Class of 1984

2 brothers in arms…2 childhood friends…2 wolves amongst sheep…Class of 1984 are Jon & James…from the woodlands of the Lee Valley in the South of Ireland…holed up in a wooden cabin…making backwoods filthy rock… oh ye of little faith...did ye ever doubt us?...did ye ever think we would fail?...spent and miserable musicians laid to waste in the dodgy hinterlands of flushed down the toilet myspace profiles and ghostly URLs to nowhere... Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

2 brothers in arms…2 childhood friends…2 wolves amongst sheep…Class of 1984 are Jon & James…from the woodlands of the Lee Valley in the South of Ireland…holed up in a wooden cabin…making backwoods filthy rock… oh ye of little faith...did ye ever doubt us?...did ye ever think we would fail?...spent and miserable musicians laid to waste in the dodgy hinterlands of flushed down the toilet myspace profiles and ghostly URLs to nowhere...did ye ever think we would succumb to the endless drivel and mindless jingle of the obedient DJs busily spinning their endless shit wheels?...did ye think we would conform?...9 to 5...suit and tie, ballsless, spineless, useless, penniless...endless drunks in love with our own ideas?... our own pseudo-intellectual yak?… did ye think we would commit that? to all pops pedophilia? and its still-wet-from-the-womb, brandished to the magazine camera, eat this shit directive?? the po-faced and the patronizing? The over paid and the over bearing and ever peddling fuck wits of unique brands of boring, homogenized and contrived dirge and drivel? …the grass fuckers…the naysayers and the begrudgers…the musical malaise in all of us…bereft of interest…even they don't care anymore… the laziest hacks with all the two cents in the world couldn't help us now…for we are Class of 1984...and we always have been...2 musicians...bound for a destination that does not exist...2 life long friends...2 bullshit peddlers and all day dreamers...2 Macguffins to drive the story along…the story of us…the story of Class of 1984…we are the product of our times…the aspirin for a generation without an itch…and we cruise intergalactic…to the end of the rainbow…laughing and crying hysterically in equal measure…with all the wind of youth at our backs...we are a malfunction in the stars…from which to see...all the highlights of hell below....we are the hounds for prominence...and our prey is long extinct...we are Class of 1984...more evil dead than eva longoria...with big hair and pierced labrets...we are Class of 1984 and we invite you...come thee, join us ahem...now for the "official" bit CO84 have been spending the last year preaching their noisy sermons throughout the UK & Ireland, including an opening slot for the golden god himself, Robert Plant, at the Summer Marquee Festival in Cork…gaining aplenty raucous live review and gathering the devotees for a manic online following…They were voted best upcoming band from two national radio stations and listed in Chris Moyle's best top ten unsigned UK bands…not sure if thats a good thing Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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…shrink me down again