Dump The Dummy from; Dublin Active; 1985 – 1987
Style; Indie
Vocals; Niamh McDonald
Vocals; Susan Kavanagh
Guitar; Ken Haughton
Bass; Jim McDonell
Drums; Ronan Buckley
St Stephen’s Green
On 26/07/1986 Five young Dublin bands played a FREE concert (1pm – 5pm) at the band stand in Stephen’s Green , Dublin. The five bands were Empty Shell, China Doll, Lord John White, Dump The Dummy and Amber Gris.
They also played regular gigs at Dublin’s Ivy Rooms & Underground.
Comet Two Album
Side one The 3355409’s Barbarours, Hand In Glove Running For Cover, The Practical Householders Your Love Is A Four Letter Word, Backwards Into Paradise There’s A Mountain, Dump The Dummy Gut Feelin, Jamie Cotton Band Miss A Slippery Lane (Live), Azure Days The Old Tradition.
Side Two Cypress Mine Sounds Like Rain, The Lawnmowers Disaster, The Panic Merchants Retro, The Wave Assembly Human Touch, Randell Skillet Undercover, Idle Joy Paradise Days, At Gun Point All Go Away.
Brian O’Brien Evening Echo. Dump The Dummy have a commercial song in “Gut Feelin” but lack the vocal power to put it across with any conviction.
By the end of 1987 Dump The Dummy had were no more, they would later reappear as Giant.