The Golden Horde (band)

The Golden Horde (1982–1994) were a rock, punk, neo-psychedelic, garage band based in Dublin, Ireland. The most renowned line-up of the band was: Simon Carmody, John Connor, Des O'Byrne, Peter O'Kennedy & Sam Steiger, although at their very first live performance, there were 13 band members on stage. The group disbanded in spring 1994, members going their separate ways to pursue a variety of personal projects. Golden Horde supporters maintain an internet presence across social media, fan sites, SoundCloud, YouTube, and Bandcamp, with previously unreleased studio, live and rare performances being discovered and released perpetually.

*The most renowned line-up of the band was: Simon Carmody, John Connor, Sam Steiger, Des O'Byrne & Peter O'Kennedy.

Previous members have included:

Even though the band experienced some commercial success, that has always been surpassed by a cult underground following retained to the present day. More significant again, is their influence on a variety of alternative musical acts. Which continues to propagate further with the digitization of rare, unreleased and live, recordings and performances. Their own music was inspired by punk rock bands such as The Ramones, Johnny Thunders, The Velvet Underground, Big Star, Slade, the Rolling Stones, The Damned, The Faces, The Cramps and The Stooges,

The first recording, the EP-single Dig That Crazy Grave, was released in 1983. The first EP-album, The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy!, followed in 1984, and featured spoken-word contributions from futurist and satirist Robert Anton Wilson. Des O' Byrne scored the music for the premiere performance of Wilson's "Wilhelm Reich in Hell" play, which debuted at the Edmund Burke Hall in Trinity College, Dublin. Robert Anton Wilson later went on to include 'The Golden Horde' (as a fictitious rock group performing at a music festival) in a later Illuminatus! book series. From this album, a single, "Young & Happy", was chosen as the theme song for the EuroSurf '85 championships.

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