Girl Band are great bunch of lads

It’s a Thursday night in trendy Shoreditch, in east London, and outside of one of the numerous cool-because-they-say-so pubs hidden away from the main street, there’s a queue to get in and see four lads from Ireland play loud rock music.

Dublin’s Girl Band headline above two local groups and are the reason why the Old Blue Last is overflowing.

Old Blue Last is small, grotty, and sweaty, but Girl Band will surely be saying goodbye to such tiny stages shortly. Lauded by the Guardian, NME and Vice, the four-piece played Eurosonic, Europe’s version of South By South West, earlier this month, where A&R men and festival bookers were peppered throughout the packed venues.