where they were to become one of the most popular annual acts. The follow-up album 'Once Around The World' produced by Mike Hedges at Chateau de la Rouge Motte in the South of France was released in April 1992 and again went straight to number 1 in the album charts, ousting Def Leppard's 'Adrenalize' in the process. Their self-financed album 'Tightrope' which was recorded live at the Galway Arts Festival was released in 1993 but unfortunately it was to be their last. After 7 years a difference in musical directions and frustration within the band at their lack of international success led to their 1994 break-up.Their trademark sound blend of rock, pop, funk and acoustic rock which had been hugely popular was sorely missed by their legions of fans. Thankfully Steve and Joe Wall decided to stick at it and are now back again as the increasingly popular and supremely talented band The Walls. |
| USELESS INFORMATION * The Stunning supported Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, The B-52s amongst others in their seven years of existence. * The Stunning picked up several awards including the Best Irish Band at the 1992 IRMA Awards and the Rock Music Award at the 1993 National Entertainment Awards. * Jimmy Higgins and Derek Murray are now members of Galway band The Sawdoctors. * The Stunning had 2 songs 'Everything that Rises' and 'Brewing Up a Storm' on the soundtrack of popular Irish film 'The Snapper'. Steve Wall narrowly missed out for the part of Deco Cuffe (obnoxious lead singer) in The Committments. * 'Once Around The World' was recorded on the original Abbey Road EMI desk used to create such 1960's records as 'Imagine' and 'Dark Side of the Moon'. * T.D. and former Government Minister Michael D. Higgins recited one of his poems to the musical accompaniment of The Stunning on Tightrope bonus track 'The Mountain'. * Independent film-maker Justin McCarthy made a documentary on The Stunning which was broadcast on national television station RTE. A radio documentary about The Stunning was also broadcast on the national airwaves. * The Stunning's 'last' gig scheduled for the Warwick Hotel was titled 'Thank You and Good Night'. Demand for this was so great that they had to arrange another 'last' gig for the following night which they christened the 'Very Very Last Show Honestly'. * The Stunning wound up Feile 92 and came on stage after Bryan Adams. |
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