History
The Golden Horde (1982 - 1994) was an Irish Rock and roll band. Formidable liggers , members of "The Horde" were legendary in Dublin music circles.
Glory Days
The Horde were the brainspawn of Dublin's Simon Carmody , Des O'Byrne and Caroline Harvey-Kelly . A flamboyant showman, Carmody was renowned for his light tenor voice and remarkable trousers.
The first recording came in 1985, with The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy! For years, the Golden Horde honed their art in Dublin's seedier nightspots and released numerous recordings that were sadly underappreciated by the critical establishment.
Finally, 1991 saw the release of a full-length album by the Golden Horde. It would appear on an obsensibly major label (Mother Records ), and come out on CD and everything. It was triumphantly entitled "The Golden Horde" and frequently, if inaccurately, described as a debut album. Singer Maria McKee, fresh from the success of the song "Show Me Heaven" from the movie Top Gun, joined Carmody on vocals for the band's only major hit, the power ballad "Friends in Time".
Decline
Despite appearing in numerous college bars and propping up the undercard of several early U2 concerts, a malaise had set in by the early 1990s, and the Horde disbanded in 1994.
External links
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