Popical Islanders Yeh Deadlies release their debut album 'The First Book Of Lessons' on April 8th, with a launch gig in Shebeen Chic on April 1st.
With a gig with Tom Tom Club scheduled for this friday, and their debut album due at the end of the month, Ian Maleney had a chat with Annie & Padraig of Tieranniesaur about the history of the band, the logistics of touring as a seven piece, and their inevitable metal future.
"It’s a feat of songwriting to get all the information across in that limited amount of time, to cram a verse AND a chorus and maybe a middle eight in there too. And all played on equipment that sounds like it’s held together with gaffer tape and covered with smears of jam."
Lie Ins, Skelocrats & A Dark Horse play a BYOB Halloween gig at the Union Square Theatre in Terenure this Saturday.
Mumblin' Deaf Ro sends word of his forthcoming album & his first gig in a while, this Friday in the Supafast Building.
"It’s an idiot savant record, lovely, well balanced pop bristling under the surface of what seems to be something that was put together in a shed over the weekend and recorded onto a Dictaphone wielded by a sugared-up toddler." - Dara Higgins on Skelocrats' Whip Crack Away.
Like a scene from some sort of alternative universe Albert Square, 14 of the finest Irish independent labels will be setting out their stalls on Curved Street this Saturday as part of the Hard Working Class Heroes festival.
Tieranniesaur will release their new album DIYSCO this Friday. Have a listen, then go see the launch gig in Whelan's on Friday night with Cave Ghosts.
Mumblin' Deaf Ro will launch his long awaited (from DHL) album Dictionary Crimes downstairs in Whelan's on Friday 14th September.