Quiz on Irish music in the 1990s: Who sang Brewing Up A Storm? Where did the Féile go after Thurles?

15 questions to test your memories of that eventful decade for Irish music 
Quiz on Irish music in the 1990s: Who sang Brewing Up A Storm? Where did the Féile go after Thurles?

Test your nineties Irish music knowledge.

1. Which Cork indie-pop band, best known for the tune 'After All' are named for a pair of historic local characters?

2.  Brewing Up A Storm was a hit for which band in 1990?

3. Which group of Anglo-Irish shoegazers released the Loveless album in 1991?

4. Which northern trio struck gold in 1994 with top-5 album Troublegum?

5. Name the legendary alternative music programme presented by Donal Dineen and Uaneen Fitzsimons that broadcast from RTÉ's Cork studios?

6. Sinéad O'Connor had a massive hit with  Nothing Compares 2 U. Who wrote the original?

7. Eleanor McEvoy duetted with which singer on the  Only A Woman’s Heart single  in 1993?

8. Dublin stadium-rockers U2's 'difficult' years in the mid-90s yielded a chart success in 1995 single  Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, featured on the soundtrack of which Hollywood blockbuster?

9. Which band’s debut album was Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

10. In which year did the final Féile festival at Thurles' Semple Stadium, billed as 'The Last Trip to Tipp', take place?

11. Name the city that hosted Féile the year after it left Tipperary?

12. 1996 saw Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats release a self-effacing cover of their Rat Trap hit with which Irish kids' television character?

13. Who was the manager of both Boyzone and Westlife?

14. Rock rabble-rousers The Fatima Mansions were led by which Cork singer?

15. Who are the band in the picture below?

ANSWERS: 1. The Frank and Walters 2. The Stunning 3. My Bloody Valentine 4. Therapy? 5. No Disco 6. Prince 7. Mary Black 8. Batman Forever 9. The Cranberries 10. 1994 11. Cork 12. Dustin the Turkey 13. Louis Walsh 14. Cathal Coughlan 15. Sultans of Ping (FC)

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