OFF THE RECORD: Discovering Galileo

Irish Voice, October, 1998

Irish Voice 10-20-1998 OFF THE RECORD: Discovering Galileo BY TOM DUNPHY "JESUS!/You're coming with us!" Lyrics from the latest Boyzone CD? Daniel O'Donnell gone bad? Nah. Instead, these are the musings of Galileo's Sin, a Bronx-Queens-Irish-New York outfit that pounds home its apocalyptic message with feedback and fervor.

When one of your songs describes the assassination of Christ at the Second Coming by the CIA, it's a pretty safe bet that you're singing from a different hymnal . . . Galileo's Sin first took shape in 1992, when guitarist Joe Gigs met up with singer/ writer Joe Hand over pints of the black stuff in a Corona bar. "I always felt that when I had a theory that was out there, people would think I was joking," says Gigs. "Joe Hand would just articulate...

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