So saddened to hear of Sinéad’s passing.
We watched her from the side of the stage at Féile Classical 2019 and were incredibly moved by her talent.
#RIPSinead
‘The first album I bought – probably in Golden Discs on Patrick’s Street in Cork – was Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout. Hearing ‘When Love Breaks Down’ spurred me to want to do music.’
Paul shares some 🎵 insights in today’s
@irishexaminer
Imagine telling these 3 lads that 30 years later we’d be celebrating their debut album 🙌
Join the Franks in
@whelanslive
for the Trains, Boats & Planes 30th Anniversary show Saturday 16th December
🎫 👇
.
@whelanslive
always lives up to its reputation, thanks to everyone who came to the Christmas show last night! 🎅 🕺
Thanks to
@KEELEYsound
for kickstarting the night too!
Best of luck to the
#LeavingCert
students getting their marks tomorrow. Don’t worry if you didn’t get want you wanted - you can retake the leaving cert in regular nightmares throughout your life.
‘30 years ago today the Franks played their first ever gig at DeBarras, Clonakilty.
The photo and set-list are taken from Jack Lyons fantastic book A renewed interest in Reading.
The set-list was - Covers:
They Walked in Line, Transmission (Joy Divisi…
Such a great night last night playing
@johncreedon
’s special show celebrating 50th anniversary of
@rte
’s Radio Centre. And a pleasure having the special guest star vocals of
@TimWheeler1977
on Stages 🙌
Listen to the show here
This amazing bunch only picked up a guitar for the first time with
@BarryCondron
last September! Congratulations to the class of 2023 from Canovee N.S, Carrigadrohid, Macroom. Playing
#AfterAll
by the best band in the world
@frankandws
#legends
You can imagine our excitement of waking up to the news we won $986K.
And then the disappointment of realising it's a guy called Frank Walters.
And the further disappointment that they misspelled "Winner".
We were very saddened to hear of the passing of Christy Dignam. We were always inspired by his talent and passion for music. A true trailblazer for Irish music. RIP Christy
Huge thanks to everyone who came along to last nights sold out show at
@cyprusavenuecork
. And we get to do it again tonight!
Tonight’s gig is also sold out but please be wary of anyone selling tickets - a lot of scammers all over social media pretending to sell tickets.
Up bright and early to play at
@ShiiineOn_
in Minehead (which sounds like a German complaining about a headache).
What a line up, it’s going to be a great weekend 🕺
Lads when it comes to doing those everybody singing out the windows solidarity videos in a few weeks time, can we agree that it not be The Fields Of Athenry? Let's go from After All by the Franks or something.