My Tribe – Mo Threibh (Series 2) charts the rise, fall and revival of music subcultures in Ireland from the break-dance loving Hip Hop scene to the ‘Mad-for-it’ Indie kids and the much-maligned Ravers to the long-haired Metallers. This bilingual series delves into the archives to reveal the fascinating origins of these subcultures while also meeting the modern-day members of these tribes. This is Volume 2 of the definitive story of Ireland’s most enduring music tribes, sound-tracked by the essential anthems of these scenes including songs by Run DMC, The Pixies, Underworld and Thin Lizzy. It’s due for broadcast on from Monday 8th March @ 7.30pm on RTÉOne.
Episode One focuses on the ever-evolving Irish Hip Hop scene: In a country crippled by recession in the 1980s, Hip Hop, with its gritty urban rhetoric, spoke to Ireland’s youth. In this episode – DJ Eric Moore from Clondalkin explains that seeing Malcolm McLaren’s ground-breaking ‘Buffalo Gals’ music video was the start of his lifelong obsession with Hip Hop. We see Eric with his Clondalkin crew as they reminisce about breakdance battles and discuss how being part of this scene kept them out of trouble.
Episode Two explores the broad church that is the Indie scene: The Indie scene emerged in the 1980s but flourished in the early 90s. It’s a scene that’s not as easily defined but incorporates guitar-based music, mostly independent record releases and a DIY attitude. In this episode – In Tallaght Scott Bellew relishes the fact that many of his Indie heroes also come from working-class backgrounds and that the Indie DIY attitude helps him to keep working hard to take his band Emily7 to the top.
Episode Three looks at the much-misunderstood Dance scene: As with many new trends, Dance music was introduced to Ireland via the gay club scene. It then spread to dancefloors and illicit raves up and the down the country in the 90s. And episode Four focusses on the long-lasting Metal scene: Irish Rock has had a massive influence on Metal music worldwide so it’s no surprise that the scene has been thriving, albeit underground, in Ireland since the 70s. Today’s Metallers are proud of their scene’s Irish roots with Thin Lizzy still being worshipped as Gods.
