The Great Undiscovered Band

SligoBrewer

is their a band that you think should be headlining festivals when they're stuck playing in pubs and the like..

or maybe their just popular in other parts of the world but not here...dosent stop you loving them though

personally prototypes are my nomination for it..

www.myspace.com/prototypes

one listen to danse sur la merde and i was hooked:)

pig on the wing

they're good, but apart from possible flaws in their music, there's gotta be reasons for why they have yet to break international mainstream. they are catchy, but a female vocalist and french lyrics is bound to turn (some) people off.

as for me, here are some great indie bands that should soon break into INTERNATIONAL fame. some of them mightve played stuff like coachella...:
animal collective
tv on the radio
beulah
apples in stereo
andrew bird
decemberists (saw crane wife in hmv, they're a-gettin there)
elf power

DublinWriter

I always thought that South African band 'Benjamin' that Brian McFadden brought back to Ireland should have gone a lot further.

I've seen them play out in the bar in Sands, Portmarnock a few times and they're really good on all fronts.

magpie

Dark Room Notes. See my seperate thread in this forum, if they're not booked for the festivals this year then someone is seriously missing the boat....

Mushy

http://www.myspace.com/untilescape

This band, Until Escape, just really appeal to me. Obviously, I can see the similarities to other bands, namely grunge bands, but I just find them refreshing compared to whats out there now.

SligoBrewer

Mushy wrote:

http://www.myspace.com/untilescape

This band, Until Escape, just really appeal to me. Obviously, I can see the similarities to other bands, namely grunge bands, but I just find them refreshing compared to whats out there now.

i was just about to click and investigate..
but then that word grunge appeared..

LegacyUser

check out this indie band: Red Brick House

bigstar

pony club, great dublin band, are miles better than the majority of acts that dominate the irish scene, but havent heard from them for a year or so

the hero game

A WEATHER
'cove' is an amazing debut from earlier this year

the hero game

EARLY DAY MINERS
probably a bit too on the reflective side for many to handle but what a band for those who don't mind that

0ubliette

the hero game wrote: »

EARLY DAY MINERS
probably a bit too on the reflective side for many to handle but what a band for those who don't mind that

High mother****in 5.

Ive listened to offshore/garlands non stop for the past year or so. The song offshore, it just blows me away every time, when the loud part comes in, jesus what a riff..

Doozie

magpie wrote: »

Dark Room Notes. See my seperate thread in this forum, if they're not booked for the festivals this year then someone is seriously missing the boat....

Yeah, they were on the road to bright lights this time last year then just seemed to take a nose dive. I thought they would have been playing EP but have only heard of them doing a few gigs in the past year......I think the usual answer to where did they go is 'We are in the Studio'...but I ain't so sure

the hero game

0ubliette wrote: »

High mother****in 5.

Ive listened to offshore/garlands non stop for the past year or so. The song offshore, it just blows me away every time, when the loud part comes in, jesus what a riff..

i know i know, that kick in "offshore" is incredible.. especially since the song just seems so 'resigned ' up 'til then (not a million miles off the impact of loud on 'glosoli' by sigur ros)
and then 'return of the native' is a great reworking with the different vocals..

i hope you've gotten to check out 'all harm ends here' and 'jefferson at rest', their other 2 albums.. and best 2 i would say, even ahead of 'let us garlands bring'.. let me know if you'd like copies if you haven't got them..

i love dan burton's unassuming but impassioned vocals.. and the guitar work is always so gorgeous.. an amazing band..

0ubliette

the hero game wrote: »

i know i know, that kick in "offshore" is incredible.. especially since the song just seems so 'resigned ' up 'til then (not a million miles off the impact of loud on 'glosoli' by sigur ros)
and then 'return of the native' is a great reworking with the different vocals..

i hope you've gotten to check out 'all harm ends here' and 'jefferson at rest', their other 2 albums.. and best 2 i would say, even ahead of 'let us garlands bring'.. let me know if you'd like copies if you haven't got them..

i love dan burton's unassuming but impassioned vocals.. and the guitar work is always so gorgeous.. an amazing band..

Yeah, i love the garlands version of offshore, and then the reworking of it on the album offshore in return of the native & hymn beneath the palisades, man its unbelieveable. And Sans revival is one of the best songs ive ever heard. The new album is out early 2009, and a european tour, if they play here i am so there.

Burial

pig on the wing wrote: »

they're good, but apart from possible flaws in their music, there's gotta be reasons for why they have yet to break international mainstream. they are catchy, but a female vocalist and french lyrics is bound to turn (some) people off.

as for me, here are some great indie bands that should soon break into INTERNATIONAL fame. some of them mightve played stuff like coachella...:
animal collective
tv on the radio
beulah
apples in stereo
andrew bird
decemberists (saw crane wife in hmv, they're a-gettin there)
elf power

I would've thought tv on the radio were popular, all of my friends know of their stuff and we have their albums. I dunno about getting them in hmv though... And the decemberists are just awful.... I've heard of animal collevtive, but not of any of their songs.... One of my friends loves them way too much...

Miguel_Sanchez

Burial wrote: »

I would've thought tv on the radio were popular, all of my friends know of their stuff and we have their albums. I dunno about getting them in hmv though... And the decemberists are just awful.... I've heard of animal collevtive, but not of any of their songs.... One of my friends loves them way too much...

Yeah the Decemberists are hardly undiscovered - most major record shops would have had the Crane Wife in stock when it came out. And I agree with Burial - they're boring.

Animal Collective are much less well known but if you listen to their albums you'll see why - they're not exactly producing radio-friendly stuff. But I think they're fantastic.

Caribou would be a great unknown for most people I think and they make write great dreamy pop tunes. Although without knowing it many people have heard a Fourtet remix of one of their best songs on that **** 'We are O2' ad.

the hero game

0ubliette wrote: »

Yeah, i love the garlands version of offshore, and then the reworking of it on the album offshore in return of the native & hymn beneath the palisades, man its unbelieveable. And Sans revival is one of the best songs ive ever heard. The new album is out early 2009, and a european tour, if they play here i am so there.

thanks for the info on the new album, that's great, and a european tour, wow they're the one act i've never seen that i just have to you know, imagine them live..
i was tempted to venture to illinois round this time last year to see them co-headline with damien jurado (who is my fav singer, and on the same label, secretly canadian, he has covered a miners song 'upstate' before) to see them at the pygmalion festival but i didn't go as it was.. it would've been great though, my fav singer and fav band on the same night, plus lots of other presumably good acts over 3 days in small city venues.. yo la tengo are the main attraction at it this year..

the hero game

the hero game wrote: »

A WEATHER
'cove' is an amazing debut from earlier this year

www.aweathermusic.com
they're from portland, oregon
check out 'cove' on stream, also a video for the track 'good to know' (great song but the video is a bit naff)..
it's lo-fi, sweet and melodious but with deceptively dark and superbly written lyrics
wonderful soft male/female vocals and gorgeous arrangements and harmonies
understated and intimate
hard to compare to anyone but i guess belle and sebastian, the quieter side of yo la tengo, the lo-fi sensibilities of the magentic fields or luna
album of the year hands down for me, by a million miles

the hero game

http://www.theunderrated.blogspot.com/

reganovich

pig on the wing wrote: »

they're good, but apart from possible flaws in their music, there's gotta be reasons for why they have yet to break international mainstream. they are catchy, but a female vocalist and french lyrics is bound to turn (some) people off.

as for me, here are some great indie bands that should soon break into INTERNATIONAL fame. some of them mightve played stuff like coachella...:
animal collective
tv on the radio
beulah
apples in stereo
andrew bird
decemberists (saw crane wife in hmv, they're a-gettin there)
elf power

Animal collective were headlining at Benicassim last year. Andrew Bird has been around for years, maybe he'll do a seasick steve on it and get huge, out of the blue!

ANarcho-Munk

I think Large Mound easily take the crown of hardest working, least appreciated,undiscovered ando ldest irish band.


www.myspace.com/largemound


Great band.