Weedway

About

WeedWay formed in 2004 when Jake Foran, Gary McGuirk & Mark O’Neil got together because of their love of reggae music, & they quickly got Ronan Byrne involved and also enlisted the services of Drummer Anthony Kenny who was still Drumming for reggae band KingSativa & after some rehearsing they performed their first couple of gigs under the name WeedWay in support to KingSativa. Guitarist Derek Fenlon was in attendance at one of those support gigs & was eager to join the band, and after some persuasion was welcomed in as a third guitarist. A week later and after only two rehearsals with their new guitarist, WeedWay began their first of many residencies which lasted five years & gave the band time to tighten up and develop and also gave them a steady local support. Upon seeing WeedWay perform in Dublin, Australian band Dilip ‘N the Davs went home and wrote a song called “Reggae Gone” to which they gave Weedway a mention in the lyrics. Weedway went on to reside in another few venues in Dublin and also played in a lot of venues across Ireland including festivals such as The Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Body & Soul, and Knockanstockin & Booleigh Ska Festival. They have also been invited to play at numerous Scooter Raleigh’s in different parts of the country. The band have been also been invited to talk and perform on radio stations such as Near FM & Newstalk and have also been invited over to Australia to perform by Joe Ward from Netgigs. In all that time WeedWay had been composing and performing their original material but until now had not recorded any material to the standard required by them until now. Weedway have now released 3 tracks from their Debut 13 track Album titled “A Shedsworth” which is due for release in August and plan to follow it with more as they have loads more material to get through and continue to compose songs to date. Weedway Are Jake Foran – Guitar/Keyboards Mark O’Neil – Bass Ronan Byrne – Vocals/Guitars Antony Kenny – Drums/Vocals Derek Fenlon – Guitars/Vocals Influenced by all the early Reggae & Ska bands & also many other great songwriters & musicians from other genres ‘A Shedsworth’ was recorded @The Casualty Factory Studios Donaghmede with Trident 24 analogue desk, mixed by Johnathon Yeates & Weedway and Mastered by Fergal Davis.

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