Rat Salad

Rat salad from; Howth Active; 1976 – 1977
Style; Rock
Line up;
Lead Guitar; Dave Fitzgerald
Guitar; Nicky Barrett
Vocals & Bass; Paul Brown (would later be better known as Jack Dublin of In Tua Nua).
Drums; Robbie Campbell

Left Rat Salad on stage at St Finton’s School.

Many thanks to Robbie Campbell for his help with this page & supplying the above image.

Rat Salad set list

A typical Rat Salad set would consist of the following songs; House of the Rising Son (Animals), Furniture (Horslips), Johnny’s wedding (Horslips), Trouble with a capital T (Horslips), Jean Jeannie (Bowie), I feel like makin love (Bad Company), Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull), Johnny Be Goode (Chuck Berry).

Rocky De Valera & The Grave Diggers

The band split up when Dave Fitzgerald left for college in Galway. Robbie Campbell, Paul Brown & Nicky Barrett would all go on to join the Gravediggers .