{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=May 2014}} {{more footnotes|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | background = group_or_band | name = The Baby Snakes | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | alias = | origin = Dublin, Ireland | genre = New wave, garage rock | discography = | years_active = {{Start date|1985}}–{{End date|1993}} | label = FOAD, Santides | spinoffs = | spinoff_of = | current_members = | past_members = Frank Rynne<br/>Colin Byrne<br/>Daragh McCarthy<br/>John Bonnie<br/>Ciaran O'Brien<br/>Jeff Nilson<br/>Nigel Preston<br/>Alex Hooper<br/>Anthony O'Neill<br/>Tom Hooper | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = }}

'''The Baby Snakes''' were an Irish rock band formed in 1985. The original line-up featured Frank Rynne, Niall O'Sullivan and Johnny Bonney. In October 1985 they recorded a radio session for Dave Fanning's RTÉ radio show and reached No. 13 in Fanning's Fab 50, an end-of-year listeners poll, in December 1985. Their first L.P., ''Sweet Hunger'', featured Brian Downey from Thin Lizzy on drums. Their second L.P. was produced by Dave Goodman. In 1988, after a BBC Radio 1 session for Janice Long, the band moved to London with new drummer Stephen R Kennedy [now a hydro engineer in France] who previously played in a band headed by Noel Phelan (now a house DJ) where they played a mix of underground venues as well as The Marquee.<ref name=ovguide>{{cite web|title=The Baby Snakes|url=http://www.ovguide.com/the-baby-snakes-9202a8c04000641f8000000008cfb834#|publisher=ovguide.com|accessdate=15 December 2013}}</ref>

==Discography== * Song "Johnny" – Various Artists – Weird Weird World of Guru Weirdbrain LP – Hotwire Records – HWLP8505 – IRL – 1985 *Songs for Subliminal Kids EP 7" – Santides Records – SAN 0057 – IRL – 1987 *This City Sucks (live) – Cassette FOAD Records – ??? – January 1988 *Sweet Hunger LP FOAD Records – FOAD 7 – June 1988 Produced by Ian Bryon and Paul Thomas. *Rebel Radio LP – Santides Records – SAN0089 – July 1990 Produced by Dave Goodman *Looking for Strange (Cassette) – Santides, 1990 *Four Foot Tapping Greats EP 7" – Santides Records – SUE 66 – UK – 1992 Four Johnny Cash covers, 2 recorded in mono.

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == *Ambrose, Joe; Wilson, Terry; and Rynne, Frank (1992). ''Man from Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment With William Burroughs and Brion Gysin''. Autonomedia. {{ISBN|0-9520217-0-6}}. *Rynne, Frank (October 2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928105828/http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/october2005/articles/frankrynne.htm "Paris Notes by Frank Rynne"]. ''The Handstand''. Retrieved 14 Jan. 2007.

== External links == *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpldzKQYRhQ The Baby Snakes "Fade" on Anything Goes, RTE, 1984] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdD1Wo-jcw The Baby Snakes "Looking for Strange" on Megamix, RTE, 1987] *[http://irishrock.org/irodb/bands/babysnakes.html Profile of The Baby Snakes'] *[http://www.joujouka.net Master Musicians of Joujouka official site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929114317/http://joujouka.net/2Legacy/41/mohamed-hamri-obituary-in-the-independent-london Obituary of Hamri by Frank Rynne.] ''The Independent'', London, 19 October 2000 * [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/may/13/ira-cohen-obituary Ira Cohen obituary] by Frank Rynne. ''The Guardian'' (UK), 13 May 2011 {{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baby Snakes, The}} Category:Irish rock music groups Category:Irish new wave musical groups Category:Irish garage rock groups Category:Musical groups established in 1985 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1993 Category:1985 establishments in Ireland Category:1993 disestablishments in Ireland

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