(sic) noun ~ a three-piece band bringing rock-n-roll swagger, fuck-off tunes and good old Irish sarcasm back to punk rock.
Visiting Dublin for a mad weekend in 1996, Ricky bumped into Ciaran McGoldrick and Gary Sullivan at a local gig. Ciaran (whose musical tastes revolve around under-ground US guitar gods such as The Jesus Lizard, Husker Du, Killdozer and Unsane) was earning a paltry living as a guitar technician. Gary (whose roots lay in the musics of punk great along the lines of The Clash, Sex Pistols and The Ruts) had drummed in numerous Irish bands and was looking for a band with a musical style more appropriate to his tastes.
Discovering similar tastes in music, films, books, pubs, drugs virtually everything, (sic) was born. A band with balls, brawn and brains.
(sic)s record was only released in Japan and a four track EP came out in the UK. A huge record deal fell apart at the eleventh hour and the band disintegrated in a world of music business bullshit and loads of drugs.
Now, for the first time ever, the elusive (sic) record is available worldwide to download from the itunes music store and is called "I Feel So Lonely,I Could Die". Don't rule out any one-off gigs by the band either !!!
