Best Irish groups who never made it

donfers · 27-01-2011 06:31PM #1

loads from the mid 90's when I actually bought cds, two that stand out are:

revelino
whipping boy

I also remember a band called "the chicks" appearing on jo whiley's show on channel 4 late one night, I remember being blown away by the song and I never heard from them again

oh and I also remember hearing a few songs on the radio from a band called "the hormones" (i think) about 10 years agao or so, I was impressed and thought I'll keep my eyes/ears open for them and again never heard from them again

JerryHandbag · 27-01-2011 06:51PM

Future Kings Of Spain, 2 great albums but they've split now I think.

Howard the Duck · 27-01-2011 08:20PM

donfers wrote: »

I also remember a band called "the chicks" appearing on jo whiley's show on channel 4 late one night, I remember being blown away by the song and I never heard from them again

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

Amazotheamazing · 27-01-2011 11:28PM

The Hitchers
The Stars of Heaven
but mainly - Whipping Boy

tim_holsters · 27-01-2011 11:33PM

Aslan.

Mr E · 27-01-2011 11:56PM

Brando.... they only had an EP as far as I know (The Singular Death of Privacy) and some random songs on compilations, but I would have loved to see/hear more from them.

roashter · 28-01-2011 12:02AM

Whipping Boy & Revelino were 2 great bands.
I remember saying them playing on the same night down in Cork around 95/96 I think. Some sort of Heineken roller coaster tour.
the memories.....

Kerbdog are another who spring to mind

D-Generate · 28-01-2011 12:06AM

Kerbdog

dolittle · 28-01-2011 12:10AM

i remember tokyo olympics
they were brilliant

RGDATA! · 28-01-2011 12:17AM

The Would Be's are worth a shout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kzwfCr07xM

hairy sailor · 28-01-2011 12:20AM

An emotional fish & the stunning,think they were only big in this country but i could be wrong.

lordgoat · 28-01-2011 12:27AM

NPB
Turn
Whipping Boy

And a hell of a lot of others.

Holybejaysus · 28-01-2011 12:34AM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fttWmTGN0NY

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

JerryHandbag · 28-01-2011 12:43AM

Anyone remember a band called The Marbles? Goin back about 10 years I'd say.

refusetolose · 28-01-2011 12:50AM

U2....

AhSureTisGrand · 28-01-2011 01:07AM

Yeah Kerbdog

Ellian · 28-01-2011 01:12AM

Not sure what we're defining made it as but I always wish that more people knew of the brilliance of A House. I used to love them live.

Amazotheamazing · 28-01-2011 01:31AM

Ellian wrote: »

Not sure what we're defining made it as but I always wish that more people knew of the brilliance of A House. I used to love them live.

Good shout, they've some great songs.

Fat Lady Sings have some really great stuff too.

The Scientician · 28-01-2011 03:02AM

Man this thread is depressing me, so many great bands.

Whipping Boy sorta did make it, in Ireland at least. Do yiz mean never made it big abroad? Heartworm is such a classic album.

boscoroxx · 28-01-2011 03:07AM

Whipping Boy & An Emotional Fish would stick out to me.
I used to love JJ72, not sure what ever happened to them.

30txsbzmcu2k9w · 28-01-2011 03:52AM

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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uxXMNR7Fdo

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

Agree with a lot of the other suggestions here Turn especially, great ear for melody but I think the best thing they released was also the first (Check my Ears Ep).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzz5pBkf0_U

Also I'm pretty sure Arcade Fire nicked a fair few ideas from Rollerskate Skinny

Xavi6 · 28-01-2011 04:01AM

boscoroxx wrote: »

Whipping Boy & An Emotional Fish would stick out to me.
I used to love JJ72, not sure what ever happened to them.

Mark is playing regularly enough in Dublin and has his own website with some good tunes on it. Hillary had a kid but is planning a return to the industry but no idea what happened Fergal. Superb band.

Agree on Turn, absolutely love their stuff and they were great live. Two others of note are Melaton and Berkeley.

Ellian · 28-01-2011 09:06AM

boscoroxx wrote: »

Whipping Boy & An Emotional Fish would stick out to me.
I used to love JJ72, not sure what ever happened to them.

I did like quite a lot of stuff on the Emotional Fish CD - especially Lace Virginia - but if the demise of that band was the cost of getting Jerry Fish and the Mudbg Club, then I'll accept that.

RichieMc · 28-01-2011 10:08AM

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Anyone remember a band called The Marbles? Goin back about 10 years I'd say.

One of, if not THE first band I saw at the first Witnness. Have most of their singles. Saw their complete ZTT recordings is up on itunes.

I'd also give a shout for The Young Offenders - never got to release their album after getting signed to Sony. Lead singer Ciaran McFeely eventually did OK as Simple Kid

CDfm · 28-01-2011 10:29AM

mama's boys -they were brothers

pat mcmanus the lead guitarist played in one of the local pubs in swords recently

"needle in the grove" was the single

and the Revs included the other Rory Gallagher -they also did panto :eek:

sweetie · 28-01-2011 10:33AM

the mitcheners
settler
red kid
nina hynes

julio_iglayzis · 28-01-2011 10:40AM

donfers wrote: »

I also remember a band called "the chicks" appearing on jo whiley's show on channel 4 late one night, I remember being blown away by the song and I never heard from them again

I saw this crowd supporting Sonic Youth in the Olympia in 1998. I've never seen so many people do an about-turn to the bar. I'm not sure if they were going long at that stage, but it was like watching an Irish version of Shonen Knife. Just horrible.

Rollerskate Skinny were an amazing band.

Miguel_Sanchez · 28-01-2011 11:41AM

julio_iglayzis wrote: »

I saw this crowd supporting Sonic Youth in the Olympia in 1998. I've never seen so many people do an about-turn to the bar. I'm not sure if they were going long at that stage, but it was like watching an Irish version of Shonen Knife. Just horrible.

Yeah that wasn't a good booking for them at all. They got abuse from the crowd and left early.

I was always a big fan of Revelino, felt they deserved a lot better. Rollerskate Skinny too. There was a while there when you could only get Horsedrawn Wishes secondhand. Even members of the band had no access to it and had to bootleg their own stuff if they wanted to give it to anyone. Thankfully it seems to have been rereleased.

I saw the Marbles live in a small pub in Castlebar many years ago, they were pretty damn impressive live. The guitarist used to play in his bare feet didn't he?

S.M.B. · 28-01-2011 01:04PM

Sure JJ72 "made it".

They just ran out of legs.

julio_iglayzis · 28-01-2011 01:35PM

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

There was a while there when you could only get Horsedrawn Wishes secondhand. Even members of the band had no access to it and had to bootleg their own stuff if they wanted to give it to anyone. Thankfully it seems to have been rereleased.

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.

I think they played Lollapalooza too, I can't imagine them going down too well with American Beavis and Butthead skate shorts brigade.

I still have their first few EPs on 10 inch vinyl, they're brilliant.

CDfm · 28-01-2011 02:04PM

Racks Brains

Horslips and Moving Hearts stand out.

The Blades were a great singles band and were the Irish "The Jam"

There was another band from Dublin who had a song "The Bridge" -one of them was Eamonn Andrews son. Goths I think.

Best Irish groups who never made it

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