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above: The Sense of Ireland Festival, 1980
photo above left, clockwise from top: the Virgin Prunes, DC Nien, The Atrix and U2.
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Introduction The purpose of this website is to document as many Irish bands from the punk and new wave era as possible. The inspiration was George DeFoe's International Discography of New Wave book, an invaluable resource in the days before internet. The first version of this site adopted a strict policy for inclusion: bands had to be from the right era (1976-1985 approx) and had to be 'punk' to some degree. These criteria were relaxed in later versions and the current policy is inclusive rather than exclusive. You will find indie bands from the late 80s as well as pop-rock, metal, hard rock and new wave-tinged mainstream releases. The cut-off point is roughly 1990. Ideally each band listed should include a bio with photo(s), lineup(s), links to related bands, a full discography with cover scans (front and back) and a brief description of the records. There is still a long way to go. Here is a list of bands I need help with. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many bands I have almost no information about and there are still many omissions. If you can help in any way then please get in touch or post a message to the message board. Other useful resources include fanzines, magazine articles, photographs, setlists, flyers, posters, demo tapes, stuff taped off the radio, etc. Most of all I would like to hear from anyone who was in a band... I've fallen behind with email, so if you have contacted me recently with information or updates and I haven't replied yet, then I apologise for the delay. I will get back to you as soon as possible. Meanwhile here is a quick FAQ to answer some of the commonest questions I get asked. Finally, someone asked if there are any plans to do a book. At the moment the database is far too incomplete to think about doing it anytime soon, but I don't rule it out. Meanwhile, if you don't already own a copy of It Makes You Want To Spit!, then I recommended it highly -- see the links page for details.
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Latest News
18 June 2009:
Popup Annoyance Removed
Spring 2009: Hot Press Website
+++ STOP TEASING ME YOU BASTARDS+++
12 January 2009: You Tube video channel
28 October 2008: Lookalikes CD+DVD
2 October 2008:
RIP Derrick Dalton (Hey Paulette, Mexican Pets, Crumb)
1 October 2008: Site Reorganization
Sept 29th:
The Lookalikes CD on the Italian Snaps Music label is just out. I haven't got
it yet so I can't comment on it's contents. However, it looks tasty: a CD Rom
with an audio part and a multimedia part containing band dicography, history
and photos; and a DVD disc containing vintage videos. Only 200 copies have
been made so get your skates on: www.snapsmusic.com
July 29:
A new label called Beat That Records is looking to release archive material by Irish bands,
either reissues of obscurities or previously unreleased material. Any Irish bands
with vintage recordings should get in touch.
July 14:
Site reorganisation drags on; the 60s/70s side is open soon, a preview is now
available; a blog
for news/updates is under consideration.
June 5:
Site reorganisation nearing completion; the 60s/70s side will be open soon; a better
news/updates section so you can see whats changed on the site will also be available
soon. Stay tuned.
May 14:
A much needed site overhaul is nearing completion (2 days ago I said it was finished
but then I discovered something else to tinker with). The upshot of all this restructuring
is that each band now gets it's own page.
Sept 4: Discography releases of The Lookalikes and The Sweat are in the pipeline.
With regard to the latter, does anyone have vintage photos of Clive Culbertson and/or The Sweat?
There don't seem to be many around. I'll have more news about both these comps shortly.
July 25: Sincere apologies again for taking so long to answer email.
I've just finished a backlog that dates back to April. The site has now
passed the 50,000 hits marker, measuring since January 2004. Not bad...
Mar 20: I apologise to everyone who has emailed me over the past few weeks.
What little free time I have has been spent on relocating the site and
fixing problems. I've also been busy uploading the backlog of photos and
scans I was prevented from using in the past due to space restructions.
I intend to tackle the email backlog ASAP.
Feb 21: I've added a page of video links here
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