Rare were a Northern Irish

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 band

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

 in the 1990s from Derry

Derry

Derry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Irish name Doire or Doire Cholmcille meaning "oak-wood of Colmcille"...

. The line-up consisted of singer Mary Gallagher, Locky Morris, Seán Ó'Néill

John O'Neill (guitarist)

John Joseph O'Neill is the rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter within the punk/new wave band The Undertones...

 (aka John O'Neill, formerly of The Undertones

The Undertones

The Undertones are a punk rock/new wave band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1975.The original line-up of the Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums — The Undertones , Hypnotised , Positive Touch and The Sin of Pride — before disbanding in July 1983.Music guide Allmusic...

 and That Petrol Emotion

That Petrol Emotion

That Petrol Emotion are a Northern Irish, London-based band with an American vocalist, Steve Mack.-Career:The band originally formed in 1984 from the ashes of the Derry Hitmakers, Bam Bam and the Calling and The Undertones. It was formed by guitarist John O'Neill and second guitarist Raymond Gorman...

) and David Whiteside. Morris and Ó'Néill were the main songwriter

Songwriter

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s. Their music was sometimes labeled as trip hop

Trip hop

Trip hop is a music genre consisting of downtempo electronic music which originated in the early 1990s in England, especially Bristol. Deriving from "post"-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which...

.

Despite some positive reviews in the music press, their only notable chart

Record chart

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 appearance was the single "Something Wild" which reached #57 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 in 1996. Rare disbanded soon after the release of their first and only album in 1998.

Singles

• "Set Me On Fire" (Setanta Records
  Setanta Records
  Setanta Records is a UK Independent record label. The label was at the forefront of the indie Irish music scene in the late eighties and nineties as itchampioned young Irish groups.-History:...
  
  , October 1990)
• "Something Wild" (Equator Records, February 1996)
• "Don't Make Me Wait" (Equator Records, June 1996)
• "Killer" (Arctic/Pinnacle Entertainment Ltd., November 1997)
• "Seems Like" (Arctic/Pinnacle Entertainment Ltd., March 1998)