Surly (band)
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Surly is an Irish
alternative rock
band from Limerick City. Mike Noonan, Kieran Nunan, Liam O'Byrne and Kevin Quigley met when attending Crescent College Comprehensive
. The members of the band had played together in various incarnations during their time in school but it wasn't until 2003 that all four joined together in a committed manner to form Surly. They have performed in many venues across Europe since their official formation as a group.
Surly's music could be seen as drawing from any or all of the following genres of music; experimental
, indie, post-rock
, art rock
. It has been said they have taken the majority of their influence from performers such as Boy George and Peter Frampton. They perform concerts intermittently between phases of writing and recording. The band maintains a web log here. Information about the band and other unrelated information can be found here.
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band from Limerick City. Mike Noonan, Kieran Nunan, Liam O'Byrne and Kevin Quigley met when attending Crescent College Comprehensive
Crescent College
Crescent College Comprehensive SJ is a secondary school located on a section of 40 acres of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland.- History :...
. The members of the band had played together in various incarnations during their time in school but it wasn't until 2003 that all four joined together in a committed manner to form Surly. They have performed in many venues across Europe since their official formation as a group.
Surly's music could be seen as drawing from any or all of the following genres of music; experimental
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
, indie, post-rock
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
, art rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
. It has been said they have taken the majority of their influence from performers such as Boy George and Peter Frampton. They perform concerts intermittently between phases of writing and recording. The band maintains a web log here. Information about the band and other unrelated information can be found here.