[Music] Irish Music - No Bono required

[Stato]

BBC4 are repeating an old TOTP2 show of Irish hits. I caught it on St Patrick's Night and, like the Aussie themed one I moaned about a while back, the selection was so dull and pedestrian. Okay they are limited to TOTP appearances, but this doesn't excuse padding the show with no less than 4 U2 appearances.

Come on then NSC. We're not limited to bands who appeared on TOTP. Post your favourite tunes by Irish artists old and new.

Here are a couple to start:

A House's underrated glam rock throwback from the 1990s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBRcv7Olk0I

And I have to post Microdisney because nobody else will. This should have been a massive hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nkkWa_B-_k

 

[Stato]

And answering my own question The Tearjerkers being introduced by Peel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0uejZo8OWY&list=PLuw2PhExbxjnoy7t8hWWrMtOmf8xCS8zW&index=34

 

[HastingsSeagull]

I wonder how many people are going to try and look cool before a certain poptastic hit is posted

 

[smillie's garden]

 

[Happy Exile]

 

[marlowe]

Planxty : Raggle Taggle Gypsy

https://youtu.be/JyP407UnUWw

 

[marlowe]

I like this song by Dick Gaughan but he's Scottish so here's Irish singer Donna Taggart's version which I hadn't heard before... beautiful song...

https://youtu.be/1yYCXs-0asI

 

[Hugo Rune]

https://youtu.be/pAFMRidb4kk

 

[Worried Man Blues]

https://youtu.be/j3QJPxiLOPo

 

[Icy Gull]

John Peel used to play these guys a fair bit

https://youtu.be/K7cfNEW3pCY

 

[Icy Gull]

Thought I’d go with this rather than the original

https://youtu.be/ZUivpVh53L0

 

[Bakero]

Surprised no one's mentioned these guys yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNXrKBt76zI

 

[portlock seagull]

BBC4 are repeating an old TOTP2 show of Irish hits. I caught it on St Patrick's Night and, like the Aussie themed one I moaned about a while back, the selection was so dull and pedestrian. Okay they are limited to TOTP appearances, but this doesn't excuse padding the show with no less than 4 U2 appearances.

Come on then NSC. We're not limited to bands who appeared on TOTP. Post your favourite tunes by Irish artists old and new.

Here are a couple to start:

A House's underrated glam rock throwback from the 1990s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBRcv7Olk0I

And I have to post Microdisney because nobody else will. This should have been a massive hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nkkWa_B-_k

Maybe it’s because u2 were/are the biggest rock band in the world, and to ever come out of Ireland, that they made more appearances at the BBC than say Jedward?

 

[Icy Gull]

Maybe it’s because u2 were/are the biggest rock band in the world, and to ever come out of Ireland, that they made more appearances at the BBC than say Jedward?

I’ll go against the OPs request with one U2 song because it reminds me of Championship football highlights back when we didn’t see the Albion on TV that often and streams were more to do with water flowing

I think of football whenever I hear this (rather good) song

https://youtu.be/co6WMzDOh1o

 

[Super Steve Earle]

An early musical favourite of mine. I still have a couple of their vinyl albums from the 60's on Major Minor records. The label was always important to me.

 

[Yes Chef]

https://youtu.be/ljPFZrRD3J8

 

[Live by the sea]

The corrs

 

[Perfidious Albion]

An old favourite of mine

 

[lawros left foot]

I might start another thread with just U2 music on it, I’ll do it for free, as well.

Sort of Pro Bono.

 

[Icy Gull]

I might start another thread with just U2 music on it, I’ll do it for free, as well.

Sort of Pro Bono.

Kill three birds with one stone make it a U2, Oasis, Sting thread