It was an amazing gig, the Italian fans were wild as always, and The Mahones were on fire that night. The Defects supported The Mahones on the Irish leg of the world tour and we had them onstage singing these songs with us every night!Īnyways, I hope you enjoy the show. We recorded three of the cover songs we were doing in rotation on that tour during the encores. The recording, titled A Great Night at the Lash: Live in Italy, comes out in February, the first of two releases planned for next year.ĭespite recording most of the record in Italy, we added an additional three studio bonus cuts captured at Belfast, Ireland's Doghouse recording studio to cap the collection, which features covers of tracks like the Undertones' "Teenage Kicks." The Belfast recordings also include performances with Belfast punk legends The Defects. We’d been touring and were a good year into it at this point. If you don’t tell anybody, they just play music and it’s not even on their mind. As soon as you tell anybody, they get red-light fever and overthink it and make mistakes.
“That’s the secret to recording a concert,” McConnell says. The answer was yes, but he didn’t tell the others in the band. So cmon, here we go again, you and I Well paint this fucking town red Im in the mood to hit the streets, thats what I bloody said Im in the mood to hit the streets, and paint the fuckers red Were gonna go out nuts tonight, chasing down the browns Were gonna go down to the pubs, and take this fucking town Well, its six in the morning now. At the sound check, McConnell couldn’t help but notice all the equipment was new and high quality so he asked if he could record the concert. One highlight of the ongoing tour was a concert in Italy last summer when the Mahones played an arena show for a crowd of 5,000 people. Here is the back story I just told to The Ottawa Citizen newspaper: Our pals Suicidal Tendencies headlined the same venue the night before. We headlined the arena on the Saturday night. I found the perfect venue at Arena Ritten in Bolzano, Italy at the Rock im Ring 20th Anniversary Festival. We were about 10 months into the Angels & Devils World Tour and I was looking for the right place and venue to do this. I thought it was time to make another one, and I also thought that this time, it should be recorded at a show in one of our favourite places to tour: Europe. It was recorded in Toronto, Canada in the fall of 2000.
The last live album, "Live At The Horseshoe", was recorded around the "Here Comes Lucky", period and released in 2003. "The Mahones had not recorded a live cd for over 10 years, and we needed a new one that featured the latest line up with the amazing Katie Kaboom. The story behind A Great Night On The Lash (Live It Italy).