The Rattling Kind

Dublin-born singer/songwriter, guitar player & percussionist, Eddie Sherlock, grew up on Dublin’s north-side, surrounded by music and a strong tradition of family performance. A late starter to picking up the guitar, it was in his twenties that he discovered he could sing, after learning a few chords. With that, he took to the ground running, and with his love for Irish ballads and folk music, it wasn’t long before he found himself performing widely on the Dublin pub and session scene. Eddie also soon started to explore and develop his own songwriting and with the help of some friends, embarked on putting together a band called ‘The Rattling Kind’. In 2013, after recording their debut EP ‘Rise Up’, two of Eddie’s songs were used in the soundtrack of the world-wide DVD release of RTE’s hit crime drama ‘Love/Hate’. The band subsequently performed their cult favourite ‘All Around the Town’, also written by Eddie, on the ‘Saturday Night Show Live’ with Brendan O’Connor. Eddie has also performed his original song ‘James Connolly’s Dream’ as part of the James Connolly 2016 centenary for Uachtaran na hEireann, and has appeared with ‘The Rattling Kind’ on Irish TV show ‘Mad for Sam’. Since the release of the EP, Eddie’s songs have been listened to by audiences across the globe, from America to Australia. “King of the Road been a lockdown project success, has now reached 5.7 million stream on Spotify, and over 2 million views across social platforms. After lockdown the band then hit the ground running with putting together the long over due album which due out in early 2024. One of the songs is a re-release of All Around the Town featuring the late Christy Dignam and the mighty Damien Dempsey which was the first single release from the album in October 2023.
The band supported Damien Dempsey to a pack out house in the Marquee gig in Finnbars GAA club in Cabra, Eddie also played support at the Talking Bollix live show in the National Stadium in November to a sold out crowd

The Rattling Kind are led by Dublin-born singer/songwriter, guitar player and percussionist, Eddie Sherlock, who grew up on Dublin’s Northside, surrounded by music and a tradition of family performance. In his twenties, he discovered he had a strong singing voice and after learning a few chords on the guitar he hit the ground running, performing widely on the Dublin pub and session scene. Eddie soon started to explore and develop his own songwriting and with the help of some friends, embarked on putting together a band called The Ratling Kind. He is joined by Domo Dixon (lead guitar, keyboards), Khalile Vial (drums) and Frankie O’Mahony (bass).