We were delighted to learn that we were on #TheMailingList for this latest slice of acerbic raucousness from the Irish garage rockers, as they summon the bombast and energy of proto-punk pioneers The MC5 and seek to break the disenfranchised Lollapalooza slacker sway they see as having dominated the Irish music scene for far too long.
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Life is full of new experiences and tonight was one of them, as Monk ventured into the glass-fronted glittery, shiny new Queen’s University Students’ Union building for the first time since it was rebuilt. Yet to visit the once hallowed halls of the basement Mandela Hall, his first trip took him to the second floor and the expansive new main bar, divided in two for this intimate co-headlining show, the final night of the punningly entitled ‘Stable Mates’ tour.
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This Belfast four piece, whom Monk first stumbled across during last year’s Bloodstock Metal 2 The Masses competition, in which he has to admit he regarded them as something of an incongruous wild card but somehow managed to deservedly fight their way through to the final, are taking us into the #Unknown with this, their fourth single, and second to win our prestigious #DailyPick award:
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It’s Friday, it’s Tilburg again for Jase W, but it’s Leprous. There are bands that occupy the top five prog bands space for JW and Leprous occupies a huge space within that: our man on the continent doesn’t think he’s passed off a chance to see them any time in the last decade and today was no different.
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This is the fourth and final instalment in a quartet of thematically inter-related singles released by the Newport gothic post-punk quintet ahead of their upcoming second album, which won’t quite see them #LettingItAllGo but rather unleashing #FireInHeaven this coming Friday (14 February).
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