Credit: Gea Blok
Words: Linn Branson
In case you haven't heard of them, ie not been keeping up with Little Indie's copious coverage, there's currently a little band out of Dublin (no, not the F one) who, well, are starting to do a bit good.
We hinted in our live review of their show last week in Oxford that Little Indie would be
Following their brief stopover on English shores last week, the band headed over to Europe on the weekend to perform firstly at Rock Werchter festival in Belgium (June 29), where vocalist James McGovern was just itching to get in amongst that crowd - see header picture. You can catch a video stream of part of their Rock Werchter set here.
They followed this by an appearance at Metropolis Festival in Rotterdam on Sunday (June 30). We rather chuckled at a tweet we saw on Twitter by one festival goer who questioned whether the band were being secretly sponsored by a cigarette company. Why they should have thought that, we have no idea...
Credit: Patrick De Jong
Credit: Patrick De Jong
On Monday (July 1), they continued with promo radio sessions in the Netherlands. Firstly, a live studio session for 2 Meter Sessies at the Electric Monkey studio in Amsterdam. This has yet to appear online, but we'll let you know when it does. Then a live two-track performance of 'Green & Blue' and 'Feeling Fades' (both superb, we have to say), plus a brief chat with James and drummer Diarmuid Brennan, which (starting at 1:12:40 in and running to approx 1:36:44), begins with a live performance of 'Green & Blue', followed by a few words with James and Diarmuid and callers comments. Then a Björk track, before the host asks them about liking electronic music, the writing of G&B, the rise of Irish punkwave, and working with Flood. Even Sesame Street gets a namecheck! The session ends with a live performance of 'Feeling Fades'.
You can listen to that audio interview here, with the visuals to the interview (slightly edited) and the songs, below.
The Murder Capital return to England on July 13 for three dates, plus playing London's Citadel Festival on July 14, before going back to the Netherlands on July 18 for Valkhof Festival, then turning around back to Suffolk the day after to play Latitude Festival. And that's only the beginning! Don't know about them, but we're exhausted already! Nevertheless, we shall be
July - November appearances
In-store dates
AUGUST
15 Cork Music Zone 7pm
16 Dublin Tower Records 1pm
17 Kilkenny Rollercoaster Records 1pm
17 Limerick Steamboat Records 7pm
18 Belfast Strange Victory Records 4pm
19 Glasgow Monorail 8pm
20 Manchester Fopp 5pm
21 Leeds Crash 5pm (signing only)
22 London Rough Trade East 1pm
22 Brighton Resident Music 6.30pm
Live dates
JULY
13 Heartbreakers Southampton
14 Citadel Festival London
15 The Portland Arms Cambridge
16 Boileroom Guildford
18 Valkhof Festival Nijmegen
19 Latitude Festival
20 The Independent Sunderland
21 Doune The Rabbit Hole Port of Meredith
23 The Crescent York
24 The Cookie Leicester
25 The Arts Club Liverpool
27 Truck Festival
28 Y Not Festival
AUGUST
04 All Together Now Co Waterford
10 Boardmasters Newquay
11 Boomtown Fair Winchester
16 The Button Factory Dublin
23 Charleville Mezieres Cabaret Vert FR
25 Rock En Seine FR
30 Into The Great Wide Open Vlieland, NL
SEPTEMBER
01 End Of The Road Festival Salisbury
26 Death Disco Athens
OCTOBER
07 Exchange Bristol
08 The Bodega Nottingham
10 Tufnell Park Dome London
11 Concorde 2 (upgrade from The Haunt) Brighton
12 The Castle & Falcon Birmingham
14 Brudenell Social Club Leeds
15 The Mash House Edinburgh
16 King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut Glasgow
19 Ritual Union, Oxford
20 Swn Festival Cardiff
25 London Calling Amsterdam
28 YES (The Pink Room) Manchester
26 V11 Rotterdam
28 Le Grand Mix Tourcoing
29 Portobello Caen
31 Le Rocher de Palmer Bordeaux
NOVEMBER
01 La Rex Toulouse
02 La Paloma Nimes
04 Joker’s Pub Angers
06 Nouveau Casino Paris
08 L’Autre Canal Nancy
09 La Poudriere Belfort
10 Sonic City Kortrijk BE
12 Molotow Musikclub Hamburg
13 Music und Frieden Berlin
14 Artheater Cologne
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