In the first week of September 2015, Keith Kelly, who writes for Indie Limerick, plays for Randolf and the Crokers  hosted The People of Limerick account. During his tenure, he created a list of 35 Limerick bands. Many thanks to Keith for allowing us to reproduce this list, which can be found here Brilliant Limerick Bands. Since then, we have been adding to the list.

A link to the Twitter account of the band or musician, and an example of their music has been added where available, those in italics we have not found a link to their music or social media account

The following are in alphabetical order (by surname if a singer).

Enjoy!

  1. 16 Tons of Jive
  2. 202s – Shoot you Down
  3. Acoustra – The Sea Jig
  4. Anna’s Anchor  – Mirabell
  5. Arkitekt
  6. At The Window
  7. Average Contents
  8. Azure Days – Top of Love
  9. Beoga – Home Cookin’
  10. Big Generator (Bass player from Limerick) – Heaven
  11. Big John’s Bootleggin Band
  12. Bleeding Heart Pigeons – A Hallucination
  13. Blue Meanies
  14. Brad Pitt Light Orchestra – Grace Jones
  15. Bud Clancy’s Band
  16. Campaign LK – The Wickedness
  17. Nick Carswell & The Elective Orchestra – Folks Like Us
  18. Catcher and The Rye – Crazy Wise Man
  19. Denise Chaila – Anseo ft Jafaris
  20. Changing Trains – Won’t Let You Down
  21. Cars That Ate Paris
  22. CASSAVETES – Only way to heaven
  23. Colors (Glen Brennan)
  24. Cruiser – No More Parties
  25. Daterippers
  26. Dead Red Light – Out of Time
  27. Decato
  28. Peter Delaney – Duck Egg Blue
  29. Delorean Suite – Alone
  30. Deviant & Naive Ted – The Inevitable Heel Turn
  31. dREA – Father is a Drummer
  32. Tommy Drennan – O Holy Night
  33. Laura Duff – Wayside
  34. Emaf
  35. Keith Forde – Pop them Pills
  36. Fallings (Based in Limerick 2010-2014) – I Want To Be
  37. Fall Dogs – Waving at Magpies
  38. Farran Folk – The Famine Song
  39. Flag Listeners
  40. Fred – Skyscrapers (Bass Player from Limerick)
  41. Freelance – The Runner
  42. Fox Jaw – Hatch Sixteen
  43. Fun Bobby
  44. Gimik (1976-81)
  45. Giveamanakick – Say No to Sports
  46. Granny’s Intentions – Never an ending thing
  47. Headgear – Singing in the Drain
  48. Hedfuzy – Black River
  49. Hermitage Green – Jenny
  50. Hey Rusty – Enamoured of the Miniscule
  51. His Father’s Voice – No Room for Romance
  52. IOUS
  53. Iron Mountain – Opium
  54. Ivan St John – There You Stand
  55. Jester
  56. Journeyman – Live at Thomond House
  57. John Kenny – Spancil Hill
  58. Cillian King plays with Notify Band & Atlas – Could Be Kings (solo)
  59. Knapweed
  60. Emma Langford – Sowing Acorns
  61. Last Days of Death County – Strung Out
  62. Leading Armies – All in Between
  63. Maser Hare (1974-1976)
  64. Yvonne McCarthy – You Don’t Know Me
  65. Men Of Twenty – Cheap Carnival
  66. Monday Villains – Soap Bar
  67. Monoband
  68. Moscow Metro – Spirit of the City
  69. Moxie – What Lies Behind the Walls
  70. MuRli – Surface Tension
  71. New Year Rejects
  72. Nuralgia
  73. Nubus – Taped Sketches (Full Album)
  74. Brian O’Brien – Fake Smile
  75. Siobhan O’Brien – America
  76. Brian O’Connor – If I Needed you
  77. Mark O’Connor – 23 (Album)
  78. Shardborne – A Room within a Room
  79. Shaun O’Dowd & Ding-A-Ling– Live performance
  80. Mike O’Mahony
  81. Eoin & Moley Ó’Súilleabháin – Size2shoes
  82. Out of the Fog
  83. Parliament Square – Forest Fire
  84. Posing Briefs
  85. Powpig – Birds of Paradise
  86. Post Punk Podge and the Technohippies – Hard Man
  87. Private World – Change the Room
  88. Proper Micro NV
  89. Protobaby – State of Affairs
  90. Randolf and the Crokers – Hangin’
  91. Reform – You gotta get up
  92. Roper – Regardless We Rust
  93. Rubberbandits – Horse Outside
  94. Rusangano Family & My Name is John – God Knows Full Album
  95. Same D4ence
  96. Section 17
  97. Seans Walk – Regrets
  98. Secret Police – Believe
  99. Senakah – Human Relations
  100. Septimius – Rose, Mary, and Time
  101. Silent Noise Parade (Limerick & Nenagh) – Fears
  102. Sisters – Hold Me Closer Tiny Christmas
  103. Slackjaw – Brilliant Sunshine
  104. Strange Boy
  105. John Steele – The Lucky One
  106. Supermodel Twins – One Step Behind
  107. Surrealists
  108. T.A. Narrative – Playful Resister
  109. The Alvin Purple Experience – Does Your Mother Know
  110. The Altered Hours – Convertible Album
  111. The Charming
  112. The Coup
  113. The Cranberries – Zombie
  114. The Cranberry Saw Us
  115. The Drive
  116. The Driven – Jesus Love You More If You Can Drive
  117. The Experts
  118. The Fewer The Better
  119. The Groove – Preachers Paradise
  120. The Hip-Neck Blues Collective – Bill Murray
  121. The Hitchers – Big Mug
  122. The Knights of Rutland
  123. The Last Resort
  124. The Madhatters
  125. The Monguls
  126. The O’Malleys – We’re All Green
  127. The Outfit – Radiation (1982)
  128. The Racklers – Get West & Ta The Ta
  129. The Rivermen
  130. The Rhythm Sector
  131. The Stray Saints
  132. The White Falls Band
  133. Theme Tune Boy – Recess
  134. They Do it With Mirrors – I’m As Furious As An Ox Who Has Been Refused A Seat On A Bus
  135. This One’s For Her
  136. Tooth – that corporate emotion lp
  137. Those Stilted Boys
  138. Toucandance – Radon Daughters Live
  139. Touch of Oliver – Weight
  140. Treehouse Diner – Whatever Happened to Lucy
  141. Tripper Humane – Discoland
  142. Tuesday Blue – Shibumi 1988 (Full Album)
  143. Kathleen Turner (Limerick Based) – Danger
  144. Up The Downstairs
  145. Utopian puppets
  146. Van Panther – Home
  147. Vesta Varro – Exit Here
  148. Eugene Wallace (1950-1999) – Dangerous
  149. Barry Warner – Real Man
  150. Walter Mitty and the Realists – Green Light Go
  151. Warsaw Radio – Lost Her in Sound
  152. We Come in Pieces – Beefy Clyro
  153. We Should Be Dead – Forget Romance, Lets Dance
  154. whenyoung – The Others
  155. Windings – This is a Conversation
  156. Woodstar –  Dumb Punk Song
  157. X-it

If you know of other great Limerick bands, or have links to the italicised bands’ music, please let us know via our contact form or on Twitter, and we will add them to the list.

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