LIMROCKERS Dylan Flynn & The Dead Poets play a headline show at Dolans Warehouse this weekend before heading to the UK for a London show next week.
It’s another remarkable leap forward for the lads who met while at college in Limerick in 2019 and launched their debut EP in the Kasbah Social Club.
Since then, Dylan and band have put in the hard yards, they have self-released/produced multiple EPs, booked Irish tours and picked up support slots with some of the country’s biggest artists with NewDad and Milk.
All this culminated in the release in March of their 11 track debut album titled ‘how are you feeling today?’ featuring slew of strong singles ‘life’, ‘running away’, ‘more’ and the soaring anthem ‘nowhere to live’.
The Limerick up-and-comers have now gained over 500,000 streams on Spotify and played some sold out headline shows.
The band made a captivating live video, filmed on top of a carpark in the heart of the city, for the politically charged ‘nowhere to live’. It’s an angry tirade platforming the band’s frustrations with the housing crisis and living in a country that completely ignores them.
The song has been play-listed by Spotify in New Music Friday, Alternative Ireland and A Breath Of Fresh Eire, and also heard across RTE 2FM, BBC ATL, Amazing Radio and Today FM.
Dylan Flynn comments, “So many of our friends have disappeared from this city over the last year, so it felt like the right thing to shoot this video with the skyline in the background. The lack of housing around the country, especially where we are living in Limerick, is unsustainable, and it feels like the government just turned away from it.”
‘how are you feeling today? was written, recorded and self-produced from the band’s small studio space in Limerick City, with help from Mike Gavin (Windings). Mike co-produced and mixed the tracks, while Richard Dowling (Foo Fighters, Brian Eno, Villagers) mastered it.
Dylan Flynn & The Dead Poets play Dolans Warehouse for Seoda Shows this Friday April 7 and head across the pond to London to do a gig at The Waiting Room on April 14.
