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Gilla Band release new single ‘Sports Day’
They’ve also announced new tour dates!
7th February 2023, 12:00am
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They’ve also announced new tour dates!
7th February 2023, 12:00am
Dublin's Gilla Band (fka Girl Band) have never been ones to pander. On "Most Normal', they're embracing that ethos fully with an art-for-art's-sake record that stretches from the silly to the sublime.
12th October 2022, 12:00am
Album Review
4 Stars
Uneasy and unpredictable, yet invigorating.
7th October 2022, 12:00am
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Lifted from their upcoming new album ‘Most Normal’.
18th August 2022, 9:40am
News
“We apologise for choosing a misgendered name in the first place and to anyone who has been hurt or affected by it.”
16th November 2021, 12:00am
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Recorded in their hometown of Dublin.
2nd September 2020, 12:00am
News
They were supposed to be travelling the UK in May.
2nd April 2020, 12:00am
Festivals
The two-day festival is returning for its sixth year this May.
11th February 2020, 12:00am
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Where the unlikely meets the possible.
27th September 2019, 8:00am
Two years ago, Girl Band cancelled their touring schedule and all but disappeared. Now, Dublin’s surrealist noiseniks are back with apocalyptic second record ‘The Talkies’.
27th September 2019, 12:00am
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The band have also shared a video for the newest cut to be taken from their forthcoming new album.
15th August 2019, 12:00am
They have them mesmerised by noise and that’s exactly how they want it.
11th June 2019, 12:00am
All the biggest and best tracks of the week, rounded up and reviewed.
7th June 2019, 12:00am
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It's the Dubliners' first new music since hugely-acclaimed debut 'Holding Hands With Jamie'.
6th June 2019, 12:00am
The Hackney all-dayer returns with Shamir, Oscar and Hinds, among others.
8th October 2015, 12:00am
New-tour-la, new-tour-la
The Irish band take ‘Holding Hands with Jamie’ out on the road for a second time next February.
7th October 2015, 12:00am
Album Review
3 Stars
This deadly work could’ve forced an apocalypse if delivered with more conviction.
25th September 2015, 10:00am
With their debut album, Girl Band have warped themselves more than ever before, but ‘Holding Hands With Jamie’ sees the Dublin quartet find method in the madness.
21st September 2015, 12:00am
Have You Heard?
Imagine pulling out all of your unfiltered thoughts in lumps of destructive, fizzing, neon coloured jelly. Welcome to the sound of Girl Band.
4th September 2015, 12:00am
DIY writers pick out the biggest and best new songs from the last seven days.
4th September 2015, 12:00am
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Hear another track from 'Holding Hands With Jamie'.
3rd September 2015, 12:00am
Discordant and noisy and vicious and violent and really tremendously exciting.
18th August 2015, 12:00am
DIY's new music tips, featuring Girl Band, Hazel English and Alex Bleeker.
13th August 2015, 12:00am
One in, one out
Meredith Graves and co. have scrapped their planned trip to Europe.
12th June 2015, 12:00am
With Bob Vylan, St Vincent, girl in red, Lizzy McAlpine and more.