Five Go Down To The Sea
Collection
Label:  Bootleg 
Date:  2007
Length:  0:00
Format:  CDR
Genre:  Rock; Post Punk
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Fishes For Compliments    
      2.  
      		 Elephants For Fun And Profit    
      3.  
      		 There's A Fish On Top Of Shandon (Swears He's Elvis)    
      4.  
      		 Why Wait Until April    
      5.  
      		 The Glee Club    
      6.  
      		 Jumping Joley    
      7.  
      		 Often    
      8.  
      		 Boon For Travellists    
      9.  
      		 What Happened Your Leg ?    
      10.  
      		 Singing In Braille    
      11.  
      		 Aunt Nelly    
      12.  
      		 Silk Brain Worm Women    
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      Includes:
      Knot A Fish 7" (Kabuki Records-KA Five.5-1983)
      The Glee Club 12" (Abstract Records-12 ABS 027-1984)
      Singing In Braille 12" (Creation Records-CRE 021T-1985)

      Five Go Down To The Sea? were from Cork, Ireland and were originally called Nun Attax. They were fronted by the Northern Irish Finbarr Donnelly who was a legendary figure in Cork from the late seventies onwards. Contemporaries of Microdisney, the band moved to London circa 1984 and released the three EP's posted here. There were a few radio sessions (one of which featured a track entitled 'While My Guitar Meryl Streeps') before the band resurfaced again in 1989, this time calling themselves Beethovven. Their sole release, the 12" 'Him Goolie Goolie Dem Man' was single of the week in NME but unfortunately frontman Donnelly drowned in the Hyde Par serpentine pond after downing a considerable amount of cider. The rest of the band soon moved back to Cork.