Soda Blonde: 'The disparity between those at the top and middling acts is huge' 

Faye O’Rourke has already done the hard yards with Little Green Cars, but her reservations about the music industry haven't stopped her from ploughing ahead with Soda Blonde 

Soda Blonde have a new album on release and will tour to Cork and other centres. Picture: Patricio Cassinoni 

Soda Blonde’s Faye O’Rourke was bemused by the recent furore as people struggled to buy tickets for Coldplay’s 2024 Aviva Stadium dates. The most expensive packages top out at €900, but the four shows nonetheless sold out in record time. It’s a reminder of the vast gulf in music between artists at the very top and the 99 per cent scraping by.

“I love big acts as much as the next person,” says O’Rourke, who started Soda Blonde when her previous group, Little Green Cars, disbanded in 2019. “The disparity between those at the top and even middling acts is huge. In any other career…”