"We hope you like our new direction"
Turlough Moore (aka Turloughmore) is, without a doubt, Galway's most famous citizen. Padraic O' Conaire,
Michael D. Higgins, The Saw Doctors are all fairly well known in their own spheres but Turlough ....
just IS.
As soon as young Master Moore left school he was sold into an apprenticeship as an electrician. This career
fell on hard times for Turlough but not before he used his electrical expertise to fuse all the sockets in a nightclub he was
asked to leave one night. Doc and Sandra of the Warwick insist they forgive him now.
Unlike most of the band, who were playing music as they left the womb,
Turlough came to music late in his life. Indeed it was not until he was eighteen that he realised that
he was left-handed and this was why he couldn't master a right-handed instrument (or tie his own laces for that matter).
However he quickly made up for this slow start and has been the rock upon which so many of Galway's
bands have been built. Unfortunately the builders were a shower of cowboys and most of these bands soon
suffered from subsidence - the court cases continue.
Among the many bands that Turlough has graced with his presence are The Little Fish and the legendary
Love Biscuit
(who are enjoying an extended re-union at the moment).
But without a doubt his greatest achievement must have been forming that powerhouse jazz quintet
that we know as Pyramid.