The Green Sessions

The Stables Club
University of Limerick

free for Stables Club members

October 28 -We Should be Dead
October 29 -The Aftermath

www.myspace.com/theaftermathband
www.weshouldbedead.com

The Green Sessions are live gigs featuring the very best of young Irish talent. Bands to have played at Green Sessions over the last three years include The Blizzards, Delorentos, Fred, Director, We Should be Dead, Walter Mitty and the Realists, Director, the Spikes, Messiah J, The Flaws you get the picture.

Generally plugging in every second Tuesday (or thereabouts) at the Stables, the gigs are free to Stables Club members, and kick off for 9pm. Best to keep an eye on the site here to stay right up to date with acts and times, or sign up to the newsletter and we’ll call you.

We Should Be Dead

If this were from a Swedish outfit it would be all over the blogosphere like a hicky. Instead We Should Be Dead come from a much sexier part of the world, our own patch, Limerick. Who knows what the future holds for this new quartet but if you are in any way partial to a piece of tasty Blondie then it’s time to dine out in style. ‘Forget Romance, Let’s Dance’ has already done well here at home and is indicative of the post punk on offer on the band’s eponymous debut LP. Chugging chords, elastic beats and a sweet vocal turns what could have been an admirable pastiche into something that could yet shatter a lot of hearts (and not necessarily just the ones made of glass).

The Aftermath

Midlands based band The Aftermath recently spent eight weeks in BBC DJ Chris Moyles top unsigned bands chart, are still the only Irish band to have featured in the influential chart, and are back on terra firma for the release of double a-side ‘One Is Fun/Are You Not?’.

The Aftermath, named after Longford brothers Johnny and Michael Cronin’s favourite Rolling Stones album, returned to Ireland after years battling the toilet circuit in the U.K. They set about putting a band together with Mullingar guitarist Justin McNabb that could play as big as the noise they had in their heads. After a few false starts it came together and recording began in France with producers David and Karl Odlum and is a stellar affair.