Scale The Heights (1989 Session)
From Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Scale The Heights were David O’Driscoll (vocals), Tony Doherty (guitar), Liam Kirkpatrick (bass) and Paul McAllister (drums). They released a demo in 1988 and a single ‘Goodbye To All That’ / ‘So Soon’ on WEA Records in 1989. On 01/05/1989 they recorded a Fanning session featuring tracks ‘Cold’, ‘Happy Ever After’, ‘One Step Away’ and ‘Go Hang Yourself’. They featured in a number of Hot Press end of year critics roundups, here’s what Damian Corless wrote:
“Band Of The Year, however, without a shadow of a doubt, were Kildare’s Carling/Hot Press winners, Scale The Heights, who combine an incendiary live attack with some of the finest songs ever written in the history of the planet – I kid you not”
HotPress Critics Roundup 1988“On the home front there was nothing to equal the thrill of Scale The Heights’ live attack.”
HotPress Critics Roundup 1989
I believe these tracks came from a second Fanning session but ‘Goodbye To All That’ could also be the single. All tracks were recorded off the Dave Fanning show.
1938
Proud Of You
Down The Hill
Blindman’s Clothes
Goodbye To All That
The Fanning Sessions Archive 
July 16, 2011 at 1:26 pm
My wife Lorna O’Donovan originated from Kildare used to play with the lads in a band called Watercolourfalls… She played the keyboard. She lives in Germany since twenty years. Anymore information out there about that band or the lads? Would be great stuff and I’m sure she would appreciate that. Bye Franc
Contact on facebook:
lornaziesing@web.de
francziesing@web.de
January 30, 2015 at 9:07 am
I remember STH very well; my band Wilder played a few gigs with them around 1990/91; a lovely bunch of guys, great frontman and great songs. It would be nice to know if any of them continued to play music?
Dez
May 18, 2015 at 9:11 pm
[…] only other place I found some information about the band was on the superb Fanning Sessions blog. From there we learn that: On 01/05/1989 they recorded a Fanning session featuring tracks […]
September 13, 2019 at 8:01 pm
http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=7351
October 28, 2021 at 1:18 pm
Dez, all,
Members still making music here in 2021 See The City Remains debut here
Tite track here
October 28, 2021 at 2:34 pm
Hi thanks for that P, that’s great to hear and I’ll check it out. Liam has been kind enough to order a CD from me! Good to see you all still making music. All the best.
October 28, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Great to hear that Kirk and Paul are still making music. Such talented musicians. Got to know these guys while studying in Maynooth. I actually lived with Kirk and his family as a lodger for my first year in college and was fortunate to have played keyboard with them in 1984/85 as Watercolour Falls/Scale The Heights. Whatever happened to the other members Dave O’ Driscoll and Tony Doherty? Does anybody know?