Brendan O'Hare: Difference between revisions

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==Career==

He joined Teenage Fanclub in 1990, in time to play on about half of their debut album, ''[[A Catholic Education]]''. He split from the group after completing the tour for the ''[[Thirteen]]'' album and joined [[Telstar Ponies]], although he left during the recording of their second album. He was was a member of [[Mogwai (band)|Mogwai]] for approxiamtely a year. He was described by the [[NME]] as Teenage Fanclub's "Monkey Without Portfolio". This prompted the track "With Portfolio" on Mogwai's [[debut album]], ''[[Young Team]]''. O'Hare was allegedly kicked out of Mogwai for talking during a performance by [[Arab Strap (band)|Arab Strap]] leading to a fight with other members of the band.{{factFact|date=February 2007}}

Following this, in addition to his work with Macrocosmica and as Fiend, he ran the God Bless [[record label]] (issuing the sole album by [[Thurston Moore]]'s 'Foot' project) and was half of electronic duo Liminal. He is currently in charge of bookings and sound engineering at the well-known Glasgow venue ''The 13th Note'', where he is also co-host of Poplife, the venue's irreverent pop quiz. In 2006, he rejoined Teenage Fanclub for shows in [[London]], Glasgow and Barcelona at which the band played their seminal ''[[Bandwagonesque]]'' album in its entirety.

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