Brendan O'Hare

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Brendan O'Hare was the drummer in Scottish rock band Teenage Fanclub through the first three albums before he split acrimoniously from the band. He joined Scottish pop noise band Telstar Ponies in 1994, and later post-rock band Mogwai. He was described by the NME as Mogwai's "Monkey Without Portfolio". This prompted the track "With Portfolio" on Mogwai's debut album, Young Team. O'Hare was allegedly kicked out of Mogwai for talking during a performance by Arab Strap. Following this, in addition to his work with Macrocosmica and as Fiend, he ran the God Bless label (issuing the sole album by Thurston Moore's Foot project) and was half of electronic duo Liminal. He is currently in charge of bookings at well-known Glasgow venue The 13th Note where he is also co-host of Poplife, the venue's irreverent pop quiz. In 2006, he rejoined Teenage Fanclub for two gigs, in London and Glasgow, where the band played their seminal Bandwagonesque album in its entirety.

1 Macrocosmica
- 1.1 EPs
- 1.2 Albums
2 Fiend
- 2.1 Albums

[edit] Macrocosmica

Between 1996 and 2005, Brendan played guitar and sang with self-proclaimed 'Intelli-metal' band Macrocosmica.

[edit] EPs

Space Geek (1998) - God Bless Records

[edit] Albums

Ad Astra (1997) - God Bless Records
Art of the Black Earth' (2003)
Farewell To Earth (2005)

They also recorded a BBC Radio One Peel Session (1997), a BBC Radio One Session in Scotland (1999), and a BBC Radio Scotland Live Session (2003), and released a single 'Torch Number One' on Too Many Fireworks Records in 2003.

Initially a trio of O'Hare, his wife Cerwyss (bass) and Russell McEwan (drums - left to concentrate on his other band, Black Sun), they were latterly a quartet adding Keith Beacom (drums) and Gordon Brady (guitar), both of whom were former members of heavy psyche outfit Bangtwister. The group split at the end of 2005.

[edit] Fiend

Brendan O'Hare also released a trilogy of experimental ambient albums under the name of Fiend. These albums featured a handful of recordings involving other members of Telstar Ponies, of whom he was still a member when the material was recorded.