Talk:Black 47 (band)

32 County Sovereignty Movement

Can anyone confirm that the band support the 32 County Sovereignty Movement or that former member Chris Byrne was all warm and fuzzy about the "armed struggle". How about the rest. AIUI Black 47 are (or were) with Galvin in opposing the pIRA/SF ceasefire. Any comments ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.111.147 (talk) 22:52, 2005 March 1 (UTC)

Hip Hop

Who categorized this as a hip hop group? They aren't. I guess it was a joke... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.107.231.119 (talk) 06:37, 2007 January 12 (UTC)

Expatriates?

Is Chris Byrne an "Irish expatriate", as this article seems to imply, or a person from New York City, as his own article is categorised? Alai 18:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Current events?

I don't know if this will make it into the main page, as it needs some verification, but I believe they were playing outside / inside BB King's in NYC on March 17th, 2007. The show was broadcast on WBAI, as part of the anti-war rallies / marches going on during the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atannir (talk • contribs) 04:33, 2007 March 18 (UTC)

not impartial

this article reads like an advertisement —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.3.137 (talk) 02:24, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Over two years on and it still reads similar to a press release. Can someone please drum out the fancruft, and pseudo rock journalism, and attempt to create a verified and sourced NPOV article ? Thanks,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

I've demoted some puff from the lede. Pace Higgins, the TIME quote doesn't really apply to this band in particular, but rather to Irish(-American) rock (in 1993) in general. And the "album of the decade" accolade is not as impressive as that might sound. jnestorius^(talk) 14:07, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

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Unreliable sources

I have added an "unreliable sources" tag to the article as there is too much heavy reliance placed upon local media (particularly print media), controversial news sources (such as Irish Central) and blogs ([1] and [2]). Some of these are fine if they are in the minority, but they are not. There are a few really good sources here, but there's also a lot of "reviews" and the like which are not very reliable as they are based off of opinion as opposed to fact. UaMaol (talk) 19:12, 14 October 2018 (UTC)