The Hitchers

The Hitchers June 1997 L-R Hoss Carnage, Niall Quinn, Andy Gallagher, Eric Fitzgerald

From Limerick, The Hitchers were Andy Gallagher (vocals, guitars), Niall Quinn (vocals, drums), Hoss Carnage (bass, vocals), Eric Fitzgerald (guitars, vocals). Past members include Eoin O’Kelly (vocals 1989-91), Brendan ‘Benny’ McCormack (guitar 1989-90), Frank Ryan (bass 2000-01), Donnacha Twoomey (guitar 1989). They recorded this Fanning session in 1997 and it was re-broadcast on the Dan Hegarty show in 2006 as part of his ‘Classic Session’ series. Niall Quinn is currently active with Theme Tune Boy who are about to release an album ‘Return of the Living Dead’ on 4-3-3 music on January 19th 2013. The album launch party takes place the same day in The Blind Pig, Thomas Street, Limerick.

Human Skull (1997)

You Can Only Love Someone (1997)

U Can Du (1997)

At The Seaside (1997)

The Cranberries (1993 Session)

Last night Dan Hegarty repeated the long sought after 1993 session by Limerick band The Cranberries on his RTE 2fm show ‘The Alternative To Sleep’. Dan expressly thanked producer Ian Wilson who obviously had the non trivial task of tracking the original session tape down in the RTE archive. Incidentally there is currently a project underway at RTE to digitise this archive and we await the results with great anticipation. The night this session was recorded the band dropped into Dave Fanning in studio for an interview and you can listen to a recording here.

The Icicle Melts

Wanted

Like You Used To

False

The Reindeer Age – K7 – Xeric Records (1990)

To coincide with the release of ‘The New Reindeer Age‘ the Indie Limerick blog has uploaded a copy of the original cassette release. Featuring a who’s who of Limerick acts the album was recorded in late 1989 and released in 1990 on Xeric Records. The full lineup was The O’Malleys, Private World, Tuesday Blue, Up The Downstairs, They Do It With Mirrors, The Separators, The Drive, Toucandance, Perfect Moment, The Surrealists, The Hitchers, Big Johns Bottleggin’ Band, Utopian Puppets, X-It, Preachers Story, Mike O’Mahony.

The Reindeer Age in the Limerick Leader

We recently featured a track from the 1990 Xeric Records collection of Limerick artists ‘The Reindeer Age’. Well it appears there is a second Reindeer Age project in the works, the folks over at IndieLimerick are organizing a charity album featuring unsigned Limerick acts. The facebook page has a few newspaper articles from back in the day including the one featured above which shows managing director of Xeric Records, Pearse Gilmore the man behind the original project. Pearse was also of course a member of aforementioned Private World. On a related note, if anyone has a copy of the Private World demo ‘Severity’ we’d love to hear from you..