With over 300 shows, nine singles, two albums, two EPs, one live album, Limerick’s Limerick five-piece Fox Jaw have really put the legwork in since forming back in 2006. Having spent the guts of 2017 to focus on songwriting, the Ronan Mitchell-fronted five-piece are back with the latest single, ‘Heel To Toe’, an unravelling four-minute lament conjuring the slow-burning introspection of The National and the more orchestral chamber-rock of Hope of the States-esque circa The Lost Riots. The single – which is accompanied by a video directed by the band’s drummer Shane Serrano – is released in conjunction with a…
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Record Store Day took place at Tower Records over two days, featuring live performances from Ham Sandwich, Mundy, Fox Jaw, Spies, The Mighty Stef and This Other Kingdom. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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In this installment of Track Record we head to Limerick to hang out with Shane Serrano from Fox Jaw to have a rummage through his record collection from Boston to The Boss. Photos by Aaron Corr. Disclaimer: The music world is quite a serious place. Whether you’re a musician or just a music lover, it’s almost as serious as religion – you can be discriminated or laughed at for your beliefs, or in this case, your taste in music. But the truth is, pretty much every single style of music out there is good, it just appeals to some people’s tastes…
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Slow Skies @ The Sugar Club, Dublin – Wednesday, October 8 Having released their slick, elegiac Keepsake EP at the tail-end of last month, fast-rising Dublin dream-pop duo Slow Skies will surely spellbind Dublin’s Sugar Club on Wednesday, October 8. Catch them before they go positively stratospheric. Fox Jaw, Gascan Ruckus, Th Greased Palm @ Voodoo, Belfast – Thursday, October 9 Limerick band Fox Jaw (recently abbreviated from Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters) bring their gloomy alt-rock up North for the Belfast launch of their new album, Ghost’s Parades, at Voodoo on Thursday night. Belfast-based acts Gascan Ruckus and The Greased Palm make…
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Limerick alt-rock five-piece Fox Jaw launch their debut album, Ghost’s Parade, at Dublin’s Grand Social, supported by New Valley Wolves. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Coinciding with downsizing their name from Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters, Limerick band Fox Jaw have unveiled the video to their punchy new single, ‘Kerosene’. Released on February 28, the single – taken from the five-piece’s forthcoming album, Ghost’s Parade – is propelled by a strutting alt-rock groove and raspy vocal delivery that combine to excavate wonderfully malevolent undercurrents. Watch the video – directed by Shane Serrano from the band – below.