Sons of Mr. Green Genes

[avoca]

" EW online article

Breakfast on Pluto

Patrick ''Kitten'' Braden (Cillian Murphy), an orphan secretly fathered by a man of the cloth (Liam Neeson), escapes his small Irish town to rock out, become a drag queen, and parry political tumult in London. Cross-dressing, cabaret, the IRA — kinda sounds like director Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, right? ''But no one's trying to fool anybody,'' says Murphy (Batman Begins), whose performance as cheery Kitten was informed by his experience singing with his Zappa-inspired band, Sons of Mr. Green Genes, and hanging with transvestites. ''It's more a companion piece to The Butcher Boy,'' he adds, referring to the director's 1998 adaptation of the brutal but beguiling book by Patrick McCabe, who also penned Pluto's literary inspiration. ''It's really about the survival of innocence in a mad world,'' says Jordan. ''About turning tragedy into comedy.''



do we know more about cillian's band? has anyone listened to any of their tracks, even online?

[§hannon]

I, personally, don't know anything about it. But, his brother was in the band with him. They almost got signed. But, their parents didn't want them to be sucked into the music industry. So, they didn't join into the music company. And lucky for them, the same company closed shortly after. If they were to have joined into the company, they would have lost everything in the contract.

That's all I know. lol

[kiwidefresa]

wow any of you have any Sons of Mr. Green Genes SONGs???

i what to heard them!

kiwi
please send me personal message
kiwi

[§hannon]

I don't think anything is available online.

[avoca]

shannon, you mean online for downloading, or for purchasing online, like amazon and such?


did cillian only sing or also played in the band? what about his brother?

[Deleted]

I think it was more of a "garage-band" type thing. Nothing was ever done professionally.

[ciaran]

Cillian played guitar and sang and I believe alicat is right, there's nothing that was ever professionally done, although if they were courted by a record company, I imagine there's a demo out there somewhere. Now to get our hands on it, that's another question. To hear more of our boy singing though, that would be beautiful.

[nimue]

Man. I wish he'd try playing again. I heard that he plays a lot of good stuff while on set the Sunshine movie to keep the rest of the cast and crew entertained.