Trenchtown

Trenchtown From; Drogheda Active; 1987 – 1993
Style; Ska
Vocals & Bass; Robbie Caffrey
Lead Guitar; David Leslie R.I.P.
Guitar; Alan Kenny
Drums; Dave O’Neill Trombone; Ged Campbell Mark Christie played Drums for their first few gigs in ’87

Trenchtown were the support band for the Bad Manners gig at the Boxing Club in Drogheda.

Image supplied by Ciaron McAleer

On 09/12/1989 Trenchtown played at the 1st Irish Ska festival at the Top Hat in Dun Loughaire.

Trenchtown along with fellow Drogheda bands Apple Market In Eden & Pressed By John. Play a triple bill charity concert at the Swan Inn, Drogheda. n aid of the national Aids fund.

The competition is held at Sir Henry’s, in Cork over 5 weeks. With the winner each week going on to the final.

Heat 1, 3rd May The Sugar Rays (Navan), October (Fermanagh), The Elite (Dublin), The Surrealists (Ennis).

Winner; The Surrealists

Heat 2, 10th May The Outpatients (Dublin), The Boy The Boy (Sligo), Birds & Ghosts (Waterford), Stateline (Dublin)

Winner: out Patients

Heat 3, 17th May Lipstick Vogue (Dublin), Jerusalem (Derry), Thrupenny Opera (Wexford), Andrew Bass & The Innocent Ones (Dublin)

Winner; Thrupenny Opera

Heat 4, 24th May So She Said (Dublin), The Drive (Limerick), Lunatic Fringe (Belfast), Stands Looking Back (Cork)

Winner; The Drive

Heat 5, 31st May Train Walkers, Just A Philistine (Naas), Trenchtown (Drogheda), New Hollande (Dublin)

Winner; Just A Philistine & Trenchtown

Final 7th June The Drive, Just A Philistine, Lipstick Vogue

The Judges, George Byrne (Irish Independent), Richie Taylor (Sunday Press)Jackie Hayden (Hot Press), Niall Stokes (Hot Press), Emmett O’Reilly (Hot Press)