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The Unmentionables
Hippy rock quartet from the 1970 young adult novel Mooncoin Castle by Brinton Turkle.
They play a benefit concert for the Ireland National Trust to raise money to save Mooncoin Castle in Rathcarrick, Ireland. Mean old Mr. Crotty is going to tear it down and put up a supermarket. The castle's ghost, 17th century fop Patrick de Lucy, misguidedly tried to spook everyone at the concert, but his cries of "Woe Woe Woe" are incorporated into a song. Guitarist Percy later tries to .
"What I heard, you've never call music. And their singing! I've heard better singing from cats!"
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"One of The Unmentionables, with yellow hair and a red beard, was playing an instrument and shaking it, or it was shaking him. He looked quite ill and he was yelling about something about loving a baby. And the others behind him were bobbing up and down and playing drums and strange instruments I never saw before. The noise that filled the courtyard was deafening." page 57.