Whipping Boy

Formed in 1988 in Edenderry, Co.Offaly, Whipping Boy consisted of Fearghal McKee (vocals), Paul Page (guitar), Myles McDonnell (bass), Colm Hassett (drums). The stand-out album of three (Submarine - 1992, Whipping Boy (2000)) was undoubtedly Heartworm which was released in 1995 and went Gold in Ireland. Following the release of Heartworm, Whipping Boy were widely considered the great white hope of the Irish rock scene, feted as such by the likes of Hot Press and the first single off the album 'Twinkle' was voted Single of the Week in Melody Maker, Music Week,  and on BBC Radio 1. The album Heartworm encapsulates a Dublin which no longer exists, and is probably highly nostalgic among fans:

Whipping Boy - We Don't Need Nobody Else

In the morning I am a recluse, lost in memories

Ideal situations and convulsions
I'm never in and I can't remember
They built portholes for Bono, so he could gaze
Out across the bay and sing about mountains
Maybe. You are what you own in this land
You can be King and it all depends on the view and what you can see
And around here nobody tells me what to do anymore
We don't need nobody else
We don't need nobody else
We don't need nobody else
We don't need nobody else
Why say words that I do not mean
They only serve to amuse, ridicule and destroy,
Hardly ever to teach
I hit you for the first time today
I didn't mean it
It just happened
You wouldn't let me go to the phone,
You wanted to make love and I did not
Now I know the distance between us
Christ we weren't even fighting, I was just annoyed
Silence and you started to cry, that really hurt
You said, yeah and you thought you knew me
We don't need nobody else
We don't need nobody else
Just you and me
Just you and me
Consider this as the wine takes hold
And sinks into your veins
I try to force it but it's not there
Love gives you comfort
And comfort makes you dim
She's in the kitchen
Putting beads in her hair
It all came out tonight
The queen of drugs broke down and cried
'Cause she'd been shagging her best friends guy
She knew the form, she knew the lie
She wasn't shy and she refused to try
That's why I'm gazing out of portholes
And I'm wondering why
We don't need nobody else
We don't need nobody else
Just you and me