You could call this appearance by The Chalets at the Drogheda Arts Festival a comeback, but in truth it’s more of a partial return to action, a stretching of the legs.
Phil Udell switches into Marty Whelan mode as he joins The Chalets at a European rock festival with a difference - and lots and lots of lovely French wine!
Loved by the Kaiser Chiefs and bushy moustached Ukrainians alike, The Chalets have partied their way round most of the western world in recent months. Stuart Clark hears about backstage beerathons, ding dongs with Kele from Bloc Party and monkeys in track-suits.
Life gets busier and busier for The Chalets who, as you will have seen on hotpress.com last week, have their Eurosonic set broadcast live by 2FM at 11pm on Thursday January 12.
Music fans will have to be out of the pub and home by 11pm on Thursday January 12 as 2FM broadcast the whole of The Chalets and The Radio’s sets live from the Eurosonic Festival in the northern Dutch town of Groningen.
With barely enough time to sober up following their Vicar St. headliner, The Chalets hotfooted it over to the UK where they’re playing two weeks of supports with The Cribs.
The Camden Crawl: 40 buzz bands play across 10 venues on one night, in indie’s capital of cool. In the green corner are The Chalets, who pit their musical talent in a predominately London-led line-up.
It used to be a dentist’s surgery and the interior décor might generously be described as “quixotic”, but The Chalets’ Paula Cullen wouldn’t dream of departing her well-populated Walkinstown residence.
The ante has been upped on every level – the playing, singing, presentation and production – and the songs sound less like the jumbled collection of ideas of yore and more like genuine contenders.
New Favourite Band Alert. Dublin group The Chalets are a mightily refreshing blast of fiesty rock and quirky pop, whose double A sided debut dons a pair of six inch stilettos and runs rings around the rest of this fortnight’s singles.
