Pillow Queens on living the dream with a new album and tour of America
Pillow Queens release Leave The Light On on April 1. Picture: Rich Gilligan
The first line of Pillow Queens’ debut album In Waiting had singer Pam Connolly drawling: “I’m still a baby.” On that 2020 record, the Dublin band had channeled a few years of local hype into an anthem-busting 42 minutes, tracks like 'Gay Girls' proclaiming their manifesto, and comparisons soon being drawn to bands like Weezer and Illuminati Hotties.
Two years later, and with the follow-up album ready to go, Connolly echoes that opening line of In Waiting when discussing the successes Pillow Queens have notched up since. “We're not a baby band, we've been together for five-and-a-half years, but we still consider ourselves as, 'Oh, we're just trucking along'. No, we're not. We're professionals. And we've been doing this for a while - we work really hard. It's hard to not feel like that sometimes because it feels like it has been a long journey,” she says. “We know that we're good enough, but we also have that self-doubt.”
