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Defunct Bands

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  • #52
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    One of you mentioned Blink - they were big around 1995 - have the commemorative callcard and cd.

    Microdisney were class can't get enough of 'town to town' on my ipod.

    Anyone remember 'The Kelly Family? Yes, i do admit to having the 'angel' single! Where are they now?


  • #53
    barneysplash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭barneysplash


    What about bands from across the water?

    I really liked Mansun


  • #54
    Mrs. MacGyver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    and rhyming with that was Hanson, i think the oldest one is married with children now. They disappeared once their voices broke.


  • #55
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    The Kelly Family. Weren't they a load of long-haired hippies who lived on a barge in Germany? I think they were more German than Irish.

    Also in the same vein but without as many people on stage was Goats Don't Shave. I went to college with one of their brothers.

    Blink were touted as the next big thing at one stage even though they were ****e. They got one of their singles remixed by Soundcrowd which was some sort of Irish dance person/people.

    Speaking of Irish dance, does anyone remember the 4th Dimension? They were a poor man's prodigy who hailed from Kerry.


  • #56
    barneysplash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭barneysplash


    Firetrap wrote: »

    Speaking of Irish dance, does anyone remember the 4th Dimension? They were a poor man's prodigy who hailed from Kerry.

    They were mental, they had a song with accordians and a big "Woo Hoo" in the middle of it.

    Also seem to remember a track of theirs called "once again"

    Great fun.


  • #57
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Who did that cover of "maniac" that you'd hear in longford discos?


  • #58
    barneysplash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭barneysplash


    Degsy wrote: »
    Who did that cover of "maniac" that you'd hear in longford discos?

    That was Mark McCabe

    Yeah Yeah Funky Yeah!


  • #59
    Davedubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Davedubh


    Firetrap wrote: »
    The Kelly Family. Weren't they a load of long-haired hippies who lived on a barge in Germany? I think they were more German than Irish.

    Also in the same vein but without as many people on stage was Goats Don't Shave. I went to college with one of their brothers.

    Blink were touted as the next big thing at one stage even though they were ****e. They got one of their singles remixed by Soundcrowd which was some sort of Irish dance person/people.

    Speaking of Irish dance, does anyone remember the 4th Dimension? They were a poor man's prodigy who hailed from Kerry.

    Saw them at Feile 95,along with the actual Prodigy.


  • #60
    deemy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭deemy


    Firetrap wrote: »

    Speaking of Irish dance, does anyone remember the 4th Dimension? They were a poor man's prodigy who hailed from Kerry.

    Any1 remember marksman ( i think that was their name). I Had the tape. remember at the time I thought it was great but can't for the life of me think of any of their stuff now. I think they were from the north?? think the album was called 33 revolutions per second it had a red cover.


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  • #61
    guinnessdrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭guinnessdrinker


    deemy wrote: »
    Any1 remember marksman ( i think that was their name). I Had the tape. remember at the time I thought it was great but can't for the life of me think of any of their stuff now. I think they were from the north?? think the album was called 33 revolutions per second it had a red cover.

    I think there was a band called Marxman maybe. I can bearly remember them, early to mid 90's. I think they were a hip hop band, unless I'm mistaking them for another band.


  • #62
    deemy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭deemy


    :) Thats them


  • #63
    greatgoal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭greatgoal


    what about.the bogey boys,katmandu,mamas boys,the rhythym kings.:)


  • #64
    Davedubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Davedubh


    Can anyone remember this massive attack type band from cork who were almost big in the mid 90s?Cant think of their name.


  • #65
    mickrourke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭mickrourke


    Davedubh wrote: »
    Can anyone remember this massive attack type band from cork who were almost big in the mid 90s?Cant think of their name.

    Was that Sound Crowd Orchestra?


  • #66
    barneysplash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭barneysplash


    Davedubh wrote: »
    Can anyone remember this massive attack type band from cork who were almost big in the mid 90s?Cant think of their name.

    Or was it Bass Oddsey?


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  • #67
    guinnessdrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭guinnessdrinker


    Davedubh wrote: »
    Can anyone remember this massive attack type band from cork who were almost big in the mid 90s?Cant think of their name.

    It wasn't Little Beirut by any chance?

    (Ps. I know there is another band going by that name now but they are not Irish).


  • #68
    Davedubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Davedubh


    barneysplash wrote: »
    Or was it Bass Oddsey?

    Thats them!


  • #69
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Degsy wrote: »
    Who did that cover of "maniac" that you'd hear in longford discos?
    barneysplash wrote: »
    That was Mark McCabe

    Yeah Yeah Funky Yeah!

    Has its own thread here -

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055231707


  • #70
    Beerlao
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭Beerlao


    Degsy wrote: »
    Who did that cover of "maniac" that you'd hear in longford discos?
    i heard that blaring in a bar in Laos last year :eek:

    let's face it, this country's got a lot to answer for


  • #71
    chughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    greatgoal wrote: »
    what about.the bogey boys,katmandu,mamas boys,the rhythym kings.:)
    Ah, The Bogey Boys. Jimmy Smyth and the lads. They only released two albums, both of which are still in my collection. Their most famous song was Friday Night. Was anyone else a fan ?


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  • #72
    merlie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭merlie


    Do any of you remember, Kelly Ann? She had only released two songs as far as I can recall. The well known one was called 'Do you love me boy?' It sounded very summery with kettle drums being part of the music track.

    The Carter Twins ( formerly known as, Brother to Brother ) Sang the song Twelfth of Never. Were signed to EMI and were at one point managed by Louis Walsh. They did the usual publicity, gigs, guest appearances at The Point Depot, Pantomimes.


  • #73
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    chughes wrote: »
    Ah, The Bogey Boys. Jimmy Smyth and the lads. They only released two albums, both of which are still in my collection. Their most famous song was Friday Night. Was anyone else a fan ?
    Wudn't say I was a fan but I remember "ain't no rock n' roll tonight" very well.


  • #74
    vektarman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭vektarman


    Anyone remember Tokyo Olympics, I have an album by them called 'Radio' somewhere in the attic, also can anyone remember what they were previously called?

    On the subject of the band Subterrainians, didn't they play in the Underground club in Dame Street in Dublin?


  • #75
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    vektarman wrote: »
    Anyone remember Tokyo Olympics, I have an album by them called 'Radio' somewhere in the attic, also can anyone remember what they were previously called?

    D.C Nien ?


  • #76
    Iggy Pop
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭Iggy Pop


    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    D.C Nien ?

    Used to go see DC Nein in Toners back in the day. How about the the Atrix and the Radiators?

    Gigs in the Dandelion parking lot on weekends, 2 bands for 50p.

    Brilliant.


  • #77
    vektarman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭vektarman


    Had a search through the attic and chilled with a few of these albums- Les Enfants, Auto Da Fe and Tokyo Olympics among others aah the memories!:)


  • #78
    pauro 76
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭pauro 76


    JJ72 were pretty good. One great album, and 'I To Sky' was decent too. Whipping Boy's 'Heartworm' was amazing and still listen to both Kerbdog's albums too, shame, they could've been huge.


  • #79
    beng128
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭beng128


    pauro 76 wrote: »
    JJ72 were pretty good. One great album, and 'I To Sky' was decent too. Whipping Boy's 'Heartworm' was amazing and still listen to both Kerbdog's albums too, shame, they could've been huge.

    "Snow" was my favourite song ever when I was about 10.....

    I think I'll go and listen to them now.

    But what happened to them... Why did they not put much more out??


  • #80
    pauro 76
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭pauro 76


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jj72

    Really wish they'd released that 3rd album, I'd have loved to have heard it despite the record label battles.


  • #81
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    anyone remember kerry ann?
    i remember doing her posters and stuff when i worked in a printing factory around 1998


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  • #82
    merlie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭merlie


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    anyone remember kerry ann?
    i remember doing her posters and stuff when i worked in a printing factory around 1998

    I do. I posted the same question and I mistakenly called her Kelly Ann! Lol!

    Yea and the song 'Do you love me boy'. I think she had only two songs out. Can't recall the other one. I think she was down as Kerrie Ann but then again I am so confused between, Kelly Ann, Kerry Ann or Kerrie Ann. Lol! :confused:


  • #83
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    the immediate from dublin.
    they only had 1 album before they broke up in 07 but it is pure class
    amazing live too
    i was lucky to see them twice


  • #84
    Overflow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Overflow


    Blackhorse Slim wrote: »
    The Fountainhead
    The Frames
    Cactus World News
    The Stunning
    Black Velvet Band...


    Some bands that are still going (or reformed) like Paranoid Visions, Sultans of Ping FC

    And some good bands that never quite made it, like the Whipping Boy and the Golden Horde

    Ah The Fountainhead:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6LChbjQAx0


  • #85
    marwelie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭marwelie


    Power of Dreams have reformed, touring next year

    REUNION TOUR DATES
    5 March - London, Luminaire
    6 March – Birmingham, Flapper
    7 March - Guildford, Boileroom
    10 March Dundalk, Spirit Store
    12 March - Dublin, Whelans
    13 March - Cork, The Pavillion

    A 2CD limited edition of the debut album 'Immigrants, Emigrants and Me' containing all 14 original tracks plus the debut “A Little Piece of God” ep and various b-sides, will be released on 1st March 2010.

    Pre-order @ http://www.onehundredpercentmusic.bigcartel.com/product/power-of-dreams-20th-anniversary-double-cd-immigrants-emigrants-and-me

    http://www.myspace.com/powerofdreams
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117774751776&ref=mf


  • #86
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,947 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    guinnessdrinker wrote: »
    Lads In Tua Nua might have been crappy enough as a band (I don't remember hearing of them as a youngster) but I seen their lead singer, Leslie Dowdall play a gig last year and she was great!

    And Steve Wickham's success with the Waterboys is astronomical. He is the Jimi Hendrix of the fiddle. A very down to earth fella too...


  • #87
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Overflow wrote: »
    Ah The Fountainhead

    Also-rands, tbh.


    /boom-tish


  • #88
    Lpfsox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Lpfsox


    6 pages and nobody's mentioned Toasted Heretic yet - they were brilliant, back in the day.


  • #89
    marwelie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭marwelie


    Lpfsox wrote: »
    6 pages and nobody's mentioned Toasted Heretic yet - they were brilliant, back in the day.

    Indeed, got their two albums on a double CD recently, Great Stuff!


  • #90
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    This is one that had been bugging me for years, this act were called Natural Wild and I saw them doing this song on TV, think it must have been TV Gaga. I half remembered the song title as Hot And Sexual and had been trying to Google it in recent years without success. The female vocalist was black or mixed race which was very exotic for an Irish band in the mid 80's.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9ururnS8U


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  • #91
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    dunno if this site was posted, it is very good
    https://www.irishrock.org/irodb/azfull.html

    never had a golden horde album but this was on a compilation album and I loved it, sounds as good today. The backing singer reminds me of Kim Deal (pixies)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaUw9hFEdSs


  • #92
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    TBH when you listen back, most the Irish indie acts from 80/90s that the likes of Hot Press and 2FM endlessly hyped were bland, generic crap.


  • #93
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Bambi wrote: »
    TBH when you listen back, most the Irish indie acts from 80/90s that the likes of Hot Press and 2FM endlessly hyped were bland, generic crap.

    Will say there was almost a frenzy among record companies to find the next U2 in the late 80's. This resulted in a lot of samey sounding Dublin guitar bands being signed and disappearing after one album or a few singles. Cactus World News being a prime example, they were hyped bigtime despite being ****e.


  • #94
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    deemy wrote: »
    Any1 remember marksman ( i think that was their name). I Had the tape. remember at the time I thought it was great but can't for the life of me think of any of their stuff now. I think they were from the north?? think the album was called 33 revolutions per second it had a red cover.

    They were English, Manc or Liverpool if I remember correctly. Did political hip hop.


  • #95
    Deep Thought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,491 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    We used to go and see:

    The Memories
    Spyder Simpson
    Royal Flush
    Big Generator
    The Blades
    Rob Strong
    Davey Spillane

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • #96
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Deep Thought wrote: »
    We used to go and see:

    The Memories
    Spyder Simpson
    Royal Flush
    Big Generator
    The Blades
    Rob Strong

    They're still doing the rounds.


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  • #97
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    I put this together last year. Three parts - Mixcloud links on the page.

    The Last Bus Home: Irish Rock 1979 - 1997


  • #98
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    vektarman wrote: »
    Anyone remember Tokyo Olympics, I have an album by them called 'Radio' somewhere in the attic, also can anyone remember what they were previously called?

    On the subject of the band Subterrainians, didn't they play in the Underground club in Dame Street in Dublin?
    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    D.C Nien ?
    Iggy Pop wrote: »
    Used to go see DC Nein in Toners back in the day. How about the the Atrix and the Radiators?

    Gigs in the Dandelion parking lot on weekends, 2 bands for 50p.

    Brilliant.

    Two members, Joey Cashman and Paul McGuinness(not that one), Moved to London after that. Joey worked with the Pogues for years as tour manager and PA for Shane. He went on to manage Shane MacGowan and the Popes after that. Paul played guitar with the Popes for a few years until he was hit by a car and suffered a brain injury. He made a good recovery and still plays an odd gig in London. Last I heard Joey was living in howth.
    Mars Bar wrote: »
    And Steve Wickham's success with the Waterboys is astronomical. He is the Jimi Hendrix of the fiddle. A very down to earth fella too...

    Steve is a legend. When not touring with the Waterboys he has another band called No Crows. They play in Shoot the Crows in Sligo every Wednesday night.



    Speaking of defunct bands, the bassist in that video, Eddie Lee, was a member of Those Nervous Animals and played bass on "My Friend John".
    Lpfsox wrote: »
    6 pages and nobody's mentioned Toasted Heretic yet - they were brilliant, back in the day.

    Singer Julian Gough is writing novels these days.


  • #99
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I'd totally forgotten about this band till coming across the BUS label on Discogs just today. I remember seeing them performing this song on some RTE music show, most likely Anything Goes. Seemed to just release the one single, catchy number.

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


  • #100
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Hot Press defo hype bands they know over any actual decent music. While the A&R crowd were desperate for a next U2, Hotpress did hype a lot of crap and still were last time I looked at it.
    There were some decent bands never 'made it'.
    Actually the Cranberries only made it from getting out of the country.

    Lir were very good.


  • #101
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Tension were a band I caught live a couple of times circa 95. Kind of reminiscent of Therapy.


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