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Three piece outfit from Dublin, Eire, featuring Matthew Deveraux (vocals), Shane Wearen (mandolin), and Sean Molloy (bass). A&M Records signed the band after their debut release, a limited edition cassette titled Why Go Bald (the band indeed, are well shorn), caused ripples throughout London's A&R departments. Their first single, ‘Dogs With No Tails', was heavily promoted, but, despite its memorably bizarre display of Eastern European and pop traditions, it failed to achieve a strong chart placing. Their debut album was loaded with quirky but self-consciously ‘weird' songs nam...