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30 May, 2008
Grand opening of our new Online Store!
Irish Rockers now has an cool new online store where you can get lots of official band T-Shirts, hoodies, DVDs and other great music merchandise.
We have a great selection of merchandise from Irish bands and artists as well as from lots of your favorite international artists.
The Irish Rockers store is a result of our partnership with the world leader in music merchandise, Backstreet International Merchandise Ltd.
The store was custom built for Irish Rockers and showcases the official merchandise of Irish artists.
Our new store features over 30,000 officially licensed music merchandise items, including band T shirts, hoodies, hats, bags, mugs, caps, badges,
stickers, patches and much much more from all your favourite music artists, as well as film, TV, cult and comedy products.
The largest range of officially licensed merchandise available on the net.
Visit the new Irish Rockers Online Store
10 May, 2008
Irish Rockers featured in Hot Press magazine!
A small piece about the Irish Rockers website was published in the 8th May 2008 Edition of Ireland's biggest selling music magazine, Hot Press.
The article states:
"Started in 2003 by Irish web designer and music fan, Aidan Curran, as a database of the most notable Irish bands, both past and present, the site aims to be the 'ultimate online resource and referance' for Irish bands and artists.
It also has some interesting promotional opportunities for upcoming artists, including a gig guide, artist news section and a forum. If you are an artist that is not included in their list, you may want to request to be included."
25 Mar, 2008
New Message Board on Irish Rockers
We've just set up a brand new Online Forum on IrishRockers.com to replace our Yahoo Group which has been active for over five years now.
Everyone is invited to join in the chat - check it out now
17 Jan, 2008
Introducing the IRISH ROCK DISCOVERY JUKEBOX!
New on IrishRockers.com for 2008 is the Irish Rock Discovery Jukebox. The IRDJ will be showcasing some undiscovered gems from some
great Irish rock bands that you may not have heard of yet and perhaps a few more well known bands too.
Thanks to Dennis of Voodoo Loons and Chewey of Mellow Drops
for kick starting it with two great tracks! Hope you enjoy!
13 Aug, 2007
News Section Added!!
Following shortly on the heels of the Gig Guide launch, we are pleased to announce another exciting expansion of the site - we have
now added another new section - 'Irish Rockers News'. Artists who already have a login for the Gig Guide will now be able to add their own news articles to IrishRockers.com.
The News section was built using WordPress, the number one blogging software framework.
As before any Irish bands/artists interested in participating that have not already signed up for the Gig Guide should contact 
to get a login for posting their news articles (and listing their gigs).
2 Aug, 2007
Gig Guide launched!
We are excited to announce the launch of the brand new the Irish Rockers Gig Guide. This gig guide is unique on the web
in that it lists gigs by major Irish artists taking place all over the world.
Irish bands/artists can contact
to get a login for listing their gigs.
28 Apr, 2007
We've added a cool new Search feature to IrishRockers.com.
Go ahead and try it out using the search box just above.
22 Mar, 2007
IrishRockers.com is back bigger and better than before after moving to a new web hosting solution that can handle the increasing volume of traffic
to the site. During the switch over some visitors may have not been able to access the site, sorry for the inconvenience.
Full access has now been restored. Thanks for your support.
- IrishRockers.com Webmaster
15 Mar, 2007
Apologies to all site visitors who have been turned away recently due to us surpassing the daily bandwidth limit allocated to the
site. The good news that we can take from this is that it's a sign that the site is getting more popular. In the run up to
St. Patrick's day the quest for all things Irish is also adding to the traffic. We are currently taking measures to remedy the
situation - in the short run reducing page and image sizes (which will also make the site faster to load) and looking into
alternative hosting solutions for the long term. Please bear with us and we hope to have this situation resolved soon.
Irish Bands and Irish Rock Music Throughout The Decades
For a small country Ireland has made and continues to make a huge impact on modern music. With a population of just around 5 million people, Ireland has launched more than it's share of internationally successfull, yet originally Irish, bands/rock groups and artists on the world.
The homegrown Irish rock music scene really started developing in the 1960s. At that time the Irish music scene was dominated by the unique Irish phenomenon of the 'Showbands' which were groups/bands of professional performers who played at dancehalls and clubs across the country putting on a professional 'show' and playing all the American and British hits of the era. In the 1960s this was pretty much the only way a professional musician in Ireland could make a living. Two famous Irish artists that started off working in show bands but went on to put Ireland on the map as far as rock music is concerned are Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher. Van Morrison achieved international success in the 1960s with the beat group Them before launching a hugely successfull solo career that is still going strong in it's fourth decade. Rory Gallagher fromed the blues rock band Taste and went on to achieve critical acclaim in his solo career which lasted until his death in 1995. He is considered by many music critics to be among the greatest rock guitarists of all time.
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DANNY, 05/09/84 DIO, THE LAST IN LINE TOUR WITH QUEENSRYCHE AS SUPPORT, I WAS THERE!
RE:Dirty Epics BLACKeyed wrote on 2009-06-27 00:00:00:
they just rule :D
RE:Cry Before Dawn seamus hogan wrote on 2009-06-23 00:00:00:
brendan lives in switzerland and plaus in the bow triplets
RE:No Sweat Kildare Fans wrote on 2009-06-23 00:00:00:
Followed the band all over Ireland as a teenager, they use to refer to us as the Kildare girls. Still have loads of photos and every album and single produced. Real pity they never went further. Hope they are all doing well now.
RE:Skid Row len williams wrote on 2009-06-18 00:00:00:
is this a record ? our group played support to skid row twice in the one night in two different venues in dublin in 1968 . anyone care ?
RE:Fatima Mansions pope urbanX wrote on 2009-06-17 00:00:00:
the fatima mansions were never booed off any stage
RE:Pyramid Gerry Kinane wrote on 2009-06-17 00:00:00:
How are you Peter Bodie ? Talk about blast from the past.
RE:Horslips Mairtin wrote on 2009-06-11 00:00:00:
Trouble with a capitol T has been especialy re mixed and re recorded as a charity single by Horslips ft guys from the Blizzards,Republic of Loose,Killa 10cc etc for therawsessions.ie
RE:Bagatelle leo wrote on 2009-06-11 00:00:00:
here is the contact information for bagatelle, the irish super group. leoproductions@eircom.net
RE:Deaf Animal Orchestra Mairtin wrote on 2009-06-09 00:00:00:
Another excellent single out now A classic tune chaps!...and another tasty review on the Forums Review section...now I wonder who wrote that...?
RE:No Sweat holliem738 wrote on 2009-06-07 00:00:00:
Pj is in Canada now with his kids and wife he is still very good friends with Declan Morell the first dummer who is now the Senior Vice President of Emi in NYC
RE:Frantic State Alan wrote on 2009-05-30 00:00:00:
good to knoe that their back, are they giging in Dublin?
RE:Paddy Casey john morgan wrote on 2009-05-29 00:00:00:
love this man
RE:Celtus jdailha wrote on 2009-05-26 00:00:00:
no comment
RE:Frantic State Me wrote on 2009-05-26 00:00:00:
THE BAND IS BACK ON STAGE ON SAT 30/05/09 AT 5:00PM AS PART OF THE HAPPY VALLEY FESTIVAL IN THOMASTOWN CO. KILKENNY, ROI.
RE:Bagatelle elena wrote on 2009-05-25 00:00:00:
i love you!!!
RE:Bagatelle holly wrote on 2009-05-17 00:00:00:
what has happened to wally the drummer
RE:Dirty Epics Dazza A wrote on 2009-05-16 00:00:00:
Check out video for Way Too Pretty directed by Ger O Donnell - sylish talented band with great visuals and sound - keep it up guys
RE:Mushroom Mike wrote on 2009-05-12 00:00:00:
Cool site
RE:Spud Dave McGloughlin wrote on 2009-05-07 00:00:00:
I loved Spud too and had great fun in 1981 when I managed to get Sonnet in Sweeden to send me both Silk Purse and Smoking. Don and Smithy played at my wedding in Skerries as the One Eyed Rattlers in 1992 and I hve great shots of us all jamming that night.
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