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The celebrated Irish DJ and soundman has finally struck out on his own with new band Def Nettle

Brady is the frontman of Def Nettle, a punk/electronic/hip hop project designed, he says, to ‘take no prisoners’.

“It was all inside me, waiting to come out,” Glen Brady says. The celebrated Irish DJ and soundman has finally struck out on his own with new band Def Nettle.

Born in Drogheda but raised between New York and Dublin, his previous collaborators include REM, the Cranberries and Andy Rourke from the Smiths. Now Brady is the frontman of a punk/electronic/hip hop project designed, he says, to “take no prisoners”.

“Def Nettle is me looking ...