The Jimmy Cake to perform Brains at National Concert Hall

Irish experimental band The Jimmy Cake will play at the National Concert Hall on November 28 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album Brains.

Marking their first concert in over a decade, the show will see them play Brains in full, and comes as part of the National Concert Hall’s Landmarks series. Landmarks is a program where prominent Irish artists perform their landmark album and music from their career.

 

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The band began in late-1990s Dublin under another name, das Madman, which quickly fizzled out and then reformed into psyche-rock band, The Jimmy Cake, in 2000. They have since released five albums and an EP. Their last studio album, Tough Love, was released in 2017.

A nine-piece ensemble, they are best known for their inventive blend of various instruments: clarinet, saxophone, accordion, trumpet, glockenspiel and DIY percussion around the core of guitars, bass and drums.

“Here was an Irish band, a Dublin band at that – not even a band, more a multi-instrumental non-vocal 18-legged mutant – that understood the free jazz gospel of improvisation without ever leaning on the crutch of bar-band blues scales or shoegazer noodling," said Hot Press of Brains in 2003.

Brains was released in 2001 on their own record label, Pilatus. The album featured a distinctive style and garnered significant praise from critics.

Tickets are on sale here.