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McGonagles

The last couple of hours of the bank holiday monday show was a real
waltz down memory lane...

I started a thread here about older Irish bands, but nobody replied.
The "rock of ages" title might have been too obscure, or else
nobody on here is old enough to remember the auld shtuff.

Or if they are, they won't admit it! (I was talking to someone about the
likes of The Radiators and The Resistors the day after it, and she stopped
me to say that she wasn't even born when these bands were on the go!
Oops, showed my age!)

So here they are again, in no set order:


Stano,
Giant (ex Dump The Dummy),
Into Paradise,
Chimera,
Scheer,
Bird,
Cypress Mine,
Donnybrook Garage,
The Summerhouse,
The Experiment,
The Honey Thieves,
The Candyshop,
The Pleasure Cell,
The Slowest Clock,
Cinnamon,
Candy Apple Red


Anyone else have any fond memories?

sodiumlightbaby

I certainly remeber some of these guys from when I used gig round Dublins fair city...The underground, the baggot, the grattan, and later, the rock garden.

honey thieves, candyshop, sheer, chimera, into paradise all ring a bell.....also, Guernica, magpie, firewater creed, dragonfly...a few others i remember.....not fondly for some !

I played in Tainia - we shoulda been massive and that's being modest !! Also Pulp (before Jarvis reinvented himself in early 90's, so we had to change to Pulse) and then Libido...anyone remeber those annoying little stickers on hand dryers in public toliets everywhere ? Oh fond memories of playing the underground supporting whipping boy - christ they were loud ! Headlining the baggot downstairs and being swamped by spanish tourists for autographs - well that was my 15 minutes of fame - sad isnt it

feck this i'm dragging me drumkit out of hibernation !

Pearl

Ah yes, Donnybrook Garage. In my youth and innocence I thought they wrote Sympathy for the Devil until the day I heard the Rolling Stones version and reckoned they weren't covering a Garage song.

Any chance anyone remembers The Outpatients?

Silverfish

Originally posted by McGonagles



Chimera,
Cypress Mine,
The Honey Thieves,
The Pleasure Cell,
Candy Apple Red


Anyone else have any fond memories?

Oooh that just brought it all back - I have a few songs by some of these on tape somewhere.........

Pearl

I remember seeing Giant in the Baggott Inn and thinking how like REM they sounded.

I liked Geurnica a lot. Would love the chance to play something by them on my show. Donal Dineen played Orange and Red a while ago and it still sounded great (to me anyway!)

McGonagles

Originally posted by Pearl

Ah yes, Donnybrook Garage.

Or "the Donnies" as they were known for short.
Every non-the band name got a "the" in front of it back then - The Happens, The Nots, etc.

Their best song was "Baby I'm A God".
It might also have been done by Mangled Ferret (an ex-Donnies band),
and may even have been on MP3.com for a while.

In my youth and innocence I thought they wrote Sympathy for the Devil until the day I heard the Rolling Stones version and reckoned they weren't covering a Garage song.

It was a very competent cover - probably more people were impressed by that, than by their original stuff!

Any chance anyone remembers The Outpatients?

I remember them, but don't remember seeing them too often.
Maybe one gig in The Underground... possibly supporting The Donnies.

McGonagles

Originally posted by Pearl
I remember seeing Giant in the Baggott Inn and thinking how like REM they sounded.

I must have gone to every GIANT gig. Ken (the guitarist and main songwriter)
had been in other bands before, and he had that jangly guitar sound.

They had some really good songs, I think they did one Fanning session,
and had one self-released 7 inch single, and that was it.

One of their singers ended up in A House for a while...

I liked Geurnica a lot. Would love the chance to play something by them on my show. Donal Dineen played Orange and Red a while ago and it still sounded great (to me anyway!)

Wow, Guernica, they were gonna be huge.
And they had all been in bands before (I think).

Maybe whoever owns the masters will do a CD reissue...

McGonagles

Good name!
There was a band called Silverfish - based in London, Scottish singer...
...who guested on Therapy?'s TROUBLEGUM album.

Originally posted by Silverfish
Oooh that just brought it all back - I have a few songs by some of these on tape somewhere.........

And speaking of The Underground (when it was a venue, not the cyber cafe, and not what it is now!!), how could I forget these guys:

The Garden Hasn't Changed Much

McGonagles

Chimera
There's more out on the web about these guys than I thought there would be.
Does anyone know what they're doing now?

They were total indie shoegazer bliss - a singer whose voice could only be
described as "ethereal", a guitarist who probably listened to way too much
My Bloody Valentine, and some pretty cool songs.

So what went wrong?

Oh, this must be it: someone in America figured they were going to be the
next Cranberries.

Cinnamon
The "Where Are They Now" file for these guys leads us to a band
who are always headlining Whelans or The Village...

whytek

I have an old demo of Baby I'm a God.

http://auldtapes.wordpress.com

iwhelan

Jaysus - can't believe some people still remember Donnybrook Garage! We eventually went on to form Superhate - carried over Baby I'm A God and broke up when the guitarist buggered off to the States. whytek - have not heard them tracks in years!

Also loved Giant - I still have their single "Put Yourself in my Shoes" Floating around somewhere. But it was the B side that was rather wonderful... "Bittersweet". Susan went on to join A House.

Ger Roe

If the bands mentioned in this thread bring back memories to you... have a look through this site.

http://irishrock.org/ipnw/azindex.html

It's the best that I have seen for background details on many of the early Irish punk and rock bands.

The Atrix, DC Nein, Light a Big Fire, The Lookalikes....... it's all there on the site - complete with promo copy, album and single covers etc.

Great stuff.


Ger Roe.

McGonagles

iwhelan wrote: »

can't believe some people still remember Donnybrook Garage!

I still have one of the badges!

Also loved Giant - I still have their single "Put Yourself in my Shoes" Floating around somewhere. But it was the B side that was rather wonderful... "Bittersweet". Susan went on to join A House.

They had some really strong songs.
And Niamh (the other singer from Giant's twin-vocal attack) is now in The Mosquitoes.

scrabbagh

Indeed Niamh is in the Mosquitos, but she is also in Giant, who are slowly recording the album they never got round to when they had hair and teeth. Hello Ian Donny. J Giant