The Irish indie/rock band, formed in 2001 in Dublin. The band is made up of lead vocalist Conor Deasy, guitarist Daniel Ryan, guitarist and bass player Padraic McMahon, pianist Kevin Horan and drummer Ben Carrigan. Their big break came with their debut album So Much for the City which became an Irish number one. The band members spent a summer on vacation in Santa Cruz where they wrote several of the tracks for the album such as “One Horse Town”. The band’s second album, Let’s Bottle Bohemia, enjoyed similar success to the band’s debut, largely on the back of the single “Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?”. The band often cites Neil Young and the Beach Boys as its main inspirations. Their third album Teenager is the follow-up to 2004’s ‘Let’s Bottle Bohemia’, and was recorded at The Warehouse in Vancouver, Canada with producer Tony Hoffer, who worked with the band on their debut ‘So Much For The City’.

“We were definitely striving for a new standard,” says frontman Conor Deasy. “It is a record about adolescence, but it’s also a record about leaving it behind.”