Rating: 4 / 5

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Rating: 4 / 5

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.

25 Aug 2011 - Interview

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

22 Aug 2011 - REVIEW

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

10 Aug 2011 - News

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.

28 Jul 2011 - News

The Olympus Sound will be with us in August.

24 May 2011 - News

EP will be launched with special one-off show

13 Sep 2010 - News

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.

23 Jan 2009 - News

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.

15 Sep 2008 - News

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

20 Jun 2008 - News

Pugwash rocks Whelan's at album launch

14 Apr 2008 - REVIEW

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.

31 Mar 2008 - Interview

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

28 Mar 2008 - News

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

26 Mar 2008 - REVIEW

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

19 Mar 2008 - News

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

08 Feb 2008 - News

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.

28 May 2007 - News

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.

15 Dec 2006 - REVIEW

News and gossip from the domestic front with Roisin Dwyer.

17 Nov 2006 - News

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

17 Feb 2006 - News

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.

21 Jul 2005 - News

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.

10 Jun 2005 - REVIEW

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

11 Nov 2003 - REVIEW

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

10 Oct 2002 - Interview

An enjoyable collection of sweetly melodic curios

07 Aug 2002 - REVIEW

10 May 2002 - REVIEW

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.

27 Oct 1999 - REVIEW

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