• Gilla Band Announce Dublin and Belfast Shows

    March 28, 2022 - By 

    Gilla Band have announced new dates for Dublin and Belfast. Having changed their name from Girl Band in November last year, the Dara Kiely-fronted Dublin quartet will play their biggest Irish headline shows to date at Dublin’s National Stadium on 9th December and the Empire in Belfast on 15th December. Tickets for both shows go on sale this Friday, 1st April at 9am. It’s been seven years since Gilla Band headlined shows in Belfast, both of which were hosted by The Thin Air. Revisit those here and here.

  • Girl Band Change Name to Gilla Band, Announce Dublin Residency

    November 16, 2021 - By 

    Dublin quartet Girl Band have changed their name to Gilla Band with immediate effect. Off the back of their blistering set at Pitchfork London on Sunday night, the band released the following statement regarding the decision. “We are changing our band name,” they said. “We will no longer be performing or releasing records under the name Girl Band. We apologise for choosing a misgendered name in the first place and to anyone who has been hurt or affected by it. When we were starting off it was chosen without much thought, from a place of naivety and ignorance. We had…

  • Girl Band To Play Limerick on NYE

    October 6, 2021 - By 

    Girl Band are set to bid farewell to the shitshow that is 2021 with a return to Limerick. Off the back of a string of English festival shows, the Dara Kiely-fronted Dublin quartet have announced that they will play Dolans Warehouse on New Year’s Eve. Tickets for the gig, which is presented by the ever-reliable Seoda Shows, go on sale this Friday, 6th October at 9am priced€28. Can’t wait? Pre-sale is currently available via the band’s mailing list.

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – September 4th

    September 4, 2020 - By 

    It’s been yet another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island, boosted by today being the monthly Bandcamp Friday, which sees the platform waive all its own cuts – take that, Spotify. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Lankum, Girl Band, JYellowL, NewDad, Arvo Party, A Bad Cavalier, Girl Band, Æ Mak, Alpha Chrome Yayo and many more. Girl Band – Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage (Live at Vicar Street) Live at Vicar Street by Girl Band A Bad Cavalier – Losers Losers by A Bad Cavalier Lankum feat. Spider Stacy…

  • A Litany of Failures: Volume III Announced

    July 3, 2020 - By 

    Two years on from its second volume, islandwide independent music compilation series A Litany of Failures has opened pre-orders and announced the tracklisting for Volume III in the series – out Friday, October 2nd. More eclectic, and more export-ready than ever, the compilation features brand new music from 22 acts across Ireland, including the first recorded output from Fifty Years of Hair (Postcard Versions/Girl Band’s Dara Kiely), The Golden Cleric (Shrug Life/Girlfriend/That Snaake) and Grave Goods (Girls Names, Pins, September Girls), as well as many of our favourites – Robocobra Quartet, Silverbacks, Rising Damp, Percolator, Extravision and many more. With cover art by Nathanaël Roman, it will be accompanied by…

  • The Thin Air Podcast: Girl Band

    January 22, 2020 - By 

    This week on the Thin Air podcast, Danny Carroll meets one of Ireland’s most beloved group’s Girl Band, to talk about their recent single Shoulderblades.  The first song the band released in four years, Shoulderblades served as an intense, exhilarating teaser for second album ‘The Talkies’. Girl Band’s singer/lyricist Dara Kiely and bassist/producer Daniel Fox speak about how the song developed and reflect on its varied influences – be they 19th-century freaks, low-cost imported lager, or Leonard Cohen’s howling anguish. Tracklisting: 1. Girl Band – Shoulderblades 2. Jon Hopkins – Open Eye Signal (Happa Remix) 3. The Beatles – Baby…

  • Girl Band Announce Cork Date

    January 14, 2020 - By 

    Girl Band are set to make their return to Cork. Having released easily one of the best Irish albums of last year in The Talkies, the Dara Kiely-fronted quartet will play the Cyprus Avenue on Saturday, March 7th. Presented by the Good Room, tickets for the show cost €28 (+ booking fee) and go on sale at 10am on Thursday, January 16th here.

  • Girl Band w/ PowPig @ Vicar Street, Dublin

    November 25, 2019 - By 

    As a line of punters stretches around the corner of Vicar Street, saturated to the bone by the pouring rain, a Dublin ‘aul fella’ passing by asks: “What’s on in there tonight?” “Girl Band” “No, but what are they called?” Inside, the crowd made up of skinny-jeaned punks and skinhead raver types funnels into the auditorium, the bar and the merch table. Within minutes there is a mad scramble for zines that are on sale and before anyone has even settled in they are gone. It’s difficult to ignore the intense sense of anticipation that is permeating every surface of…

  • Girl Band – The Talkies

    September 27, 2019 - By 

    Like a bucket of red paint into white, Girl Band’s explosion in the Irish music scene half a decade ago proved a new year zero for the country’s underground scene. Their modus operandi was laid out with ‘Lawman’ and a simple, radical rework of Blawan’s ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage’.  By the time 2015 debut LP Holding Hands With Jamie came out, they were primed for success. Eschewing the role of traditional rock instrumentation, it was seemingly the sound of four people left in isolation, handed a stack of experimental techno 7”s and traditional rock instruments, and…