Nun Attax
Nun Attax were a punk band from Cork featuring Finbarr Donnelly (vocals), Ricky Dineen (guitar), Mick Finnegan (guitar/vocals), Philip O’Connell (bass), Keith ‘Smelly’ O’Connell (drums). Mick Finnegan left in 1979 and was replaced by Giordai O’Laoghaire. In July 1980 Giordai O’Laoghaire left to join The Constant Reminders who became Microdisney. In 1981, Donnelly, Dineen and Smelly formed Five Go Down To The Sea and moved to London. Nun Attax recorded a Fanning Session on 9/2/1981 featuring ‘The Woodcutter Song’ / ‘Looking For Words For My Book’ / ‘Alynut’ / ‘Phantom Gobi’ / ‘Eidelweiss’. Dublin Opinion recently featured an excellent interview with Ricky Dineen about the history and evolution of the three bands he was at the heart of; Nun Attax, Five Go Down To The Sea? and Beethoven. Also worth checking out is ‘Get That Monster Off The Stage‘ a radio documentary on Finbarr Donnelly.
‘Looking For Words For My Book‘ (1981)
June 28, 2011 at 11:21 pm
the Nun Attax , Micro Disney and Mean Features in the Arcadia on a Sat night with a cuppa tea and apple tart upstairs after and the spin home to Limerick
Happy Days
June 29, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Full session now online https://fanningsessions.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/nun-attax-1981-session/
December 18, 2015 at 12:05 pm
[…] also included Liam Heffernan on guitar, Lynch’s band featured proudly on that record alongside Nun Attax, who contributed three songs, Urban Blitz and Microdisney. ‘Kaught At The Kampus’ was conceived […]
May 26, 2016 at 11:35 am
Finally published – with 16 new interviews and loads of old contributions published for the first time
Part 1 Cork
View story at Medium.com
Part 2 – London
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