Giraffe is the first new music from Gilla Band in nearly 4 years and to mark this the band are releasing a very limited 7” picture disc. The hugely original and influential Dublin four piece will also be touring the UK / Europe at the start of 2027.
For over ten years now, the Dublin quartet — vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox, and drummer Adam Faulkner — have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way.
The band perfected a vision that wasn’t quite post-punk, wasn’t quite noise-rock, wasn’t quite anything besides an idiosyncratic, ground-breaking hybrid that could only come from the four of them – Giraffe is their bold new offering.
Front man Dara explains:
“In this track, the first few sections represent what my general headspace is like. It can be a very scattered and sometimes lonely place. Feeling unloved and finding it difficult to articulate what I’m actually thinking.
The outro on the other hand indirectly details a kind of confirmation that affection towards me does exist. While I appreciate it, I still find that hard to believe. “She chased me out the door with a hairbrush demanding that I would wear a suitable jacket.” It’s a very Irish Mammy action. That amount of love is difficult for me to accept but it is a beautiful thing to have in life.”
Wed-Oct-14-26 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
Thu-Oct-15-26 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere – The Hall
Sat-Oct-17-26 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall
Mon-Oct-19-26 Montreal, QC Fairmount Theatre
Tue-Oct-20-26 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
Wed-Oct-21-26 Detroit, MI Third Man Records – Cass Corridor
Fri-Oct-23-26 Chicago, IL The Bottom Lounge
Sat-Oct-24-26 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
Tue-Oct-27-26 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
Wed-Oct-28-26 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
Fri-Oct-30-26 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Sat-Oct-31-26 Vancouver, BC The Pearl on Granville
Sun-Nov-01-26 Seattle, WA Neumos
Tue-Nov-03-26 San Francisco, CA The Independent
Wed-Nov-04-26 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room Highland Park
Sat-Nov-07-26 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
Sun-Nov-08-26 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf
Tue-Nov-10-26 Austin, TX 29th Street Ballroom
Wed-Nov-11-26 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves Showroom
Fri-Nov-13-26 Nashville, TN The Blue Room at Third Man Records
Sat-Nov-14-26 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle (Back Room)
Sun-Nov-15-26 Washington, DC The Atlantis
Wed 20/01/2027 Trabendo – Paris, France
Thu 21/01/2027 Le Botanique – Brussels, Belgium
Fri 22/01/2027 Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing, France
Sat 23/01/2027 Tolhuistuin – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mon 25/01/2027 Ekko – Utrecht, Netherlands
Tue 26/01/2027 Betty – Hamburg, Germany
Wed 27/01/2027 Loppen -Copenhagen, Denmark
Fri 29/01/2027 SO36 – Berlin, Germany
Sat 30/01/2027 Hydrozagadka – Warsaw, Poland
Sun 31/01/2027 Subzero -Prague, Czech Republic
Tue 02/02/2027 Durer Kert – Budapest, Hungary
Wed 03/02/2027 Flucc Wanne – Vienna, Austria
Fri 05/02/2027 Bogen F – Zurich, Switzerland
Sat 06/02/2027 Arci Bellezza – Milan, Italy
Wed 10/02/2027 Trinity – Bristol, UK
Thu 11/02/2027 Heaven – London, UK
Fri 12/02/2027 Band on The Wall – Manchester, UK
Sat 13/02/2027 Grand Classic – Glasgow, UK
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