Ticking All The Boxes
The Minutes have just bagged themselves a new record deal and are getting ready to release their killer new single.
Roisin Dwyer, 10 Mar 2011
There’s something remarkably potent about the chemistry of trios… The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Police, early Lizzy, Cream. When the players are at the top of their game and the songs are the dog’s bollocks, it makes it even more special!
Not to saddle them with lofty comparisons but Dublin rockers The Minutes fall into this category. The outfit have just signed to leading Irish independent label Model Citizen Records and are about to unleash their debut single, ‘Black Keys’ on March 25.
It was recorded at Marcata Studios in upstate New York with production duties by the band and Kevin McMahon of The Walkmen and Titus Andronicus repute. John Goodmanson of Nada Surf, Fight Like Apes and Blood Brothers fame took care of mixing duties.
Since the mid-noughties the garage rock combo have built up a strong fanbase and have support slots to Supergrass, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Phantom Band under their belts.
We can’t wait for debut album Marcata in May...
In other single news, Yngve and The Innocent follow 2010’s ‘Nothing Was Delivered’ with impending single ‘Draw A Line’, which blends influences such as The Band, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits into a potent folk/blues cocktail. German-born Yngve grew up in Sligo and developed a love of music listening to his father’s weekly blues sessions. In 2008 he formed his band The Innocent who have shared the stage with acts such as Katell Keineg, Treetop Flyers, Television Personalities and Paul Weller and wowed crowds at The Belfast Arts Festival, Castlepalooza and a BBC Showcase at the London Thames Festival. Yngve features in the next Communion event on March 25 in the Grand Social, Dublin alongside The Hot Sprockets, Arrow In The Sky and Rachel Austin. Kassette, Matt Corby, Kowalski and We Cut Corners cooked up an aural storm there recently. The imminent bash promises to be of equal excellence.
Dublin acoustic rock combo The Hot Sprockets are already getting ready for festival season with dates announced for the Sibín shindig and Vantastival. Virginian Rachel Austin is poised to unleash her second EP Age Of Love this Spring as are Mullingar duo Arrow In The Sky whose follow-up to the beguiling Do What Thou Wilt should be with us shortly…
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