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Revelino
12+ albums
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To tell the story of Revelino you need to first give a nod to The Coletranes which featured Brendan Tallon (Vocals & Guitar), Bren Berry (Guitar & Vocals), Ian O’Donoghue (Bass & Vocals) and Shane ‘Budgie’ Rafferty (Drums & Rizla). The band from Ballinteer, Dublin, had built a growing fanbase performing regular sold out nights in venues like Walters in Dun Laoghaire and the legendary Baggot Inn. They peaked in 1992 with a no 5 single I Wake Up (on Mother records off-shoot Son Records) and an Irish tour climaxing in a sold-out show at the iconic McGonagles. Things were looking golden but then the wheels started to come off when the plug was pulled at the 11th hour on a substantial international publishing deal and then an American record deal they signed basically came to nothing. This led to a lost year of waiting around while the band were living together in a house in the Dublin suburbs, surviving on that wonderful Irish arts grant, The Dole. The parties there were notorious and a side project called Radio Berlin killed some time but frustration built and led to the band re-imagining itself. Ian O’Donoghue sadly left and was replaced by Alan ‘Monty’ Montgomery (ex-The Dixons) on bass guitar and Brendan Tallon’s younger brother, Ciaran, completed the new line-up on guitar. Football talk over copious late-night pints in a boozer in Dublin city gave birth to the drunken idea of calling the new band Revelino. Frustrated at the music industry, they decided that the best way to g
