Brendan Francis "Brush" Shiels (born 24 October 1945, Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland) is a musician best known for being the frontman of Gary Moore's first rock band, Skid Row.
[1] He had a show on RTÉ Television called Off yer Brush and was twice managed by boyband mentor Louis Walsh.
[1] He appears regularly, providing musical accompaniment, on the Joe Duffy Liveline radio programme on RTÉ and still performs live in Ireland.
In 1971, Billboard praised Shiels, Bridgeman, and Moore for their album 34 Hours suggesting the "lads will travel far".
[4] In October 2012, he suffered heart failure caused by a viral infection and was admitted to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, Dublin for two weeks.