Brògeal announce debut album Tuesday Paper Club

Brògeal (pronounced Bro-gale) have announced the release of their debut album Tuesday Paper Club, due for release on October 17 via Play It Again Sam.

The folk-punk-indie-pop group are from Falkirk, Scotland and include songwriter Daniel Harkins (vocals/guitar), Aidan Callaghan (vocals/banjo), Sam MacMillan (accordion), Euan Mundie (bass) and Luke Mortimer (drums).

The band have also shared the album’s title track, ‘Tuesday Paper Club’.

Frontman Harkins describes how he originally wrote the single as a poem while working behind the bar in a local old man pub.

“Out of boredom this little poem came about” he said, “and ended up being more about older people’s views on the young and how they can be so bitter about us as if they weren’t doing the same, if not worse when they were younger. I added some chords to it later and took it to the lads and it instantly became an absolute foot stomper and it’s one of our favourite songs to play live now.”

Brògeal's experimental sound comes from spending the Covid lockdown honing their self-taught skills on older instruments in Harkin’s back garden.

The band have toured throughout the UK and Ireland and have also supported Paolo Nutini, The Mary Wallopers and The Lathums.

They are set to hit the Irish stage supporting The Wolf Tones at Thomond Park, Limerick this Sunday, 13 July.

Tuesday Paper Club will be released October 17 and is available for preorder here.