best unsigned/newly signed irish bands?

Alwyn Walker

Heya folks. Let's see your votes for the best up & coming Irish Alt/indie/rock bands "on the scene" at the moment...

especially the ones who put on a good live show...

Alwyn Walker

Joe_Dull

By a million miles, my choice would be Little Green Cars.

They're incredibly proficient (the keyboardist is a celebrity in India) and the songwriting is very strong - put on a great live show too, I've played with them many times

http://www.myspace.com/littlegreencars

The Shakes and Biplanes would be personal favourites...

Aridstarling

Cloud Castle Lake, Squarehead, My Mind Races, Enemies, Twin Kranes, Wounds, Market Force, Adebisi Shank, Bats, Noveau Noise, Patrick Kelleher, Catscars, Hunter-Gatherer, the list goes on and on...

off.the.walls

Joe_Dull wrote: »

By a million miles, my choice would be Little Green Cars.

They're incredibly proficient (the keyboardist is a celebrity in India) and the songwriting is very strong - put on a great live show too, I've played with them many times

http://www.myspace.com/littlegreencars

The Shakes and Biplanes would be personal favourites...

I found them rather boring and repetative. Their good for what their playing but when i think indie or alt i like something that you can dance around to not something that i'd want to sit around drinking while watching.

Joe_Dull

off.the.walls wrote: »

I found them rather boring and repetative. Their good for what their playing but when i think indie or alt i like something that you can dance around to not something that i'd want to sit around drinking while watching.

Really? Maybe the energy doesn't come through very well on the recordings, but their live set is anything but something to sit around drinking to.

Alwyn Walker

cheers for the replies folks!

smackbunnybaby

Another vote for Squarehead. A real talent.

ElaElaElano

I love Enemies, think they're on the richter collective. Similar to the redneck manifesto and ten past seven (who are ridiculously fúcking good- are they signed to anyone?)

Twee.

Big fan of Funeral Suits http://www.myspace.com/thefuneralsuits

Limerick_Lass

Super Model Twins

MajorThom

Listening to these guys an awful lot at the moment. Great potential

http://www.myspace.com/miasparrowmusic

red_ice

The cast of cheers

Miguel_Sanchez

MajorThom wrote: »

Listening to these guys an awful lot at the moment. Great potential

http://www.myspace.com/miasparrowmusic

Great guys, cracking live show too. They used to be Story of Hair (minus one member now)

red_ice wrote: »

The cast of cheers

I've heard these guys are great but I've yet to check them out. They're on the Richter Collective aren't they?

Aridstarling

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

I've heard these guys are great but I've yet to check them out. They're on the Richter Collective aren't they?

Yeah they are on Richter. If you're into that kind of thing they do a terrific live show.

Wolf Club

I saw Jogging last week and thought they were great, I think they're on Richter as well? Nouveaunoise would probably be my pick though.

cinnamon girl

Twee. wrote: »

Big fan of Funeral Suits http://www.myspace.com/thefuneralsuits

Agreed, incredible band

MilanPan!c

Wolf Club wrote: »

I saw Jogging last week and thought they were great, I think they're on Richter as well? Nouveaunoise would probably be my pick though.

NN were easily the best thing at TP last night... Easily... Squarehead are not very good in my opinion.

FewFew

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Great guys, cracking live show too. They used to be Story of Hair (minus one member now)

The minus member of Story of Hair is now in Hello Moon (who are great) http://www.myspace.com/hellomoondublin

MilanPan!c

Fewcifur wrote: »

The minus member of Story of Hair is now in Hello Moon (who are great) http://www.myspace.com/hellomoondublin

hello moon are good! I totally forgot about them... thanks for the reminder!

Darkglasses

Do Sleep Thieves count? I really like them..

smackbunnybaby

Plenty of great signed and unsigned bands here (Warning. Very Dublin centric):

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4140139-drowned-in-dublin-1

MilanPan!c

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Plenty of great signed and unsigned bands here (Warning. Very Dublin centric):

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4140139-drowned-in-dublin-1

I found that to be very underwhelming.

There's some good stuff on it, but it's pretty slight.

smackbunnybaby

As in you find all the bands in the article underwhelming or the podcast of bands?

bossa_nova

Hands Up Who Wants To Die, BATS, adebisi, jogging are pretty good too

Miguel_Sanchez

Fewcifur wrote: »

The minus member of Story of Hair is now in Hello Moon (who are great) http://www.myspace.com/hellomoondublin

Cool. Must check them out.

bossa_nova wrote: »

Hands Up Who Wants To Die, BATS, adebisi, jogging are pretty good too

Adebisi are incredible live! So much fun to watch.

MilanPan!c

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

As in you find all the bands in the article underwhelming or the podcast of bands?

I was underwhelmed by most of those bands, based on the chosen tunes.

There were a few good things, a few ok things, but I found most of it slight and unmemorable.

IMO of course.

red_ice

bossa_nova wrote: »

Hands Up Who Wants To Die, BATS, adebisi, jogging are pretty good too

adebisi dont match the criteria (i dont think). Awesome band never the less, listening to jumpcut myself atm.

Sunny86

http://www.myspace.com/yescadets but i do have a vested interest

Bands i also think are going places at the moment are

http://www.myspace.com/talulahdoesthehula
http://www.myspace.com/thecoonics
http://www.myspace.com/thecastofcheers

Few other i can think of deserve mentions but these 4 in my opinion
are some of the best in ireland at the minute all different but all great at what they do

1967

Local Waterford band album should be out soon www.myspace.com/fightingspiders

Ooly

Loving the Irish Music scene at the min.

My favourites have to be Miracle Bell, Heathers, Funeral Suits, Oddsocks Revival, The Hot Sprockets, The Bona Fide Federation

sooooo many more!

homerun_homer

The Hot Sprockets are great, a mighty good live band. Really looking forward to the results from their album sessions in Portugal.

Seen the Funeral Suits before but never really took them in, I need to see them again but I liked what I heard at the time. They've supported a few bands I've seen the last year but I've always missed them bar the once.

Adebisi Shank are a sight to see live, great musicians and very tight performers.

Don't know what the crack is with this band but Grand Canal were a decent little (albeit big) band when I saw them twice the end of last year. Very catchy melodies.

rpurfield

dunno if any of you guys have heard half shot http://www.halfshot.net/ im getting back into my music after giving up on it for a while and they are excellent

finalcuntpro

Enemies are great, as are The Cast of Cheers. I really love RAN too http://www.myspace.com/ransongs

homerun_homer

I checked out Planet Parade in the Roisin Dubh last Thursday and they were very good.

Battleflag

Local band C!ties from Ennis are a bit too good for their age (3 members are about 18, I think). They play electronic, instrumental kind of music - kind of like Battles.

You can listen/download their EP for free from: http://cities.bandcamp.com/

Well worth a listen

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Twee.

Caught Nouveaunoise at the Tower in-store today and was very impressed by them.

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Aridstarling

Twee. wrote: »

Caught Nouveaunoise at the Tower in-store today and was very impressed by them.

Myspace

+1000. One of Ireland's true undiscovered gems.

Twee.

Absolutely. I'd heard the name quite a bit recently and just happened to pass Tower as they were about to start. Really great.

The Ambience Affair are currently recording their album, looking forward to hearing it. They're one of my favourite bands in this country to watch live. Captivating! http://www.myspace.com/theambienceaffair

cinnamon girl

Twee. wrote: »

The Ambience Affair are currently recording their album, looking forward to hearing it. They're one of my favourite bands in this country to watch live. Captivating!

I saw them a while back and wasn't that impressed by the music, but they certainly were entertaining. A natural live act I think.

MilanPan!c

Twee. wrote: »

Absolutely. I'd heard the name quite a bit recently and just happened to pass Tower as they were about to start. Really great.

The Ambience Affair are currently recording their album, looking forward to hearing it. They're one of my favourite bands in this country to watch live. Captivating! http://www.myspace.com/theambienceaffair

+1 for The Ambience Affair!

They've been sitting in our top friends list on MySpace for a year.... great band... (though I wish your man would just shave his head... very very distracting)

and +1 for Nouveaunoise...

I really hope they can tap into that Flying Lotus market, as they're really good.

Shoelaces

More Tiny Giants anybody?

http://www.myspace.com/moretinygiants

belacqua_

Saw the Frigates in Belfast, they're good ... if you're into old-school lo-fi

http://www.myspace.com/thefrigates

Crazy Diamond

The Hot Sprockets are definitely a great live band. Also The Spikes are one to watch too, excellent live!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucHfpo-DjTs

thorbarry

The minutes are really good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB436mE_RE0

http://www.myspace.com/theminutesireland

PMI

Guys played the academy a while back with a few acts on before us and one of them was Von Shakes, I gotta say I dont get impressed very easily as im alot older than most, but these guys impressed me, check them out I think they deserve a plug at least !!!!

deisedude

I saw Futures Apart and Planet Parade at Indiependence and was blown away by both of them

AdMMM

O Emperor, anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDoEZR74Oi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhlXAu3A128

AdMMM

...and like clockwork, they've just been announced to play EP to complete a busy season for them!

ILoveGreen

Cloud Castle Lake, The Funeral Suits, The Cast Of Cheers, Aether.

Heisenberg.

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