• Question: Who is your favourite band?

    Asked by bethheneghan to Adam, Eleanor, Sinead on 21 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Sinead Cullen

      Sinead Cullen answered on 21 Nov 2013:

      Hi Beth,
      I love lots of music, but my all time favourite band is an Irish band called the Frames. I really like Glen Hansards (lead singer) voice, and he is such a talented musician. I really love there lyrics too. They have so many great songs 🙂

    • Photo: Adam Murphy

      Adam Murphy answered on 21 Nov 2013:

      My music tastes are kind of all over the place, so my favourite band depends on my mood!

      Usually, it’s something rocky like Snow Patrol
      Sometimes I want something mellow so I’ll listen to someone like Regina Spektor,
      And I have a guilty pleasure soft spot for Girls Aloud.

      And you can’t beat a good bit of Queen!

    • Photo: Eleanor Holmes

      Eleanor Holmes answered on 21 Nov 2013:

      My favourite band is a group from the 60’s called The Velvet Underground.

      At their height they were Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen “Moe” Tucker. Andy Warhol was there manager for a while and designed some of their best album covers.

      That banana could be peeled off the album cover like a sticker.

      The Velvet Underground made really great music but the thing I love about them most is that they influenced so many other bands. And then those bands went on to influence more bands. And on and on in a great musical family tree. Almost any modern band that I like now was in some way connected to The Velvet Underground. To name but a few:

      David Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Pixies, Noah And The Whale, Belle & Sebastian, Nirvana, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, U2, The Cure, R.E.M., Peter, Bjorn & John, The Sex Pistols.

      Those bands represent half my iPod and most of them were, in turn, hugely influential. Listening to The Velvet Underground is like listening to a future time capsule of everything great to come in music. You can even trace a path from them to the popular bands of today like One Direction, Fun., etc.

      In that way music is like science. We are all working with the knowledge of what came before us to make something new. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.

      And I made your simple question into a whole big thing. Apologies. Music means a lot to me.

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