- Music
- 05 Aug 15
We've also found a clip of their legendary Late Late Show appearance!
The mighty Therapy? treat fans to an early Christmas present on December 11 when they crash-land in the Dublin Button Factory.
The visit follows on from the release of Disquiet, their new album which they describe "as a sequel of sots" to 1994's million-selling Troublegum.
“We wanted to write something a bit more anthemic again,” explains vocalist/guitarist Andy Cairns Cairns. “In May last year we did a 20th anniversary tour for Troublegum album. It was completely sold-out, and it was great hearing those songs sung back at us, and seeing what they meant to people. Clearly it would be idiocy for us to attempt to recreate Troublegum, because that was a different era, and a different band line-up, but the starting point for this album was me thinking ‘What would the protagonist of Troublegum be doing twenty years on?’
“In constructing Disquiet we went back to the old-fashioned way in which Troublegum was written whereby I’d take my guitar, play a song, record it on my phone and then send the song to the guys ‘finished’, in terms of lyrics, melody and guitar chords. We started with 19 songs, demoed 18 of them and then worked with Tom [Dalgety] to select the ones that best represented what we were trying to do with this record. And we’re genuinely delighted with how things have turned out.”
We made a marvelous discovery the other day on YouTube, namely a little clip of a seriously pissed off (and pissed!) Therapy? switching Late Late Show songs at the last minute to 'Knives' and terrifying all the grannies from Mullingar in the audience with its opening "Gonna get drunk, come round and fuck you up" refrain.
Uncle Gaybo was not amused!