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.
"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.
The first 10 bands have been announced for Popical Island's 5th all dayer which takes place on Saturday December 19th
Popical Island present a series of gigs at the Stags Head on 3rd, 10th & 24th March featuring the likes of Land Lovers, September Girls, Valerie Francis, Skelocrats, Cave Ghosts and more.
"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."
Skelocrats will release their new LP Bella Bella on an as-yet unspecified date this month, with a launch gig on April 17th
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.
Popicalia returns to Leeson Street this Saturday for a gig with So Cow, No Monster Club & new Popical Island supergroup Skelocrats.
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.
M Stevens & The Ghasts debut album Birds is out this Friday, with an album launch gig in Whelans the night before