Forty years after they first got together to make music, Sligo based Those Nervous Animals are about to release their first complete studio album, The Mission Sessions, consisting of songs from early days and from every decade since, the most recent material recorded remotely during the first Covid-19 lockdown of 2020.
The core band consists of singer and instrumentalist Barry Brennan, bassist and arranger Eddie Lee and guitarist and songwriter Pádraig Meehan.
On this project they are joined by Susan Rowland on vocals and by percussionist/sound engineer/drummer Tom Jamieson.
Those Nervous Animals were just a little bit unusual among new Irish bands of the 1980 s; they mixed blue-eyed soul, funk and indie into an uncategorizable whole.