Mick Lynch (11 October 1959 – 17 December 2015) was an Irish musician, best known for his work in the Irish-English band Stump.
[1] Stump were popular among the indie scene and the British music press in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Stump was led by Lynch and influenced by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart and others.
Stump - with Lynch as one of their main actors - released a mini-album in 1986, titled Quirk Out.
Following the band's dissolution in 1988, Lynch moved back to Cork and worked as an English and Irish language writer for the city's Dowtcha Puppets theatre.