Gigs are like buses really.

You know the rest!

Last thursday we enjoyed a trip to Eamonn Doran’s in Dublin where we met up with our good friend Richard of Vitruvius, who we played with in Whelan’s last February. We shared a few musical memories over an uncharacteristically cheesy Doran’s pizza.

You do meet some fantastic people in this line of work.

Take the headliners, Mongo Horn who, in spite of the obvious disadvantage of being all-male, took to the Rock Chicks theme of the night by dragging it up and adopting a gigantic pair of fake breasts. Now that’s stagecraft. They also gave us the pleasure of introducing us to the most wonderful phrase- horses for courses.

Would make an excellent song title me thinks. Watch this space.

On Sunday we were back on home turf for a Pavillion gig with our Dundalk friends, Dutch/Irish duo The Candides, who stayed over in Ronan and Ciara’s house for a bit of banter about our best and worst gigs (we’re not telling!), the general silliness of Slice the Pie (sour grapes!) and the number of words in the English language that sound like duck (dog, doug, dock, dug etc., very confusing for a foreigner in a restaurant).

Many thanks to all who joined us over the past few weeks-maybe we’ll see some of you in Laverys on Saturday (that’s May 16th) when we join Damanta and Mark Bee for a Dirty Folk Nite (not sure what that means but sure we’ll find out!).

We also have the pleasure of formally announcing that we’ll be playing the Time to be Proud mini-festival (Black Box 22nd-24th May) on Saturday 23th. This is in anticipation of the release of the Time to be Proud Oh Yeah! compilation, which of course features us doing an Undertones song.

Which one you might ask? Well some of you will already know but otherwise you gotta be there to find out.

NB it’s not Teenage Kicks ok!

cheers and beers,

Katco xx!