Popicalia returns to Leeson Street this Saturday for a gig with So Cow, No Monster Club & new Popical Island supergroup Skelocrats.
"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.
19 bands from the Popical Island crew take over Whelan's on Saturday 7th July for the launch of the third - and final - Popical Island compilation CD.
Lie Ins, Skelocrats & A Dark Horse play a BYOB Halloween gig at the Union Square Theatre in Terenure this Saturday.
"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."
No Monster Club will be joined by Tieranniesaur, Panda Kid and Skelocrats for a BYOB gig at Prussia Street Community Arts on Friday December 7th.
Popical Island have released Plunderphonics, a 15 track tribute to the work of Big Monster Love, as a name-your-price fundraiser for the Simon Community.
Skelocrats released their new LP The Complete Skelocrats this week, but they're giving it a formal launch in Whelan's Parlour Bar on 29th December.
Rather than wait 20 years for the Dictionary Crimes retrospective tour you can see Mumblin' Deaf Ro play it live in its entirety at a 'Choice Music Prize warmup' gig in The Grand Social on 1st March.
