Hank Wedel’s Open Kitchen on Princes Street: General Info
Member Since
5/8/2006
Band Members
Full time Chefs in The Open Kitchen have been....
1987 in NYC: Hank Wedel - guitar, vocals/ Billy Attridge - guitar, vocals/ Glenn Newmark - bass, vocals/ Brian Lucey - guitar, vocals/ Vinny The Drummer
1990 - 1992 in Cork City: Hank Wedel/ Billy Attridge/ Pat O'Driscoll - bass/ Paul Moore - drums/ Carol Barrett - vocals
1992 - 1993 in Cork City: Hank Wedel/ Pat O'Driscoll/ Paul Moore/ Bobby Lee - guitar, vocals
1993 - 1995 in Cork City: Hank Wedel/ Bobby Lee/ James O'Sullivan - bass, vocals/ Mal Blackie - guitar, vocals/ Brian Carroll - percussion, vocals
1995 - 1996 in Cork City: Hank Wedel/ James O'Sullivan/ Brian Carroll/ Art Lorigan - Drums/ Shane Scanlan - guitar
Hope and Fear Alive in '95
1996 - 1999 in Cork City: Hank Wedel/ Shane Scanlan/ Martin Leahy - drums/ Shane O'Brien - bass/ Brian Carroll - percussion, vocals/ Niall O'Carroll - Harmonica
Poe Park 2AM
1999 - present in Cork City: Hank Wedel/ Shane Scanlan/ Martin Leahy/ Shane O'Brien.
Thru the years we have had short order cooks coming in the add their ingredients and spice to the rock'n'roll gumbo we serve up:
Eleanor Healy - bass, vocals/ Andre Van der Hoff - saxophone, flute, vocals/ Reuben Lynch - bass/ Declan Sinnott - guitar, vocals/ Jason O'Driscoll - drums, guitar, bass and vocals/ Ciaran Coughlan - piano/ Edel Sullivan - fiddle/ Ray Barron - mandolin, sound/ Emmet Martin - guitar/ Michael O'Hagan - drums/ Donie Moore - drums/ Brian Calnan - drums/ Eoin O'Regan - guitar, vocals/ Tom Clark - guitar, vocals/ Mick Geraghty - guitar, harp, vocals/ Martin Moylett - bass, vocals/ Dawn O'Leary - vocals/ Aine Whelan - vocals/ Sara Corkery - vocals/ Tally Murphy - vocals/ Andries Eleveld - drums/ Mick Hutchinson - guitar, vocals/ Larry Hogan -guitar, vocals/ Tara Byrne - vocals/Paddy McNichol - Drums....AND Lifetime Honourary UKELELE player-CRAIG CHESLER
Apologies in advance if I've left anyone out...but as you can see, it's quite a list...get in touch if you feel I've missed someone...Thanks to you all for everything and here's to more down the road...
Influences
Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams,
Bob Dylan and The Band,
The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones and James Brown and...
Sounds Like
Just forget all your worries and hassles for the next 2 - 3 hours...Kitchen's Open...have a bowl of Rock'n'Roll...
An Open Kitchen on Princes Street, eh?
This is Hank Wedel - born in Dayton, Ohio in 1963, raised in Queens, New York City 'til age 11...and then moved to MALLOW, Co. Cork...and having been bouncing back and forth and elsewhere between Cork City and New York City ever since...I'm here to tell ya b'out An Open Kitchen on Princes Street...
Y'see, I started out in Cork City, Ireland with a band called PRINCES STREET...first busking on Princes Street in 1984....sensational times...huge crowds on the streets every Thursday and Saturday nites...Free music on the streets, man...What abuncha young city hippies we were!
THEN 4 years later, in 1988 right thru to 1990, it was Princes Street as a Rock'n'Roll band - that made records, tapes, played club gigs, toured and did radio and TV...and helped establish The (late, lamented) LOBBY BAR in Cork City as a serious live venue...and played huge concerts in fields... for free... manys the time in that period...What a buncha muso deadhead Hippies!
In BETWEEN all that, from mid- '86 thru '87, I got d'Open Kitchen together in New York City with Billy Attridge (school chum from Mallow)...THEN in 1990, when PRINCES STREET stopped functioning, I got together with Billy Attridge AGAIN..but this time in Cork City...and called the band OPEN KITCHEN...THAT version Open Kitchen started up up a three-year residency in The Lobby in Cork '90 - '93...and the band has been evolving and revolving ever since! If you REALLY wanna sense of the history and biography of the band, just glance over at the list of members it has employed over the years...
If you wanna know 'bout the band and it's music, tho', then just listen to the tracks that are available here on myspace...The songs "Prefer" and "Your Lover Will Call" are the latest additions to our tack listing here.
"Global America" is all around us, of course...and thanks to it being on MySpace, "Global America" reached No. 40 on Neil Young's "Living with War Today " song chart- THANX to all of you who voted for it...
The latest news from this camp is that the great CHRISTY MOORE has recorded a song called "Listen" written by yours truly, Hank Wedel, after a trip to The Frozen Northern Swedish town of Gallivere-
Here's a video of Christy singing "Listen" accompanied by Declan Sinnott, who, as many of you reading this already know, has cooked in D'Open Kitchen manys the time and produced Princes Street recordings back in the day...
For any more info: get in touch via myspace or email me at kitchen@iol.ie
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Thanks for your request .Great music on your page ! The wonderful Martin Leahy also plays drums on our stuff -a big HI to you Martin !Hope you enjoy our sounds !Best wishes ,James.
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