I need a complete list of Irish bands!

[Lautremont]

I'm sitting in for a friend who has a college radio show this Thursday. Since it's St. Patty's day, I'd like to play as much Irish music as I can, and I'll be grateful for your input.

Don't worry about listing U2, The Cranberries or Van Morrison. I need to go beyond! Far beyond!

I thank you.

[yvr girl]

1. I have vague memories of a TV show about the "Irish Rovers"

[Lautremont]

37. You're right - I should play their theme song.

I used to watch the first five minutes of their show every week.

[Arkana]

2. Flogging Molly

and the Dropkick Murphys?

[Maeve]

3. Cribbing from Accuradio's Celtic list

Afro Celt Sound System
Altan
Another Pint
Anúna
Bachue
Banshee in the Kitchen
Barra
Harriet Bartlett
Brian Baynes
Bill Jones
Black 47
Mary Black
Luka Bloom
Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars
Bohola
Brendan Bolger, Marty Fahy, Kathleen Gavin
Border Lord
The Borderers
Robin Huw Bowen
Paul Brady
Brother
Anne Buckley
Xose Manuel Budino
Kevin Burke / Michael Ó Domhnaill
Fil Campbell
Paddy Canny
Capercaillie
Liz Carroll
Eliza Carthy
Karan Casey
The Cast
Alison Browne
Andre Marchand
Carlos Nunez
Colin Watson
Cucunandy
Daniel Lapp
Dave McIsaac / Mary MacDonald
Fine Friday
J. Holland
Joe Derrane / Frankie Gavin
Joe Peter Maclean
John MacLean
Liz Carroll
Margaret Bennett
Phil Cunningham
Sharon Shannon / Natalie MacMaster
Shawn MacDonald
The Barra MacNeils
The Rankins
Celtic Harp Orchestra
The Celtic Tenors
Chantan
Cherish The Ladies
The Chieftains and Friends
Aoife Clancy
Clannad
Kevin Conneff
Deirdre Connolly
Johnny B. Connolly
Paddy Connolly
Andy Cooney
Cooper, Nelson, and Early
The Cottars
Gavin Coyle
Éamonn Coyne
Croppies
Dalriada
John Daly
Danú
Christopher Dean
Deanta
Deiseal
Bert Deivert / Christy O Leary
Tim Dennehy
Sandy Denny
Dervish
The Devil's Advocates
Cara Dillon
Mary Dillon
Dóchas, An
Connie Dover
John Doyle
Sean Doyle
Seamus Egan
The Electrics
Ennis Sisters
Enya
Mairin Fahy
The Fenians
Ffynnon
Tim Flannery
Flook
Alasdair Fraser
Alasdair Fraser and Tony McManus
Gaelic Storm
Ian Gallagher
James Galway
Vince Gill
Glen Road
Kieran Goss
Annie Grace
Green Linnet 25th Anniversary
GrooveLily
Brian Hanlon and Donal Donnelly
Steve Holloway
Winifred Horan
Michael Hynes and Dennis Liddy
The Indulgers
The Irish Descendants
The Irish Film Orchestra
The Irish Film Orchestra and Derek Bell
The Irish Sopranos
Andy Irvine
Eileen Ivers
Sian James
Jayah
The JollyBeggars
Bill Jones
KÍLA
Liz and Yvonne Kane
Dolores Keane
Sean Keane
Brian Kelly
Brian Kennedy
Thomas Kennedy
Kilbride
Kilfenora Céili Band, The
Liz Knowles
Kornóg
Mary Jane Lamond
The Larkin and Moran Brothers
Leahy
Michael Londra
Lúnasa
Dónal Lunny
Oisín Mac Diarmada
RS MacDonald
Natalie MacMaster
Frank MacNamara
Barra MacNeils
Catherine Ann MacPhee
Mike Marshall and Chris Thile
Karen Matheson
Kathy Mattea
Emer Mayock
Kay McCarthy
John McCusker
Eleanor McEvoy
Johnny McEvoy
John McGlynn
Susan McKeown
The McKrells
Katie McMahon
Tony McManus
Frank McNamara
Méav
Milladoiro
Aine Minogue
Bernadette Moley
Mick Moloney
Van Morrison / The Chieftains
Mozaik
Karl Nesbitt
Mairéad Nesbitt
Lasairfhiona Ní Chonaola
Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill
Triona Ní Dhomhnaill
Aoife Ní Fhearraigh
Maighread Ní Mhaonaigh
Nightnoise
North Cregg
Carlos Nunez
Tim O Brien
Maura O Connell
Sinead O Connor
O'Douling
Kieran O' Hare
Íarla O' Lionard
Liam O' Maoinlaoi
Roisin O Reilly
Karie Oberg
Old Blind Dogs
Niamh Parsons
Patrick Street
Tommy Peoples
The Poozies
Providence
Putumayo
Quagmyre
Mary Rafferty
Rag Foundation
The Rankin Family
Eddi Reader
Relativity
Bonnie Rideout
Rise
Davie Robertson
Fromseier Rose
Rosheen
Rua
Kate Rusby
Cathie Ryan
Faustino Santalices
Mark Saul
The Saw Doctors
Searson
Susana Seivane
Seven Nations
Sham Rock
Shoormal
Sissel
John Skelton & Kieran O'Hare
Skyedance
Michael Snow
Son De Seu
Andy Stewart / Manus Lunny
Switchback
Heidi Talbot
The Tannahill Weavers
Téada
Tir Na Nóg
Trian
Tulla Céili Band
Uisce
Greenland Whalefishers
John Whelan and Friends
Silly Wizard
Wolfstone
A Woman's Heart
Richard Wood

That should get you started....http://www.radiocelt.com/

[H2O Man]

23. Great list!

(It's the WolfTones, not Wolfstone,however.)

[Maeve]

30. Both groups exist, but Wolfstone is actually Scots

http://www.wolfstone.co.uk/

[demnan]

4. Irish Music bands?

The Chieftans, Gaelic Storm, Clannad are three that come to mind.

[HereSince1628]

5. Well there's Silly Sisters, Silly Wizard, and Shooglenifty.

The later is a fusion of Celtic and Contemporary Rock.

They are much more interesting to listen to than the Clancey Brothers and their bloody overplayed "Irish Rover."

[mark414]

6. hmm

pogues
van morrison
black 47
the waterboys

flogging molly and dropkick murphies (american bands with a celtic twist)

the dubliners
the chieftans

umm i'll remember some more later

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Thin Lizzy!

And, of course, the Pogues.

[KitchenWitch]

8. Clannad

The Irish Rovers

[Lautremont]

9. You guys are great!

However (and I should have said this off the top) I need more of a rock and less of a celtic emphasis. Still, many good suggestions so far! Thanks.

[Maeve]

12. Go to RadioCelt

You'll get a list of just rockers, or just progressive...or just men...just women... or just trad.

[Debi]

10. Drop Kick Murphys

and the Spicy McHaggis Jig!!

[jonnyblitz]

13. wow you know of them? (drop kick murphys)

they are from Boston...:hi:

[Debi]

17. I've heard a couple of their songs

and they're damn fun listening....concerts have to be crazy!

[RevolutionaryActs]

11. The Corrs, Flogging Molly, Sinead O’Connor, Thin Lizzy

All I can think of off the top of my head. :hi:

[Debi]

18. Thin Lizzy?

Never thought of you as Glam Rock Diva....:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

19. Haha yes!

Thin Lizzy rocks. Glam Rock, er rocks! :silly:

[Debi]

21. Don't tell me,

you're too young to remember glam rock aren't you?

Damn I'm getting old :grr:


try this site:

http://free.angeltowns.com/intstsoul/glam.html

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. hahaha

Well.. I'll tell you this much. I'm 19.

But I do like Glam Rock. :7

[Debi]

24. Akkkk

I'm 37 - you could be my kid....are you??? :hangover: Did I not recall?

[RevolutionaryActs]

25. Mommy!

:silly:

LMAO. :P

[Debi]

26. OMG...

I've done such a poor job for the last 19 years...What can I do to make it up to you my little Rev :loveya:

[RevolutionaryActs]

27. Buy me a pony!

:+

[TyeDye75]

14. The Thrills

[warrens]

15. The Waterboys, Horslips, Pogues

[Kellanved]

16. Here you go

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=irish+band&btnG=Search

[Reverend_Smitty]

20. Can't have St. Paddy's day without the Pogues!

I'll be listening to them and watching the NY parade. And finish off the day with a few Guinness'

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

28. The Tranqs

[Bzzzz]

29. Cherish the Ladies and

Aine Minogue, Relativity, Capercaillie, and The Clancy Brothers...to name a few. :toast:

[July]

31. Kilbrannan (Buffalo area). nt

[Mean Streets]

32. DKM

Dropkick Murphys are easily my favorite band. Great American rock with some amazing Irish covers. (Wild Rover, Rocky Road To Dublin). For those of you who don't know about them, I think you should check 'em out. I really think they should have played the convention in Boston. They have a lot of songs about the working class and labor unions. It's nothing but the Murphys for me this St. Paddy's day.

[masshole]

33. The two best Irish bands IMO

Stiff Little Fingers and the Undertones

One pure punk, one pure pop.

[mark414]

34. ohhh i forgot clann zu

[name not needed]

35. Dropkick Murphys

They're from Boston, but they should work just fine.

[no name no slogan]

36. Virgin Prunes...

...whose first guitar player was Dik, aka Richard Evans, the brother of U2's The Edge.

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. Boomtown Rats

Give Geldof his due. And The Commitments for cover versions (well, sort of a real band).

[Squeech]

39. Planxty

Best Celtic band ever, in my not so humble opinion. The real stuff, no synthesizers, even occasionally singing in Gaelic. I think they kick De Danann's and Altan's ass. (Although check them out too.)

You do know that Cherish the Ladies and Dropkick Murphys are American, right? As long as you know that, you might also want to play Black 47.

[liontamer]

40. bewitched

not sure what kind of music show you have though

[Lautremont]

41. It's your basic alterno-rock show, with room for almost anything.

Too much Celtic would cause complaints, though, I think. So I'll have to mix it up.

Thanks all, again.

[liontamer]

43. well bewitched is very pop

they were hailed as the irish spice girls.

[Blue Gardener]

42. Not quite Irish

But Lorenna McKennitt and Ashley McIsaac are the next best thing. "Mummer's Dance" by McKennitt is fantastic.
I still like the soundtrack from Riverdance also.