Def Nettle

'He sounds like a Punk Tom Waits rapping with Primal Scream' The Sunday Independent.

“Elements of New Wave and Post Punk meet a peppering of The The and Tom Waits.”
- The Irish Times

Def Nettle is a bombastic Post-Punk outfit fronted by prolific musician Glen Brady. Combining uptempo Punk/Post-Punk rhythms & classic emo soundscapes with danceable beats & hard hitting tongue in cheek visions of contemporary life.
Influenced by classic Punk & Post-Punk like Iggy Pop & Taking Heads as well as more melodic eccentrics like The Cure & The Smiths, their sound incorporates and reflects modern influences like Viagra Boys, Idles, Fontaines DC & The Murder Capital.

Their debut album ‘DN001’ was released to much critical acclaim in 2024.
Their current single ‘Mohawk’ has had 170,000 views on Youtube in the first 2 weeks with previous single ‘Nothing For it’ reaching 104,000 views.

2025 singles ‘Get Me Here’ & ‘Head Wrecker’ have seen airplay on BBC Radio 6, RTÉ 2FM, Red FM, Louder ThanWar and Total Rock, and coverage in the likes of The Daily Star and HotPress and various
online publications. Their song ‘Invisible’ spent 8 weeks in the German Indie Top 10 and
previous single ‘Architecture’ spent 8 weeks at #2 on German Indie charts,. Their tracks ’The Pills’ & ‘War Machine’ featuring Andy Rourke of The Smiths on Bass guitar received extensive plays on radio around Ireland, UK, France & Germany and the act have had considerable press coverage
in The Sunday Independent, The Sunday Business Post, The Golden Plec as well as being featured on countless UK based Indie blogs like Rough UK, Flex Magazine & more.
Producer/Vocalist, Glen Brady has session musician credits with the likes of R.E.M., spent years as an engineer with the California State Symphony and has toured in support of The Cranberries as a member ofDARK with Andy Rourke of The Smiths, the late Dolores O’Riordan as well as having mixed their album, Science Agrees.

Recent appearances include 2 episodes of Virgin Media One’s Fanning Live @ Whelan’s and live recordings for 2XM’s Sessions form Oblivion as well as performing a 2FM Live session and The Irish Times recently
included Def Nettle in the 20 ‘Bands to Watch’.

The Band line up features Damien Fox on drums, Ely Siegel on bass with Raps and backing vocals by Lisa Doyle-Taaffe and Guitars by Ronnie Carroll.