Released on 19 December 2008,[1] Jape fans were behind an unsuccessful online petition to establish the song as the Christmas number one in the Irish Singles Chart.

[3] It is a simple song with three chords which describes the events of one night when the writer attended a live performance by the heavy metal band Mastodon in Dublin.

[3] The lyrics "One day I will be a dead man who plays the bass from Crumlin/Like Phil Lynott" were praised in a review by the national broadcaster RTÉ for their mixture of "humour and seriousness through raw, emotional thoughts".

[5] Jape fans launched an online petition to establish the song as the Christmas number one in the Irish Singles Chart.

[1][6] However, it lost out to a cover of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah", performed by Alexandra Burke, that year's winner of British television talent show The X Factor.