Northside

Northside are a band from Moston, Manchester, England, that borrowed heavily from the Madchester scene of the time. Formed in 1989, they released their only album Chicken Rhythms on Factory Records in 1991. The band became known for their live shows as part of what was the 1990 indie-rave scene. Their style was more to do with The Charlatans, as opposed The Stone Roses. Their single, "Shall We Take A Trip" was held by many as a symbol of the Madchester scene. The track was banned by the BBC for its many references to drugs. It eventually broke into the Top 50 in the UK Singles Chart. Interestingly though, on 6 May 2006, BBC 6 Music played this song in its entirety on the Marc Riley show. "Shall We Take A Trip" was also used as "Granada Soccer Nights" theme tune in the early 1990s. In 2008 a campaign on the social networking site 'Facebook' was launched intending to get the single "Shall We Take A Trip" back into the charts in the last week of June 2008. In little under 2 weeks almost 1,000 had signed up to download the song and was officially backed by XFM Manchester radio station.

In the United States, the group's lone charting hit was the song "Take 5", which reached #5 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts in 1991.

Band members are Warren Dermody (vocals) Timmy Walsh (guitar) Cliff Oiger (bass) and Paul Walsh, (drums) with Danny Yates (guitar) Paul Ankers (guitar) and Dean Dermody (drums) replacing the original line up some years later.

Most of the Northside band members, including Leadman and Dermody are now in a band named Silent Partners, which toured in July 2006. The band played their first gigs in 2003, seven years after the demise of Northside.

Northside reformed in late 2006 for a reunion tour. Although the only original member of Northside in the line up was Dermody, they received support, playing gigs from London to Liverpool to Leeds, culminating in a one off show in Manchester on 17 December 2006. The band announced more shows following their tour with a date at Manchester's Ritz on 3 May 2007 with support from Bez's Domino Bones.

During 2008, original members, Dermody and Walsh got together to work on new material.

Dermody can currently be found every Wednesday evening between 7pm and 10pm fronting his own online radio show, Dermo's 'Lethal Dancehall' on www.manchesterradioonline.com and DJing around the UK.

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