Babyshambles Adam Ficek to play Whelans October 8

Musician and DJ Adam Ficek is most commonly known to the general public for his day job as drummer in notorious British rock act Babyshambles. As a member of the band fronted by Pete Doherty, Ficek has seen the best and worst of life at the casualty-laden core of the music industry.

Over the years he has amassed an impressive repertoire of musical skills, and plays the guitar, piano, vibraphone, accordion, flute, trumpet, harmonica, tin whistle, recorder, and of course the drums.

Ficek's own project Roses Kings Castles was originally conceived as an outlet for his “need to create his own ideas when Babyshambles were on holiday,” Roses Kings Castles quickly became something more than a means of occupying himself whilst on hiatus. “I continually write, whether it's big band arrangements, electro riffs or folk-pop songs. I just needed an avenue to walk down.”

Roses Kings Castles night in Whelans is the only Irish date in Ficek's string of European dates this year.

Click here to see Roses Kings Castles preform "Horses, Sparkling Bootz" and "Burn Your Town Down" live at the 12 Bar last year