SULTANS of PING
SULTANS of PING
“Crazy, psycho-happy Cork punk band, singing and screaming about shopping, sheepdogs, toilet bowls, turnip-fish, and Japanese girls. Listen and laugh a lot.
Their 1992 album Casual Sex in the Cineplex contained much of their best material, including PlayStupid Kid, PlayYou Talk Too Much and the perennial student-night favourite PlayWhere’s Me Jumper?, but many amazing b-sides were great too: Turnip Fish, Armitage Shanks & Riot at the Sheepdog Trials
The live performance was the stuff of legend: usually playing to small, packed venues, the Sultans’ frontman Niall O’Flaherty would unleash the anarchic Sultans of Ping sound whilst strutting, leaping and diving around and sometimes off the stage. The very literal “dance routine” which accompanied Wake Up and Scratch Me managed to keep the crowd entertained if a little unnerved by the blood loss.” From Last FM.
