Cut The Bag

• Dee MacDowell - lead vocals
• Jimmy Riddle - backing vocals
• Greg Caffery - guitar
• Brendan Kelly - bass
• Aidan Ferguson - keyboards
• Gerard Scott - drums
  
  
  Cut The Bag at Broadcasting House in Belfast.
  [photo courtesy Gerry Scott]
  

Bio:

Originally a mod band called Switch the Mood which changed its name around 1986/87 to Cut The Bag, who went on to win a Battle Of The Bands at Queens University and play throughout Ireland. They also did some local TV appearances around 1988.

Jimmy Riddle worked at Outlet Studios in Belfast with Cell Fay and the band was able to practice and record many demos at this studio. Nothing was ever released. These recordings are influenced by mod and 60’s Motown as well as Paul Weller and Elvis Costello. Dee MacDowell and Brendan Kelly were the main songwriters.

The band split around 1991. Brendan Kelly joined That Petrol Emotion. Greg Caffery went on to become classically trained and is now the head of music at a music college in Northern Ireland.

track: Hung Up And Hung Over

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