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Best Irish groups who never made it

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    Re: JJ72/Turn, I seen "Concerto for Constantine" supporting Idlewild last year, they were god awful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    The Immediate but Connor O'Brein is laughing now anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,818 ✭✭✭fluke


    The Frank & Walters are still around but I think they deserve a lot more love.

    We Should Be Dead had a cracking first album, think they're in the states now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭smackbunnybaby


    Crumb should have been massive, amazing jingly jangle pop.

    R.I.P. DD

    :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Auto da Fe - gay (steeleye span) & terry woods - terry went on to join the Pogues

    The Radiators from Space - anyone remember Phil Chevron :cool:

    That Petrol Emotion - post Undertones O'Neill


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    The Pale were pretty good,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    Diezel

    http://www.myspace.com/diezelirl

    :pac:

    ps...dont mind the singing... :S


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Really? I thought they had signed to a fairly big label after Shoulder Voices, but I'm probably wrong. Actually, you're dead right, now that I think of it, I remember picking up Horsedrawn Wishes for 2 dollars in Boston in 1996 - I couldn't find it anywhere else.

    Up to recently even it was hard to find. I worked with the guitarist about four years ago on something and he said he couldn't even get him himself at that stage. I had just bought it 2nd hand from some guy in the States. You can get it new off amazon.co.uk now though so it must have been reissued.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 460 ✭✭KeanSeenan


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    The Immediate but Connor O'Brein is laughing now anyway.

    Don't know why, in my opinion The Immediate's debut is better than Villagers'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,723 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    D-Generate wrote: »
    Kerbdog

    Funny... I preferred Wilt. Must dig up My Medicine and Bastinado - haven't listened to them for ages.


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Mr E wrote: »
    Funny... I preferred Wilt. Must dig up My Medicine and Bastinado - haven't listened to them for ages.

    Think i have bastinado knocking around. Loved Wilt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    The Bogey Boys.

    They had 2 great albums, Friday Night(1979) and Jimmy Did It(1980).

    Lead guitarist and vocalist was Jimmy Smith.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Pleasure cell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭siltirocker


    I thought The Rev's self titled album was one of the best rock albums i'd heard in years. Download their last single 'Every Monkey', it's Ocean Colour Scene-esqe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,894 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    ....Two others of note are Melaton and Berkeley.

    AFAIK Berkeley are playing as Conor O'Brien's band Villagers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Its a pity Something Happens didn't make it. We all could have been spared from Tom Dunne's radio career.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭ButcherOfNog


    Only one mention of That Petrol Emotion? So I'll mention them again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Its a pity Something Happens didn't make it.
    They should have changed their name to Nothing happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,723 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Say what you like about Tom Dunne, but SH had some cracking songs. Stuff like Forget Georgia, Burn Clear, Daisyhead, I Feel Good, Crystal Ballroom....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    I remember them, I'm pretty sure one of them is the sister of the dude from republic of loose. I also heard he wrote their songs but i'm not sure about that. Think they just released one EP.

    Here is one of their tunes http://www.supremorecordings.com/mp3/Daria.mp3

    The Chicks released two 7" singles

    four songs on each

    one yellow vinyl
    one blue vinyl


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,446 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    Kerbdog caused quite a bit of a stir in England with their debut - rightly so, cracking album. They nearly played on Top of The Pops with this little ditty (charted somewhere in the 30s i think they were on standby in case someone dropped out) :D



    Biffy Clyro still mention them in a lot of interviews as being a big influence.

    In light of Kerbdog most prob play more live gigs very soon, a few tunes from them;

    Kerbdog - Sally


    Kerbdog - Mexican Wave


    Kerbdog - Soaking Wet (unreleased!)


    http://www.YouTube.com/KerbdogDotCom - Gigs from the 90's and one from a reunion gig in the old TBMC


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭ghosttown


    I'll second the Blades, and add In Tua Nua and Cry Before Dawn.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    No Sweat-This song is going to jog a lot of memories, and it's one of the best 'earworms' I've ever heard!




    And, to a certain extent, Rory Gallagher-he deserves to be much more internationally recognised.


    Rory Gallagher is more recognised in the USA than he is here, in my experience


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 100pcblade


    Brilliant Trees


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,304 ✭✭✭Green Hornet


    That Petrol Emotion. Cactus World News.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    AFAIK Berkeley are playing as Conor O'Brien's band Villagers.

    Yeah I knew Tommy was playing guitar.

    Such a waste cause Berkeley shit all over Villagers imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    Wow totally forgot about the chics , saw them support sonic youth in the olympia way back when ...... 1997 maybe?

    Actually used to really like this song, I remember it being better over 10 years ago :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭fenris


    Fat Lady Sings were always great live, Arclight was a great song

    Toasted Heretics - for some of the dodgiest lyrics, even by todays standards!

    A House - a fantastic live band that didn't sound like they were trying to be someone else

    Engine Alley - not just because they had a female drummer in the 90's

    Golden Horde - the were great and then just vanished

    Stump - I have vague memories of moshing and trying to avoid the barbed wire around the stage in Katie Reillys (Waterford) they had one of the first videos played on MTV - "Charlton Heston put his vest on"

    Paranoid Visions - for the pure carnage!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭yeahme


    4 pages gone and not one mention of
    The 4 of us.
    for shame...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUWR_DbGuw


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭Generation Terrorist


    Used to love Berkely when i was 15/16, they used to always play those Blast underage gigs at the old Temple Bar Music Centre/Button Factory.

    They done a savage cover of Plug In Baby if I recall :D

    Also, wouldn't say that JJ72 necessarily made it - 500k worth of sales of their first album in the UK fair enough, but their second album bombed, which was a shame, as I actually prefer it to their eponymous debut.


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