Popular Irish bands

Heisenberg.

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DerekD Goldfish

Fatima Mansions
Thier 1st/2nd(depending on if you concider against nature an LP or EP) album viva dead ponies was Moz's farorite album of 1990 and they did get a top ten hit as a double a-side with the manic's suicide is painless.

Hippo

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

Fatima Mansions
Thier 1st/2nd(depending on if you concider against nature an LP or EP) album viva dead ponies was Moz's farorite album of 1990 and they did get a top ten hit as a double a-side with the manic's suicide is painless.

Rightly included but they were on the original list

DerekD Goldfish

Hippo wrote:

Rightly included but they were on the original list

Inded surpised I missed that
The other Microdisney offshoot Stump were also quite good
but Im not sure you could count them as "Successful"

Hippo

Stump actually quite successful in a small kind of way at least as much as some of the others on the list! NME cover on one occasion if I remember correctly. Not sure that they were a Microdisney offshoot though unless it was some obscure early member, there was only really Sean and Cathal who owned the name.

Tomohawk

Cactus World News
Into Paradise (were signed to Uk Based "Irish centric" label Setanta in the early 1990s

Tomohawk

The Adventures (from the North)
Cry Before Dawn
Minor Detail. mid 1980s synthpop duo from wickow, had 1 album released.

DerekD Goldfish

Hippo wrote:

Stump actually quite successful in a small kind of way at least as much as some of the others on the list! NME cover on one occasion if I remember correctly. Not sure that they were a Microdisney offshoot though unless it was some obscure early member, there was only really Sean and Cathal who owned the name.

Mick Lynch frontman of Stump was in Microdisney back in the early days they may still have been called Micro-Disney at the time

Hippo

Take your word for it, I just don't remember him at all

Hippo

My even older and even more pedantic colleague informs me that Mick Lynch played with the rest of disney in a band called Constant Reminders in 1980 and then left; they then changed to Micro-Disney. I promise to go away now.

Ponster

Any chance the OP could keep the original list updated?

Hippo

Therapy?

DerekD Goldfish

on the subject of Irish bands ive been trying ot find material by Nun Attax and Five go down to the sea does anyone know where I can find some?

Hippo

There's almost nothing recorded by nun attax, but they did have something on a 'Kaught at the Kampus' compilation ep released I think on Reekus records around 1980. Five go down to the sea had an ep on Creation around 1985 (Singing in Braille?) and a couple more on some indie label here. You could start by asking somewhere like Freebird, it's the kind of stuff someone will have at the bottom of their collection, or you might get lucky at something like the Comet record collectors fair

DerekD Goldfish

Chears
They are 2 bands missing form my irish srtists collection
not to bring the thread on to much of a tangent but can anyoine recomend
some obscure(but good) Irish acts who I may not have heard of

tonyDeBrasco

...try Revival TV..http://revivaltv.bebo.com

vinnieq

Cyclefly
Cowboy X

Want proof?:
Take a look for yourself

Cyclefly - www.myspace.com/cycleflyfanpage
Cowboy X - http://www.myspace.com/cowboyxmusic

joeyla

4th Dimension may be worth a mention, they were Kerry lads

...not sure if would be classed as pop though. Were fairly big in Ireland in the 90's, I think everyone will remember 'Storm' and they supported the Prodigy. Two albums 'Overground' and 'Around the day in Eighty Worlds'. Great 90's dance act.

J

Lightbulb Sun

joeyla wrote: »

4th Dimension may be worth a mention, they were Kerry lads

...not sure if would be classed as pop though. Were fairly big in Ireland in the 90's, I think everyone will remember 'Storm' and they supported the Prodigy. Two albums 'Overground' and 'Around the day in Eighty Worlds'. Great 90's dance act.

J

The thread is 7 years old. We can assume the OPs project has long been completed.

buyer95

The Frames are another miss. I know the thread is 7 years old, but they would have been big around then. Only posting because someone else bumped the thread. Whether or not the project is completed, it is still an interesting discussion.

emo72

auto de fe, also the fountainhead

eviltimeban

Relish were good, but not that popular. I remember meeting the guy who signed them to EMI (Thomas Black) and asking what happened to them, they could've been huge. Bad management / label cock ups seemed to be what happened.

Their first three / four singles were great (even the b-sides!) though the debut album fell a little short. Pity, cos they were pretty unique in the Irish music scene.

Great bunch of lads too, apparently.

eviltimeban

You can add Ham Sandwich to that list - though only popular in Ireland really.

fiachr_a

Starjets
Outcasts
Defects

HudTaylor

You should check out Hudson Taylor, they've just released their new single Battles and are getting a lot of attention at the moment.

eviltimeban

HudTaylor wrote: »

You should check out Hudson Taylor, they've just released their new single Battles and are getting a lot of attention at the moment.

Wow, you're not in Hudson Taylor are you? :rolleyes:

HudTaylor

Ha no just a big fan, I'm sure they have better things to do with their time.... like being in a successful band

fiachr_a

Fish go deep.

eviltimeban

HudTaylor wrote: »

Ha no just a big fan, I'm sure they have better things to do with their time.... like being in a successful band

Your username, and your first post being to big up your band... :rolleyes:

curehead

light a big fire