{"id":8924,"date":"2025-05-16T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8924"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:33:06","slug":"pink-hurts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8924","title":{"rendered":"Pink Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pink Hurts From; Skerries Active; 1984 &#8211; 1988<br>Style; Rock<br>Vocals &amp; Guitar; Derek Kavanagh<br>Keyboards; Lillian Kavanagh<br>Bass; Michael O&#8217;Reilly<br>Drums; Brian Kavanagh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pink Hurts played mainly in the Skerries\/Drogheda are just outside Dublin. They occasionally played the Underground &amp; Tommy&#8217;s Cavan in Dublin. 3 of the 4 members of the band were related Brian, Lillian &amp; Derek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-d7c010dfd4028b7c20e22c0819e983a2\" style=\"color:#fffb15;background-color:#1ea200\">Snap Shot album<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pink hurts appeared on the compilation album &#8220;Snap Shots&#8221; released by Owl Records (SN901) in 1987. Each artist on the album supplied two tracks. Also on the album were <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=7759&amp;preview_id=7759&amp;preview_nonce=10a4a7393c&amp;preview=true\">Missing Link,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8893&amp;preview_id=8893&amp;preview_nonce=c8a837df38&amp;preview=true\"> Soft Music Company<\/a>, O.T.T., <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8953&amp;preview_id=8953&amp;preview_nonce=0abbc0edf4&amp;preview=true\">Brainchild<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8935&amp;preview_id=8935&amp;preview_nonce=1ba897a74c&amp;preview=true\">A Splash Of Red<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=8864&amp;preview_id=8864&amp;preview_nonce=1a8044251c&amp;preview=true\">Rex &amp; Dino.<\/a> All the tracks were taken from demo tapes by Pete McCluskey &amp; Eddie Joyce, Pete &amp; Eddie would go on to from Danceline Records. Pete McCluskey started his musical career playing his famous Flying V with the Navan Road band <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=6571&amp;preview_id=6571&amp;preview_nonce=b95040b099&amp;preview=true\">The Strougers<\/a>. They famously played with U2 at The <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=730&amp;preview_id=730&amp;preview_nonce=b5f9ac9395&amp;preview=true\">Danelion Market<\/a> &amp; The Howth Community Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Hurts From; Skerries Active; 1984 &#8211; 1988Style; RockVocals &amp; Guitar; Derek KavanaghKeyboards; Lillian KavanaghBass; Michael O&#8217;ReillyDrums; Brian Kavanagh Pink Hurts played mainly in the Skerries\/Drogheda are just outside Dublin. They occasionally played the Underground &amp; Tommy&#8217;s Cavan in Dublin. 3 of the 4 members of the band were related &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12611,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8924","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\/8924","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=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8924\/revisions\/8962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}