Thick Lizzy in Kansas City: A Tribute to Thin Lizzy
Thick Lizzy are a Thin Lizzy tribute band out of Lawrence, Kansas.
Any band that chooses to highlight the Lizzy song Fightin’ wins me over in an instant.
If you’ve been paying very close attention to Irish KC, you’re even sadder than I am but, you will have noticed a couple of appearances by Thick Lizzy in the Kansas City area.
DGRE
Effectively Thick Lizzy are Dead Girls Ruin Everything, kind of in the way that Horslips were Lipstick, if ya know what I mean.
Members
Thick Lizzy are: Ham Nylott, Colbin Robistair, Long Marhog, and Erik Downs.
Events
Thick Lizzy have played gigs at the Record Bar in Westport, at the Bottleneck and at the Riot Room. Keep an eye on the Kansas City Irish events calendar for future gigs.
Online
Thick Lizzy can be found on MySpace
Video
In international circles Whiskey in the Jar gets way too much attention for the talent that was Phil Lynott and a quality rock band - so let’s follow Thick Lizzy’s lead and go with Fightin’. Live from 1975:
Other Irish Related Bands
See a list of Celtic & Irish music bands in the Kansas City area
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Eolaí gan Fhéile:
how aya just a quick couple of questions i have been in college in nebraska for the last three years and i am from county wicklow and dyig to see some trad irish music any chance of telling me where the best place is to go and are the bands here as good as home!!! cheers
Keith, sorry for the delay in getting back to you (been a bit busy lately.
I’m not overly familiar with the scene in Lincoln, though Nebraska has some fine trad bands that come down to Kansas City from time to time - notably Ellis island in Omaha and the Wild Clover Band in Kearney.
In the KC area, O’Malley’s Irish Pub in Weston, Missouri is consistently the best place to catch Irish music - and one of the finest places to drink beer anywhere. Beyond that you have to go where the music goes - from MVFS concerts at the Bragg Auditorium, to Eddie Delahunt’s Cafe &, and to house concerts by Big Plain House in Kansas.
Beyond that you have a whole series of pubs, but who plays there, if anyone Irish at all, varies all the time. For sound quality the Record Bar might well be the best, but it hosts anything approaching trad less than most others.
As to whether the bands in KC are as good as the bands at home - there’s a lot less than exists at home, and it fills a wide spectrum, but I’ve definitely heard music of a quality that is at least as good as much of what I’ve heard at home.