JJ72 - October Swimmer (Top Of The Pops, 2000)

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14 жыл бұрын

Debut single, featuring singer Mark Greaney, drummer Fergal Matthews and girl bassist Hilary Woods.
This Irish band managed some entries into the UK charts (in the 20-something region) in the early 2000's. This appearance was for a re-entry of their first single, originally released in November 1999.
They split in June 2006.

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@roysters01 Жыл бұрын

2023 still listing to JJ & still sounds absolutely fucking awesome.

@nickk5948 15 күн бұрын

2024

@sparkscouldfly9018 4 жыл бұрын

Wow I was 16 /17 in the year 2000. Big fan of JJ72 and now here I ma at 36 listening to them with my kid!

@markymark9465 3 жыл бұрын

hope the kid liked it!

@catherineturpin8473 3 жыл бұрын

Breaks my heart, they should have been massive!

@eyebrowman1 21 күн бұрын

The passion is undeniable. Wow.

@patrickryan5570 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant - glad to have seen them play live several times - what a sound - top band.

@velouris76 10 жыл бұрын

Awesome band, they should have been much, much bigger...do still listen to their two albums quite regularly, shame they split up, would love to see them reform....

@moryssey 4 жыл бұрын

Do you know what singer is doing now?

@eekwibble 2 жыл бұрын

@@moryssey Mark Greaney is still doing solo stuff but only non-JJ72 stuff

@markowarpig3804 3 жыл бұрын

One of the first bands I did security for ... very underrated and worth a revisit !

@BoudicaJ 12 жыл бұрын

Completely unique and absolutely underrated. Fantastic version of it :)

@roysters01 Жыл бұрын

2023 and still listening and loving jj72

@fatbloke650 7 жыл бұрын

still play their 1st album today, brilliant,and the best lookng bassist ever............

@Weallwannaholdtheremotecontrol 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant band ,brilliant song ..Hilary woods is gorgeous ,absolutely

@nicksimpson3885 3 жыл бұрын

As Top of The Pops go WHAT A FUCKING PERFORMANCE - how has this band become so forgotten ??

@deliciator855 9 жыл бұрын

2000! O_O Still listen to this song though and it's still a cracking tuuuuuuuune!

@m4rt1n1r0551 2 жыл бұрын

Wish these had stayed together till I'd seen them. Awesome

@DanBurroso Жыл бұрын

I saw them open for the Stereophonics twice on the same tour. I bought their album. Met the singer after the show, seemed to be a decent dude. I was just putting together a new album list on my phone and remembered this band. I feel they should have been around longer. Great bass player too

@marissa32 10 жыл бұрын

I loved this band when I was in junior high... how could a young girl not like Mark... so cute.

@ewian 9 жыл бұрын

reminiscing! can´t forget this song

@jaredvr 9 жыл бұрын

Why why great music like this cant survive ... i miss this band

@DoctorMeatDic 7 жыл бұрын

They died, because they insulted their audience once too often. They thought they were the shit, and then they were....just....shit.

@coltsuperocean10 7 жыл бұрын

...agreed...I saw them many tears ago on the 1st uk and they were simply brilliant!!

@mikesinclair7135 10 жыл бұрын

Wow... I remember this!!! :) Good introduction by Richard Blackwood... Also played live too, which wasn't done too often on TOTP

@marknorris2560 10 жыл бұрын

saw this band live many times, great band

@BoudicaJ 9 жыл бұрын

I think his vocal is perfection here..love the whole performance.

@TheMusicalElitist 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to know what Mark is up to these days, listen to the Boys In The Band podcast - a great interview.

@JuiceTerry87 4 жыл бұрын

Superb, great TOTP performance

@shoot_the_glass5654 2 жыл бұрын

Had no knowledge of this band till recently I picked up those Reloaded CDs.

@MrMauNunez 13 жыл бұрын

Pure teenage angst! Love it

@trudyyy87 13 жыл бұрын

Mark's so beautiful!!!!!!!! :3

@markemerson2012 5 жыл бұрын

Bucking the TOTP trend and performing live too. Bravo.

@marc5445 3 ай бұрын

Those guitars aren’t live.

@markemerson2012 3 ай бұрын

Ok vocals though - which wasn’t standard back then.

@billdemonn 9 жыл бұрын

These guys were so under-appreciated at the time, imo with one of the best vocalists ever. To capture all this angelic beauty and angst all in one is god given. I've been reverting back to old songs recently and recorded a few JJ72 covers(This, Improv and Brother Sleep), if you care to listen would love any feedback. Sorry for the plug, Peace.

@DoctorMeatDic 7 жыл бұрын

Their second album was dire. They blew it big time.

@oblongtom 6 жыл бұрын

DoctorMeatDic imo its one of the greatest albums ever, even better than the first one.

@barnaclefelching4079 Жыл бұрын

❤

@SuperWinditup 11 жыл бұрын

these guys were an emense talent,

@Louisejames23 10 жыл бұрын

Richard Blackwood-what a tool. Great song :)

@Jimdixon1953 6 жыл бұрын

I remember being an 18 year old student watching this while crammed into a tiny halls of residence bedroom with 5 other people I was living with at the time. They all thought the song was shit but I loved it, and I loved Hilary the bass player, happy days!!

@garethkay8928 4 жыл бұрын

Your mates were wrong and you correct in my opinion. A cracking song

@eekwibble 2 жыл бұрын

You know she couldn't play a note on any instrument, though, right? All the bass guitar stuff on all their track was Greaney on a synthesiser.

@colors6692 2 жыл бұрын

@@eekwibble Hater gotta hate!🤦🏿‍♀️

@Miguel_angel_7 4 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@ianrob4760 8 күн бұрын

love how they made no compromise for TOTP

@shanefrombray Жыл бұрын

Never before or since did musicians find it easier to get a recording contract than in the late 90s due to the boom in CD revenues.

@patricklokhorst9995 8 жыл бұрын

Hillary is the most sexiest bass player i had ever seen

@AA-yo9rm 6 жыл бұрын

check out Paz Lenchantin ;)

@Vhaldemar90 5 жыл бұрын

Nah,it was D'Arcy from SP.

@unloveableandre 4 жыл бұрын

Laura Lee

@lanka666 2 жыл бұрын

Cool !!! 🤩

@alkokrolik 10 жыл бұрын

Great song!

@onumar18 13 жыл бұрын

love love love

@RamseyMcV 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant band. Just another Irish band ignored by the music media.

@sambda 13 жыл бұрын

@winterjargon It is plugged in. You can see the cable at 0:48 for example (down her leg).

@nikoleye763 4 жыл бұрын

the debut album from the year 2000, a force of nature to follow, it has completely changed my 18 year old life into a continuous 12 year long party of sex, drugs and my lo-fi band "fuckyourself" where the first one was already after one year tree slope, .... so sad

@Petermaguire3684 6 жыл бұрын

such an awesome group, and from my school. Much more potential than Coldplay or any other commercial successful bands at the time

@LoadingGames. 5 жыл бұрын

What ever happened to these guys? First live band I ever saw at the leadmill in Sheffield

@duadinihari 10 жыл бұрын

known this band from formulae. what a vocal i had heard..

@TheMusicalElitist 2 жыл бұрын

Richard Blackwood - whatever happened to him?!

@seanmcillaney383 7 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know where i can find the set they played on Radio One just before the 2nd album was released ?? Been trying to find it again for years

@nvm663 4 жыл бұрын

2020 shittt!!!

@tf8391 6 жыл бұрын

Check out hilary woods solo stuff....excellent stuff.

@Pierremontquaker03 8 жыл бұрын

What a totally live performance on top of the pops?? Shock horror!!

@eekwibble 2 жыл бұрын

The vocals, maybe, not the instrumentals. The bass player was brought in because she looks good, she can't play a single chord. Mark Greaney did all the bass guitar stuff on a synthesiser.

@sixfaced Жыл бұрын

🤨 ...did you *hear* that wah-infested 'solo'? And you're trying to claim that that's a studio take? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 And... chords? On a bass guitar? Good job 🤦‍♂

@sambda 12 жыл бұрын

@winterjargon No probs.

@velouris76 10 жыл бұрын

Do think though that some of the comments about comparing them to Muse is a tad unfair, JJ72 only produced 2 albums before splitting up (though both faultless in my opinion), Muse have released countless more, so have had more scope to develop their music

@shanefrombray Жыл бұрын

Muse are also incredible musicians

@winterjargon 13 жыл бұрын

@sambda I just meant in the sense that I can't hear any bass guitar at all. Having said that, I'm on my laptop and the speakers are atrocious so that could well be a contributing factor. :) I didn't mean anything bad by it anyway. Listened to them obsessively when I was 15! Thanks for uploading. x

@eekwibble 2 жыл бұрын

Only 10 yrs late but, the reason you hear no bass is because the bass player was there for the aesthetics alone, she couldn't play a chord. One of the reasons they never went further.

@sixfaced Жыл бұрын

Dude's really got it in for Hilary 🙄😝 The bass in this vid is admittedly whitewashed by the oversaturated levels on Mark's guitar. But it's there. I mean you literally hear her opening G *note* at 0:35.

@winterjargon 13 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Might have been even better though if Mark's guitar weren't out of tune and someone had remembered to plug in Hilary's bass!!! hee hee

@sambda 8 жыл бұрын

Suzi Quatro? Gaye Advert? Tina Weymouth?

@unloveableandre 4 жыл бұрын

If Hope Sandoval played bass guitar

@dannyhorandi5706 11 жыл бұрын

This is actually a Realy decent song

@SuperWinditup 11 жыл бұрын

who is MB?

@jesuschs5496 4 жыл бұрын

what about this band nowadays?

@velouris76 10 жыл бұрын

Do agree with some of the comments below, think they would have been much, much better than Muse if they'd stayed together....

@DoctorMeatDic 7 жыл бұрын

No, Muse built on a growing fanbase. JJ72 routinely insulted their fanbase by sub-par performances, taking the piss, etc. Their second album was awful, when it needed to improve on the first excellent album. They were lazy and self-indulgent and it blew up in their faces big time. A lesson to all other bands.

@velouris76 7 жыл бұрын

DoctorMeatDic I (sort of) agree with parts of what you've written, but...you think 'I to sky' was "awful"??!!...yes, not as good, overall, as the first album, I agree, but it was far from awful!! parts of it was arguably better than the first! Their work after 'i to sky' Yes, that was pretty much downhill...they did definitely decline from 2003 onwards...

@DoctorMeatDic 7 жыл бұрын

They had great talent, great tunes and three great looking band members. They had EVERYTHING going for them. They fucked up because of Mark, he insulted their audience over and over.

@carloreilly80 6 жыл бұрын

Don't think they were as talented as muse, but that's not to put them down, they were an awesome band. I remember seeing them play the Red Box in Dublin and to this day it's still one of the best gigs I've been to, they were exceptional. Saw them a few years later, after Hilary had left, and they were a shadow of themselves. (nothing to do with Hilary's absence) While their first album was pure, most things after felt a little pretentious. Mark went on to form Concerto for Constantine, a band who IMO have some of the greatest songs I've heard, yet unfortunately they couldn't bring that to their live performances (i'm basing that on seeing them twice). Incredible talent, a shame they faded. I wonder what Mark is doing now.

@mrrintymonaghan 5 жыл бұрын

Carl O'Reilly He’s teaching in BIMM on Francis St

@RuiPessegueiro 9 жыл бұрын

I don't need anyone...

@Matthew9818 13 жыл бұрын

Songs where so much better back then! Current uk music industry sucks balls! Yes I know there Irish!

@davidgorman994 8 жыл бұрын

I forgot how hot the drummer was

@noelreynolds3081 2 жыл бұрын

If you're reading this Timmy........

@rinnin 11 жыл бұрын

Not Britpop! Irish rock more like it! :)

@sevendaughters 3 жыл бұрын

Ireland wrote, they don't want them

@misschloe112 11 жыл бұрын

read the comment again

@BGEFreakland 3 жыл бұрын

Employ my lies...

@mmalign5422 11 жыл бұрын

Sorry, apart from the high singing they don't sound like Muse (= Radiohead sound) at all. This is pure Britpop rather in the vein of Manic Street Preachers or Suede.

@nickpalmer3076 Жыл бұрын

Shame they should have been massive.

@BoudicaJ 12 жыл бұрын

Lol okay :)

@asdfgks 6 жыл бұрын

😫😫😫

@conorj1378 5 жыл бұрын

THAT WILL DO DONKEY

@BlaCkDeAth133 11 жыл бұрын

The guy presenting points way too much.

@bumblebeejimmy 11 жыл бұрын

Who cares, just enjoy the friggin song. Seriously.

@MrSeppo2010 11 жыл бұрын

they sound fuck all like muse imo

@DoctorMeatDic 7 жыл бұрын

I heard "Formulae" and I thought, fucking hell this is even better than the first album, but the rest of it was fucking poor. They really blew it. They were quite similar to Placebo. Amazing first album, full of potential, incredible first single from second album, second album shit. End of band.