Select from the license options below to get a price. That's why I wear a fucking bag. So the next morning I had a hangover right and we got out of the hotel and I was walking down Dame Street, a very very busy in the middle of Dublin. RUBBERBANDITS star Blindboy Boatclub has revealed he once turned down an endorsement opportunity that would have paid “half a mortgage”. Add Appearances. Available for editorial and personal use only. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy. Rubberbandits. Faces concealed behind ripped polythene, the duo trade on drugged-up, feral underclass stereotypes. They consist of Blindboy Boatclub (real name Dave Chambers) and Mr Chrome (sometimes Bobby Chrome; [1] real name Bob McGlynn). 100 episodes. I can go to Aldi, I can go into Tesco and buy a load of toilet roll, no one knows who the fuck I am. This image is no longer for sale. "People didn't know what we looked like," says Chambers, "didn't know where to buy our CD. The characters – Blindboy Boatclub and Mr Chrome – may be fictitious, but their success is real enough. This is a reference to their video for a less sophisticated number, Liar Liar Danny Dyer, featuring a Spitting Image-style caricature of the actor. They started at the turn of the century as prank phone callers, and moved into music in 2007. It was in Limerick that Chambers and schoolfriend Bob McGlynn first circulated CDs of prank phonecalls to local teachers and businesspeople; the place still provides them with material. "It all comes from what we grew up with at school," says Chambers. The offending sentence was referring to the holy communion which the star, real name Dave Chambers, called 'haunted bread'. The Rubberbandits are an Irish comedy hip-hop duo from Limerick city. Featuring: Dave Chambers,Bob McGlynn Where: Dublin, Ireland When: 12 Dec 2013, Sorry, this image isn't available for this licence. Their act came about partly in response to Limerick's reputation as a poverty-stricken place (it's where Frank McCourt's misery memoir Angela's Ashes is set), riven with gangs, drugs and crime (it's also Ireland's murder capital). It was a song about a horse. Copyright complaints  ~   Your Lightboxes will appear here when you have created some. The fact that you can see teenagers riding horses through the town's streets, for example, inspired their song Horse Outside, in which a man sees off his romantic rivals by flaunting his steed ("Fuck your Honda Civic/ I've a horse outside"). In their weakest material, the line between send-up and celebration of loutishness becomes vanishingly thin – as McGlynn seems to acknowledge when he calls some of their early work "disgusting songs I now regret". This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage. The Broadcasting Authority Of Ireland has rejected 11 complaints about a line uttered by Blindboy Boatclub of the Rubberbandits on The Late Late Show in January.. The Rubberbandits are a comedy hip-hop duo from Limerick, Republic of Ireland. So I was walking down Dame Street with a roaring hangover and all of a sudden I needed to puke my ring up so there was bumper to bumper traffic and I was standing on the side of the road puking my ring up, violently puking, screaming puke out of my mouth, such was my hangover. But bigger audiences might not be their only reason for crossing the water: in Ireland, God help them, they had started being compared to Jedward. Despite all the humour, the pair are (terrific) musicians first and comedians second: they offer, says Chambers, "songs people can dance to and laugh at at the same time – with punchlines that stick in your head because there's a hook to them". Although Horse Outside won them mass appeal, it also brought plenty of unwelcome attention. Unsurprisingly, there's no shortage of clowning in their live shtick: at one gig, says Chambers, "we had a giant lump of hash running around and someone dressed as a Garda chasing it.". "We're taking the piss out of that." No one cares who I am, and I quite enjoy that existence. This partly explains why I find myself in a 15th-century Irish castle, in the company of two men wearing plastic bags on their heads. It has aired since 1 October 2015 on ITV2 and was created and produced by the Endemol Shine UK label Initial. The talent of Blindboy Boatclub has made the Rubberbandits massive in Ireland. "Up Da RA is pure satire," says Chambers. Wed 16 Jan 2013 13.33 EST Check out the excerpt from the show here: See Also:UCD Students Successfully Impeach Lecturer Over Pro-Thesis Views, Blindboy Boatclub Responds To The Negative Comments He Got For Talking About Mental Health, The Rubberbandits Bizarre New Video Is The Last Thing You Would Expect, These 24 Uses For 'Arse' Proves It Is Ireland's Favourite Word, 13 Invaluable Life Lessons The Snapper Teaches Us, Here's A Recipe On How To Make A Delicious Healthy Spice Bag. "You put something smart beside something stupid and see how it works.". Another is Up Da RA, a seemingly pro-IRA football chant that spoofs armchair republicanism. These pranksters turned chart-topping stars have taken Ireland by storm with their swaggering hip-hop comedy skits, weekly sketches on TV, and hugely popular online videos. Host of The Blindboy Podcast. So when they take me on a tour of the castle's banqueting hall while discussing the French painter Jacques-Louis David, it comes as a bit of a surprise. ", The Rubberbandits are not much given to self-analysis – or at least, not while in character. Feat. The Blindboy Podcast. Please refer to the. "Stories we heard, lads we hung around with." They adopted the look for their first live gig in 2007; by then, they'd been anonymous for seven years and wanted to keep it that way. First published on Wed 16 Jan 2013 13.33 EST. Terms and conditions  ~   Podcast Appearances View All. I don't want to be noticed in public because I'm a z-list Irish celebrity and that's a very cringy existence to be carrying around with you in your daily life but I don't have to.

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