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It was three years, 2 drummers, 3 bass players, 3 guitarists and 15000 litres of whiskey before twenty percent dead played a gig... Rehearsals started in 2004, in and that time people came in went, more time was spent fucking around than actually playing stuff and the band had no direction. We had Kenny on drums, Nev on guitar, and poggy on bass and Jim on vox and guitar. It fell apart when Kenny had to leave for work commitments. In Feb of 2005 Pog and Jim decided to give it another go...


Johnny Q was contacted to play the drums, initially he didn't want to. It'd been a few years since he'd played and more since he'd been in a band, Jim convinced him to give it shot. Rehearsals started in about March of 2005 and consisted mostly of covering some songs for fun and writing a few ourselves. After about 6 months with 5 originals written it was decided that we should get another guitarist, Rob was contacted and coaxed into coming up for a rehearsal.

With Rob on board the band had fatter sound and another contributor to the song writing process. More songs were written and in October 2005 we played our first gig, three songs in pub in Newbridge. It was awful. St. Patricks day of 2006 provided us with another opportunity and by all accounts we played well and got offered a gig in Killkenny on the back of it thanks to Barney from the mighty Clergy (rip) being in attendance. Two more gigs sandwiched a recording session in Richmond Studios where there songs were put down in two days. That summer a couple of poor gigs preceded bad news from Pog...

In August 2006 the band was rocked with the news that Pog was leaving to move to Iceland. After deciding that the reasonably poor weather in Ireland needed to be swapped for the bitter cold but beautiful Iceland Pog said his goodbyes left. 'Good Riddance' was something none of the band said. After looking for bass player and trying out a couple it was decided that we would concentrate on song writing for a while. With most of the Pog era songs dropped, the sound mutated into something heavier and more sinister, a couple more bass players came and left and in March 2006 Mik came along and fitted in straight away.

So now we've had a solid line up since March 2007, we've played a good few gigs and just wanna play more.


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Member Since: 5/8/2006
Band Members: The band are Rob on loud guitars, Jim Rim on shouting and guitars, JQ bangs the drums .

Here's JQ falling out of a car:


Influences: Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Shane McGowan, Melvins, QOTSA, Death from above 1979, Kyuss, AC/DC, Helmet, Nirvana, Mudhoney,Black Sabbath,Orange Goblin,Spiritual Beggars, Dinosaur Jr., Jay Mascis, Leonard Cohen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mogwai, Explosions in the sky, Slayer, Deicide,Subhumans, Conflict, Crass, The Clash,FC St. Pauli, Sex Pistols, Eamon Dowd and the Racketeers, Fugazi, Eagles of Death metal, Iron Maiden, NIN, The Rolling Stones, Kate Bush, Will Oldham, Captain Beefheart, Danzig, Polly Harvey, Drive-by Truckers.... to name a few
Sounds Like: like the mutilated corpse of Barry Manilow being dragged along the potholed backroads of hell. Only joking, its rock baby!



Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The breakup.

Twenty percent dead have decided to call it day. But. We will be back in another guise.Untill then...JimRim
Posted by on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:15:00 GMT

twenty percent dead songs to feature in movie!!

Hello, Apparently some bloke Rob knows wants to use our music in an independent film he's making. It aint hollywood but its a start! I'll post more info when I get it. J  
Posted by on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:52:00 GMT

The first gig in ages

Dear readers, Thursday night marked tpd's return to the stage. Supporting Sticky Digit in 'the lower deck' in Portobello it was our first gig in about 9 months. During those nine months we concentrat...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:55:00 GMT

Twenty percent dead on the look out for bass playing talent!

Hello Everybody, Twenty percent dead are on the look out for a bass player following Phil T.'s decision to quit the band and move far far away. If you're bass player in Dublin (or nearby) and would be...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:29:00 GMT

Twenty percent dead receive terrible blow from Phil T.

Dear Readers, It's with heavy hearts that twenty percent dead must announce that bass player Phil T. is to leave the band. Phil T. has decided to leave Ireland and pursue life as a haberdasher in Icel...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:25:00 GMT

Demo finished... oh the pain.

Well. Greetings to all... Today I finished the mixing and mastering of our demo. It went well enough but listening back to the finished product really makes me want to do the whole thing again. We rec...
Posted by on Fri, 12 May 2006 13:07:00 GMT