Noel Hogan to release Monoband single

Noel Hogan is setting up his own label, Gohan Recordings, to facilitate the Irish release of his Monoband alter ego's debut single, 'Waves'.

Due in April it features the vocal talents of Richard Walters, a 24-year-old Oxford singer who counts Radiohead among his chums.

The parent album, which was initially recorded in Hogan's own Limerick studio and then given a buff-up by his old Cranberries mucker Stephen Street, follows in May and includes a couple of bona fide classics-in-the-making.

Prior to that Hogan heads off next month to South By Southwest, with Iain Archer, Ash, The Amazing Pilots, Hothouse Flowers, The Immediate and The Things also flying the flag for Irish acts at the Austin, Texas industryfest.