Engine Alley reunion show@ Whelans, Sat July 23

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ENGINE ALLEY+ PONY CLUB & ENDA MULDOON
Whelans of Wexford St
Sat July 23 8pm
€16 (including booking fee) avialable from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call [URL="tel:1890200078"]1890 200 078[/URL]].

Put simply, Engine Alley are one of the best Irish bands ever, and God only knows how we’ve persuaded them to reform after all these years for a special headline performance at Whelan’s on July 23rd.

So – for those of you under the age of thirty – here comes the history lesson. Engine Alley formed in Kilkenny in the late 1980s when the Kenealy brothers (Canice and Brian) teamed up with Eamonn Byrne and moved to Dublin to take over the world.

They then joined forces with Ken Rice and Emmaline Duffy-Fallon, and quickly built up an impressive reputation for their superb live performances. In 1991, they were signed by U2’s own label, Mother Records, and soon after that, they released their fantastic debut album, A Sonic Holiday, produced by Steve Lillywhite. This fine album contained such glorious hits as ‘Infamy’, ‘Mrs. Winder’ and ‘Song for Someone’, and it deservedly won the Hot Press award for Best Irish Album in 1992.

The band then toured the UK and the US. In 1995, Engine Alley released their second album, entitled Shot in the Light. It had a much darker sound than their glam-pop debut album, and although it didn’t register the same number of hit singles, it was unanimously praised by music critics here and abroad. Unfortunately Engine Alley broke up a year after that, and the Irish music scene certainly lost one of its most entertaining and talented bands. You would have to be mad to miss this rare chance to see exactly how good Engine Alley really are when they play live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-wX_zJcgLA

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Still have their first album on CD. I shall take my zimmer frame over there.