Good Galwegian bands.

Jamey · 27-01-2008 8:50pm

mark.leonard wrote: »

Anyone remember Judas Diary? Used to play in the Rosin Dubh back in the day.

Yep. Used to have a good few members from Tuam in them. Came cross an old tape of theirs a few months back.

inisboffin · 28-01-2008 6:04am

..and love Kila, but from Galway they ain't!

Mainly Dubs if not all, at least since they were teenagers stompin' round the same places as me

Love Biscuit!

funkycat83 · 15-05-2008 12:42pm

No banjo
The Rye
The Depravations
Kanyu Tree

galwaybabe · 15-05-2008 1:22pm

The Inflatable Sideshow were great
Anyone remember Big Bag of Sticks? Had many a good boogie to them in the 90's

Mars Bar · 27-11-2008 9:19pm

Nobody mentioned Without George...jeez.

tonyhiggins · 27-11-2008 9:23pm

So Cow...

www.myspace.com/socow

galwaybabe · 25-10-2009 4:54pm

Queen Elvis are an excellent Galway band.

aido179 · 25-10-2009 6:11pm

the god damn liars played the cellar bar last thursday. thought they were really good

coldwood92 · 25-10-2009 7:47pm

The Deans!

stevecrow74 · 25-10-2009 7:49pm

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

siltirocker · 25-10-2009 8:26pm

coldwood92 wrote: »

The Deans!

Good guitar based blues these boys play, personally i find it mind numbing when i hear 8 or 12 bar blues on the run the whole time (i suppose thats what the blues are though

). But as many as i may know that loathe them, there is just as many who go bat sh1t for them.

Personally THE RYE who play Aras naGael the whole time always get me going and i am surprised it hasn't been mention much b4 on this thread.

Then the usual Cartoon Thieves, Saw Doctors, Kanyu Tree (again, not my forte, but if ur into it they're great), etc.

inisboffin · 25-10-2009 9:35pm

The Rye did get a shout already.

Elevation Blues Band (they don't play that much)

Was at the last No Banjo gig before the Cartoon Thieves morph;) Deadly!

bigeasyeah · 25-10-2009 10:11pm

The Saw Doctors

coldwood92 · 25-10-2009 10:24pm

leninbenjamin wrote: »

Tuam doesn't count.

took the words right out of my thing thats called a mouth!

coldwood92 · 25-10-2009 10:31pm

coldwood92 wrote: »

The Deans!

there from Athenry by the way

www.thedeans.ie/
www.myspace.com/deansrockandroll

also Fraggle Rock Wedding Band

EdwardSav · 26-10-2009 12:30am

Rural Savage
Besht band in Galway and if you dont believe me I will physically rumble with you in Eyre Square fifties style, leather jackets, switchblades. Might have to use ice creams instead of knives, more civilised.

happyoutscan · 26-10-2009 2:38pm

This Nachez from Headford are mighty.

Mars Bar · 26-10-2009 2:57pm

galwaybabe wrote: »

Queen Elvis are an excellent Galway band.

So that's what Geoff and Tom are up to these days!

Stonelakes are fantastic and I'm liking The Coonics a lot!

Mars Bar · 26-10-2009 2:58pm

And The Timbertramps!

siltirocker · 26-10-2009 10:05pm

inisboffin wrote: »

The Rye did get a shout already.

Elevation Blues Band (they don't play that much)

Was at the last No Banjo gig before the Cartoon Thieves morph;) Deadly!

I know, what i said was "Personally THE RYE who play Aras naGael the whole time always get me going and i am surprised it hasn't been mention much b4 on this thread."

Personally im not liking this stuff with Sharon Shannon (as regards the Carton Thieves).:(

Doctor_Socks · 26-10-2009 11:07pm

Another good Galway band to look out for are Dharma Rose, seen them in the Cellar last week. Put on a really good show

galwaybabe · 27-10-2009 3:20am

mars bar wrote: »

So that's what Geoff and Tom are up to these days!

You can't keep good men down!

inisboffin · 27-10-2009 3:56am

siltirocker wrote: »

I know, what i said was "Personally THE RYE who play Aras naGael the whole time always get me going and i am surprised it hasn't been mention much b4 on this thread."

Personally im not liking this stuff with Sharon Shannon (as regards the Carton Thieves).:(

Ya, I wouldn't count lack of mentions as a count of quality;) I think people often don't mention if it's already there.

Yeah, only caught one or 2 tracks as Cartoon Thieves. Love Sharon's stuff, but think the more traditional blues stuff from No Banjo did it more for me.

Mars Bar · 27-10-2009 3:42pm

galwaybabe wrote: »

You can't keep good men down!

Truth!

dantbyhid · 27-10-2009 5:08pm

active punk/hc/metal bands from around the area (not just the city btw)

Cut The Reins
Only Fumes & Corpses
Neifenbach
Les Christpunchers
Crystal Snowstorm
Blackeye Express
Space Monkey
AntiTrust
Beanz On Toast
Bacchus
Negativ Result
Trenches
Bahfiddle
Blasterbra
Wokajo
Black Tooth
Transgress
Psychopigs
Legion
Rednecks On Speed
Kamikaze

Anyone care to add some more original acts from the area? No point in mentioning bands that aren't giging or anything really.

inisboffin · 27-10-2009 5:32pm

There are a fair few solo acts that are great, gigging with different musicians, but I don't think they really count as 'bands'.

ahem · 30-10-2009 1:50pm

The God Damn Liars are really good, they took over the Sunday night No Banjo residency in the Roisins...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unTJKD263CM

stevecrow74 · 30-10-2009 7:32pm

surprised no one has mentioned lakes on fire...http://www.myspace.com/lakesonfireirl

eamon234 · 31-10-2009 11:12am

mark.leonard wrote: »

Anyone remember Judas Diary? Used to play in the Rosin Dubh back in the day.

Jesus that's going back a bit - I remember the guitarist looked like Otto the school bus driver from the Simpsons!

A band I was in was in the final of a big Battle of the Bands in the old Setanta night club with them - we won. They were not pleased!

There's a huge amount of apathy towards original music in Galway both by punters (90% only seem to want covers) and musicians (most of the good ones just play in cover bands for the money) and feck all support from venues. It's a complete waste of time trying to be in an original band there.

JERLon · 08-03-2010 6:20pm

Weightless Astronauts are great. Expensive but worth it.

Good Galwegian bands.

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