Irish music scene

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Ambivalent.
Sunil Sharpe.
Jamie Behan.
Matador.
White Collar Boy.
New Jackson.
Chymera.
Brame and Hamo.
Defekt.
Tinfoil (Sunil Sharpe and Defekt)
Enter the Void.
Daire Carolan.
Niall Clery
Barry Redsetta.

et al.

Hardly a wasteland.

Add:
Bicep from Belfast
Arron Nolan
Jimmy the Hideous Penguin
Kormac
Dark Room Notes
Saint Sister
Reid
Forrests
R.S.A.G
Grounds For Invasion
CLU
Fish Go Deep
King Kong Company
110th Street - Cian O’ Ciobhain and Cyril Briscoe from Galway
Shane Linehan
Shane Mannion
Donal Dineen
MMoths
Ryan Vail
Patrick Kelleher

Maverick Sabre.
Mick Flannery.
Walking on cars.

Superb musicians.

Irish bands? New Irish music? "Locals Only" on Nova, Sunday evenings at 6. They are doing plenty for new Irish bands and releases. Most of what's played isn't my scene but it's a great chance for airtime for new acts.

The Frames.
Whipping Boy.
The Pogues.


The list is endless. Can't believe this thread. Plus I've seen nearly all mentioned live and they were fab.

I would have thought the Irish music scene was very strong. U2, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Boyzone, Westlife, Hozier, Kodaline, The Coronas, Snow Patrol, Christy Moore, Enya, The Script, The Frames, Aslan, Bell X1, Damien Rice, Boomtown Rats, Jape, Le Galaxie, Republic of Loose, Roisin Murphy, Two Door Cinema Club, David Kitt, Bicep, Mano le Tough, **** Robot... The list goes on and on depending on what type of music you're into. For a country of our size I think we have a good selection and there is live music probably happening in every town in the country most weeks.

Deleted User wrote: »

The Dropkick Murphys
House of Pain

You forgot Flogging Molly.

Primordial have two albums in the top 50 in Rate Your Music's top metal albums of the 00's
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Altar of Plagues were another brilliant Irish metal band who had more followers abroad than in Ireland. It's a shame they split up after three albums.

jpm4 wrote: »

Eh primordial are a reasonablely big international act by underground standards, dunno about any other Irish bands.

Was about to mention Altar of Plagues. Cruachan too.

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Why doesn't Ireland produce bands making popular music like the UK. Apart from U2, we've very few internationally known acts. Can't stand most of our singer songwriters apart from Damien Dempsey. On the other hand our trad is in my opinion probably the best folk music in the world.

Ireland punches above their weight.

Think of all the artists and bands who achieved worldwide recognition over the past 50 years or so.

Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Enya, The Corrs, Sinead O'Connor, Snow Patrol, Van Morrison, Chris de Burgh, Glen Hansard.

I'm sure I'm leaving out many more, my head is a little fryed at the moment.

gramar wrote: »

You could have left out Chrish de Burgh in fairness!

I was debating in my head whether to include him or not.

I really thought that when the economy crashed and the youth got fcuked over they would emerge angry from the estates as bands

It didn't happen and I knew it was finally dead

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I really thought that when the economy crashed and the youth got fcuked over they would emerge angry from the estates as bands

It didn't happen and I knew it was finally dead

Excellent point - where is the anger of a generation that has been ****ed over? Instead you have appallingly bland s##te like the script and other earnest, skinny jeans types. I think it could be a by product of a generation growing with Facebook - either conciously or unconciously they all want to be liked and accepted.

Mister Vain wrote: »

No mention of Ryan Sheridan yet? I can't believe he's not more popular. A fantastic talent. I think he's the only artist out there that is making consistently good music.

Brian Deady as well.

Also a special mention to the late Stevie Martin aka Rainy Boy Sleep who died last summer.

A wonderful talent who probably didn't receive the recognition he deserved.