"Dry Riser" is a song by Kerbdog

Kerbdog

Kerbdog was an alternative rock band from Kilkenny, Ireland who formed in 1991. Following two albums released on Mercury Records, the band split up in 1998...

 and a single

Single (music)

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 released in 1994, taken from their self titled debut album

Kerbdog (album)

Kerbdog is Kerbdog's eponymous debut album. The album was recorded in 1993 at Rockfield studios in Wales and released in 1994 through Vertigo...

. The single was released on four different formats, two CDs

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, and two 7" vinyls. CD1 was released as a limited edition Digipak

Digipak

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 and one of the 7" singles was released as a limited edition, pressed on clear vinyl as opposed to the usual black. The single climbed to number sixty on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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Many of the B-sides over the four discs are covers. "New Day Rising" is a cover of the song by Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü was an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart....

 from their album of the same name

New Day Rising

New Day Rising is the third studio album by the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in 1985 on SST Records. Though less ambitious than prior album Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, in some ways, helped set the template for alternative rock for the next decade...

, "Suspect Device" is a cover of the song by Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...

, their debut single from 1978, and "Something In My Head" is a cover of the song by a band called The Jerusalem Taxis, a local band on the Irish scene that Kerbdog's singer Cormac Battle is a fan of.

The two B-sides on CD1, "Xenophobia" and "Self Inflicted", are Kerbdog originals and were recorded at the same recording session which produced the tracks on Kerbdog's self-titled debut album

Kerbdog (album)

Kerbdog is Kerbdog's eponymous debut album. The album was recorded in 1993 at Rockfield studios in Wales and released in 1994 through Vertigo...

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Track listing of CD2

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1. "Dry Riser"
2. "New Day Rising"
3. "Suspect Device"

Chart performance

"Dry Riser" entered the UK singles charts on 12 March 1994 and spent one week on.

Chart (1994)	Peak position
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