History Music / Rubberbandits

** Their song "I Wanna Fight Your Father" was also released in Irish, and translated lyrics are occasionally completely different: rather than Blindboy floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, he's as strong as Cú Chulainn and as nimble as Fionn Mac Chumaill. It also slips in a ShoutOut to "Tabhair Dom Do Lámh", and is arguably HotterAndSexier than the English version.

* TranslatedCoverVersion: "I Wanna Fight Your Father" and "Ba Mhaith Liom Bríon le d'Athair" were released simultaneously. Rather than simply being a different vocal track, the two songs have different arrangements. The lyrics are also slightly different.

** Their song "I Wanna Fight Your Father" was also released in Irish, and translated lyrics are occasionally completely different: rather than Blindboy floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, he's stronger than Cú Chulainn and as fierce as Fionn Mac Chumaill. It also slips in a ShoutOut to "Tabhair Dom Do Lámh", and is arguably HotterAndSexier than the English version.

** Their song "I Wanna Fight Your Father" was also released in Irish, and translated lyrics are occasionally completely different: rather than Blindboy floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, he's stronger than Cú Chulainn and as fierce as Fionn Mac Chumaill. It also slips in a ShoutOut to "Tabhair Dom Do Lámh".

* IAmTheBand: Blindboy Boatclub writes the majority of the songs and makes the most public appearances, to the point where Mr. Chrome got ADayInTheLimelight song when they were still with Channel 4. He also seems to run their Twitter.

** They're also self-described gas c*nts, which is awkward to explain to Americans.

* BilingualBonus: Their song "I want to Fight your Father" was translated by them into Irish, and the translated version has some due to its translation conventions: rather than Blind Boy floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, he's stronger than Cú Chulainn and as fierce as Fionn Mac Chumaill, as well as other lines being significantly rewritten. Their normal speech, while more like an sub-dialect of Hiberno-English than a real language, is also pure Limerick, which means that some words unfamiliar to foreigners have more meaning.

* InsaneTrollLogic: One of them argued in a TV interview that it was better to own a horse than a car, because 90% of car accidents are caused by people being scared of ghosts, and ghosts are scared of horses.

* GeniusDitz: Rubberbandits act like stereotypical Limerick skangers, which includes acting just a bit stupid. When 'Horse Outside' was released, and people began ringing up Live Line to complain about the song, Blindboy decided to join in the conversation. He rang in, and instead of acting stupid or joking like people expected him to, he managed to completely tear apart their arguments, in an extremely intelligent way. They also often comment on current events on Facebook and Twitter, and have revealed both insight and a familiarity with philosophical concepts. One member recently got his MA in the arts from LIT.