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1980

January / April - Radiators in various high-tech studios with producer Hans Zimmer (who will later win an Oscar for his score for Disney's "The Lion King") recording their next two singles. Enormous studio bills are accrued, but the technology has not yet been invented to match the Rads and Zimmer's ambitions

February 22 - Compilation E.P. Four On The Floor released

July 24 - Stranger Than Fiction, the first of the Hans Zimmer-produced singles is released

September 2 - ...followed by the second, The Dancing Years

October ?? - Rehearsing in Mulligan records HQ, Dublin, with new recruits Nick Hurt (keyboards) and Neil Whiffen (bass) the Radiators prepare for their first Irish tour in almost two years.

Steve Averill designs the stage show, Peter Owens and David McConchie have been recruited as co-managers and the band promotes the tour by making three major Irish TV appearances (including Gay Byrne's Late Late Show) performing The Dancing Years single

22 - Regional Technical College, Carlow

23 - Bulgaden Castle Lounge, Killmallock

24 - Joey Maher's, Drogheda

25 - Old Crescent, Limerick

26 - Eoin Deveraux of Big L radio in Limerick interviews Pete Holidai

Pete talks about:

'Change of musical styles'

'Ghostown characters'

'Discussing the Ghostown songs with Visconti'

26 - Savoy Cinema, Cork

28 - Imperial Hotel, Dundalk

29 - Showboat , Waterford

Philip on stage at the Sportsman's Inn

30 - Sportsman's Inn, Dublin

November 1 - Project Arts Centre, Dublin

"Before a packed audience in the Project, they played a fine set that made a mockery of their fruitless search for gold across the water" Joe Breen/ Irish Times Nov 4

" The Radiators are among the best - not your best, my best or our best, the best" Ross Fitzsimons/ Hot Press Nov 7

2 - Town Hall, Nenagh

3 - Blue Lagoon, Sligo

4 - Downtown, Letterkenny

5 - Trinity College, Dublin

6 - Village Inn, Kilkenny

7 - University College, Galway

8 - Crofton Airport Hotel, Dublin

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1981

January - Band recording demos in Kensington, London. TV Tube Heart recording engineer Johnny Byrne helps out on bass in place of the departed Neil Whiffen

March - The Radiators cancel proposed Irish Tour and announce that they have regretfully called it a day

13 - Farewell single Song Of The Faithful Departed is released

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1985

November ?? - Compilation album Buying Gold In Heaven is released by Hotwire records

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1987

September 23 - The Radiators reform for one night only. The occasion is a Benefit for Dublin charity AID TO FIGHT AIDS. The venue is Hawkins in Dublin and the original 5-piece are joined by Gavin Friday, Nick Hurt, Keith Donald and Billy Morley. A new Chevron song, Under Clery's Clock is debuted

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1988

DOLLAR FOR YOUR DREAMS, a "live" souvenir of the Hawkins concert is released (on cassette only) to help raise more money for the AIDS charity. In the summer the Radiators go into Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin to record Under Clery's Clock and another new song Plura Belle, with Chevron and Holidai producing

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1989

January 30 - Under Clery's Clock is released as a 7" and 12" single by Chiswick Records

It is NME's Single Of The Week (Feb 25)

February 27 - A digitally mastered Ghostown is released on CD (also MC and Vinyl) for the first time, with the two new recordings, a revised running order and a new sleeve design

"A corker of an LP" Record Mirror Mar 11

"They did leave one extraordinary gift to posterity. GHOSTOWN, the album more any other in the world that I would love to have written myself" Carol Clerk/ Melody Maker Mar 25

"Pop tunes made muscular by the strenuous dialect of life and myth. Chevron dragged the"poetry in paralysis" out of the Celtic twilight and mated it with his own musical muse to form such musical savants as Kitty Ricketts and Faithful Departed while Holidai made delicious sandwiches of rhythm, rhyme and hooks... you hear how tight fistedly punchy the rhythm section of Jimmy "Crashe" Wynne and Mark Megaray really was. GHOSTOWN is an album to own, to cherish and live with. [It] is still a part of what we are." Liam Fay/ Hot Press Apr 20

"A literate, nouveau pop masterpiece"

Ann Scanlon/ Sounds Mar 4

"The trancendence of its art means that it will endure beyond the wildest aspirations of albums which have sold 100,000 times more. No contest." (Panel of 95 Irish music business/media people vote the album #16 of all time/ Hot Press Yearbook 1989)

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1995

November 3 - Cockles And Mussels : The Very Best Of The Radiators is released

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1996

June 7 - Alive - Alive - O!: Live In London + Bonus Tracks is released

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2003

December 21 - The Radiators (Plan 9) rehearsal

23 - The Radiators (Plan 9) perform at a Joe Strummer Memorial Tribute gig in Dublins Temple Bar Music Centre

 

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2004

April 9/10/11/12 -Initial rehearsals for Bloomsday gig at The Village, Dublin take place at the Temple Bar Music Centre.

June 9/11/12/13 - Resume rehearsals in Temple Bar Music Centre

June 14 - Production rehearsal in The Factory, Dublin

June 15 - Set up and rehearsal in The Village, Dublin (2fm's Gerry Ryan pops in to say hello)

June 15 - Phil and Steve appear on Tom Dunne's 'Pet sounds' show on Today FM

June 16 - Pete and Cait perform 'Kitty Ricketts'' live on Today FM's Ian Dempsey Breakfast show

June 16 - The Village, Dublin.Set List

July 6-7- Rehearsals in Temple Bar Music Centre

8 - Final Oxegen rehearsal in the Factory, Dublin

9- Recording special session for John Kelly's ''Mystery Train' show at RTE's Studio 8

10 - Oxegen 2004, Punchestown, Co Kildare. 2fm broadcast four songs live to the Nation.

12 - John Kelly plays Television Screen 2004, recorded for a Mystery Train special which will be broadcast later in the month.

26 - The Radiators Plan 9 'Mystery Train' Session Broadcast

September 19 - 2fm Broadcast The Radiators Plan 9's Oxegen set

October 27 - The Television Screen 2004 E.P. released

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2005

March 28 - Tv Tube Heart and Ghostown reissued as part of Ace Records 30th celebrations

April 3 - Whelan's, Dublin (Slideshow above)

May 5/6/7 - Plan 9 recording session, Grouse Lodge, Co Meath

June 6 - The Summer Season E.P. released

June 18/19- Rehearsals for Whelans and Croke Park in The Factory, Dublin

June 23 - Whelans, Dublin.( Slideshow above)