Waterford Bands

DinnyBatman · 29-05-2009 3:24pm #1

Who are your favourite Waterford band, past or present?
When I was in college in the mid 90's Waterford had a great music scene, my favs being King Kong Company and The Butterfly Band. Great nights guaranteed at their gigs.

KingLoser · 29-05-2009 3:27pm

Yeah, the Butterfly Band. Legends.

Gorbachov and Trousersnake would be my favourites.

gobo99 · 29-05-2009 4:17pm

I always liked Big Paulie Kool And The Mental Institution. Just cause there mad bastards.

gscully · 29-05-2009 5:22pm

I used to go see The Color Party in Breens (early 90s). Had friends in the band..

boniver · 29-05-2009 5:38pm

Deaf Animal Orchestra - genius stuff.

Nolanger · 29-05-2009 6:42pm

Anyone know who 'Mental State' by The Village was about?

Adyx · 30-05-2009 4:00am

Kytte are a really good band as well. Never seen them live but they practice next door to us so I've heard a lot of their stuff. They've a great video on Youtube too.

paddy smith · 30-05-2009 12:38pm

the bob miller band

dick, dave and us:eek:
gino hearne

bag o spuds :pac:
carol and martin

the shamrocks

Tellox · 31-05-2009 11:31pm

The Butterfly Band are fantastic - always make an effort to see them when they're around.

Never been a big fan of Gorbachov - Nothing wrong at all with their music, I just personally didn't enjoy it all that much. Know others who are mental for them.

Waterford was a great place for local bands 4/5 years back, but there's honestly not a lot of them around anymore.. Anyone remember downfall?

Tragamin2k2 · 01-06-2009 1:10pm

Adyx wrote: »

Kytte are a really good band as well. Never seen them live but they practice next door to us so I've heard a lot of their stuff. They've a great video on Youtube too.

Excellent so they are

seanybiker · 01-06-2009 1:12pm

gscully wrote: »

I used to go see The Color Party in Breens (early 90s). Had friends in the band..

used to have one of their posters. Des johnson and the lads

paddy smith · 01-06-2009 1:46pm

i cant think of the band name but the lead singer was a skinny curly head fella and the base guitar fella had one leg shorter then the other and the drummer was another curly head fella,
use to play in the rouge quit a bit, brilliant band.
anyone know who im on about?

old gregg · 01-06-2009 6:09pm

Taxi out in the Carousel *sighs*

AdMMM · 01-06-2009 6:13pm

I love the way the Jam Tarts are starting to explore their sound now. They've set themselves apart from the rest of the cover bands doing the rounds in the city by reinterpreting some songs and mashing them together. I even saw them sober recently and enjoyed them!

jonnyfingers · 01-06-2009 6:57pm

paddy smith wrote: »

i cant think of the band name but the lead singer was a skinny curly head fella and the base guitar fella had one leg shorter then the other and the drummer was another curly head fella,
use to play in the rouge quit a bit, brilliant band.
anyone know who im on about?

Cassidy?

Used to love watching Big Paulie and the Mental Institution. Especially when Spraoi was smaller and local bands were more prominent during it.

Also Cormac Kavanagh's band a few years back, before Duped, can't remember their name.

paddy smith · 01-06-2009 7:07pm

jonnyfingers wrote: »

Cassidy?
.

thats the one :cool:

cheers

KingLoser · 01-06-2009 11:17pm

Tellox wrote: »

Anyone remember downfall?

Nice one! Who woulda thought anyone would remember us?

babystrawberry · 03-06-2009 4:15pm

paddy smith wrote: »

i cant think of the band name but the lead singer was a skinny curly head fella and the base guitar fella had one leg shorter then the other and the drummer was another curly head fella,
use to play in the rouge quit a bit, brilliant band.
anyone know who im on about?

Think this band was called Resin, remember seeing them good few times in the kazbar and wacky apple, resin are now broken up as far as i know but some of the band memebers have gone into other bands

The drummer in resin was pure class!!

angelfalling · 06-06-2009 8:39pm

jonnyfingers wrote: »

Also Cormac Kavanagh's band a few years back, before Duped, can't remember their name.

Fourteen?

Anon0000 · 07-06-2009 3:52am

babystrawberry wrote: »

Think this band was called Resin, remember seeing them good few times in the kazbar and wacky apple, resin are now broken up as far as i know but some of the band memebers have gone into other bands

The drummer in resin was pure class!!

Could have been resin or lebowski - both had a lot of the same members in them. I remember the rest of the lads would take a fag break for 5 minutes while in the mean time the drummer(correct me if im wrong i think his name is peter sauvage) would do a drum solo that lasted about 5-10 minutes - was a bit crazy but excellent at the same time! they would come back in then and 99% of the time it would gradually break into 7nation army:D

south · 07-06-2009 2:09pm

Anon0000 wrote: »

Could have been resin or lebowski - both had a lot of the same members in them. I remember the rest of the lads would take a fag break for 5 minutes while in the mean time the drummer(correct me if im wrong i think his name is peter sauvage) would do a drum solo that lasted about 5-10 minutes - was a bit crazy but excellent at the same time! they would come back in then and 99% of the time it would gradually break into 7nation army:D

you are correct

Adyx · 07-06-2009 3:28pm

Except about Lebowski and Resin having many the same members. Only the drummer is the same. And I don't think the band Paddy Smith is talking about was Resin. It was probably Cassidy as already mentioned.

Aimzey · 07-06-2009 5:00pm

The waxies

the Jam Tarts

the remedies

Fajitas! · 07-06-2009 5:42pm

Gorbachov & Deaf Animal Orchestra

Both great bands. Don't know many of the newer local bands though, tbh.

seanybiker · 08-06-2009 3:41am

jonnyfingers wrote: »

Also Cormac Kavanagh's band a few years back, before Duped, can't remember their name.

I got guitar lessons off him years ago. Sound chap.

Anyone remember "ditch" from years ago. Excellent band. Must go through me tapes and look for their demo.

KingLoser · 08-06-2009 1:58pm

seanybiker wrote: »

I got guitar lessons off him years ago. Sound chap.

Anyone remember "ditch" from years ago. Excellent band. Must go through me tapes and look for their demo.

Ditch were still around for a few years after, called "Resonant" (sp?). They just had a different singer.

Tellox · 09-06-2009 2:46pm

KingLoser wrote: »

Nice one! Who woulda thought anyone would remember us?

**** that, I was remembering Jen

dont worry Jim, I could never forget about you

Waterford needs a few more bands on the scene.. the only new bands cropping up lately are death/black metal.
I'm not opposed to a bit of that myself, but a full set of it can get a little bit headwrecking..

Siam Collective, anyone? Love hearing them play, very unique sound.

counterpointaud · 09-06-2009 3:11pm

Come see Shane Barry & the Distractions and Deaf Animal Orchestra in Elect Ave on Sat !

http://www.myspace.com/shanebarryofficial
http://www.myspace.com/deafanimalorchestra

/shamless plug

On topic: +100 for whoever mentioned fourteen, amazing band. A couple of the brass players are currently playing in the Distractions.

Anyone remember King Kong Company ?

garp · 10-06-2009 12:24pm

counterpointaud wrote: »

Anyone remember King Kong Company ?

Yeah King Kong Company were great.

Is it just me or could it be that the down fall/ fall off of bands in waterford happened after The Kings pub closed??

counterpointaud · 10-06-2009 3:20pm

Yeah there isn't many places like the Kings used to be TBH, where everybody went to see a band and have a few pints, rather than going for a few pints where a band happens to be playing. Subtle difference, but it made for much better gigs.

There are still great bands around, Waterford just doesn't have the venues to showcase them.

Try and catch a gig or two in the Candlelight Sessions upstairs in Phil Grimes, this is going for much the same vibe except much more intimate.

JLemmon · 10-06-2009 3:56pm

Some current waterford bands who are really doing something

Katie Kim (Great album, lots of media interest and making serious inroads)
Ugly Megan (number of interesting EP's)
O Emperor ( new album out soon and playing Oxygen)

Waterford Bands

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