Biography

The name Blink comes from the Cocteau Twins song, "Ice Blink Luck" since Barry the drummer liked the song.

"BLINK are: Dermot Lambert guitars and vocals, Brian McLoughlin bass guitar, Barry Campell drums and backing vocals, Robbie Sexton guitars, keyboards & vocals.

Dublin band BLINK have released two albums. The first, released in the US in 1996, went platinum in Ireland and spawned four Irish top ten singles. The second, `The End is High` was a Billboard magazine Spotlight Album of the week on it’s release US launch in March 1998.

Over the last two years the band have concentrated on touring the US, building up a considerable live following in the process. In 1999 BLINK played 113 gigs in 32 different states, apart from writing and starting to record their third album with noted producer Howie Beno (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry et al) in New York.

BLINK have been signed to Paradigm Associated Labels for North America. In December 1999 Paradigm closed down leaving BLINK contractually free for North America. BLINK remain signed to Denon Columbia Records for Japan and Festival/Mushroom Records for Australia.

In early 1996 BLINK became aware of a band from San Diego called BLINK, who had released an album called Cheshire Cat on Cargo Records in the USA. Contrary to anything you might read elsewhere, BLINK`s manager simply phoned Cargo Records and asked them to inform the San Diego BLINK that a band of that name already existed. We never sued the San Diego Blink and the was NO court case. They simply agreed to change their name and an agreement was drawn up to avoid confusion. They became BLINK 182 and we continued on as BLINK. Apparently there was a Danish band called Blink but they changed their name voluntarily before we even heard of them. They are now called BL!NK*.

BLINK were the first band in THE WORLD to be featured on their own picture phonecard . In 1992 (93?) the Irish phone company, Telecom Eireann, was looking  to encourage younger people to use phonecards instead of cash so they asked BLINK to help them promote their new range of phonecards by appearing on them. This was the first time anywhere in the world that a band had appeared on a phonecard. Over 2 million were originally manufactured but they are now very rare and quite valuable to collectors of phonecards.

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