Irish Crossword: TRE’s Live Irish Acts
By Linda Fulton Burke
ACROSS
2 _____ LIKE APES…They eschew guitars, or use
kitchen implements as stage props.
3 THE _________… Mullingar quintet
5 _______…Dublin band fusing mod stylings with
hints of psychedelia and dashes of punk/pop
8 _____ TURPIN… 2008 debut album Sweet Used to
Be
9 ____ KIM… Formerly of Dae Kim, Waterford’s
Katie Sullivan’s debut album was Twelve
11 THE _______…Dublin trio (2/
3) from boyband, My
Town
13 _____ DAVEY… singer, songwriter, Tales of
Silversleeve
16 ______ CROWLEY… Galway-born, Dublin-based
singer-songwriter…fifth album, Season of the
Sparks
18 ______ COUGHLAN…the frontman of Microdisney
and Fatima Mansions
20 ___SCOTT… superb album, We’re Smiling
23 ___________… boisterous fizzy and fuzzy pop from
the hardest-working duo in Ireland
25 _______ RICE… the quiet one, the intense one, the
singer-songwriter
26 _____ Ó LIONÁIRD… Renowned for his lilting vocal
range, he is more than just a gifted sean-nós
singer.
29 _____ REGAN… The End of History by this
Wicklow man
30 ___________D…Dublin’s one-man-and-his- guitar
32 ____MAC CON IOMAIRE… a founder of Kila, and
member of both The Frames and Glen Hansard’s
Swell Season
33 ___…a Downpatrick trio
37 ____ A drummer from the Marble City, Organic
Sampler album
39 _____ KITT… His latest album, Nightsaver matches
experimental leanings with laidback, melodic songs
40 _____ FEENEY…She won the inaugural Choice
Music Prize
41 THE _____ OF THE THIRTEENTH LOCK… Dublin
freak-folk rockers
42 RÓISÍN ______… album Overpowered was
nominated for the Choice Music Prize
45 ____ HARRISONS… This Dundalk trio
46 SI _________.. Coping Mechanisms, his manylayered
debut album, grabbed hearts and minds.
DOWN
1 MY ______ VALENTINE… Loveless, consistently
tops “Most Influential” polls
2 THE ______/SWELL SEASON/GLEN HANSARD…
Grafton Street busker and his band
4 ____ ROOM NOTES… Dublin/Galway/Wicklow
quartet
6 HANNIGAN…County Meaths’s music assistant
of/foil to Damien Rice
7 GOD IS AN _________.. from the Glen of the
Downs in Co Wicklow
10 ________KNIGHT…Debut album, Youth Is
Wasted on the Young
12 ___PAS CAP… Edgy, daring and sparky, Dublin
band single, We Are Men
14 DAVID ______ …The Holy Pictures album
15 _______…Dublin band started as a duo, then
added a harpist and drummer
17 IAIN ______..Bangor performer spent time with
The Reindeer Section and Snow Patrol
19 ____ PATROL… After U2, they are probably
Ireland’s next-best-selling rock act
21 _________… Their 2007 debut In Love With Detail
was stuffed with razor-sharp and radio-friendly
guitar-pop.
22 band’s lead singer Conor O’Brien of The Immediate
24 ______ MAY… a rockabilly singer from Dublin’s
Liberties
27 THE _____ CAKE… nine-piece at the top of their
game with last year’s Sceptre
28 ____FLANNERY… gravel-voiced musician from
Cork
31 MESSIAH J THE _______..This duo’s third album
From the Word Go is their best yet .
34 ____X1… fourth album, Blue Lights on the Runway,
35 ______ HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL… Clare-born
fiddle maestro and Chicago guitarist, formerly with
Midnight Court
36 THE ______ COMEDY… Derry-born Neil Hannon’s
legacy is already evident with his band, The Divine
Comedy.
37 ________ OF LOOSE…Mick Pyro the gruff singer
with the extraordinary soul voice leads this Dublin
band
38 ________… Dublin sisters Louise and Ellie
McNamara
40 Once best known as bassist for über-respected
instrumentalists The Redneck Manifesto,____is
Richie Egan’s side project
43 __They’d be in the “Top 50 Irish Acts Right Now” of
any year of the past 30
44 ____ SPECIAL… Peter Wilson is a dreadlocked,
eye-linered musician
