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The Prongs - Hey! Dandy (Official Music Video)

Hey! Dandy is the latest single by Irish band The Prongs and serves as a signpost for their forthcoming second lp. Time-travellers back to pre-EEC Dublin, John Fleming and Niall Toner Jr offer you a vivid sociopoetic portrait of Ireland’s early-1970s velvet (coat) revolution. Hey! Dandy is an infectious and striking paean to young blades who left Ireland not as migrants but Byronic adventurers on a pre-decimal coin Celtic beatnik grand tour. Escaping monochromatic economic dourness and pervasive poverty of the mind, these brave vagabonds sought not work but European adventure. After stints in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome and Paris, our Hey! Dandy pioneers returned to Dublin circa 1972 fuelled with sharp new tastes and revolutionary ideas. Their culture found form in the Dandelion Market. Hey! Dandy’s epic narrative sweep is propelled by the swagger of Toner's early-1970s proto-punk rock as Fleming sketches an EEC prehistory often forgotten in later Irish new wave countercultural triumphs. In a stylish Dandelion Market time-tunnel video shot and edited by the hugely talented and cinematic Susan Gleeson/Rebeldiamondz (filmed at a convincingly fake junk retail outlet at the Digital Hub Flea Market on Sunday, 28th September, 2025), The Prongs set out their punk beatnik stall. The Prongs thank all the people of the Digital Hub Flea Market (especially We Love Markets' Emma Brereton), and our friends and loyal customers Eugene Connolly (Prongs Underground painting purchaser), wig procurer Joe Kelly, Prongs badge buyer Niall Toner Sr and Psychogeography ditherers Drew Meldon and Paul Rooney. Special thanks to Paul O’Brien for his Now Now Express novel-inspired Underground painting (reserve price is still 75,000 guineas, inquire within), Dave Clifford for his treasure trove of live bootleg cassettes, Dee Murphy for the glam cowboy hat, the late Michael Talbot for his Airfix Model plane and the late Teresa Talbot for her red anglepoise lamp and 750-piece jigsaw. Eagle-eyed students of popular culture will note a sinister brazen appearance by The Photographic Brains at the end of the video: The Prongs warn you to keep a sharp eye out for these dastardly chaps going forward. To celebrate the release of Hey! Dandy, The Prongs play a show at Dublin’s wonderful Grand Social on Sat, November 15th, 2025, with very special guests from Cork, Big Boy Foolish. Tickets are available from eventbrite. HEY! DANDY (Fleming/Toner) Hey dandy, what you got in that sack? Albert Camus and Jack Kerouac No 50s migrant. No building site Mick Let us present the splendid pre-EEC Celtic beatnik A line of dandies Coming back A line of dandies Coming back Europe is no longer under attack Hey dandy, what you got in that sack? You hung out in Amsterdam, You wasted weeks in Cologne You split from Berlin at dawn and you hitch hiked to Rome Wore winklepickers and your Kraut officer coat Eating Bombay samosas and neglecting to vote One-way ticket and the rule of thumb The back of an envelope, the address of a slum A bicycle pulled from the Prinzengracht sludge In canal city you’re stoned so it’s time to budge Punctured dreams on the Zuider Zee Sick of this generation of me me me It’s the Grand Tour from Dublin It’s pre-EEC It’s the Grand Tour from Dublin Before 1973. You’re not a migrant You are on a quest This is not economics You want to see Budapest The age of the decimal coin The verb for Astrid’s heart: purloin A child begat in the region of Dordogne The only fruit of your grapepicker’s loin The only fruit of your grapepicker’s loin So fleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Sleep damp under a tree In a Greek woman’s shawl You now hear Paris call In a 20th arrondissement garage you are struck on the head with a wrench It seems to improve your incoherent broken French The stench of petrol, urine, wine Bagnolet park bench, Bagnolet park bench is mine! European vagrant, one day you repair Back to your own Dublin lair Part of a line of dandies Coming back Hey dandy what you got in that sack? Does it really contain all You need to set out your stall? Brown paper, a ball of twine To wrap up ideas in the market called Dandelion Velvet jackets, incense, motorik tunes Earings, samosas, secondhand silver spoons Ambassador dandies They came back Funny cigarettes - of that have a whack! Punk rock looms and they’re ahead of the pack Dandy catalysts poised for punk rock attack Dandelion dandies They came back Subculture fades. Attack attack! Lyrics/vocals: John Fleming Music/production: Niall Toner Jr Cover photography/video: Susan Gleeson/Rebeldiamondz Copyright The Prongs 2025/All rights reserved The Prongs Released November 1st, 2025