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Here's the old guestbook from Geocities, a new one should be added soon:


Name :   Eoin Downes
Email :   eoin.downes@compo.com
Town :   Mullingar
Country :   The Peoples Republic
Favourite Track :   Parachute
Comments :   youd swear the british govt controlled the irish music industry in the 80s, such was the miscarriage of justice that was the sad demise of irelands finest threesome.

Name :   geoff
Email :   calgeoff@hotmail.co.uk
Town :   london
Country :   england
Favourite Track :   no living without you
Comments :   brilliant website,i have been trying to find out what happened to the band,i have c of co,and witness,on cd,but your special edition cds look fantastic,iwould be interested in buying 2 copies from you,can you let me know how i can do this,cbd are a class

Name :   Colm F
Email :   paulkossoff@hotmail.com
Town :   Derry
Country :   Derry
Favourite Track :   witness for the world, yesterdays girl
Comments :   I only own a cassete of WFTW album on Epic cbs label, its great that there is site like this. Great band, good album there is no justice in the music business at all these guys should have been huge. They are like Horslips and thin lizzy in that they are

Name :   Tiger
Email :   tadhgosullivan@yahoo.com
Town :   Leiderdorp
Country :   Netherlands
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever
Comments :   Could have been a great band. Had everything going for them at a time when Irish bands with a similar drive were really making a world wide impact. And CBD were better than most that I hear in the late 80s

Name :   Gavin Boyle
Email :   
Town :   Bedfordshire
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   No Living Without You
Comments :   Its the biggest injustice in the music business, that this band never got the success that they truly deserved.

Name :   patrick arran
Email :   patarran@tiscali.co.uk
Town :   Swansea
Country :   United Kingdom
Favourite Track :   victorians
Comments :   

Name :   John O.
Email :   
Town :   St Louis
Country :   USA
Favourite Track :   All
Comments :   I knew them all back in Wexford. If they had been British they would have been managed PROPERLY and now be bigger than U2 or the Stones...We live in a fallen world....

Name :   leo boyne
Email :   leo @opto.net
Town :   yonkers
Country :   new york
Favourite Track :   all music
Comments :   

Name :   Amanda
Email :   amanda@setel.com
Town :   pikeville
Country :   U.S.A.
Favourite Track :   All of them
Comments :   You guys rock.

Name :   Alan
Email :   
Town :   Madrid
Country :   Spain
Favourite Track :   The seed......
Comments :   Apologies to the band, but its their own fault (They made great music but its hard to get), so Im sharing some CBD music on emule.com Please do the same and we can all get to hear this fantastic music, videos too.

Name :   Pete
Email :   pete_@tiscali.co.uk
Town :   Dewsbury
Country :   West Yorkshire
Favourite Track :   Always to win
Comments :   Get some more music on them shelfs lads,yer sound is cock on.

Name :   Jeff Copland
Email :   BritishTravel@Comcast.net
Town :   Prospect Heights, Illinois
Country :   USA
Favourite Track :   Witness For the World
Comments :   My wife and I have a great memory of hearing Witness for the World on Radio 1 while in the Lake District. We were looking down a most beautiful valley with the song coming out of our car stereo speakers as we were parked in a scenic layby. I believe it wa

Name :   Monica Muro Rico
Email :   monicamuro@yahoo.com
Town :   Mexico City D.F.
Country :   Mexico
Favourite Track :   The seed has been sown
Comments :   

Name :   woodkerne
Email :   leppardc@yahoo.com
Town :   Derry
Country :   Londonderry
Favourite Track :   Witness For The World
Comments :   I first heard this tune on the Dave Fanning show. The video was outstanding and the song has remained with me for the best part of 15 years. I am hunting for their albums and if they played anywhere in Ireland tommorrow I would go to see them through hell

Name :   NEV SPUD MURPHY
Email :   nevmur@eircom.net
Town :   Lucan
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Silly Dreams
Comments :   WAAAAAH...MISTER...still wearing my stonewashed jeans, and runner boots!

Name :   JOCKEY DORAN
Email :   DAITHIOD2000@YAHOO.IE
Town :   WATERBURY CT
Country :   U.S.A
Favourite Track :   FLAGS
Comments :   I was introduced to CBD by an associate Eoin Downes who assured me that once I heard this band I would throw away my Paul Young albums (still a God), tartan jeans and mullet hairstyle forever! How right he was - long live the memories of nights in Lucans

Name :   john cooks cooney
Email :   johncooney@eircom.net
Town :   Chapo
Country :   Dublin
Favourite Track :   Where The Streets Have no Name
Comments :   I used to go to all their gigs in Dandelion Market, in Dublin. Dublins finest.

Name :   EOIN DOWNES
Email :   eoin.e.downes@intel.com
Town :   Mullingar
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   The Seeds......
Comments :   Not since the Birmingham 4 has there been a miscarriage of justice to the scale that saw the demise of Irelands best band since Planxty.

Name :   Padraig Rooney
Email :   padraigr@eircom.net
Town :   Dublin
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Girl in the getto, flags
Comments :   Cry before dawn are one of the best bands that came out of Ireland that never actually achieved their potential on the world stage, they had the material the look ,but what happened was it bad management what ever it was they under achieved...............

Name :   Andre Seffair
Email :   aseffair@uol.com.br
Town :   Manaus
Country :   Brasil
Favourite Track :   The Seede Thats Been Sown
Comments :   (congratulations!!!)Parabens pelo site, belo trabalho, muito bem feito. Aqui no Amazonas(amazon/brazil)a banda fez muito sucesso e ate hoje muitos a admiram ... (antes de conhecer o site pensei que os integrantes da banda tivessem morrido ou desaparecido,

Name :   ALAN
Email :   ALANBEVIN@HOTMAIL.COM
Town :   DUNDALK
Country :   LOUTH
Favourite Track :   SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES ....
Comments :   GREAT SONGS FROM THIS BAND DONT KNOW Y THEY WERE NOT BIGGER.

Name :   dawn
Email :   aurorared5@pacbell.net
Town :   anaheim
Country :   usa
Favourite Track :   all
Comments :   I LOVE YOU

Name :   John
Email :   Etlaif@netzero.net
Town :   St Louis
Country :   USA
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   They were the greatest sound to come out of Ireland - bar none...

Name :   Marcus Prado
Email :   marcus_prado@hotmail.com
Town :   Manaus - Amazonia
Country :   Brazil
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever, The Seeds
Comments :   Its the most amazing band ever. Good times... Gone Forever,The Seeds and Nobody Knows... Great songs! ...anyone send me news about the band. tanxs

Name :   Eoin
Email :   eoin.e.downes@intel.com
Town :   Dublin
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   All of them
Comments :   I meet Brendan around 3yrs back and he was gigging in a bar called the anglers rest in Dublin. playing tradional Irish stuff plus the CBD classics.

Name :   Ben
Email :   aidanbennett@btopenworld.com
Town :   Belfast
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   The seed thats been sown
Comments :   Where can I get the first album on CD? My vinyl copy is worn out.

Name :   Deirdre
Email :   pinky_lefty_revolutionary@hotmail.com
Town :   Dublin
Country :   
Favourite Track :   Witness For The World
Comments :   Hey, found your site randomly while searching about Wexford hurling things. Im a native of Bunclody. My dad got my into Cry Before Dawn when I was a teenager. Excellent to see a site dedicated to them! Great band.

Name :   ed gilmore
Email :   edg@fluidxequipment.com
Town :   Salt Lake City
Country :   USA
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   

Name :   Luiz
Email :   luizbarbosarecife@hotmail.com
Town :   Recife
Country :   Brasil
Favourite Track :   The seeds
Comments :   Ae Galera, please, quem tiver qualquer música dessa Grande Banda, please send me . Velhos tempos que morei em Manaus, e curtia as músicas na Boite Starship, 320, Red Zone e Village Café, com o DJ Fernando Araújo, único no Brasil com a Coletânea Completa

Name :   Uschi
Email :   
Town :   Linlithgow
Country :   Scotland
Favourite Track :   Witness for the World
Comments :   I have heard this song only once in all my live, on the radio, as the station had a race against the clock to see, if they could play any track requested within 30 minutes. I had no info about its title or the group singing it. It took me an eternity to f

Name :   ALEX
Email :   ALEXGANDALF@BOL.COM.BR
Town :   SALVADOR
Country :   BRASIL
Favourite Track :   THE SEEDS THAT BEEN SOWN
Comments :   VERY GOOD.

Name :   José González
Email :   iosefgs@hotmail.com
Town :   D.F.
Country :   México
Favourite Track :   girl in the ghetto, the seed, Tender Years
Comments :   Tuve la oportunidad de escucharlos hace aproximadamente 14 años, es un grupo extraordinario, escuchaba por aquellos años una estación de radio em México D.F. llamada Rock 101 y escuche por primera vez la canción de The seed... me gusto, compre en aquel en

Name :   P E
Email :   
Town :   New Ross
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Follow Me
Comments :   I remember buying Crimes of Conscience on vinyl in July 1987 - from then money I earned strawberry picking. Hard to believe 17 years have passed.

Name :   Murf
Email :   
Town :   
Country :   
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   

Name :   PAULO ALBERTO
Email :   ALBERTOMAGAL@BOL.COM.BR
Town :   MANAUS - AMAZONAS
Country :   BRASIL
Favourite Track :   LIVING WHITOUT YOU
Comments :   I LOVE THIS BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name :   mick
Email :   wreade@eircom.net
Town :   
Country :   
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   

Name :   Marion den Bakker
Email :   mariondenbakker@freeler.nl
Town :   Deventer
Country :   Holland
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   Aloha, Im desperately trying to otder music form Cry Before Dawn on Internet, but seem to fail everytime. Can someone give me addresses where I can order? Thanks

Name :   Luiz
Email :   fera@free.com
Town :   Recife
Country :   Manaus
Favourite Track :   fsfsdf
Comments :   dfsdfsdfsdfsdf

Name :   sharon walsh
Email :   sharnah1@yahoo.co.uk
Town :   wexford
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   witness for the world
Comments :   cry before dawn were a great band but the best song that brendan ever sang was DANCING AT THE CROSSROADS......... I also knew him when i was a little girl, he lived just down the road from me.

Name :   glenn
Email :   glennmiller_416@msn.com
Town :   newcastle
Country :   england
Favourite Track :   girl in the geyyo
Comments :   hi lads do you remeber me glenn miller from newcastle

Name :   Jacqui Kent
Email :   jmk1612@hotmail.com
Town :   Hull
Country :   
Favourite Track :   Victorians
Comments :   Info: Recent photos of Brendan + Red Shamrocks on the Chaudalik Network search on concert photos.

Name :   tony murphy
Email :   thespud68@hotmail.com
Town :   dundalk
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   flags
Comments :   what a great band. great lyrics, bands today could learn a lesson in song writing from these guys.

Name :   sarah fisher
Email :   sarah.fisher77@ntlworld.com
Town :   
Country :   Hampshire
Favourite Track :   all too good to choose just one
Comments :   Im referring here to The Swans. Have been searching for ages to find information. Thanks for website. Bell and Wade must get back to recording/performing together. The Swans was the best concert Ive ever been to. It haunts me still and I am grateful to ha

Name :   John Shewan
Email :   John@shewan.wandoo.co.uk
Town :   Glasgow
Country :   Scotland
Favourite Track :   Girl In The Ghetto
Comments :   I loved Cry Before Dawn in the late eighties I bought both the albums and quite a few of the 12 singles the special edition cds look superb Id be delighted to buy them.

Name :   alan scott
Email :   al_scott@hotmail.com
Town :   lisburn
Country :   n ireland
Favourite Track :   always to win
Comments :   

Name :   Jacqui Kent
Email :   jmk1612@hotmail.com
Town :   HULL
Country :   East Yorkshire
Favourite Track :   Victorians
Comments :   Fantastic update to site Oliver. Do you know of any TV/video footage of the band?

Name :   Nick Arundell
Email :   
Town :   Chester
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Yesterdays Girl
Comments :   Seen CBD twice. First time supporting Big Country in Handley. The second time, supporting Tom Robinson in Manchester. Brilliant live. Sadly missed.

Name :   enda long
Email :   endalong@yahoo.com
Town :   enniscorthy
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   great to see the site back just wondering if anyone has a copy of there first single follow me ?

Name :   Darren Turner
Email :   darren-nikki@supanet.com
Town :   Horsham
Country :   UK
Favourite Track :   If i only had time -Swans
Comments :   Great site , I came across this after hearing the swans photographs and letters albuum .Looking for more music by them , ordered Cry before dawns cds the same night from irish music mail.

Name :   BRIAN GOUDIE
Email :   BRIANGOUDIE5@AOL.COM
Town :   GRIMSBY
Country :   ENGLAND
Favourite Track :   GONE FOREVER
Comments :   BRENDANs voice was always of a diffrent level,the spine chilling and haunting of gone forever will stay with me forever.xxxxxxxx

Name :   Gary Cook
Email :   Gaz.cook@ntlworld.com
Town :   Brighton
Country :   UK
Favourite Track :   Your Little World
Comments :   Saw them at the Event in Brighton c.1989....cant remember who they were supporting....a great,fresh rich sound.Some great memories attached to Witness album...TA!

Name :   John Hannon
Email :   hannonjohn@hotmail.com
Town :   Bray, Co Wicklow
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Gone for ever
Comments :   Brilliant Band Pity they have broken up but not gone for ever?

Name :   Carlos Garcia
Email :   garko2000@hotmail.com
Town :   Dublin
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   The Seed that has been sown
Comments :   What a great band! Even now when i listen i still get carried back to great times in the 80s. Saw them Live! Brilliant! What a shame they are not around anymore.

Name :   mark southgate
Email :   rachel.southgate@ntlworld.com
Town :   swindon
Country :   england
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   any chance of a re-union?

Name :   paul mc carney
Email :   
Town :   belfast
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   last of the sun
Comments :   theres no justice in the music world

Name :   Maura Boyce
Email :   maura@brenson-lawlor.ie
Town :   Dublin
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Girl in the Ghetto
Comments :   Where in Dublin can I buy your CDs?

Name :   Fran Maguire
Email :   franmaguire38@hotmail.com
Town :   Manchester
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Girl in the Ghetto
Comments :   Brilliant band pity they are no more. Reminescent of Horslips.

Name :   JOSE RAMON DE LOS RIOS
Email :   rdelosrios@prodigy.net.mx
Town :   Mexico city
Country :   Mexico
Favourite Track :   The Seed That’s Been Sown.
Comments :   In Mexico city played this song in radio station ROCK 101 in years 80s. This song is part of soundtrack the my life.

Name :   jim herring
Email :   sam.l.herring@btinternet.com
Town :   sheffield
Country :   england
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   cry before dawn and big country.i dont think ill ever see another gig like it in my life.thanks lads r.i.p stuart

Name :   enda long
Email :   endalong@yahoo.com
Town :   enniscorthy
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   i have a copy of the live gig broadcast on i.t.v. in 1989 great stuff.

Name :   David Pouncey
Email :   david.pouncey@remploy.co.uk
Town :   Birmingham
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   The Whole Album
Comments :   Saw The Swans supporting David Essex at The Symphony Hall and they went down a storm.Bought their album which I have to have a shot of on a regular basis.Thought they were destined for great things but it wasnt to be which is a great shame.

Name :   Ian
Email :   ianlg17@hotmail.com
Town :   Crowthorne, Berks
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Always to Win
Comments :   Like everyone else, would like to hear more from Brendan and Paul. Does anyone know if theyve got anything in the pipeline??

Name :   Steveq
Email :   stevenq@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au
Town :   sydney
Country :   Australia
Favourite Track :   girl in the ghetto
Comments :   Only have the two lps ...need to get CDs as well. Great sound

Name :   Sheila
Email :   scallicott@ntlworld.com
Town :   West Yorkshire
Country :   
Favourite Track :   Goodbye my friend
Comments :   The Swans - Photographs and Letters. Saw them supporting Mike & the Mechanics in York a few years back. Best album Ive ever bought. Cant for the life of me find out if they are still touring as would LOVE to see them live again and buy more of their music

Name :   Barney Toal
Email :   barney_toal@hotmail.com
Town :   Derry
Country :   N Ireland
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   Where can I but CBD cds?

Name :   james mc namara
Email :   minumees@eircom.net
Town :   ennis
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   girl in the ghetto
Comments :   i just hope they realese another album and tour ireland

Name :   John Sanders
Email :   sandblast99 @hotmail.com
Town :   Northampton
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Second sight
Comments :   FOR SALE- CRIMES OF CONSCIENCE & WITNESS FOR THE WORLD CDS PERFECT CONDITION £8.50 EACH INC POSTAGE IN EUROPE. WITNESS FOR THE WORLD & LAST OF THE SUN 4 TRACK CD SINGLES £4 INC POSTAGE EUROPE. GONE FOREVER 4 TRACK CASSETTE £3 INC POSTAGE.

Name :   John Sanders
Email :   sandblast99@hotmail.com
Town :   Northampton
Country :   
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   

Name :   John Sanders
Email :   sandblast99@hotmail.com
Town :   Northampton
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Second sight
Comments :   I first saw them supportting Tom Robinson. Brendan had such presence. great tunes, outstanding memories. Unfortunately second time I saw them was at some seedy club in Harlesden North London in 1992. I was in the big black smoke looking for rare CBD mus

Name :   Elinor Burleigh
Email :   eliB71@yahoo.co.uk
Town :   Glasgow
Country :   Scotland
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever
Comments :   First heard CBD when they supported Scottish band Runrig in 88! They are amazing! Like nothing Id heard before! Struggling to find their albums on CD! Would LOVE to see them reform!!

Name :   Dave
Email :   doctorteeth@iol.ie
Town :   
Country :   
Favourite Track :   No Living Without You
Comments :   Great site. Great band. Does anybody have an MP3 of the SINGLE version of No Living Without You?

Name :   paul durrell
Email :   .
Town :   london
Country :   england
Favourite Track :   precious land
Comments :   check out ebay.co.uk for lots of rare CBD/SWANS/WILD SWANS stuff

Name :   Maria Morreale
Email :   scullymorreale@adelphia.net
Town :   Buffalo, NY
Country :   US
Favourite Track :   Last of the Sun
Comments :   

Name :   martin caulfield
Email :   martcaulfield@aol.com
Town :   LONDON
Country :   UK
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever
Comments :   I am an exiled Irish guy living in London, and remember seeing Cry Before Dawn in Cheers Pub, New Ross, Co. Wexford. There were about 10 people there, and I was there with my girlfriend. if I am not mistaken Noel Randall was there?? Have been trying to ge

Name :   michael okane
Email :   michaelokane@f2s.com
Town :   coleraine
Country :   derry
Favourite Track :   gone fover
Comments :   had to get cds lps,no fo anywhere?

Name :   juan manuel salgueiro gomez
Email :   juansalgueiro310166@hotmail.com
Town :   la coruna
Country :   spain
Favourite Track :   the seed thats been sown
Comments :   its really good to have found this site, thank you

Name :   Paul Langhorn
Email :   paullanghorn@aol.com
Town :   Barrow-in-Furness
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Girl in the ghetto
Comments :   

Name :   dave banister
Email :   davidbanister@hotmail.com
Town :   northampton
Country :   northants
Favourite Track :   yesterdays girl
Comments :   saw the support many times would love to have seen them headline great site

Name :   Lisa Gater
Email :   
Town :   Finchampstead
Country :   Berkshire
Favourite Track :   Too many to mention
Comments :   Does anyone have any news on Brendans latest album due to have been released towards end of 2002 ? Desperate to hear that voice again.

Name :   Paul
Email :   terminaltwilight@aol.com
Town :   Yaphank, New York
Country :   USA
Favourite Track :   Nobody Knows
Comments :   Greatest band that might have been. Fan since 87. Looking for rare tracks, b-sides and videos.

Name :   Roisin
Email :   roisin2uk@yahoo.co.uk
Town :   
Country :   Devon
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever
Comments :   I love your site!! Thank you for keeping the faith with CBD, a totally underappreciated band with enormous talent. I shall be visiting frequently from now on!! Thanks again!!

Name :   jim
Email :   macceit@hotmail.com
Town :   newry
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   last of the sun
Comments :   these guys have a place in my life, as a hormonally challenged teenager i thought their lyrics said it all,,as a man looking down the barrel of 40 i realise,,,,,they fecking did!!! guys,,,,come out of the woodwork and go for it,,,you were (are) wondeful

Name :   Jacqui Kent
Email :   jmk1612@hotmail.com
Town :   
Country :   Yorkshire
Favourite Track :   When All The Rest Have Gone
Comments :   For those of you wanting to buy CBD albums on CD Witness For The World and Crimes of Conscience I have just bought them from www.irishmusicmail.com. Hope this helps some of you wanting the albums on CD.

Name :   william peplow
Email :   nicoletibran@aol.com
Town :   cannock
Country :   uk
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   loved them way back they should have been massive but hey what do i know its all a matter of taste and they happened to be mine

Name :   Jorge García Zavaleta
Email :   jorge@garciazavaleta.com
Town :   Mexico
Country :   Mexico
Favourite Track :   The seed that´s been sown
Comments :   Well, it was not my imagination or a misplaced memory... CBD really existed. Cool!!

Name :   Guillermo Reynoso
Email :   chilango67@yahoo.com
Town :   Mexico City
Country :   Mexico
Favourite Track :   The Seed...
Comments :   I have looked for C. of Cons. (specially for the track) but have not been able to find it. Now I will settle for a download, but could not find it, either... Any leads to this track?

Name :   raymond hayes
Email :   raymondohayes@hotmail.com
Town :   wexford
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   

Name :   Remi de Git
Email :   rdgit@hiltermann.nl
Town :   Purmerend
Country :   Netherlands
Favourite Track :   Last of the sun
Comments :   Just purchased Witness for the world ( already owned several CD-singles ) and its brilliant. One of the best groups of the 80s ! ps I think the CD-single version of Last of the sun is the better one !

Name :   Roger Scanlon
Email :   chaosbane2@hotmail.com
Town :   Nottingham
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   To be honest, Id never heard of the band, and havent actually heard any of the tracks. Im ordering the albums now though, as I have the privelege of working with Tony Hall. What a nice guy!

Name :   mark adams
Email :   mark_adams98@hotmail.com
Town :   manchester
Country :   england
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   just a note to say i enjoyed takeing alook at this site and just wise that the group had never broke up mark

Name :   john crofton
Email :   jc.dj@oceanfree.net
Town :   clane,kildare
Country :   ireland
Favourite Track :   gone forever
Comments :   being a long time fan of the band. Have both albums on vinl & cry before dawn album 1 on cd. still listening,still enjoying. It a pity they didnt go futher.Allways remember them being on Wogan twice,gone forever & witness to the world

Name :   claire
Email :   clairemandville@yahoo.com
Town :   
Country :   eire/uk
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   saw bell and wade or the swans as they were then supporting david essex, put a small bit about them on the website cryfm.cjb.net. thanks for the search visit whoever that was.. can now update the site..

Name :   chris
Email :   c.quinlan@st-vincents.ie
Town :   DUBLIN
Country :   IRELAND
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   Hi there, congratulations on an excellent site!I have only recently rediscovered the band,through the swans albumphotographs and letters I will be on the lookout for copies of Dawns albums now..do you know if brendan is still making music at all? Cheer

Name :   Byron
Email :   
Town :   Bridlington
Country :   
Favourite Track :   Victorians
Comments :   RE-SWANS changed name to Bell & Wade released a single Want You To Go broke up according to Grapevine never released another album together after Photo & Letters. Apparently Brendans got an album out or coming out soon in Ireland under Rossette Records -

Name :   andy lee
Email :   andy.lee@whsmithnet.co.uk
Town :   southport
Country :   england
Favourite Track :   photos+letters album!!
Comments :   i was looking for info on "the swans". saw them supporting mike+mechs may 99- best support i've ever seen! crowd of the audience bought the cd and queued to get them signed. i really thought they were going places----but----never heard anything since!grea

Name :   Marcelo
Email :   jumaroliveira@uol.com.br
Town :   Manaus
Country :   Brasil
Favourite Track :   Nobody Knows
Comments :   Hi guys, After a long time trying to get some of your songs I found this web site. Please how can I buy your cd´s ? The first one is sensational... See you.. Marcelo..

Name :   Mazhar Ajaz
Email :   mazhar_ajaz@hotmail.com
Town :   Sutton - Surrey
Country :   UK
Favourite Track :   GF/ WFTW
Comments :   "We are bound by each others arms." Some tunes haunt you all your life.

Name :   Colin Brady
Email :   kilmorecolin@hotmail.com
Town :   Kilmore...Wexford
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever
Comments :   CBD, a blast from the past, thought they were class, saw them 5 times in all. The 1st and highlight being the Dun Whuire in Wexford town just after the Witness release.what a gig the place was jumping. R.I.P Cry Before Dawn

Name :   Paula
Email :   gow@o2.pl
Town :   Warsaw
Country :   Poland
Favourite Track :   probably Flags
Comments :   Wow. Truly, Internet is great! Finally people who know the name and heard the music. I've been a fan since I heard a tape of CoC and worn my own cassette down long time ago. Thanks for brightening up the day :)

Name :   Gwen
Email :   gwen@webfactory.ie
Town :   Dublin
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   All brill
Comments :   Enjoy the music and the lyrics

Name :   KevtheDub
Email :   KevtheDub@hotmail.com
Town :   Skerries
Country :   Dublin
Favourite Track :   Last of the Sun
Comments :   Lastofthesun.mp3, What this site needs is some .mp3 files! I have searched everywhere for this song & this is the only CBD site I found & NOT EVEN A .MP3 FILE

Name :   Howard Ludbrook
Email :   h.c.ludbrook@talk21.com
Town :   Melton Mowbray
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Always To Win
Comments :   back in 1989 cbd were scheduled to be shown on ITV in concert.it was never transmitted in midlands region does any one know if there is still footage or any other video great to see the band will never be forgotten.

Name :   Mark J.Cairns
Email :   mark_cairns@hotmail.com
Town :   Lisburn
Country :   N.Ireland
Favourite Track :   Witness For the World
Comments :   Still on the never-ending search for a CD version of 'Witness For The World'... have the 45-single and stupidly at the time didn't forsee my love of their music lasting into the 21st Century.

Name :   John Lilly
Email :   johnplilly@yahoo.com
Town :   Belfast
Country :   N Ireland
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever
Comments :   Brilliant to find this site on the internet. Seen the band once in the Baggot Inn in Dublin and loved their music. Thanks for dedicating a site to CBD.

Name :   John O byrne
Email :   
Town :   
Country :   
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   Re Jaqui Kent. I Think Rossette records are in the Glasnevin Industrial estate Dublin. They are also known as Ritz Promotions.

Name :   Alan White
Email :   Alan@willowdene.freeserve.co.uk
Town :   Thorton (nr Blackpool)
Country :   U.K.
Favourite Track :   Witness for the world
Comments :   Great site for a band that most people think I'm making up.

Name :   Jacqui Kent
Email :   jmk1612@hotmail.com
Town :   
Country :   
Favourite Track :   Flags
Comments :   Re John O'Byrne's message on Brendan Wade's album release in Sept. Do you have any number or address for Rosette Records. My searches on net have failed. Thanks

Name :   Adam
Email :   aclayton@poczta.onet.pl
Town :   Poznañ
Country :   POLAND
Favourite Track :   Yesterday's girl
Comments :   

Name :   Robbie
Email :   doyles@unison.ie
Town :   Kildare
font face=times color="#000000">Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Second Sight
Comments :   It still mystifies me how they never made it big - all superb songs and Brendan Wade's voice. The campaign for the reformation of CBD should start here. Get back on to Tony Hall!!!

Name :   John O Byrne
Email :   
Town :   Dublin
Country :   
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   I Hear that Brendan Wade, has made a new album, to be released in sept/oct /02.On Rosette Records Ireland.

Name :   Jacqui Kent
Email :   
Town :   Hull
Country :   
Favourite Track :   Victorians
Comments :   Dear Steve Bullman I saw The Swans Nov.99 great to hear Brendan's voice again. They never released any other albums after Photo.&Letters. Changed their name to Bell and Wade and have since split up although they released a single called 'Want You To Go'.

Name :   David
Email :   d_holmes@ntlworld.com
Town :   Guildford
Country :   UK
Favourite Track :   Victorians
Comments :   Just discovered your site. I was at the Guildford Civic Hall gig in '89 and was MOST impressed. Only a cassette version of Witness. Would love more 'stuff'!

Name :   Gisele Moura
Email :   giselemoura@hotmail.com
Town :   Natal-RN
Country :   Brasil
Favourite Track :   Nobody Knows
Comments :   So... you guys from Manaus, remember the good times at Red Zone? Congratulations Oliver, you did a good work here!!! Now tell us how to get some CBD music!

Name :   Steve Covensty
Email :   stevec@yahoo.com
Town :   Glasgow
Country :   Scotland
Favourite Track :   Witness for the World
Comments :   News about drummer Pat Hayes here: astralnetart.com/wasteland

Name :   Steve Bullman
Email :   Steve.Bullman@btopenworld.com
Town :   Loughborough, Leics
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Forlorn Point/Stateside Europe
Comments :   Back after an absence - Oliver told me about the Swans - Excellent album - when is the next? Is there an info list I can get onto re their activity? I'd love to see them live. It would be sad if they disappeared like the lost, lamented CBD... If only.

Name :   Flanno
Email :   
Town :   London
Country :   UK
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever/Tender Years
Comments :   Have lived in the UK for 14 years, hadn't heard any CBD since my days in UC Galway. Happened upon this site last week... and saw that the CD's could be purchased over the net.. The years havent affected the music... It still sounds brilliant!!!

Name :   Mithus
Email :   mithus@wanadoo.es
Town :   Ourense
Country :   Spain
Favourite Track :   Witness for the World
Comments :   Where to buy some of the albums?Thanks ;))

Name :   Martin
Email :   
Town :   Belper
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Back Up Against The Wall
Comments :   First saw CBD when they supported Big country - superb. By the way, you can get hold of at least two of the albums at www.irishmusicmail.com.

Name :   Fergal
Email :   fergal10@hotmail.com
Town :   Donegal
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   Regarding Jacqui Kent's enquiry re Bell & Wade, they are no longer togeather. Ray Darcy of Today F.M in Ireland is a good info source. They have web page.

Name :   Jacqui
Email :   
Town :   Hull
Country :   East Yorkshire
Favourite Track :   Stateside Europe
Comments :   Does anyone have any idea if Bell & Wade are still together? I checked recently with Grapevine and they are no longer with them.

Name :   Mark Thirkettle
Email :   mark_thirkettle@hotmail.com
Town :   Middlesbrough
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   GFE/Witness
Comments :   Finally came across your website for one of the finest bands EVER. It's great to see so many other like-minded people, sick of people saying "who?" when I mention CBD.

Name :   George
Email :   kingbunnyman@aol.com
Town :   Sawley
Country :   nottm
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   

Name :   Paul
Email :   paul.molloy@siemens.ie
Town :   Tullamore, Co. Offaly
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever
Comments :   Gone Forever was just on the radio which is what prompted me to look for a CBD website. Great band! Great days! Fair play to the webmaster.

Name :   Erica Westhannen
Email :   erica111c@hotmail.com
Town :   Eltham
Country :   United Kingdom
Favourite Track :   No Living without You
Comments :   I thought I was the only person whoever knew they existed. I bought their album years ago after hearing Witness for the World. Don't suppose you could tell me where I could get hold of copies of their other albums do you? Erica.

Name :   Garath
Email :   Belgarath16ukuk@yahoo.co.uk
Town :   Liverpool
Country :   Merseyside
Favourite Track :   Victorians
Comments :   Only just discovered CBD, any hint of what happened to them? Garath

Name :   David Young
Email :   davidyoung980@aol.com
Town :   Leeds
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Victorians and When All The Rest Have Gone
Comments :   After hearing Witness for the World on the radio I bought the CD and then bought their first album. Both brilliant. Love all the B-sides to their singles. I'd love to hear some of the tracks I don't have. They were live at The Irish Centre Leeds but I only...

Name :   A revived fan!
Email :   inezfitzg@yahoo.ie
Town :   Dublin
Country :   
Favourite Track :   The Seed! but of course...
Comments :   Finding your site brightened up my day. I got my first taste of CBD during my intercert year when miserable & confined to my room all I had was my music, I can recite nearly all the lyrics on COC but could I tell you the dates of the Irish famine?? needless to say

Name :   Matt Ellis
Email :   Mattematt4@aol.com
Town :   Eltham
Country :   UK
Favourite Track :   Last of The Sun Or Girl in The Ghetto
Comments :   I was a Big Country fan fortunate enough to see CBD both supporting and playing their own shows on a number of occasions. Recently found a Swans CD single in Dublin... Stay alive!

Name :   Thomas Warde
Email :   
Town :   Dublin
Country :   Ireland
Favourite Track :   Flags
Comments :   Hi, I heard the band are getting back together.

Name :   Evandro Vidéo de Souza Júnior
Email :   evandrohome@oana.com.br
Town :   Manaus
Country :   Brazil
Favourite Track :   The Seed That's Been Sown
Comments :   I really love these guys. Could you tell me when the band finished? Regards.

Name :   JOHN O'BYRNE
Email :   
Town :   DUBLIN
Country :   IRELAND
Favourite Track :   SEED THATS BEEN SOWN
Comments :   Just to let you aaaall know that both albums are available on CD at Irish Music Mail, not sure of email address. Thanks.

Name :   Ricardo Beça
Email :   turenko@uol.com.br
Town :   Manaus - Amazonas
Country :   Brasil
Favourite Track :   The Seed That Been Sown
Comments :   Man you are the best! I always look out for a site of this spectacular band, and haven't found until now! Congratulations!! I wonder if you know where I can buy their albums? If you do, please contact me.. I am guitar and vocal of a cover band here in Brazil. http://www.hollywoodbeer.com.br/v2/banda_jukebox.htm

Name :   Fergal McAllister
Email :   fergal10@hotmail.com
Town :   Donegal
Country :   Iireland
Favourite Track :   Sometimes Is Never Enough
Comments :   Is Tony Hall's guiter dusted down yet? Come on lads get the show back on the road. Gone Forever for re release, a whole generation hasn't heard it, because when you add it all up it just the way it's meant to be.

Name :   Bernard Griffin
Email :   bmbcgriffin@eircom.net
Town :   Ballybofey (Home of Finn Harps)
Country :   Eire
Favourite Track :   Stateside Europe/Precious Land (sadly unreleased)
Comments :   Great site, only just discovered it. I'd love to see the lads reform and give it another go....live they were amazing but it never quite sounded as powerful on vinyl. Why oh why was ''Precious land'' never released?

Name :   Ooops! Jacqui Kent
Email :   
Town :   Hull
Country :   
Favourite Track :   Up Against the Wall
Comments :   Dear Fan, many thanks for your reply. I will contact the book shop in Wexford. Also, nice to see band members visiting this great site.

Name :   A fan
Email :   
Town :   
Country :   
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   To Jaquie Kent ...Dancing at the crossroads is available in the book center, Wexford town, Ireland.

Name :   Paul
Email :   pricha1064@aol.com
Town :   Blackburn
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Gone Forever/Sentimental
Comments :   What a fantastic group-force it on your friends!

Name :   Jacqui Kent
Email :   
Town :   Hull
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   G.F.E./Victorians.
Comments :   I've been trying to get 'Dancing At The Crossroads' by Wade/Bell. Anyone have any ideas where I could get hold of it? Also, I saw Bell/Wade Nov.99 but haven't heard much since 'Want you to Go'. Are they still together? bfn Jacqui.

Name :   Paul Meyler
Email :   irishlad1_2000@yahoo.com
Town :   Rosslare
Country :   Wexford
Favourite Track :   
Comments :   Any chance you can tell me where I could find some albums? I'm out here in Tampa, Florida.

Name :   Britta
Email :   britta@mmc-iserlohn.de
Town :   Iserlohn
Country :   Germany
Favourite Track :   Girl In The Ghetto
Comments :   Sometimes I hate living in Germany, because many of my favourite bands - as CBD - came from your island and everybody you ask here say: "WHO??? I've NEVER heard of them!". Without the internet you are hopelessly lost! Thanks to you, Oliver, for keeping CBD alive.

Name :   Ian Guest
Email :   IanGuessed@aol.com
Town :   Barnsley
Country :   England
Favourite Track :   Setimental (Casette Version)
Comments :   I've searched for a long time for a CBD site and it was well worth the wait. Any chance of CDRs of some of the more obscure tracks? I was amazed to find that there were 5 tracks by the band that I have never heard! Any chance of adding info about Brendan?

Original 'LPage' guestbook:

Steve Thoemke - 1998-01-22 00:58:08
Arrived via: I have no idea what I am doing here
Town: Santa Rosa, Sonoma County
Country: California, United States

Comments:
Nice homepage. I was just surfing around the net and I found your web page at a link from the GuestWorld guestbook website. Cheers.


Mark Phelan - 1997-08-19 09:10:00
Arrived via: Just Surfed On In!
Town: Naas
Country: Ireland

Comments:
Great Band!!! Two very good solid studio albums. Should have gone a lot further. Oliver, Brendan Wade is currently touring Ireland with a band called 'The Wild Swans'. If you require any more info give me a shout.


Moray Taylor - 1997-07-25 07:34:00
Arrived via: Net Search

Comments:
Excellent, Cry Before Dawn - what a band. At least I'm not the only one who plays their records and thinks of what might have been.


Name: Steve Bullman
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Loughbourough, Leicestershire, England
Time: 1997-02-20 05:04:00
Comments: Well done Oliver, thanks for getting CBD into cyberland. Have you registered the page with the main search engines? It'd be great to know someone else out there cares! (4 and counting..) May your page prosper and multiply. Steve Bullman.

Name: Gail Kilby
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From:
Time: 1997-02-18 14:36:00
Comments: I was nosing through Ian's mail and saw the link. Very good, although I think they might have played another gig after the last date you gave. We will check it out and let you know.

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