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Cormac Neeson. Paul Mahon. Micky Waters. James Heatley. The Answer are a hard rock band from Newcastle and Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK. They have achieved success with their debut album Rise selling in excess of 30,000 copies in the UK and Europe, 10,000 on day one in Japan and 100,000 worldwide.
In 1988, they went abroad to play at their first festival in Germany and made their first recording. Since then, Kíla have played in the Montreux Jazz Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Vorneo's Rainforest World Music Festival, Electric Picnic, Womadelaide and Glastonbury Festival. They performed at the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics ...
Jigsaw (British band) Jigsaw was a British pop rock band best known for their 1975 hit "Sky High". The band was fronted by the singer-songwriter duo of Clive Scott and Des Dyer for most of its life. Following Scott's death in 2009, it has been the platform for Dyer's solo work. In Australia, the group was called "British Jigsaw" due to the ...
Released: 16 April 2011. 412 Days of Rock 'n' Roll is a live album and DVD by Northern Irish rock band The Answer, released on 13 June 2011. [1] The DVD features a documentary following the band's stint as a support act on AC/DC 's Black Ice World Tour. [2] According to lead singer Cormac Neeson, the band played 118 shows with AC/DC and "as ...
James Patrick Mahon (1800–1891), Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary. Patrick Swift (1927–1983), Irish painter who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym James Mahon. James P Mahon (born 1990), Irish TV journalist, radio broadcaster and blogger. James Mahon (priest) (1773–1837), Anglican ...
Year Details Peak chart positions UK [1] [9]UK Indie [11]1989 One Man Clapping. Released: March 1989; Label: One Man/Rough Trade 2 2002 Getting Away with It... Live. Released: 20 May 2002
His father, Patrick Mahon of New Park, participated in the Rebellion of 1798 while his mother, Barbara, was a significant heiress, being the only daughter of James O'Gorman of Ennis. [1] Mahon received his education at Clongowes Wood College, where he was among the earliest pupils, and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned his BA in ...
The Freshmen were among the most popular Irish showbands of the 1960s and 1970s. They specialised in recreating the complex vocal harmonies of international acts such as The Beach Boys and The 5th Dimension. They had nine top 20 hit singles in Ireland, [1] including a reworking of The Rivingtons ' song "Papa Oom Mow Mow", featuring the deep ...