Hate when you start a thread and nobody picks up on it :-( Anyway, some of Thin Lizzy, U2, Kila, Declan O'Rourke, Paul Brady, Sinead O'Connor, Pogues, Damien Rice, The Frames, Damien Dempsey could easily make the list. Maybe the thread should be What Irish Artists To Not Let Out Of The Country? I hear some of you screaming Aslan, Six, The Frames. Oh and can Van Morrison be classed as Irish? I know he topped the poll with 'Astral Weeks' in the Hotpress Best Irish Albums list.

Christy Moore Sweeney's Men Planxty Paul Brady The Pogues Microdisney The Stars of Heaven Thin Lizzy Van Morrison My Bloody Valentine The Great Western Squares Kila Contemporary-wise? At a push... Gemma Hayes Barry McCormack The Redneck Manifesto

It would depend on whether you're trying to educate them on days gone by, or tipping them off on future developments.. Personally I'd do both. Educate them with: Paul Brady Declan O'Rourke Damien Rice Hothouse Flowers The 4 of US The Stunning Thin Lizzy Horslips Damien Dempsey The Undertones And introduce them to: Don Mescall Republic of Loose Neil White Duped The Rubens Albert Niland

If the discs were going to one of my Scandanavian friends, I'd have to put some Frames and JJ72 on there. Why? Something to do with their national temperment I guess, they tend to love the dramatic quiet/loud thing. As for more making the disc more intersting (read self-indulgent), I would include: CH-1 (have these guys even got a record out yet? only heard some MP3s so far, not even seen them live) Rollerskate Skinny Neosupervital Tychonaut The Plague Monkeys Dirty Beatniks (that "Disco Dancing Machines" track, class.) Cane 141 Divine Comedy NPB Tempted to include My Bloody Valentine, but I think its a bit of a tenuous link to call them Irish.

a house, whipping boy

A House Brian Cane 141 God is an Astronaut The Frank and Walters David Holmes David Kitt Rollerskate Skinny Whipping Boy

punchbowl, where can i get some cane 141 stuff? have a video from no disco taped at home someplace, years old, remember thinkin it was brilliant. anyway, my two cents: where are Big Generator and No Sweat on these lists?(im doin a scissors kick in my lycra right about now) these lists are all pretty cool,just too many singer songwriter types who seem only able to write songs about relationships and the strugle to maintain their sanity throughout their relativly easy lives. OK every now an again but all the time is too much for this fan of good music. my addition is confined to the Teac a Bloc DVD/ play/CD, by pupeteer Des Dillon.

'How The West Was Won' by Energy Orchard Great band, great video, great rockin' tune.

'punchbowl, where can i get some cane 141 stuff? ' Hey Mutch, try here : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6307127457/qid=1106139940/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl14/103-0851921-2427058?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I'd reccomend buying it from the label directly. Cane 141 were on Decor which was an imprint of Setanta: http://www.setantarecords.com/php/products.php?art_id=5 Personally I only really got into them when I picked up a copy of "Garden Tiger Moth" for some ridiculously cheap price not so long ago in a local record store (I think it was part of a 3 for 15 euro thing or something). They appear to have changed labels since so I'm not sure where you'd get the new stuff.

cane141 now signed to a japanese label called Play. Check www.cane141.com for where to get the single. other suggestions for cool Irish stuff Microdisney The Radio The Cranberries (first album and first album only) Horslips Van Morrison (Its Too Late To Stop Now) Gemma Hayes

martin finke david kitt damien dempsey

martin finke is pretty darn good alright if your in the mood

Isnt that a contradiction? She's getting a band together for a solo project? But besides that, I believe she is putting a new band together. I'm wondering if Noel Hogan is involved in the writing - he co-penned pretty much all of their big hits with Delores.

Ah you know what I meant ;-) One very well respected memeber of the Dublin music fraternity that has played with EVERYONE has signed up apparently. Where that leaves his own project I'd like to know.

Anychance of a hint Unicron??