Energy Orchard

Energy Orchard
OriginBelfast,
GenresIrish folk music, folk rock, punk, new wave
Years active1980s-1990s
Members
  • Bap Kennedy (lead vocals)
  • Paul Toner (lead guitar)
  • David Toner (percussion)
  • Spade McQuade (rhythm guitar/mandolin/vocals)
  • Joby Fox (bass guitar)
  • Kevin Breslin (keyboards)

Energy Orchard were a guitar-based rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Fronted by Bap Kennedy (brother of singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy), their style drew heavily on the influence of Van Morrison and other rhythm and blues acts, but incorporated traditional elements of Irish folk music. The band emerged from the remnants of one other Belfast-based punk/new wave band, 10 Past 7.