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  • Welcome to Ghostown 1976 (A window into the Irish rock scene from 1976 – 1991)
    • The Beginning, Glam Rock & Early Punk
      • Greta Garbage & The Trashcans
    • Irish rock bands A – Z from 1976 – 1991
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “A”
        • A Gregorian Chant
        • A Splash Of Red
        • A Touch Of Oliver
        • All Cats Are Grey
        • Apple Market In Eden
        • April South
        • A Hero’s Welcome
        • Angelic Toenails
        • A Terre
        • A.P.B.
        • A Further Room
        • Aztec Demon
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “B”
        • Bach Street Kids
        • Back To Scratch
        • Bantu Bottle Company
        • Better Half
        • Big Noise
        • Black Arthur & the Undertakers
        • Blink
        • Blue Russia
        • Bondi Breeze
        • Boneshaker
        • Brainchild
        • Berlin
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “C”
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “C”
        • Cajun Kings
        • Candyshop The
        • C’est Clave
        • Chapter House The
        • Conspiracy The
        • Cranberries
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “D”
        • D. C. Nien
        • D11 Runners
        • Da Dudes
        • Dark The
        • Different World
        • Dorian Mood
        • Dreads The
        • Dreamcreeper
        • Dressed To Get Messed
        • Driven The
        • Drowning Fish The
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “E, F, G”
        • Eat The Evidence
        • Echoes Of Pink Whispers
        • Ego Minefield
        • Electra Glide
        • Emperors Of Ice Cream
        • Empty Shell
        • Excel
        • Fabulous Fabrics
        • Fantasy garden
        • Fast Boys The
        • Five Go Down To The Sea
        • Forbidden Colours
        • Forget Me Nots
        • Fred
        • G Squad
        • Gamblers The
        • Groove The
        • Ground Zero
        • GTX
        • Guernica
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “H, I, J”
        • Hidden Fears
        • High n Dry
        • High Rooms
        • Hinterland
        • Hitchers The
        • Honey Thieves
        • House On Fire
        • Hunger The
        • Hungry Judges
        • I Forget
        • Ice Blu Ice
        • Ice Cube International
        • Images
        • In Too Deep
        • In Tua Nua
        • Inside Cairo
        • Jump Iceland
        • Jump The Gun
        • Just A Philistine
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “K”
        • KamiKazi Kids
        • Kerbdog
        • Kidz The
        • Kiss The President
        • Kissed Air
        • Klingonz
        • Known Authority
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “L”
        • Les Enfants
        • Lesser Gods
        • Lipstick Vogue
        • Lir
        • Little Fish The
        • LMNO Pelican
        • Lost For Words
        • Love Junkies
        • Lunatic Antics
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “M”
        • Male Caucasians
        • Manic Depression
        • Max
        • Max Quad Band
        • Max Von Rap
        • Mean Features
        • Mere Mortals
        • Mexican Pets
        • Mid Witch Cuckoo’s
        • Miniscus
        • Minor Detail
        • Mirage/Time Ghost
        • Missing Digits The
        • Missing Link The
        • Mod-L’s
        • Modern Disgrace
        • Modernaires
        • Modulators
        • Mountain Climbers
        • Muff Divers
        • Myster Men
      • Irish Rock Bands 1976 – 1991 “N”
        • Nameless The
        • New Career
        • New Heroes
        • New Rendezous
        • New Versions
        • New Testament
        • Night Rider
        • No Entry
        • No Exit
        • No Name Band
        • No Sweat
        • Noise Boys
        • N.R.G.
        • Nun Attax
      • Irish Rock Bands 1976 – 1991 “O”, “P”, “Q”.
        • Of Xerox
        • Outpatients The
        • Paranoid Visions
        • Paris Underground
        • Parts The
        • Party Cats The
        • Passive Factor
        • Paved Way
        • Payer Boat The
        • Perfect Moment
        • Peridots The
        • Pet Lamb
        • Pink Hurts
        • Pleasure Cell The
        • Pocket Money
        • Polar Moon
        • Pool The
        • Pop Mecanics
        • Population The
        • Porcelyn Tears
        • Posers The
        • Power Of Dreams
        • Power Plant
        • Preacher’s Story
        • Pressed By John
        • Pretty The
        • Private World
        • Products The
        • Prophecy
        • Pulling Faces
        • Purple Haze
        • Pyramid
        • QED
        • Quarterdeck
      • Irish Rock Bands 1976 – 1991 “R”
        • Rabbi
        • Radiators From Space
        • Rat Salad
        • Raw Deal
        • Reasons The
        • Regent Street
        • Resisdance
        • Resistors The
        • Reverb
        • Revolver
        • Rex & Dino
        • Riff The
        • Rocky De Valera & The Gravediggers
        • Rogue Angel
        • Room Service
        • Route 101
        • Ruby Horse
        • Rule The Roost
      • Irish Rock Bands 1976 – 1991 “S”
        • Sabre
        • Sacre Bleu
        • Scheme The
        • School Kids The
        • Screamin Demon
        • Sea Of Circles
        • Secret Life Of Insects The
        • Seharia Vis
        • Shade The
        • Shake The Moon
        • Shampain
        • Shark Bait
        • Shattered Ego
        • Shattered Light
        • Shy The
        • Siberia
        • Side Fx
        • Side Kick
        • Side One
        • Sinners The
        • Skank Mooks
        • Sleepwalkers The
        • Slowest Clock The
        • SM Corporation
        • Soft Music Company
        • Some Kind Of Wonderful
        • Something Happens!
        • Sordid Details
        • Sometimes Wicked
        • Sounds Unreel
        • Spellbound
        • Spies The
        • Split Level
        • Square Meal
        • Stands Looking Back
        • Static Routines
        • Steeler
        • Stiltz
        • Stonesnipe
        • Storm The
        • Strange Movements
        • Stranger
        • Strength In Numbers
        • Strougers The “Faster Than The Ramones”
        • Stryder
        • Stump
        • Stunning The
        • Sussed The
        • Sweet Revenge
        • Swinging Swine
        • Synthetic Fibes
        • System X
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “T”
        • Tabs The
        • Tearcollectors The
        • Tears Of Lost Children
        • They Do it With Mirrors
        • Thief Of Hearts
        • Till September
        • Toasted Heretic
        • Toucandance
        • Touchdown
        • Tower Of Babel
        • Trenchtown
        • Tru’penny Opera
        • Tuesday Blue
      • Irish rock bands 1976 – 1991 “U”, “V”, “W”
        • Up Do Bi
        • Up The Downstairs
        • Utopian Puppets
        • Voodoo
        • Walk The
        • Wand Peace Band
        • Wardance
        • Warhead/Rough n Ready
        • West Cork Band
        • Whipping Boy
        • White Lightening
        • White Noise
        • White Wine
        • Wicked Chicken
        • Wild Herrings
        • Wildlife
        • Wilf Brothers
        • Winters Reign
        • Wishing Stones
        • Witch Heaven
        • Witches Brew
        • Wormhole
      • Irish Rock Bands 1976 – 1991 “X”, “Y”, “Z”
    • U2 A Concert History from 1976 – 1991
      • U2 Concerts that took place in Eire during 1976/77 under the names “Feedback” & “The hype”.
      • U2 Concerts 1978 Eire
        • 10/02/1978 U2 concerts that took place in Erie during 1978
        • 17/03/1978 U2 Concerts that took place in Eire during 1978
      • U2-3 London Club Tour 1979 1st – 18th December
        • 01/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 02/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates January 1980
        • 03/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 04/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 05/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates January 1980
        • 07/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates January 1980
        • 08/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates January 1980
        • 10/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates January 1980
        • 11/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates January 1980
        • 12/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates January 1980
        • 14/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 15/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 18/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 23/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 26/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
        • 29/12/1979 U2-3 London Club Tour December 1979 & Irish dates up to 11th January 1980
      • Come Out To Play Feburary/March 1980
        • 05/01/1980 Lakeland Hotel, Cavan, Ireland Come Out To Play
        • 22/03/1980 Town Hall, Ballina, Ireland Come Out To Play
      • 11 O’clock Tick Tock Leg 1 Eire 1980
        • 09/05/1980 Seapoint Ballroom, Galway, Ireland. 11 O’clock Tick Tock Leg 1 Ireland May 1980
        • 10/05/1980 Town Hall, Ballina, Ireland. 11 O’clock Tick Tock, Leg 1 Ireland May 1980
        • 11/05/1980 Garden Of Eden Club, Tullamore, Ireland. Leg 1, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, Ireland May 1980.
        • 12/05/1980 The Blue Lagoon, Sligo, Ireland. 11 O’clock Tick Tock, Leg 1, May 1980 Ireland.  
        • 14/05/1980 Showboat, Waterford, Ireland. Leg 1, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, Ireland May 1980.
      • 11 O’clock Tick Tock leg 2 England & Eire 1980
      • Boy Tour Leg 1 UK & Europe, September – December 1980.
        • 06/09/1980 General Wolfe, Coventry, UK. Boy Tour Leg 1 September – December 1980
        • 07/09/1980 Lyceum Ballroom, London, UK. Boy Tour Leg 1 September – December
      • Unforgettable Fire Leg 1 (NZ/AUS). Under Australian Skies, August/September 1984
        • 29/08/1984 Town Hall, Christchurch, New Zealand. Unforgettable Fire Leg 1
        • 31/08/1984 Winter Show Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand. Unforgettable Fire Leg 1
        • 01/09/1984 Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. Unforgettable Fire Leg 1
      • A Conspiracy Of Hope U.S.A. 1986
        • 04/06/1986 Cow Palace, Daly City, California, USA, A Conspiracy Of Hope U.S.A. 1986
        • 06/06/1986 Forum, Inglewood, California, USA, A Conspiracy Of Hope U.S.A. 1986
        • 11/06/1986 The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. A Conspiracy Of Hope
        • 08/06/1986 McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, Colorado, USA. A Conspiracy Of Hope
        • 13/06/1986 Rosemount Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois, USA. A Conspiracy Of Hope U.S.A. 1986
        • 15/06/1986 Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA. A Conspiracy Of Hope U.S.A. 1986
      • Joshua Tree World Tour 1987. 3 legs
        • Joshua Tree Tour Leg 3 North America
          • 10/09/1987 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, USA. Joshua Tree Tour Leg 3 North America
          • 11/09/1987 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, USA. Joshua Tree Tour Leg 3 North America
          • 14/09/1987 Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Joshua Tree Tour leg 3 North America
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Excel

Excel From; Mullingar Active; 1985 – 198?
Style; tbc
Vocals & Lead Guitar; Eddie Byrne
Rhythm Guitar; Paul Kennedy
Bass; Ken Daly
Drums; Paddy Hassett

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A History of Irish Rock 1976 - 1983

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