the Baby Snakes
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| origin = Dublin, Ireland
| genre = New wave, garage rock
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| years_active = {{Start date|1985}}–{{End date|1993}}
| label = FOAD, Santides
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| past_members = Frank Rynne
Colin Byrne
Daragh McCarthy
John Bonnie
Ciaran O'Brien
Jeff Nilson
Nigel Preston
Alex Hooper
Anthony O'Neill
Tom Hooper
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The Baby Snakes were an Irish rock band formed in 1985. The original line-up featured Frank Rynne, Niall O'Sullivan and Johnny Bonney. In October 1985 they recorded a radio session for Dave Fanning's RTÉ radio show and reached No. 13 in Fanning's Fab 50, an end-of-year listeners poll, in December 1985. Their first L.P., Sweet Hunger, featured Brian Downey from Thin Lizzy on drums. Their second L.P. was produced by Dave Goodman. In 1988, after a BBC Radio 1 session for Janice Long, the band moved to London with new drummer Stephen R Kennedy [now a hydro engineer in France] who previously played in a band headed by Noel Phelan (now a house DJ) where they played a mix of underground venues as well as The Marquee.{{cite web|title=The Baby Snakes|url=http://www.ovguide.com/the-baby-snakes-9202a8c04000641f8000000008cfb834#|publisher=ovguide.com|accessdate=15 December 2013}}
Discography
- Song "Johnny" – Various Artists – Weird Weird World of Guru Weirdbrain LP – Hotwire Records – HWLP8505 – IRL – 1985
- Songs for Subliminal Kids EP 7" – Santides Records – SAN 0057 – IRL – 1987
- This City Sucks (live) – Cassette FOAD Records – ??? – January 1988
- Sweet Hunger LP FOAD Records – FOAD 7 – June 1988 Produced by Ian Bryon and Paul Thomas.
- Rebel Radio LP – Santides Records – SAN0089 – July 1990 Produced by Dave Goodman
- Looking for Strange (Cassette) – Santides, 1990
- Four Foot Tapping Greats EP 7" – Santides Records – SUE 66 – UK – 1992 Four Johnny Cash covers, 2 recorded in mono.
References
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Further reading
- Ambrose, Joe; Wilson, Terry; and Rynne, Frank (1992). Man from Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment With William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Autonomedia. {{ISBN|0-9520217-0-6}}.
- Rynne, Frank (October 2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928105828/http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/october2005/articles/frankrynne.htm "Paris Notes by Frank Rynne"]. The Handstand. Retrieved 14 Jan. 2007.
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpldzKQYRhQ The Baby Snakes "Fade" on Anything Goes, RTE, 1984]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdD1Wo-jcw The Baby Snakes "Looking for Strange" on Megamix, RTE, 1987]
- [http://irishrock.org/irodb/bands/babysnakes.html Profile of The Baby Snakes']
- [http://www.joujouka.net Master Musicians of Joujouka official site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929114317/http://joujouka.net/2Legacy/41/mohamed-hamri-obituary-in-the-independent-london Obituary of Hamri by Frank Rynne.] The Independent, London, 19 October 2000
- [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/may/13/ira-cohen-obituary Ira Cohen obituary] by Frank Rynne. The Guardian (UK), 13 May 2011
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Category:Irish rock music groups
Category:Irish new wave musical groups
Category:Irish garage rock groups
Category:Musical groups established in 1985
Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1993
Category:1985 establishments in Ireland
Category:1993 disestablishments in Ireland
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