Finbarr Donnelly

Quick Facts

Full Name	Finbarr Donnelly
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1962(1962-04-25)
Age	62
Date Of Death	18 June 1989 (aged 27); Hyde Park, London
Birthplace	Belfast
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Northern Ireland
Horoscope	Taurus

Finbarr Donnelly Biography

Finbarr Donnelly is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on April 25, 1962 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Donnelly moved from Belfast to Cork city suburb The Glen, Cork aged 12, when his family sought to relocated from the The Troubles. He met guitarist Ricky Dineen in 1978, and having bonded over a shared interest in UFOs they formed a band, initially known as Nun Attax that year. The band grew a live following in Cork, centered around gigs in the Arcadia ballroom. Following the recruitment of various second guitarists and the celloist Úna Ní Chanainn, they recorded their most acclaimed EP ‘Knot a Fish in 1983, and moved to London later that year. Following two further EPs, The Glee Club and Singing in Braille, the band broke up in 1985. and recorded for Kabuki Records, Abstract Sounds and Creation Records.

The English songwriter Pete Astor’s 1982 song “Donnelly” was written in tribute to the late singer. The track appears on their album Paradise, released on Danceteria records. Astor said in 2016; “the reason I wrote the song is that I have an incredibly strong memory of Donnelly and the band. The song had to do with the idea that Donnelly was the unsung hero. He was like a complete hero, a total legend, just like Shaun Ryder was and is, and years later just like Richie Edwards was and is. But Finbarr was unsung.”

Finbarr Donnelly Net Worth

Finbarr Donnelly is one of the richest Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Finbarr Donnelly 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Finbarr Donnelly (25 April 1962 – 18 June 1989) was an Irish singer and songwriter who was as the vocalist with the post-punk band Five Go Down to the Sea? (earlier known as Nun Attax, later as Beethoven). Known for his striking stage presence and absurdist, surreal lyrics; he and Five Go Down To The Sea? were hugely influential on later generations of Irish musicians. Mark McAvoy, author of “Cork Rock: From Rory Gallagher to the Sultans of Ping”, said that “Donnelly probably would have been the most influential musician and songwriter in terms of the Cork music scene and the bands that stemmed from it.”

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Remarking on Donnelly’s eccentric stage persona, Membranes vocalist and writer John Robb said “Over the years I’ve heard all manner of tedious bastard bands yapping on about how they broke all the rules and how wild they were – perhaps they never saw Five Go Down to the Sea?” Cathal Coughlan, songwriter and vocalist for Microdisney and the Fatima Mansions, said that he would “not have ended up doing music if I hadn’t met Donnelly, and…ended up as a malcontented alcoholic civil servant working in a food factory somewhere in County Offaly.” In 2020, The Quietus critic Eoin Murray wrote that “listening…now, almost 40 years later, it’s with a mixture of nausea and awe that we hear so much of young Ireland’s modern experience in Donnelly’s words – in his frustration and frantic determination.”

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Greg Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Finbarr Donnelly celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.