Photo Credit El Hardwick
Dublin innovators Gilla Band are here again with another mind curling piece of avant garde noise that grates and swerves with genres to fuck you up yet again. Bonkers lyrics as usual and a massive curveball two minutes in that goes all electro techno on the brain and still manages to lop off the top of your head with that searing guitar sound. Read on…
Gilla Band are happy to share their first new music in nearly four years, the new single “Giraffe” is released by Rough Trade Records. The hugely original and influential Dublin four piece will also be touring the UK / Europe at the start of 2027.
Listen/Buy single – https://gillaband.ffm.to/giraffe
Giraffe is the first new music from Gilla Band in nearly 4 years and to mark this the band are releasing a very limited 7” picture disc.
For over ten years now, the Dublin quartet — vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox, and drummer Adam Faulkner — have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way.
The band perfected a vision that wasn’t quite post-punk, wasn’t quite noise-rock, wasn’t quite anything besides an idiosyncratic, ground-breaking hybrid that could only come from the four of them – Giraffe is their bold new offering.
Front man Dara explains:
“In this track, the first few sections represent what my general headspace is like. It can be a very scattered and sometimes lonely place. Feeling unloved and finding it difficult to articulate what I’m actually thinking.
The outro on the other hand indirectly details a kind of confirmation that affection towards me does exist. While I appreciate it, I still find that hard to believe. “She chased me out the door with a hairbrush demanding that I would wear a suitable jacket.” It’s a very Irish Mammy action. That amount of love is difficult for me to accept but it is a beautiful thing to have in life.”
US / UK / EU Tour Dates –
Wed-Oct-14-26 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
Thu-Oct-15-26 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere – The Hall
Sat-Oct-17-26 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall
Mon-Oct-19-26 Montreal, QC Fairmount Theatre
Tue-Oct-20-26 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
Wed-Oct-21-26 Detroit, MI Third Man Records – Cass Corridor
Fri-Oct-23-26 Chicago, IL The Bottom Lounge
Sat-Oct-24-26 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
Tue-Oct-27-26 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
Wed-Oct-28-26 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
Fri-Oct-30-26 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Sat-Oct-31-26 Vancouver, BC The Pearl on Granville
Sun-Nov-01-26 Seattle, WA Neumos
Tue-Nov-03-26 San Francisco, CA The Independent
Wed-Nov-04-26 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room Highland Park
Sat-Nov-07-26 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
Sun-Nov-08-26 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf
Tue-Nov-10-26 Austin, TX 29th Street Ballroom
Wed-Nov-11-26 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves Showroom
Fri-Nov-13-26 Nashville, TN The Blue Room at Third Man Records
Sat-Nov-14-26 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle (Back Room)
Sun-Nov-15-26 Washington, DC The Atlantis
Wed 20/01/2027 Trabendo – Paris, France
Thu 21/01/2027 Le Botanique – Brussels, Belgium
Fri 22/01/2027 Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing, France
Sat 23/01/2027 Tolhuistuin – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mon 25/01/2027 Ekko – Utrecht, Netherlands
Tue 26/01/2027 Betty – Hamburg, Germany
Wed 27/01/2027 Loppen -Copenhagen, Denmark
Fri 29/01/2027 SO36 – Berlin, Germany
Sat 30/01/2027 Hydrozagadka – Warsaw, Poland
Sun 31/01/2027 Subzero -Prague, Czech Republic
Tue 02/02/2027 Durer Kert – Budapest, Hungary
Wed 03/02/2027 Flucc Wanne – Vienna, Austria
Fri 05/02/2027 Bogen F – Zurich, Switzerland
Sat 06/02/2027 Arci Bellezza – Milan, Italy
Wed 10/02/2027 Trinity – Bristol, UK
Thu 11/02/2027 Heaven – London, UK
Fri 12/02/2027 Band on The Wall – Manchester, UK
Sat 13/02/2027 Grand Classic – Glasgow, UK
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