The Dublin quartet play Vicar Street on Saturday February 27th 2027, celebrating the release of their new album Pugnello, out this Friday
Gilla Band play Vicar Street, Dublin on Saturday February 27th 2027, presented by Singular Artists, celebrating the release of new album Pugnello, out this Friday.
Gilla Band play Vicar Street, Dublin on Saturday February 27th 2027, presented by Singular Artists, extending their previously announced EU/UK tour with a Dublin date that wasn’t part of the original run.
Gilla Band will be joined by special guests SILVERWINGKILLER on the night.
Pugnello has arrived across three singles so far.
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On ‘Placeholder’, Kiely explored his own comfort distractions and childhood nostalgia as an escape from adult life, referencing Davina McCall’s Big Brother eviction pauses, Harold Lloyd’s clock-dangling stunt, and a formative Power Rangers memory from Christian summer camp: “In this track I try to analyse my mental quirks by exploring my comfort distractions. Reverting back to childhood nostalgia, as an escape. The memories seeping into my day-to-day adult life.”
Most recently, third single ‘Alogia’ took its title from the clinical term for poverty of speech associated with certain mental health conditions. Kiely was diagnosed with schizophrenia while writing the album’s lyrics, and his words on the track are blunt and darkly funny: “I thought I could just walk off the old mental illness but alas!” He’s described Pugnello as an attempt to document everything that’s happened in his life since 2022’s Most Normal, taking in childhood distractions bleeding into adult routine, grief, obscure footballers, Bible references, and general silliness.
For over ten years, the Dublin quartet, vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox and drummer Adam Faulkner, have spent over a decade redefining what guitar music can sound like in the 21st century – a truly original form of noise-rock all their own.
After a strong set at All Together Now this year, the band are finally back, and the album is there most abrasive and sonically boundary-pushing yet.
Tickets are €35 plus fees, on sale Thursday September 24th at 10am via singularartists.ie and Ticketmaster.ie.
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