• Mercury Rev Announce Irish Dates

    May 13, 2024 - By 

    Mercury Rev will play a string of Irish dates in October. Marking their return after six years, the New York indie rock royalty – helmed by Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper – will play Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick on October 28th, Roisin Dubh in Galway on October 29th, Cyprus Avenue in Cork on October 30th and Dublin’s Button Factory on October 31st. Tickets for all shows go on sale this Thursday, May 16th at 10am. Revisit a classic Mercury Rev gem below.

  • Mercury Set For Deserter Songs 20th Anniversary Irish Shows

    January 17, 2018 - By 

    It’s been announced that Mercury Rev will play four Irish dates in April celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal fourth album Deserter Songs. Billed as “a very special acoustic and intimate Performance” the New York band will play Bangor’s Wesley’s Centenary Church on Tuesday, April 17, Dolans Warehouse in Limerick on April 18, Galway’s Roisin Dubh on April 21 and Dublin’s Whelan’s on April 22. Tickets go on sale this Friday (January 19) at 9am. Released in September 1998, the critically-acclaimed Deserter Songs is Mercury Rev’s most successful album to date. The band released their eighth studio album, The Light…

  • Classic album: Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs

    September 24, 2013 - By 

    No-one expected this. Previously, Mercury Rev had been the David Baker fronted psyche-noise outfit that was as likely to pick a fight with the audience than write a work of transcendent beauty. Records like Yerself is Steam and Boces are great fun, full of guitars that are distorted to the point where they cease being guitars, and crazy, stream of consciousness lyrics. But they certainly didn’t position the band as one of the most significant bands of the 90s, and this is exactly what Deserter’s Songs did. A couple of things had to happen in order for this change to take place, though. Baker was out,…