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What is the Nottingham of the Irish music scene?

  • 18-08-2023 3:26pm
    #1
    its_steve116
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    Until fairly recent years, Nottingham wasn't exactly a famous city for spawning major music acts. Only three artists from the Nottingham urban area - Paper Lace, KWS, and LadBaby - have scored UK #1 singles to date, and artists from there in the charts have been sporadic. It's only been in more recent years that artists like Jake Bugg, London Grammar, Young T & Bugsey, Dog Is Dead, Amber Run and others have helped the scene to really take off.


    So, here in Ireland, would we have a city, town or county that would be comparable to Nottingham (traditionally) in not producing that many notable music artists considering its population?



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  • #2
    rpirl
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    Definitely not Laois, totally underrated mannn

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLklCB2KO5em9Tf5A91S4FcAmqFh-3TVDI




  • #3
    rpirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 319 ✭✭rpirl


    I was on rateyourmusic about a month ago and spotted this artist...seems to have done okay at the time and still gets checked out by fans of '70s folk-rock. Anyway - think he might have to go down as the biggest musical name from Drogheda

    https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/jonathan-kelly

    After having a look around, there are a few other singer-songwriters

    Kieran Halpin (put out a good few albums)

    SJ McArdle (four albums)

    Niall Boyle (three albums)

    The metal bands, Scavenger and Okus have both put out a couple of albums

    After that mostly just odds and ends, though these guys seem to be going okay

    https://www.youtube.com/%40modernlove_band/videos



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