Sack is a Dublin-based 5-piece band. To date they have released 3 albums, You Are What You Eat, Butterfly Effect & Adventura Majestica. The band was formerly known as Lord John White And The Bottle Neck Train.

Their first single What Did The Christians Ever Do For Us? was single of the week in both the NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

 and Melody Maker

Melody Maker

Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...

. They have supported Morrissey

Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...

 on two tours taking in mainland Europe, the UK and Ireland

Ireland

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 and the U.S.

United States

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 Members of Sack are currently writing songs for their fourth album entitled The War on the War on Terror.

The band describe their sound as "Frank Sinatra fronting the Pixies".

The band appeared on the Morrissey-endorsed NME CD "Songs to Save Your Life", while "Laughter Lines" appeared on the soundtrack to the movie "Carrie 2: The Rage".

Current members

• Martin McCann
  Martin McCann
  Martin McCann is a singer in the Dublin based band Sack who has written songs such as "Laughter Lines", which the British singer-songwriter Morrissey stated "should be number one forever". McCann is also a prominent DJ on the Dublin gay scene.- References :...
  
  : lead vocals
• John Brereton: guitars
• Tony Brereton: drums, backing vocals
• Ken Haughton: guitars
• Darrell Rainey: bass

Discography

• You Are What You Eat (1994) lemon records
• Butterfly Effect (1997) dirt records
• Adventura Majestica (2001) jetset junta