Girl Band: “We’re just gonna do an album about tax”

In the new, September 2015 issue of DIY (out Friday 11th September), Girl Band prove themselves to be one of the maddest, most unpredictable bands around.

Debut album ‘Holding Hands With Jamie contains daft lyrics about chocolate spread and hand cream, so Tom Connick asked frontman Dara Kiely about how he comes up with it all.

“I do all the writing on my own, and they’d say something if they didn’t like it… which happens!” he laughs. “There’s been a couple of instances where I’m like, ‘My god, this is perfect!’ and I’d go in and they’re like ‘Jesus - no, man!’”

“I gather them from notes – about three or four years of notes that I had, that I kinda condensed down, and those words would have triggers for certain moments in my head, so it kinda keeps it fresh when we do them live. It’s more about the tone of the song, and then I change it into everything else. So when it’s like, ‘does that mean that?’, if people think something means something offensive or something then it’s like ‘oh’, and we have to change it. But I think about 90% of it goes through! The 10% is the PG-13 stuff, which is for the next album! When we get the parental advisory sticker and I get my real thoughts out! ‘Fuck you, Bush!’”

“We’re just gonna do an album about tax,” teases Dan – “ABOUT ‘NAM!” insists Dara. “Just a lot of poorly informed opinions, really…” settles Alan Duggan, to peels of laughter.

Girl band will release their new album ‘Holding Hands With Jamie’ on 25th September via Rough Trade.

Read the full interview the September 2015 issue of DIY, out Friday 11th September.

Photo: Phil Smithies / DIY