Slow road to success for Irish band Walking On Cars
THESE are heady days for Walking On Cars. The five-piece are close to completing their debut album and will shortly play the biggest show of their career, a ‘hometown’ gig at INEC Killarney (they’re actually from Dingle: nonetheless, performing before several thousand fellow Kerry people has them in goosebumps). Led by photogenic singers /instrumentalists Patrick Sheehy and Sorcha Durham, the quintet are on a career trajectory most bands — certainly most bands from the depths of rural Ireland — can only dream of.
Seated in their record label’s Irish headquarters, they are well aware how far they’ve come. It’s almost exactly a year since they performed at Dublin’s mid-tier Academy venue. At that point, it was their highest profile concert — and one of the most nerve-wracking too.
