2FM 2Moro 2our lineup unveiled

The tour kicks off on November 15 in Portlaoise’s Sky Venue and then winds its way to Electric Avenue, Waterford (16); Cyprus Avenue, Cork (17 – 3pm all ages & 8pm); Trinity Rooms, Limerick (18); Roisin Dubh, Galway (19); Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon (20); Spirit Store, Dundalk (22); Stables, Mullingar (23); Whelan’s, Dublin (24); and The Village, Dublin (25 – 1pm all ages). Sharing headline duties are moonlighting BellX1 man David Geraghty, Kells hotshots Ham Sandwich and Concerto For Constantine, the new Irish indie supergroup featuring Mark Greaney (JJ72), Gavin Fox (Turn/Idlewild/Vega 4) and Binzer (The Frames/BellX1).
Giving his first CFC interview to Hot Press, Greaney [pictured] reveals: “I did a tour in May with Simple Kid, with an acoustic guitar, which was really good, but I missed being in a gang. Over the last few years myself and Gavin [Fox] have had plenty of nights out, drinking stout, talking about how we needed to form a three-piece rock-band. We didn’t have any grand manifesto or anything. I’d been asked to do the 2fm2moro tour on my own, but I thought it’d be a good opportunity to just do it. And anyway I didn’t want to use my own name because I hate my surname. I was thinking of changing it to Stravinsky..... Ted Stravinsky maybe...
“We’ve only had three rehearsals so far but straightaway it was a band. The songs I brought just morphed into something else in half-an-hour. It’s already very different from JJ72. These lads are amazing musicians. I could sit and watch them play all day. I’m there going ‘do you need me yet?’ I’m thinking of getting some guitar lessons to keep up.
“We’re going to try and put something out before the years out. This band is going to record, put it out, record, put it out. We’re not going to sit around waiting for things. The bands we were in before spent months and months with big producers in studios, but not this time. This time we’re going to work fast!
“We just want to play the music we’ve always want to play,” he concludes. “My monumental bands are the Manics, Nirvana and the Pumpkins –powerful rock music. I don’t want to slag off other bands, but I can’t take any more of that chop-chop-chop Franz Ferdinand sound that everyone seems to be doing. We just want a bit of power.” As with previous 2ours, local acts who fancy playing support should follow the entry procedure to be found at www.rte.ie/2fm/2moro2our, and then keep their fingers crossed that the radio gods are smiling on them.
Tickets are free but need to be applied for from the same site.