Gilla Band have announced their long awaited 4th album ‘Pugnello’, out 24th September.
New single ‘Placeholder’ is out now.
Gilla Band are happy to announce their brand new album ‘Pugnello’ released on the 25th September 2026 on Rough Trade Records. The album was recorded from 2022 – 2026 across three studios, Hellfire, Yellow Door Music Studio, & Sonic Studios in Dublin, the album was produced by Gilla Band & it was recorded and mixed by Daniel. Fox. The album will be available on Deluxe Gatefold LP with glued in lyric booklet + pearl colour vinyl + indie colour LP, and Standard LP & CD.
The band have also announced 2 special intimate UK shows, one at The ICA (London) where they’ll be performing in the round, and The iconic White Hotel in Manchester ahead of its closure in January. You can pre-order the record HERE to gain access to exclusive pre-sale for these shows.
Gilla Band never know where they’re going next. 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. Across 2015’s Holding Hands With Jamie, 2019’s The Talkies, and 2022’s Most Normal, 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.
In the four years since Most Normal, each member embarked on other artistic endeavors. Kiely fostered a newfound love of painting, Faulkner played drums for Lankum on the road, Fox became an increasingly in-demand producer guiding ascendant acts like Sprints, Lambrini Girls, and Mandy, Indiana, while Duggan Borges launched his solo project the Null Club with collaborations featuring Mandy, Indiana’s Valentine Caulfield, the Horrors’ Faris Badwan, Miss Grit, and Brooklyn MC Elucid. All their extracurricular activity existed in parallel with the exploratory route towards Pugnello, but also informed the band as they reconvened to crystallize the album’s vision.
Dara on Placeholder “In this track I try to analyse my mental quirks by exploring my comfort distractions. Reverting back to childhood nostalgia – as an escape. The memories seeping into my day-to-day adult life. Representing personal mental health behaviours via outdated pop culture such as the anxious tension set by Davina McCall’s silence when announcing a Big Brother eviction, or the fight or flight that Harold Lloyd surely experienced when holding on to a clock for dear life, and all for our entertainment.
I mention Power Rangers at the end of this. It was another comfort vice. They were a huge thing for me as a child. I remember I was at some sort of Christian summer camp when I was about 6 and was asked what I want to be when I grow up. I said “a Power Ranger”. I was laughed at and was told the shocking truth that they didn’t exist and it is not a profession worth pursuing. I’ve never forgiven them for that.
“I’m injecting a lethal dose of nothing. I’m blaring a dangerous amount of Coldplay” …. True story.
Album Track listing
The Angelus
Placeholder
Alogia
Three Hands Clapping
Jacobsons
The Megazord
Computer Sadness
Giraffe
Crisp Pop
The Gallop
US / UK / EU Tour Dates – tickets
Wed-Oct-07-26 The White Hotel – Manchester, UK
Thurs-Oct-08-26 ICA (In the Round) – London, UK
Wed-Oct-14-26 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts, USA +
Thu-Oct-15-26 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere – The Hall, USA +
Sat-Oct-17-26 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall, USA +
Mon-Oct-19-26 Montreal, QC Fairmount Theatre, USA =
Tue-Oct-20-26 Toronto, ON Lees Palace, USA +
Wed-Oct-21-26 Detroit, MI Third Man Records – Cass Corridor, USA +
Fri-Oct-23-26 Chicago, IL The Bottom Lounge, USA +
Sat-Oct-24-26 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club, USA +
Tue-Oct-27-26 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater, USA +
Wed-Oct-28-26 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court, USA +
Fri-Oct-30-26 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios, USA +
Sat-Oct-31-26 Vancouver, BC The Pearl on Granville, USA +
Sun-Nov-01-26 Seattle, WA Neumos, USA +
Tue-Nov-03-26 San Francisco, CA The Independent , USA^
Wed-Nov-04-26 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room Highland Park, USA ^
Sat-Nov-07-26 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar, USA *
Sun-Nov-08-26 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf , USA^
Tue-Nov-10-26 Austin, TX 29th Street Ballroom , USA^
Wed-Nov-11-26 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves Showroom ^
Fri-Nov-13-26 Nashville, TN The Blue Room at Third Man Records , USA^
Sat-Nov-14-26 Carrboro, NC Cats Cradle (Back Room), USA ^
Sun-Nov-15-26 Washington, DC The Atlantis, USA ^
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
+ PISS
= Mulch
^ Annie-Claude Deschenes
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