Career
He joined Teenage Fanclub in 1990, in time to play on about half of their debut album, A Catholic Education. He split from the group after completing the tour for the Thirteen album and joined Telstar Ponies, although he left during the recording of their second album. He was a member of Mogwai for approximately a year. He was described by the NME as Teenage Fanclub's "Monkey Without Portfolio". This prompted the track "With Portfolio" on Mogwai's debut album, Young Team. O'Hare was allegedly kicked out of Mogwai for talking during a performance by Arab Strap leading to a fight with other members of the band. Despite this, there appears to have been no hard feelings between O'Hare and Arab Strap as O'Hare later featured on their double A-side 1998 release, "Here We Go" / "Trippy", contributing to the twelve minute song, "Trippy".
In addition to his work with Macrocosmica and as Fiend, he ran the God Bless record label (issuing the sole album by Thurston Moore's 'Foot' project) and was part of the electro based band, Liminal. He is currently in charge of bookings and sound engineering at the Glasgow venue The 13th Note. In 2006, he rejoined Teenage Fanclub for shows in London, Glasgow and Barcelona at which the band played their Bandwagonesque album in its entirety.
He is also an honorary member and producer of Glasgow-based pranksters The Plimptons, and plays guitar on their second album Pomp.
Between 1996 and 2005, O'Hare played guitar and sang with self-proclaimed 'Intelli-metal' band, Macrocosmica.
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Macrocosmica toured the UK extensively with Dead or American, with the band members striking up a good friendship and having mutual respect for each other's material and live performances. O'Hare eventually recorded a demo for DorA at his 'DemonBox' studio in the East End of Glasgow. One of the tracks from this session, "Thousand Hills", remains a favourite version of the song.
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