I stumbled across this great song a couple of months ago while traversing the world of music blogs when I hit upon this music blog that’s mainly focused on Irish musicians so kudos to the blogger from keeping it local as its a great source if ur interested in what’s going on musically in this wee country.

The song is from a now defunct band called The Mary Janes which was fronted by the late Mic Christopher. Prior to visiting the weblog, I didn’t even know that Mic was even in a band. In fact I knew nothing about the man at all apart from the song ‘Hey Day’ that was made famous by a Guinness tv ad.

The song is taken from their first album Bored with their laughter - they only had one album called Sham which I’m told is excellent but i have yet to get my hands on it.  What got me was his voice which sounds completely different on this song than Hey Day it’s deep, gravelly and very forceful in it’s delivery of what is a very simple song that eulogizes on the importance of friendship and the role they play in people’s lives and how they help you through the bad times as well as the good times.

The song musically reminds me of a little of the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s, don’t ask me where I got that idea from but I just do with a catchy hook that bellows up and down throughout the song which adds to the intensity of Mic’s voice. You can check out the song here

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