The Modfather – Paul Weller Photograph: Yui Mok/PA He's produced tracks for Wale and Fuse ODG but with his two EPs, First Daze of Summer and First Daze of Winter, he's putting his own work to the forefront and his debut Irish gig is the start of an exciting year for him. Maleek Berry Green Room, The Academy, Dublin €19.45 ticketmaster.ie – Raised on reggae, dancehall and UK garage, the self-taught British-Nigerian producer and recording artist Maleek Berry creates gentle afro-pop music that honours his Nigerian roots and the south London music scene he grew up in. Very fine new EP In my Body will be plugged. Fennell is adopted, and aware of having Welsh roots he has named his solo project accordingly (Syml is Welsh for "simple"). Interestingly, there are Celtic connections here. ![]() Where Barcelona favours piano-driven introspection (think Coldplay and U2 in a Battle of the Boring Bands competition), Syml is mostly synth-oriented, spooky vocals and minimal soundscapes. ![]() 8pm €15 – Seattle's Brian Fennell is a founding member of the alt.pop band Barcelona, but side project Syml is that band's moodier, brooding cousin. So tighten that shell necklace around your neck, throw on your old, baggy ROAD cords and dust off your Vans slip-ons and ride this wave of nostalgia. Having played a sold-out show in Whelan's last August, they're back to make you pine for your youth. The Revs, the pop punk band from Donegal who are best known for their 2001 single Wired to the Moon, are on a bit of a victory lap. The Revs The Academy, Dublin €22.90 ticketmaster.ie – Well, if this isn't a blast from the past. Long-standing friends of Ireland, it's likely these gigs will be well on the way to being sold out, so look left, look right, look sharp. Following a misstep with 2013's Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (and a diversion with Sparks in 2015), the Scottish band returned sure-footed and rebooted last week with new album Always Ascending. Sixteen years? Yes, it's true – Franz Ferdinand formed in 2002, and while that might make some people feel old it's clear there is still vigour and inspiration aplenty left in the band. €55/€65 ticketmaster.ie – What? You have to be kidding me. Full dates below.Franz Ferdinand Leisureland Galway. The Cure are currently on tour in Europe. Perhaps he can be brought in to mediate this unseemly beef. "You'd have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like Paul Weller," said Smith, perhaps alluding to The Jam's avowedly political songs, before adding, with a grin, "You'd have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like me."Ĭoincidentally, both The Jam and The Cure were discovered by the same A&R man, Chris Parry, who signed The Jam to Polydor in 1977 and The Cure to his own label, Fiction Records, the following year. Or perhaps Weller, the man who inspired the widely mocked "wellend" haircut, is still annoyed by an interview The Cure gave as long ago as 1985, in which Smith claimed that punk wasn't a political movement, and that people were simply tired of listening to bands like Yes and Genesis and wanted something they could dance to. “The Jam were recording their album during the day," Smith told Rolling Stone, "and we used to sneak in at night and use their equipment – we knew the bloke who was looking after it – to record our album.
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