The Regulars Irish Band in Topanga Canyon

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• Brendon O’Halloran
• Sean Cullen
• Eric Rasmussen
• Joel Mankie
• Tim O’Gara
• ITimothy Moynahan
• Adam Rundquist
• Pete Thomason

The Regulars Irish band was formed in Los Angeles by members of the acoustic rock act SPACE in the mid 90’s. Sean Cullen, Pete Thomason, Brendon O’Halloran and Adam Rundquist began playing gigs on St. paddys day tunder the name O’Tangent o quench their love of Irish music. O’Tangent ( named after their inability to rehearse due to the members incessant talking and tangents, the O’ thrown in to make it Irish sounding) For years was purely an annual band that only played a few gigs a year. No surprise there.

That changed when Sean And Brendon tired of the tangenting conceived of a New format. They wanted to bring the energy of the tradition of musicians playing around a table in a pub, to the stage.

So “The Table ‘ was born. Sean and Brendon would lead the songs standing in front and the group would sit at a table on stage as though they were in a pub.

This Became The Regulars. Joining the Regulars was Tim O’Gara, Tim Moynahan, Scott Grusin, and Eric Rasmussen who became part of the core.

In 2000 something Cullen moved to Oregon for two years. During this time O’Halloran was left holding the bag. He took over leadership and changed the format again. This time all members sat at the table and the stage show consisted of 6-7 members onstage taking turns singing and backing each other on vocals. With each member playing multiple instruments including two trombone players the group created a unique and full sound that began to inspire and gain momentum.

The group began to play year round and usually played multiple gigs on St. paddys day. The group imploded one year on St paddys day culimnating in a bar room brawl that still has them banned from Molly Malones.

Sean got lonely and moved back from from Oregon and started a new Irish band “lilt ‘n tang” (yes that really is the name) with Scott Grusin and music teacher Joel Mankey. Lilt n’ Tang recorded , played steady gigs, took nice pictures, had a promo package and all that cool stuff. O’Halloran got bored of playing with himself and started sitting in. but then that kind of imploded too. Slowly the two bands began to merge with members of the Regulars drifting into salt n’ pep…. I mean Lilt N’ Tang and vice versa.

Today The Regulars , after almost 22 years of playing together, are more like a family then a band.

Getting together around St. Paddys and playing the music for the love of it. Sons of the group members have learned the songs and sometimes join them onstage in a generational ensemble singing the rich songs of history, culture and Irish life, past and present.