Before saying a final 'goodbye' to the last millennia and hurtling into the '00s - we've some absolute crackers lined-up starting this Friday - we've put together a final installment of our '90s Irish Bands That Should Have Been MASSIVE! featuring artists you mildly/moderately/massively chastised us for leaving out of Vols. 1 through 3.
A name that kept on coming up was Kaydee, the Tara Egan-Langley-fronted purveyors of pristine pop who were all over Irish radio and TV like a rash for a while but never managed to achieve commercial lift-off.
Having dreamed the pun up in advance, a certain member of the Hot Press Production Staff was thrilled when a picture of members of the band holding bottles of beer arrived in so that it could be headlined: "Kaydee, langered?" in The Phantom. Needless to say, they were all as sober as the most abstemious of judges.
There was similar schoolboyish glee when an audience member in Limerick's Theatre Royal gave Sultans Of Ping singer Niall O'Flaherty a bop on the nose so we could finally roll out 'A Sultan Battery' (think about it...)
But, hey, that's a whole different article...
There's loads of residual love too for Thee Amazing Colossal Men who morphed into Compulsion and kickstarted the career of A-List producer Garrett 'Jacknife' Lee. We're also indebted to Maeve Twohig for reminding us of Sinéad O'Connor's stunning guest turn on Marxman's 'Ship Ahoy', and Dave from Belfast whose recommending of 'De Niro' by Disco Evangelists - AKA Ashley Beedle, Lyndsay Edwards and David Holmes - has upped our home raving game considerably.
Ditto the Andrew Weatherall mix of 'West In Motion', a rare banger from Bumble who briefly graced U2's Mother Records label.
So, anyways, here are the artists and tunes you've asked, nay, demanded to hear!