Kerbdog: On The Turn (VInyl LP)

Kerbdog: On The Turn (Vinyl LP)

Regular price €25.95 €0.00 Unit price per

The cult Irish alt-rock quartet, Kerbdog, have today announced that they have teamed up
with Hassle Hindsight, the recently launched re-issue label from the team at Hassle Records, to re-release their 1994 self-titled debut and its heralded 1997 follow-up On The Turn, their last full studio album before their first break-up in 1998.


Despite a small handful of re-union shows over the last decade, working on new material
and putting out a live record, Congregation, released to acclaim in 2014, the setlists for
those shows have been almost entirely made up with songs from their much-revered two
90’s albums.


On The Turn – which was recorded with Garth Richardson at the legendary Sound City
Studios in Van Nuys, California – was a near perfect album, one that front-man Cormac
Battle most recently described as “the right album, at the wrong time”. Their 1994 self-titled
debut was recorded with Jack Endino, the producer of Nirvana’s Bleach, at Rockfield
Studios, with Sepultura recording Chaos A.D. at the same time next door. Cormac says of
their raw debut record: “I think some of what they were doing seeped into what we were
doing. It made the record heavier and more chunky than we intended, but we were happy
with the results.”


The band’s songs were powerful and inspired – like those early Dave Grohl songs of the
same era – by the likes of Husker Du, and then Bob Mould’s subsequent work in Sugar; both direct and melodic, heavy but immediate. Kerbdog were, to many, their new favourite band.

However the explosive success of Britpop meant that their singles were at odds with
daytime radio playlists and the mainstream press of the time, seeing them subsequently
dropped by Mercury Records, two albums into a six-album contract. They struggled on for a
year before playing their final show in Dublin the following year.


While the band looked initially destined to reside in the footnotes of rock history, their fan
base unexpectedly grew and their albums, while out of print, seemed to find their way into
the homes of determined rock fans. Recently an LP copy of On The Turn went for an eye-watering £300 online.


The attendances for their reunion shows in recent years – often five times the amount of
people they played to while touring On The Turn – and the clear interest from people in hearing these records again inspired long-term fans Hassle to assist the band, and who will
be releasing the records complete with their original artwork and liner notes.


Cormac says of the reissues: “It’s truly humbling to be bringing out the two Kerbdog albums
on vinyl. They’re for the fans who’ve supported us from the beginning and vindicated those
albums across the years, for those who came on board after we thought the albums were
dead and buried and also for ourselves – mainly because I have only one copy of the On
The Turn LP and I can’t afford to pay the extortionate prices on eBay!".

  1. Sally
  2. J.J.‘s Song
  3. Didn’t Even Try
  4. Mexican Wave
  5. Severed
  6. Pledge
  7. On The Turn
  8. Secure
  9. Lesser Shelf
  10. Pointless
  11. Rewind
  12. Sorry For The Record



All used CDs / LPs are VG+ ~ N/M unless otherwise stated
All new CDs LPs are guaranteed unplayed but may not be factory sealed
Liquid error (layout/theme line 129): Could not find asset snippets/spurit_uev-theme-snippet.liquid