The Atrix: Treasure on the Wasteland. 45rpm.
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2008
- Great video produced by Dick Conroy for this track in 2019: • The Atrix - Treasure o...
The track was produced by Midge Ure, released in 1980 on Double D Records by Dublin-based band The Atrix, which comprised John Borrowman (guitar, vocals), Dick Conroy (bass), Chris Greene (keyboard) and Hughie Friel (drums). The song was part of a minor controversy n Dublin at the time, as some considered its riff the precursor to U2's 11 O'Clock Tick Tock. 
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For well over 30 years this sufaces from my subconscious from time to time. So glad to hear it and confirm that I wasn't making it up
Oh my oh my.... we heard this song played between bands at a show in 1980, and I have spent 34 years, yes YEARS, trying to find out what it was. This is like the Holy Grail, and it's as good as I remembered it.
Brings me right back. Saw them live in the Dandelion Market on a wet Saturday afternoon in the late 70's and supporting the Stranglers in the Stadium in 79. Still have the single.
Brilliant song. Evocative of early 80's Dublin, the depression and decay. Hey we're going back to the future!
I was putting in RUclips search for a song called under clerys clock by guitarist of the Pogues Phil Chevron who died on the 8/10/2013 and amazingly this classic came up, remember it on today tonight in 1981 when my area was mentioned Donnycarney first time I heard it ever on telly, well I was only 10 or 11 at the time.So good to hear this song again 32 years later, never knew the name of the band, thank you ParnellMooney.14/10/2013.Irish time 15:28.Monday.
I have this on 7" ordered from my local record store after hearing it on John Peel whilst doing my maths homework.
I knew John very well in his Spiddal,Co Galway days in the early-mid 70s. His record collection then was "a wonder surely", but there wasn't even one Jethro Tull album. A great failing indeed! Great guy, John Borrowman RIP.
Saw them at the Project Arts Center in 1980 late show, great live ..should have been huge !
I'm John Borrowman's first cousin. I have a pristine copy of Procession which I have digitally remastered. I'll upload some tracks. I've also got the Very Much In Love single which he gave me
Kevin Breen That means you and I are related! My parents told me when I was a kid that my cousin John had a band called The Atrix. I don’t recall meeting John but may have done as a kid. I’m English but stayed in Finglas a couple of times in my very early years..
Love you
Seen these guys in the Dando market. Magic.. RTE ran this song to a piece about finglas in the early eighties, Pauly Pendergast and his mates on horses, great clip really caught the times.......
Yeah it stays with you forever...great tune
I was 11 - I loved this song - great post.
Great band great memories of them in the late 70's early 80's. Sad to hear that the lead singer John died a few years back
R.I.P. Hughie Friel.
oweeee oweee oweeee
1979
it was all gone so soon
my dad was in this band hahahaha
still sounds great lost my copy to x hope she still has it
r.i.p john
Bought the LP purely based on this track. EPPPPICCCCC! Still have it and it's mint (only played the whole album 3 times at most!)
absolute classic!!!!!!!!!!
finally here!
Great track for it's time. Surprised Daniel Miller didn't snap these up as its perfect for the Fad Gadget stable.
There's a blast from the past - I think I have this 7" somewhere!
Brilliant. Finglas. The Attic. Aslam.
I was 13....loved it then and love it now. Does anyone have a version of their later CLASSIC " Very Much In Love " that they could share. Saw John & Co in Theatre L in UCD in the '80s and they rocked.
Quite catchy.
still have the 45 only looking at it yesterday
Sweet !
There’s a large chunk of history missing from the documented story of The Atrix, and I’d like to fill it in now. Something extraordinary happened in Finglas back in the very early 1970s - a bunch of people who had long been childhood friends and acquaintances all independently decided to try to get serious about music and song-writing.
Among them were my friends - Niall MacMahon, John Borrowman (who lived just a few doors away from Niall), Paul Walsh, Noel Purvis, Dave Boughton, Chris Green, Hughie Friel, Austin (Stack) Coll, Neill Coll, and Barry Bourke. Niall, John, Chris, Hughie, and me were best mates at that time, and we pretty much grew through our teenage years together, drinking, doping, tripping, and even sometimes sharing the same girlfriends together. My own first love was always the bass guitar.
Around late 1974, Niall moved to live in London, and a few months later, invited me to join him in an amazing squat in Maida Vale to start a band. So I packed my bags and said goodbye to the lads. This is where Niall and I first met Phil Chevron, Jimmy Crash (who later lived in the squat with us), and Cait Riordan.
After I settled in, life kept interfering, and our planned band began to seem like it would never happen. Then I received a letter from John Borrowman telling me that he and Chris had formed The Atrix and persuaded Hughie to play drums (he’d always preferred hand percussion) - would I please consider coming back to Dublin to play bass?
After a long phone call, I agreed to return for 10 days and try it out. John arranged an intensive week of rehearsal time in a railway warehouse close to Connolly Station, and we started putting a live set together. By the end of a week, we were tight, and I knew The Atrix had something special, but I believed I saw a way to drive the band all the way to the top - if John would agree.
John had a lifelong desire to be a guitar hero, driven by his friendly rivalry with Niall. However, although he was a competent rhythm guitarist, he didn’t have Niall’s magical fingers. John’s real strength was that he was a consummate showman with a magnetic stage presence and personality who could command attention and mesmerize audiences.
So when we sat down to discuss things after that rehearsal, I said that I’d be over the moon to play bass for The Atrix on the condition that they found a guitarist who could add hot lead guitar skills to the mix, and that John move to centre stage as vocalist, leader, and heart of the band.
I genuinely believed that he’d see the sense of this and jump on it. Instead, he stormed out. Hughie, Chris, and I chatted sadly for a while, but they both agreed that John would never give up on his guitar dream, despite not really having the technical chops for it.
So I returned to London earlier than I’d planned, and sadder. When I got home, Niall told me that he had rehearsal time booked for the weekend, and Shocking Stockings was born.
John played guitar to the end, but I still believe that if he’d agreed to take what I saw as his rightful central role in The Atrix, the band would have outstripped the dismal U2, who were just a bunch of colorless and humorless jerks anyway.
But everything happens for a reason, and if I hadn't decided to join Shocking Stockings, my own journey in life would have been very, very different indeed. But I sometimes think back to that gang of innocent young Finglas lads who used to rob orchards together, and wonder how life conspired to shape our lives, and why...
Fantastic insight..i bought a job lot of 7" vinyl and this is in it..i love it, theres a lot of great irish stuff there that i would have been too young to hear at the time so going through it all and reading the stories behind them is absolutely amazing..thanks dude
Eric
David, great words..We are starting a festival in May called The Finglas Maypole Festival..we have the ultimate aim of getting a civics arts centre in Finglas.So much talent bubbled up from the clear stream....The Atrix one of the forerunners,never forgotten.Come to our May,we're putting a lot of musical talent on,old and new...Cheers Ernie
@@erniebeggs Well, I'd love to, but I live many thousands of miles away in Chiang Mai now, and I run two health-related websites, a large forum, four Facebook groups, and a 30-strong scientific research team. I'm currently getting ready to launch five major new products in April and early May, followed by hosting an international conference in Hong Kong, then trips to Russia, Germany, South Africa, Mexico, and India to set up specialist health centers locally. So as you can see, my calendar is overflowing. I'll have to catch it on YT and FB. If I survive this crazy year, I'll definitely come for the 2020 Maypole!
@@davidbourke.icu.iseeyou Failed Dublin muso predictably has to get a dig in at U2. LOL
Guitarists killed rock music in the 1970s. One of the reasons punk came to the fore.
@parnellmooney. Yes I remember the lads on horseback alright. Can't remember the context i n which they showed us the documentary particularly as I went to school in Finglas so we didn't exactly need to see the deprivation on a TV screen. Cheers for the info.
you must remember this....
John and I were cousins.
Not sure if it made it to vinyl. Might' ve been a session track for Dave Fanning on his show when I heard it
In my opinion one of their best.
Great that Atrix are here on youtube.
I had on 7 inch what you see is real double dd corner lost it moving and funky have I moved ☺
fecking great tune - Like many other punk/new wave gems!!
first time i ever heard this was in school around 1980 or maybe a bit later. it was used in some documentary we were shown. can anyone remember it?
dubfaction Yeah Today Tonight talking about Finglas.
Backed up the Rats Leixlip castle 2/3 /80
Easily the most valuable music I've found on the net. So far...............
OK it's $64K question time , has anyone got Triad to put on here ?
bought it off klack comiskey leixlip up the hill rye Vale Larry was with us I think ☺
@ParnellMooney, I respect that answer, very believable, I'll go with it, thank you for the clarification. When did they start playing A Day Without Me live? What Virgin Prunes song most resembles Tick Tock?
Thank you very much! That would be cool to read the 'real nuanced history' of 11OTT/Silver Lining, from the Memory Man Deluxe unit, the Prunes influence, until the Martin Hannett recording.
You upload any of those tracks? My crackly old copy was ruined by a few too many knitting needle like styluses, be great to get a nice digital copy. Be even better if you could get someone to reissue it, a neglected, but influential in its time, classic.
Sadly drummer Hughie Friel passed away yesterday 10/10/2023 only a year after we lost keyboard player Chris Green RIP
which came first? U2's Silver Lining in 1979 or the Atrix's Treasure on the Wasteland in 1979. Silver Lining was first played live apparently in August.
@ParnellMooney, but then why does Bono distinctly say 'Silver Lining' in the lyrics, and the lyrics are entirely different than 11OTT on Silver Lining? You can hear it here on RUclips. The earliest recording I've heard of Silver Lining is from August 1979, and it's indeed a more primitive form though distinctly Silver Lining, which sounds like 11OTT in the basic 'chunk chunk' parts and some other parts. The intro on that recording begins with repeated harmonics up and down the frets/neck.
@ruthie10101010
Thanks, I'll have a look around for that.
they accused U2 of lifting the riff from this song for 11 o'clock tick tock.
U2 was already doing Silver Lining using the same percussive-semi-chordal riff in summer of 1979. So, had they heard Atrix playing this song in spring-summer of 1979? Must investigate. U2's song was a vast improvement over this Atrix song. 110TT is an epic song.
@@bonsummers2657 i was not aware of the early version of 11'clock tick tock called silver lining. same song but totally different lyrics. thanks for the info! yes i agree, u2's version is much better, edge was great even then.
ParnellMooney, Do you by any chance know the date U2 played the Oprea House in Cork & Tullamore?
I think the Cork gig was October 5th, 1979 and Tullamore was either March, 2nd, 1980 or May 11th, 1980
This song is full of Oee.
Speeds up
the atria
Carnsore