Best Irish groups who never made it

Stretchryan · 25-05-2011 04:47PM

Cyclefly and Scheer are 2 great bands that i stilll listen too.

batari · 25-05-2011 04:53PM

Cyclefly all the way, Generation Sap is a great album

problemchimp · 25-05-2011 05:31PM

Jimmy Two Times wrote: »

Any of you older people remember Free Booze, The Atrix or The New Versions ?

Talking '78 - '81 I think.

Also, Winter's Reign or Zero Zero for the rockers.

The Atrix, saw them supporting The Boomtown Rats once. Belfast band Soul Survivor were also playing, but they were shiit. Never heard of them since.
The Outcasts, Paranoid Visions and The Keltic Possie for the punks.

Kingdom Bhoy · 26-05-2011 03:09AM

That Petrol Emotion and Protex.

Feelgood · 26-05-2011 03:54AM

Cry Before Dawn, they kindof half made it and then dropped off the radar for some reason. Might sound dated now but back in 89' they were the business. Still listen to them regularly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw4ksG_Cn5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztdumi44GH8

endabob1 · 26-05-2011 10:37AM

Kingdom Bhoy wrote: »

That Petrol Emotion and Protex.

The Petrols did okay for themselves, not as successful as they might have been but Babble & Chemicrazy both charted in the UK

ASBO · 26-05-2011 11:10AM

juniper!!!!!

yknaa · 26-05-2011 04:25PM

Votes from the yknaa jury are in:

Fatima Mansions and Microdisney 'made it' to an extent but never sold zillions of records so my vote would go for The Would Be's - deadly Donegal pop.
Also special mention to Emperor of Ice Cream and LMNO Pelican.

super_furry · 26-05-2011 04:49PM

Saville. I honestly thought they would be huge after hearing their album Is Anybody Happier Today? Sadly they never really got any bigger than being just another Whelan's band.

orourkeda · 27-05-2011 03:11PM

boscoroxx wrote: »

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

JJ72 split about 5 years ago

orourkeda · 27-05-2011 03:12PM

ASBO wrote: »

juniper!!!!!

Didnt they become bellx1 (and then Damian Rice of course)

orourkeda · 27-05-2011 03:35PM

Depends on what you mean by making it I suppose but the redneck manifesto are one of the best irish bands of the last decade (and longer).

Sack were a great band also

4Sheets · 29-05-2011 10:39AM

Looking back kerbdog where ok..the music now if you listen is dated nirvanna type grunge rock..
Revelino patchy some good songs..but really the only album to stand the test of time get more popular and more admired is whippings boy heartworm ..a masterpiece that can stand alongside anything radiohead have ever done IMHO.

Still love this as well..must get an album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1mlPPU6Hns

sid77ie · 29-05-2011 12:04PM

emo72 wrote: »

just read the whole thread. some nice memories there. i notice microdisney was mentioned and cathal coughlan but no mention of the fatima mansions. berties brochures was a great song. really anti english.

Agree, Fatima Mansions were class.
Anyone remember a band called The Elite, they used to play all of Live and dangerous in slatterys of capel street on fridays.(I think)

A Disgrace · 30-05-2011 01:04AM

orourkeda wrote: »

Depends on what you mean by making it I suppose but the redneck manifesto are one of the best irish bands of the last decade (and longer).

Sack were a great band also

agreed

sambos · 30-05-2011 02:46PM

Stand, still going, should be bigger than they are though...

Check them out on www.standland.com

super_furry · 30-05-2011 04:13PM

pappyodaniel wrote: »

The Hitchers from Limerick were catchy as hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k__IgXLmjIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dit3d4s8jRs

Great band and responsible for the best song ever written about football.

Hippo · 01-06-2011 09:58AM

Jimmy Two Times wrote: »

Any of you older people remember Free Booze, The Atrix or The New Versions ?

Talking '78 - '81 I think.

Remember them all, but don't think any of them were ever likely to trouble the judges!

gman2k · 01-06-2011 10:28AM

Feedback were great, back around late 76. I think they may have renamed themselves later as 'The Hype' or something...never heard of them since.

Adiaga 2 · 03-06-2011 03:01PM

Anyone mention the Marbles yet? Some great indie pop songs from the late 90s and early 00s. Good shout with Sack above. I remember a band called Bloom too from the late 90s I think, surprised they never made it further than these shores too.

losthorizon · 04-06-2011 02:30PM

Andwellas Dream - I wonder what happened to them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lRs7VASYac

jpfahy · 04-06-2011 02:44PM

http://youtu.be/YHcs5qE6d_8

lady of the flowers · 06-06-2011 08:53PM

Has anyone mentioned The Greenbacks? I loved them

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o779ujwdyqA

sarkozy · 07-06-2011 06:35PM

The Satan Clause.

4Sheets · 08-06-2011 06:36PM

http://www.templehousefestival.com/line-up.html

Whipping boy and Kerbdog! for e50 ..Sligo the place to be this weekend.

Fentdog84 · 13-06-2011 11:48PM

For me, the greatest Irish band who never made it has got to be A House. They released five albums, all with different a sound, all masterpieces. They had offbeat songs with pop sensibilities, clever lyrics, mixed with interesting and often odd experimentation. They Just too good for the mainstream.

Also ''stuck together with gods glue'' by something happens was a wonderfully ambitious album, with a big sound that veered towards U2. should have been bigger.

scoobyjack · 15-06-2011 02:53PM

Fentdog84 wrote: »

Also ''stuck together with gods glue'' by something happens was a wonderfully ambitious album, with a big sound that veered towards U2. should have been bigger.

My 2nd ever cassette, and still one of my very favourite albums from start to finish.

Bedlam-a-go-go wasn't really up to standard as a follow-up though and it was probably too late by the time Planet Fabulous came out.

endabob1 · 15-06-2011 03:10PM

Something Happens like That Petrol Emotion were unlucky in that their best work came out when Virgin were falling apart at the seams, those 2 albums (Chemicrazy & Stuck together) got no promotion worth talking about outside Ireland, if they did I'm sure both would have sold bucketloads.
Any record company that couldn't make Parachute a hit record needed their head examined.

Hippo · 15-06-2011 06:35PM

endabob1 wrote: »

Something Happens like That Petrol Emotion were unlucky in that their best work came out when Virgin were falling apart at the seams, those 2 albums (Chemicrazy & Stuck together) got no promotion worth talking about outside Ireland, if they did I'm sure both would have sold bucketloads.
Any record company that couldn't make Parachute a hit record needed their head examined.

Can´t agree. It´s true that the guy in Virgin who´d signed the Happens had gone by the time the album came out, but they played plenty in the UK and beyond at the time and it still didn´t take off. They certainly had the exposure at the time, maybe it just wasn´t the right time.

losthorizon · 15-06-2011 09:26PM

Auto-de-Fe I can only remember one or two of their singles but they had a nice sound to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x3ZSUr9aJU

Best Irish groups who never made it

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