St Paddy's Day is this week...need some Irish garage punk recommendations

[whatwave dave]

OK, so this year St Paddy's Day falls on a thursday, and coincidentally i do a radio show on thursdays.

Need some recommendations for some Irish garage punk music...got the usual suspects like Them, Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Boomtown Rats, Radiators From Space, Pogues...

 

Can anyone suggest some others that i've overlooked? 

 

Any Irish 60's garage punks you can think of?

 

tanx

dave

 

[Javier]

Hi folks!

I really like The Urges, from Dublin. I recently listened to The Mighty Atomics and they're not bad at all. Hope this helps.

 

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Cheers!

[Bob]

Hi. More modern bands like Cheap Freaks / The Things / The Urges / The Revellions / The Bonnevilles / The Mighty Atomics 

60's ireland wasn't the best place for garage punk but the singer from the Count 5 Sean Byrne was from Dublin. Eire Apparent were another psych rock. Dr Strangely Strange were a Cork band. The Wheels from nuggets II comp are from Ireland, songs called bad little woman. If you are scrapping the barrel guitarist from Beau Brummels is Irish! plays the harp on Laugh Laugh! :)

 

 

 

 

 

[larryni]

What Javier said.

 

I highly recommend some excellent garage/punk/blues by The Bonnevilles (http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/AndyMotorSounds). Check out The Things and The Revellions as well. Oh, and The Mighty Stef - not so much garage punk, but great for Paddy's Day. Or any day for that matter ;o)

 

Can't think of any other bands at the moment, will get back if I do.

[John Lee D.J.]

You could try the Golden Horde, 80s band from Dublin with some garagepunk/psych/billy isms.

[Mike Humsgreen]

Might be tenuous in terms of garage (it's really Brit Pop) but Ash have a few decent songs on 1977.

[whatwave dave]

The Wheels.....that was the band i was trying to think of.......Road Block, killer garage stomp from 66 on Pebbles 6. Thanx for your help Bob!

Plus they have a bunch of other songs on the English Freakbeat and Sugar Cube comps...including Bad Little Woman which is another killer!

Bob said:

Hi. More modern bands like Cheap Freaks / The Things / The Urges / The Revellions / The Bonnevilles / The Mighty Atomics 

60's ireland wasn't the best place for garage punk but the singer from the Count 5 Sean Byrne was from Dublin. Eire Apparent were another psych rock. Dr Strangely Strange were a Cork band. The Wheels from nuggets II comp are from Ireland, songs called bad little woman. If you are scrapping the barrel guitarist from Beau Brummels is Irish! plays the harp on Laugh Laugh! :)

 

 

 

 

 

[whatwave dave]

And thanx for all of the other help too...completely forgot about The Urges LP that i bought a coupla years back.

 

And Bonnevilles, remember checking them out awhile back and dug them!!

 

Thanx everyone!!!

[Alex]

I'd say the Dropkick Murphys, but they're more punk than garage.  Still good though.

[Duke Of Earl]

Victim&Outcasts spring to mind because I listened to them lately. There was actually a book that came out exclusively about irish punk a few years back so its obvious to me that there was probably quite a few good-uns. No I never read it. I should have though. Im not a very fast reader. Maybe I can find it some day with the luck of me irish luckyyyy charmssss.

[The Fnords]

From a Good Vibrations (Belfast label/record shop) compilation...and this is in order.....Rudi, Victim, The Outcasts, The Undertones, X Dreamysts, Protex, The Idiots, Spider, Ruefrex, The Tearjerkers, The Moondogs, The Shapes, The Bankrobbers, The Bears, The Jets, Shock Treatment, The Lids, The Androids, Terri & the Terrors.

 

Also "Little Monkeys With Lots of Money" CD single/EP (tracks - Daria/Jackie Chan/Feminist). I'd heard Daria (I think) on John Peel's radio show and found myself in Belfast with a bit of time to kill after the 24hr race, so went to Good Vibrations and bought it. More pop than garage punk, but I like it.

 

D.

[Petulant Child]

night on the tiles!!!

The Big Bad Bollocks from Massachusetts

[Mike Humsgreen]

Plus more American than Irish.

Alex said:

I'd say the Dropkick Murphys, but they're more punk than garage.  Still good though.