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MRK Live & Singular Artists Present: Gilla Band. Plus Special Guests

Arguably one of the most influential guitar bands to come from Ireland, Dublin avant-punk group Gilla Band have announced a run of intimate shows coinciding with the vinyl reissue of their seminal EP ‘The Early Years’, out through Rough Trade Records, including a Derry show in Sandinos on 23rd October.

Ireland’s favourite Avant-punk quartet has re-issued The Early Years EP, a collection of out of print 7” singles and covers originally released on Any Other City Records and The Quarter Inch Collective and then on Rough Trade in 2015. The Cha Cha Cha has now been remastered alongside the rest of the tracks and is ready for the dancefloor once again.

Fan fave (and live setlist staple) featured on the collection is an eight-minute cover of post-dubstep mastermind Blawan’s absurdist banger and demented earworm “Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage” that, simply put, is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before or since.

Speaking on their upcoming run of intimate shows celebrating the reissue, Gilla Band say:

"We released The Early Years EP 10 years ago and as we approach the 10 year anniversary of our debut album, we wanted to do a run of shows across Ireland playing a lot of our older material, as well as a bunch of unheard new material."

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General Admission: £21.00(Incl. Booking Fee)