Rocking the system: M(h)aol on using their songs to rail against misogyny

For a band whose members hail from Cork, Dublin, and the UK, music is way to bring about real change 

M(h)aol have upcoming gigs in Ireland, as well as support slots with Steve Albini's band, Shellac. 

The first time Irish-UK indie band M(h)aol played their song Laundries in Dublin, they felt a ripple spread through the room. “The shame of those houses/With windows of steam,” singer Róisín Nic Ghearailt intoned with chilling solemnity. “And the shame of those/Sheets that came out/ So clean”.

“There was the biggest reaction,” says Nic Ghearailt of a propulsive dirge which explores the toxic legacy of the Magdalene Laundries and the culture of misogyny of which the laundries were both symptom and a mechanism of reinforcement.