{{Short description|Irish rock band}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = LiR | image = | caption = | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = Dublin, Ireland | genre = Rock, Alternative | years_active = Early 90s to present | label = Velo, W.A.R.?, 1969 | associated_acts = | website = | current_members = Ronan Byrne<br />Dave McGuinness<br />Colm Quearney<br />Robert Malone<br />John Boyle | past_members = Craig Hutchinson<br />David Hopkins
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'''Lir''', stylized on album covers as '''LiR''', are<!--This article is written in British English. Do not change to is!--> a rock band formed in the late 1980s in Dublin, Ireland.
==History==
The band became known during the 1990s through their live performances in Dublin.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lir make a welcome return with Dublin gig this week |url=http://www.dublinpeople.com/news/northsideeast/articles/2019/02/05/4168836-lir-make-a-welcome-return-with-dublin-gig-this-week/ |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=Dublin People |date=February 15, 2019}}</ref> Attention from major labels in the early portion of their career led some critics to draw comparisons to U2.<ref name=GCBC>{{cite news |last1=Brady |first1=Tara |title=Good Cake, Bad Cake: The downfall of the Dublin band once hailed as the next U2 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/good-cake-bad-cake-the-downfall-of-the-dublin-band-once-hailed-as-the-next-u2-1.1327133 |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=The Irish Times |date=March 15, 2013}}</ref> The band signed with U.S. label What Are Records? in 1993, which pushed for the band's success in the US through an intensive touring schedule that had the band playing in North America nine months out of the year.<ref name="swansong">{{cite news |title=No swansong planned for the boys of Lir |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/no-swansong-planned-for-the-boys-of-lir-1.891598 |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=The Irish Times |date=October 4, 2008}}</ref> Lir continued on this schedule from 1993 to 1997, before conflicts with their management led to a long hiatus.<ref name="GCBC"/>
It would be 13 years before the band's next full-length release, ''Lir Live'', under the independent label 1969 Records.<ref name="swansong"/>
A documentary on the band, directed by Shimmy Marcus and entitled "Good Cake Bad Cake: The Story of LIR" was released in 2011, but was pulled from the Dublin International Film Festival due to a legal dispute between the band and their former management.<ref name="GCBC"/>
The band still reconvenes annually to play shows in and around Dublin.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lir return to play Dublin concert |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2013/0514/445308-lir/ |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |date=May 14, 2019}}</ref><ref name="swansong"/>
==Discography==
{{Cleanup|section|reason= section does not follow WP:MOS|date=December 2019}} *All Machines Hum in A - 1992 *Magico Magico! (Velo Records - Ireland + EU only) - 1993 *Magico Magico! (What Are Records? - US release) - 1994 *Nest (What Are Records? - US release) - 1995 *This Appeared - EP (Velo Records - Ireland + EU only) - 1995 *7000 Apes 600 - EP (Velo Records - Ireland + EU only) - 1997 *I Went Down: Music from the original motion picture soundtrack (Prophecy Ent.) - 1997 *06/93 Acoustic Sessions (What Are Records? - US Release) - 2006 *Lir Live (1969 Records - UK only) - 2008
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{cite web|title=‘Good Cake Bad Cake - The Story of Lir’ |url=http://vimeo.com/83920234 |website=vimeo.com |access-date=2019-12-18}}
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