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Infobox musical artist | name = Fatima Mansions| image = The Fatima Mansions.jpg| caption = The Fatima Mansions (1991)| image_size =| landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| origin =| genre = Alternative rock | years_active = 1988-1995| label =| associated_acts = Microdisney , Bubonique | website =| current_members =| past_members = Cathal Coughlan (singer)|Cathal Coughlan Andrias O'Gruama Zak Woolhouse Hugh Bunker Nick Allum Duke O Malaithe Nick Bunker Howard Hughes Jonathan Fell Paul Murphy| notable_instruments = The Fatima Mansions were an art rock musical ensemble|group formed in 1988 by Cork (city)|Cork singing|singer / keyboardist Cathal Coughlan (singer)|Cathal Coughlan , formerly of Microdisney . They took their name from a downmarket housing estate, in Rialto (Dublin)|Rialto, Dublin where John Roberts lived." http://www.fatimagroupsunited.com/html/fatima_mansions.html History of Fatima Mansions", Fatima Groups Unlimited, retrieved 10 January 2010Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography , Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 281-282
The Fatima Mansions had some UK Indie Chart|indie chart success with album s such as Against Nature , Viva Dead Ponies , '' Bertie's Brochures , Valhalla Avenue and Lost in the Former West .
They technically entered the Top 40|Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in 1992,cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 196 with a heavily reworked version of Bryan Adams ' song " (Everything I Do) I Do It for You ", taken from an NME tribute album in aid of the charitable organization|charity , the Scope (charity)|Spastics Society . The single (music)|single was a A-side and B-side|double A-side ; the flip-track, Manic Street Preachers ' version of " Suicide Is Painless " received most of the radio station|radio airplay (radio)|airplay . They also gained mainstream exposure by opening a European leg of U2 's Zoo TV Tour in 1992, although they were nearly booed off the stage and almost started a riot when front man Coughlan swore at a Milan audience and insulted the Pope.Stephenson, Campbell (2004) " http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/the10/story/0,11109,1280949,00.html The 10: Campbell Stevenson on stage disasters", The Observer , 15 August 2004, retrieved 10 January 2010 The band often courted controversy with religion, dictators, empires and general authority being targets for Coughlan's vitriol. Despite this, The Guardian newspaper described him as "the most underrated lyricist in pop today", and DJ John Peel said he could "listen to Cathal Coughlan sing the phone book".
The album and singles campaign for 1995's Lost in the Former West was styled on the glamour of Liberace , and featured a cover version of The Walker Brothers 's "Nite Flights".
Discography
Singles
"Only Losers Take the Bus" (1989) Kitchenware Records|Kitchenware
"Blues for Ceausescu" (1990) Kitchenware
"Hive" E.P. (1991) Kitchenware
"The Only Solution: Another Revolution" (1991) Radioactive
"You're a Rose" (1991) Kitchenware/Radioactive
"Evil Man" (1992) Kitchenware/Radioactive - UK Singles Chart|UK #59
"1000%" (1992) Kitchenware/Radioactive - UK #61
"Tíma Mansió Dumps the Dead" (1992) Radioactive
"The Loyaliser" (1994) Kitchenware/Radioactive - UK #58
Against Nature (album)|Against Nature - (1989) - UK Independent Chart|UK Indie #12Lazell, Barry (1998) Indie Hits 1980-1989 , Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4, p. 85
Viva Dead Ponies - (1990)
'' Bertie's Brochures - (1991)
Valhalla Avenue - (1992) - UK Albums Chart|UK #52
Come Back My Children - (1992)
Lost in the Former West - (1994)
References
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