Modulators From; Howth Active; 1978 – 1979
Style; Punk
Line Up;
Vocals; Neil McCormick
Guitar; Ivan McCormick
Bass; John McGlue
Drums; Various<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Image supplied by Ivan McCormick, on stage at the Howth Community Centre. If you can help with any information, demo tapes or memorabilia on this band please get in touch, using the above form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Modulators From; Howth Active; 1978 – 1979Style; PunkLine Up;Vocals; Neil McCormickGuitar; Ivan McCormickBass; John McGlueDrums; Various Image supplied by Ivan McCormick, on stage at the Howth Community Centre.The band never had a stable drummer, Larry Mullen played drums on their first gig at the Howth Community\u00a0Centre. Paul Byrne also played …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12523,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13048,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547\/revisions\/13048"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The band never had a stable drummer, Larry Mullen played drums on their first gig at the Howth Community\u00a0Centre. Paul Byrne also played drums for the band using Larry’s red Beverly kit, but claims he was never a full time member of the band. Paul Byrne & John McGlue would go on to form Sounds Unreel\/Deaf Actor.
Ivan McCormick “anyway we played several times at Howth cc and had a different drummer every time
Larry Mullen stood in on our very first Howth Community centre gig.
Eric Dennehey was next, otherwise known as \u201cHopeless Eric\u201d on account of the fact that he was so nervous he ran off to the loo just as we were going on and was a jibbering wreck throughout the performance\u2026he lasted one gig.
Paul Byrne drummed for us once or twice too.
We eventually got a regular drummer, John McCormack (no relation).
John McGlue was on bass\u2026punk named “Jonny Durex\u201d\u2026he went on to play in Sounds Unreel who became Deaf Actor<\/a>\u2026who mostly turned into In Tua Nua.
It\u2019s a complicated family tree as I\u2019m sure you\u2019re very well aware!
Although Frank Kearns image is shown on the “Modulators” badge, he had left the band before they played live.
Gig Guide
00\/09\/1978 Howth Community\u00a0Centre\u00a0with Rocky DeValera & The Gravediggers.
According to Ferdia, (Rocky), the Modulators supported Rocky DeValera & The Gravediggers at least 3 times during their residency at the Community Centre between June & the end of October ’78.
17\/11\/1978 Spinning Wheel, Dublin
26\/12\/1978 Community Centre, Howth Indoor Rock Festival with The Sinners, Gone To Earth, Rocky DeValera & The Gravediggers<\/p>\n\n\n\nYour Help is needed!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n