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Best Irish groups who never made it

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 gpo68


    JUBILEE ALLSTARS - PLEASE DONT GIVE UP ON ME.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJvUKU3u0hY


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    I'm familiar with nearly all the bands suggested (I also toured with That Petrol Emotion) and I disagree - virtually all bands were lacking to my ears (including the Petrols who I love !) in many ways.

    Might I enquire whether the bands mentioned are bands you were into when you were in your late teens/early 20s ?

    That's a guaranteed time for the glasses to be tinted rose !

    I used to believe, really believe, The Jam were the best band in the world ever ..... now, even though I still love their work, I can see that that's really not the case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Dubhthamlacht


    Revelino, Turn, NPB, Rollerskate Skinny, JJ72, Whipping boy, Scheer, Kerbdog .......so many great bands and such a shame they didn't become as big as they should have.

    To that list I would add Director. Their first album was great.


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


    Revelino, Turn, NPB, Rollerskate Skinny, JJ72, Whipping boy, Scheer, Kerbdog .......so many great bands and such a shame they didn't become as big as they should have.

    To that list I would add Director. Their first album was great.

    Director are still going so it might be a bit premature to write them off yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭Boooourns


    The Chalets.


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


    Anyone ever here of a band called porn trauma who later became known as The Last Tycoons? I went to a few of their gigs back in my college days which is about 3 years ago and thought they were brilliant , but I haven't heard anything since as to how they got on. AFAIK they had an album deal back then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Irish_Elect_Eng


    The Legendary "Blaze X" and "Too Much for the White Man" :(


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


    The Legendary "Blaze X" and "Too Much for the White Man" :(

    I can honestly say I've never heard of either of those bands - when were they around?


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


    One was an earlier version of the Saw Doctors.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭baltimore sun


    I noticed a few posts earlier in the thread about what Fearghall McKee from Whipping Boy is doing now, he's got at least two projects on the go.
    Here
    www.myspace.com/filthynewtide and
    http://bit.ly/eXINp7

    I think Whipping Boy did make it though, they were acclaimed, they had some success, particularly in France, toured with Lou Reed etc.

    But...I'd go with Rollerskate Skinny, Kerbdog. There's a huge bunch around now that won't make it for the simple reason that they're too lazy to leave Ireland and go for it, Giveamanakick shoulda been huge but they were happy to just tour around Ireland, they coulda been something special if they'd have gotten picked up in the UK. They're broken up now though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Irish_Elect_Eng


    I can honestly say I've never heard of either of those bands - when were they around?

    Early Eighties from Tuam @ Surrounds

    Blaze X


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_X

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzmoR58E0M0

    Too Much for the White Man


    Then:
    http://fanningsessions.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/too-much-for-the-whiteman/

    Now:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01X7iImq1fw

    My thanks to these guys for many of the best nights out of my teenage years.:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Turn were an incredible band and had an amazing sound for only three guys. Great live band and great songs. They should have been huge.

    did the frames make it? i dunno.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Doolittle51


    Anyone remember Blink? Don't know much of their stuff but Cello is a great song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49vDPiz4TI

    Also, Desert Hearts from Belfast. Saw them years ago supporting The Breeders in The Ambassador. Their debut 'Let's Get Worse' is a cracking album.

    http://www.last.fm/music/Desert+Hearts


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Anyone know where I could get my hands on Rollerskate Skinny's Horsedrawn Wishes?
    had it years ago but it's long since gone from the house.

    thanks in advance.


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


    david75 wrote: »
    Anyone know where I could get my hands on Rollerskate Skinny's Horsedrawn Wishes?
    had it years ago but it's long since gone from the house.

    thanks in advance.

    You can pick it up fairly cheaply 2nd hand off Amazon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭teekayd25


    Tuesday Blue, '80s band from Limerick





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Agree on Whipping Boy and That Petrol Emotion, two of my favs from back in the day who still make me smile when they show up on my ipod.

    The Pale were another favourite of mine and I remember meeting Matthew Deveraux where I was working and him giving me a listen to his new band at the time "the product" and falling madly in love with it too.

    One band I havent seen mentioned here whom I adored and am gutted that I gave away my copy of their album to someone and now cant get another is Relish. Their harmonies and just pure soulful rock is close to perfection. I miss them.

    Slightly off topic but does anyone here remember Cranc and Geppetto?? Just curious!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Dissenter


    Turn
    Rollerskate Skinny
    Thee Amazing Colossal Men
    Cherry Blossom and the Flower Fairies
    The Golden Horde
    Zero Days
    Jubilee Allstars

    I also particularly liked Death to Disco by Ten Speed Racer, but not much of their other stuff. Can't find a link for it.

    Rollerskate Skinny


    Zero Days


    Jubilee Allstars


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Bootsy.


    For me it has to be Blue Ghost.

    Listen to them here: http://www.myspace.com/blueghostkilkenny

    Amazing band. So creative and different to the usual Irish bands.

    It was Dave Holland, who played under the name Good Tiger for a while and is now house engineer/resident DJ at The Set venue in Kilkenny, and Jeremy Hickey, who is now doing very well for himself as RSAG.
    The singer Caroline is in The Radio and the bass player Monty used to be in Revelino.

    I miss that band, brilliant live. One of my favorite bands ever, from anywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 Decatur84


    The Immediate. Conor from the Villagers was in this band before Villagers


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    The Honey Theives. Had a great song called "Whiskey on your lips" (which I can't find)



    Saw them in the Stadium back in 1991 I think, supporting either An Emotional Fish or Something Happens.

    I used to go to so many gigs back then


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Dissenter


    iMax wrote: »
    The Honey Theives. Had a great song called "Whiskey on your lips" (which I can't find)

    Saw them in the Stadium back in 1991 I think, supporting either An Emotional Fish or Something Happens.

    I used to go to so many gigs back then

    They played a double headliner with Cherry Blossom and the Flower Fairies in The Baggot Inn back in 1990.

    http://www.myspace.com/cbff

    Blast from the past :cool:


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


    Someone told me recently that she's only 32 NOW! means she must have only been 14 or 15 when she was in Engine Alley :o .
    Love this

    Emmaline Duffy Fallon was her name and yeah she was pretty young alright she started with them at 15

    maybe take a look here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,858 ✭✭✭take everything


    Compulsion: Mall Monarchy



    Revelino: Happiness is mine



    Lir: In a day



    Scheer: Wish you were dead



    Sack: What did the Christians ever do for us



    That Petrol Emotion: Sensitize



    Rollerskate Skinny kinda made it but still:



    Kerbdog : Sally (also kinda made it)



    Whipping Boy: Twinkle (Kinda made it)



    A lot of quality for bands that never (fully) made it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Balmed Out




    not sure he had much else but this is one of my fave Irish songs


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    There's been a few from around the midlands who should have done better than they did.

    Recently there was My Fallen Empire, insanely talented group of musicians who for whatever reason just scrapped their self recorded album half way through mixing it.
    You can stream one song on their myspace, but they were great live.
    http://www.myspace.com/myfallenempiremusic
    Singer is a journo with a local paper and the lead guitarist opened a music school, was promised a load of grant money that never came and it has since closed.
    Been trying to get them to give me the unmastered album for ages now, not likely to happen though.

    Around the time the Revs were all over the radio here there was a band called bunny, they played pretty average radio friendly pop rock but they were getting a fair bit of coverage, they were almost sued by playboy at one stage for using the playboy logo on their merch, they released an album here called slick corperate music on that label who were a sub of sony that left about 5 bands balls deep in debt and used to run kids gigs...
    Then they moved to the states to re-record it and new material, last about a year there then 4 of them came home and the singer stayed. The drummer is member of a covers band that plays all the college functions and stuff like that now.

    Few years ago there was a band from Athlone called skinsized kings, played all the festivles and a few in the UK, recorded their album in gross lodge, toured a fair bit, were getting pretyt good press but stuff stalled at some stage, singer died about 2 years ago and nothing since. Music was good, John McGrath, the drummer, did all the arranging, very creative stuff. Could have been pretty decent stuff.

    And right now there is a band called Kill Goliath from Athlone (3 of them anyway).
    McGrath involved again with 3 other very talented musicans, getting a lot of support slots on UK tours at the minute, album sounding very nice so far and they could do quite well.
    http://www.myspace.com/killgoliath


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Adrian009


    God, where to begin? I still wish Phil had'nt died. He missed so much. Italia '90. Presenting one of the Eurovisions. Getting close and personal to all three Corr sisters, Grainne AND Sile Seoige ... no other single man could have done so much to so many women.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Lister1


    Used to love Blink when I was younger. Seemed to just disappear....







  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭hinault


    Minor Detail.

    Released a couple of albums in the 1980's. Thought they'd go on to greater things.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_2ECDojSd8


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Funfair


    The title said the best..

    The Blades and in second Cry Before Dawn


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