My Little Funhouse Explained

My Little Funhouse were a rock band from County Kilkenny, Ireland in the early 1990s.

After winning the Carling Hot Press band competition, they got signed to Island Publishing and went on, in late 1991, to sign what was Geffen Records' largest deal to that date: $2 million (around the same time, Geffen signed Nirvana for $60,000). Geffen saw them as the next Guns N' Roses, and even included them in the video of November Rain.^[1]

Their debut album Standunder comprises heavy rock'n'roll and slower, more intimate songs. Guitars are prominent, as was typical of the early 1990s. Alan Lawlor's vocals are very distinctive and make a strong impression. The album enjoyed some success and several songs were released as singles: "I Want Some of That", "Wishing Well", "Destiny"/"L.S.D" and "Raintown".

Drummer Derek Maher left in 1993 to be replaced by Graham Hopkins (who later joined the band Therapy? in early 1996^[2]).

My Little Funhouse members moved to Los Angeles and started to record more material that never got to be released.

Members

• Alan Lawlor : vocals (1990-1996)
• Anthony "Tony" Morrissey : guitar (1990-1996)
• Brendan Morrissey : guitar (1990-1996)
• Gary Deevy : bass (1990-1993)
• Joe Doyle

bass (1993-1996)

• Derek Maher: drums (1990-1993)
• Graham Hopkins

drums (1993–1996)

ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:25PlotArea = left:160 bottom:60 top:10 right:100Alignbars = justifyDateFormat = mm/dd/yyyyPeriod = from:01/01/1990 till:07/01/1996TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy

Colors = id:vocals value:red legend:Vocals id:guitar value:green legend:Guitar id:bass value:blue legend:Bass_guitar id:drums value:orange legend:Drums id:Studio value:black legend:Studio_album

Legend = orientation:horizontal position:bottom

ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:1990

BarData = bar:AL text:"Alan Lawlor" bar:AM text:"Anthony Morrissey" bar:BM text:"Brendan Morrissey" bar:GD text:"Gary Deevy" bar:JD text:"Joseph Doyle" bar:DM text:"Derek Maher" bar:GH text:"Graham Hopkins"

PlotData= width:10 textcolor:black align:left anchor:from shift:(10,-4) bar:AL from:01/01/1990 till:end color:vocals bar:AM from:01/01/1990 till:end color:guitar bar:BM from:01/01/1990 till:end color:guitar bar:GD from:01/01/1990 till:02/01/1993 color:bass bar:DM from:01/01/1990 till:02/01/1993 color:drums bar:JD from:02/01/1993 till:02/01/1996 color:bass bar:GH from:02/01/1993 till:02/01/1996 color:drums

LineData = at:11/10/1992 color:studio layer:back

Discography

Addicted EP (1992)

Track list:

1. "I Want Some of That"
2. "Addicted"
3. "No More Lies"
4. "Standunder"

Standunder CD (1992)

Label: Geffen Records

Track list:

1. "I Want Some of That"
2. "Destiny"
3. "Wishing Well"
4. "L.S.D."
5. "I Know What I Need" (turns to "You Blew It", a non-listed track, around 3m 24s)
6. "Catholic Boy"
7. "Lonely"
8. "Anonymous"
9. "Been Too Long"
10. "Raintown"
11. "Standunder"

Forward Came CD (1996) (Unreleased)

Label: Geffen Records

Pulse CD (199?) (Unreleased)

Label: Geffen Records

References

1. News: We Were Here. Tony Clayton-Lea. 28 May 2011. The Irish Times . 5 September 2011.
2. News: Graham Hopkins - Drummer and Coffee Lover - Part 2 of Interview. Irish Drummers. Feb 2017. 2 December 2018.

External links

• My Little Funhouse videos on Youtube