We have some upcoming shows including the St.Patrick’s Festival in Dublin and two gigs in Austria:
Mar 14 – St. Patrick’s Festival, Dublin
Mar 15 – Festzelt beim Burgtheater, Vienna
Mar 16 – Ottakringer Brewery, Vienna
Mar 22 – De Barra’s, Clonakilty
Mar 23 – The Pavillion, Cork
May 3-5 – Camden Crawl, Dublin
We are playing two shows in New York, this weekend, our first trip to the US:
Jan 12 – APAP NYC 2013 Conference
Jan 14 – The Living Room
Check out this review of “The Brutal Here and Now” from The Guardian:
The band’s name and the title say it all: this is an intriguing and quirky psych-folk outfit with an unexpectedly tough edge. Named after a poem about a haunted canal lock, The Spook first got together in Dublin to write songs in the folk tradition, but other influences started creeping in. There are melodic echoes of Planxty or the Dubliners here, but matched against a blitz of guitar rock and feedback and a delight in the unexpected. They sing in three languages, starting in Italian with The Tarantella, which begins with an eerie wash of sound and ends up as a frantic party dance with a real sense of danger. Then there are brooding and menacing three-part harmonies on Black Diaries, edgy but acoustic Gaelic songs, and a fine mix of melody and unease in Shudder in the West. One of the Irish albums of the year.
Allen recorded a solo track for the Popical Island tribute album to Big Monster Love with the help of Padraig from Yeh Deadlies.
“The Brutal Here and Now” will be released in the UK on December 3rd by Transduction Records, distributed by Cargo.
