Kerbdog - Kilkenny/Cork/Belfast/Dublin Sept/Oct 2024

[Barrytron]

I love On The Turn so much. I remember the singles coming out at the time, was it 1996? Mad that it never really did anything much, was it an image thing? Like not dirty enough, too middle-class sounding for people who liked Dinosaur Jr etc.

Actually anyone into On The Turn might like Veruca Salt's Eight Arms to Hold You - also great, same type of thing, melodic but weirdly heavy, same year as well I think

[jpm4]

Didn't their record company shaft them? Also I think On The Turn just vanished into the black hole between grunge and nu metal - heavy rock was not in a great place then.

[pete]

There's some good stuff why it fell apart from Cormacs perspective in these interviews

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YmOU1JTQVsk59z5jbVj0E?si=58xJaffoSnaKyhAw1yyJZA&utm_source=whatsapp (bout 25 mins in)

https://youtu.be/5LbRUZoOfOU

https://fanningsessions.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/kerbdog/

Mad how they must have really thought they'd made it and then back down to earth fairly harshly.

Still one of my favourite bands to go see, nostalgia is one hell of a drug.

I'll be grabbing a ticket for this.

[Kunt 4 Life]

If you read the credits on On The Turn, you'll see their management was sanctuary music and Rod Smallwood.
How'd that go wrong?

[Pagan Saviour]

On the turn was delivered around 4 years too late. Nobody was interested by then.

[astfgyl]

Still love On The Turn. Picked up a fresh CD of it a few months back after the old one getting ruined over the years and was thinking along the lines of the last post there, that it was just a bit late with the shift towards nu metal in the mainstream rock magazines and radio. Ah well

[Eoin McLove]

I just fired on On the Turn. I only knew the couple of hits from it back in the 90s but wasn't interested. The song Sally is great- instantly memorable. Funny you all say they missed the boat by a few years for that style but they sound incredibly similar to Foo Fighters on that song and look how huge FF became. No reason they couldn't have done well too other than the roll of the dice.

[jpm4]

I think Wilt sounded more like Foo Fighters than Kerbdog did, but they also ultimately went nowhere.

[astfgyl]

Yeah haven't really thought much about Kerbdog sounding like foo fighters but it's very apparent with Wilt

[Pagan Saviour]

I just fired on On the Turn. I only knew the couple of hits from it back in the 90s but wasn't interested. The song Sally is great- instantly memorable. Funny you all say they missed the boat by a few years for that style but they sound incredibly similar to Foo Fighters on that song and look how huge FF became. No reason they couldn't have done well too other than the roll of the dice.

It took the Foo Fighters a couple of years to gain momentum, Dave Grohl and the fact they were signed to Sony meant they had slightly better odds than a few lads from Kilkenny. I mean you're right, the stuff isn't that different but a collapsing record label and shifting trends meant Kerbdog were goosed.

[Eoin McLove]

I am surprised I know 4 songs so far. Sally, JJ Song, Mexican Wave and Pledge. Did they all get released as singles? Maybe I had a couple of songs recorded from the Metal Show...

Totally forgot about Wilt. Zero interest in them back then. Must give them a spin now and see.

[astfgyl]

I just fired on On the Turn. I only knew the couple of hits from it back in the 90s but wasn't interested. The song Sally is great- instantly memorable. Funny you all say they missed the boat by a few years for that style but they sound incredibly similar to Foo Fighters on that song and look how huge FF became. No reason they couldn't have done well too other than the roll of the dice.

Aye frontman previously being the drummer for one of the most famous and talked about bands of all time certainly rolled the dice in their favour compared to Kerbdog and I think the first 2 Foo Fighters albums are decent but I don't think they'd have sold much better than Kerbdog at all otherwise

[Eoin McLove]

Ah yeah, of course FF were in a better position, but my point was that Kerbdog couldn't have been too late to the party considering one of the biggest rock bands in the world happen to sound very like them and started around the same time as this album came out. With a bit of luck on their side, better management, better label, more money or whatever their style could have worked in their favour.

[astfgyl]

Aye that's fair too looking at it that way. They really gave up the ghost soon after it went south too. I wonder then could an oul third album have done anything to turn things around?

Looked up a few pics of that little theatre in kilkenny there as well. Looks like a neat little spot. Here's hoping it doesn't sound like shit

[Carnage]

I saw them on their farewell tour (one of them anyway) supported by an unknown band called Snow Patrol. How times have changed.