Pugwash line up new album

Band start PledgeMusic campaign ahead of release

Stag's Head gears up for Arthur's Day

Pugwash and Something Happens will perform at the Dublin venue...

New Pugwash Single – ‘The Fall’

Plus the band announce a special Christmas concert…

Pugwash

Whelan’s, Dublin

Pugwash sail into the Irish Album Chart Top 20

Adele regains the top spot from Jedward

Hail hail wash and roll

Thomas Walsh was the underappreciated genius of Irish rock until his Duckworth Lewis Method hook-up with Neil Hannon put him on the map. One Ivor Novello nomination later, his band Pugwash are signed to a major and he’s receiving fan mail from ELO’s Jeff Lynne. As he gears up for his date at the inaugural Homegrown festival at INEC Killarney, the songwriting wizard talks to Olaf Tyaransen.

The Olympus Sounds

Duckworth Lewis Method singer returns with career-best solo album.

Pugwash at Whelan's this Thursday

Just a few days before the release of their much anticipated fifth studio album, Pugwash play Whelan's this Thursday, August 11.

Pugwash to support Matt Berry & Mark Morriss at Whelan’s

The Irish pop rocker has been added as the support act to the IT Crowd’s Berry and The Bluetones lead singer Morriss tomorrow night.

Pugwash confirm album release + reveal artwork

The Olympus Sound will be with us in August.

Nighthawks Launch Second Oxfam EP

EP will be launched with special one-off show

Pugwash sign UK record deal

Pugwash’s Thomas Walsh is like a dog with numerous tails this week after signing a five-year UK deal with APE, the label run by XTC legend Andy Partridge who the Pugs have collaborated with in the past.

Pugwash for Ranelagh Arts Festival

Pugwash and Liam Ó Maonlaí are both set to play this year’s Ranelagh Arts Festival, which takes place in the Dublin suburb from September 23.

Pugwash for Whelan's plus, new release

In the run up to the July release of Pugwash’s new single the band will play two acoustic sets in Whelan’s.

Pugwash live at Whelan's

Pugwash rocks Whelan's at album launch

Never mind the googlies

Life has never been so sweet for Pugwash's Thomas Walsh with a cracking new album, a song on an A-List Hollywood movie, and a cricket-loving pal to play with.

Pugwash draw stars to album launch

An all-star cast graced the Whelan’s stage last night for the Pugwash Eleven Modern Antiquities album launch.

Eleven Modern Antiquities

Thomas Walsh forges chamber pop beauty. Journalist runs out of superlatives.

Whelan's to get Pugwashed

The mighty Pugwash will make a rare live appearance on March 27 in Whelan’s

Shoestring Collective February lineup announced

An acoustic set from Pugwash's Thomas Walsh (pictured) features among the acts for this month's 'Shoestring Collective' arts & music night in Dublin.

Pugwash to feature on Hollywood A-list flick

Pugwash are justifiably chuffed this week after hearing that one of the songs from their Almanac album, ‘Anyone Who Asks’, has made it on to the soundtrack of the new Ed Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight movie, Pride & Glory.

TInsel & Marzipan

Thomas “Pugwash” Walsh has put together a supergroup of sorts (Neil Hannon, someone from XTC). Writing a decent Christmas single isn’t the easiest of tasks and, while this probably won’t end up as one of the standards, the cheeriness behind it all shines through. A suitably uplifting ditty that showcases the breezy approach to songwriting that Walsh makes his own all year round.

Pug of love

News and gossip from the domestic front with Roisin Dwyer.

Pugwash release new single + tour

Dublin favourites Pugwash are to release their second single from the critically acclaimed album Jollity.

Pugwash meet hero Brian Wilson

Accolades don’t come much higher than being asked to meet your idols, but that’s what happened to Dublin pop-festish band Pugwash when Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson got a load of their new single.

It's Nice To Be Nice

Tales of Thomas Walsh’s exquisite, Beatles-esque songwriting bent have already been well-documented on these pages, and this latest single comes up trumps. Walsh is about two degrees of separation (literally) from the likes of Air, Beck, Paul McCartney and Aimee Mann, and boy does it show. Laden with summery strings and plodding with an endearing strain of psychedelia, this single brings to mind the cheerful, sanguine likes of the Beach Boys. It’s nice to be nice alright, but it’s even better to be brilliant.

Earworm

Pugwash look poised to finally reap some well-deserved rewards.

Pop class

While the word pop currently raises the hackles of anyone who considers themselves a music fan, Pugwash’s Thomas Walsh, whose music is influenced by the move, XTC and the Kinks, is attempting to set the record straight

Almanac

An enjoyable collection of sweetly melodic curios

Apples

Almond Tea

Beatles-fixated guitar bands may not be exactly what the world is waiting for right now but local lads, Pugwash, carry it off with such aplomb that it’s hard not to succumb to their charms.