{"id":2436071,"date":"2026-05-28T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2436071"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:02:20","slug":"gilla-band-announce-first-new-music-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gilla-band-announce-first-new-music-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilla Band announce first new music in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo Credit El Hardwick<\/p>\n<p><strong>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\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gilla Band are happy to share their first new music in nearly four years, the new single \u201cGiraffe\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Listen\/Buy single \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gillaband.ffm.to\/giraffe\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/gillaband.ffm.to\/giraffe&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1780063177509000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2xYCqApTZbXmrsODxkzrPk\"><u>https:\/\/gillaband.ffm.to\/giraffe<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giraffe\u00a0is the first new music from Gilla Band in nearly 4 years and to mark this the band are releasing a very limited 7\u201d picture disc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For over ten years now, the Dublin quartet \u2014 vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox, and drummer Adam Faulkner \u2014\u00a0have been redefining what you could loosely call \u201crock music\u201d in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The band perfected a vision that wasn\u2019t quite post-punk, wasn\u2019t quite noise-rock, wasn\u2019t quite anything besides an idiosyncratic, ground-breaking hybrid that could only come from the four of them \u2013\u00a0Giraffe is their bold new offering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gilla Band - Giraffe\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xtjauo-6jfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Front man Dara explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn 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\u2019m actually thinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. \u201cShe chased me out the door with a hairbrush demanding that I would wear a suitable jacket.\u201d It\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><u>US \/ UK \/ EU Tour Dates \u2013<\/u><\/strong><u\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed-Oct-14-26 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thu-Oct-15-26 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere \u2013 The Hall<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat-Oct-17-26 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mon-Oct-19-26 Montreal, QC Fairmount Theatre<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tue-Oct-20-26 Toronto, ON Lee\u2019s Palace<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed-Oct-21-26 Detroit, MI Third Man Records \u2013 Cass Corridor<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fri-Oct-23-26 Chicago, IL The Bottom Lounge<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat-Oct-24-26 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tue-Oct-27-26 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed-Oct-28-26 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fri-Oct-30-26 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat-Oct-31-26 Vancouver, BC The Pearl on Granville<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sun-Nov-01-26 Seattle, WA Neumos<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tue-Nov-03-26 San Francisco, CA The Independent<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed-Nov-04-26 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room Highland Park<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat-Nov-07-26 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sun-Nov-08-26 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tue-Nov-10-26 Austin, TX 29th Street Ballroom<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed-Nov-11-26 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves Showroom<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fri-Nov-13-26 Nashville, TN The Blue Room at Third Man Records<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat-Nov-14-26 Carrboro, NC Cat\u2019s Cradle (Back Room)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sun-Nov-15-26 Washington, DC The Atlantis<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed 20\/01\/2027 Trabendo \u2013 Paris, France<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thu 21\/01\/2027 Le Botanique \u2013 Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fri 22\/01\/2027 Le Grand Mix \u2013 Tourcoing, France<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat 23\/01\/2027 Tolhuistuin \u2013 Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mon 25\/01\/2027 Ekko \u2013 Utrecht, Netherlands<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tue 26\/01\/2027 Betty \u2013 Hamburg, Germany<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed 27\/01\/2027 Loppen -Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fri 29\/01\/2027 SO36 \u2013 Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat 30\/01\/2027 Hydrozagadka \u2013 Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sun 31\/01\/2027 Subzero -Prague, Czech Republic<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tue 02\/02\/2027 Durer Kert \u2013 Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed 03\/02\/2027 Flucc Wanne \u2013 Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fri 05\/02\/2027 Bogen F \u2013 Zurich, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat 06\/02\/2027 Arci Bellezza \u2013 Milan, Italy<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wed 10\/02\/2027 Trinity \u2013 Bristol, UK<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thu 11\/02\/2027 Heaven \u2013 London, UK<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fri 12\/02\/2027 Band on The Wall \u2013 Manchester, UK<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sat 13\/02\/2027 Grand Classic \u2013 Glasgow, UK<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/girlband\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/girlband&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1780063177509000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0RW7zDoQ9gnflvwvZBJYqX\"><u>Facebook<\/u><\/a> |\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gillaband\/?hl=en\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gillaband\/?hl%3Den&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1780063177509000&amp;usg=AOvVaw10iQtD6J35PaU5NJQ8_9WO\"><u>Instagram<\/u><\/a> |\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GillaBand\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/GillaBand&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1780063177509000&amp;usg=AOvVaw06bMWQi1rMERHeLMVSD1C-\"><u>Twitter<\/u><\/a> |\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCeVtCaUUn2KLrlxO_puXGrQ\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCeVtCaUUn2KLrlxO_puXGrQ&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1780063177509000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Y082VHnaT6Pk159vXEVDH\"><u>YouTube<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forewords by Wayne Carey, Reviews Editor for Louder Than War. 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