Sparks: The band where eccentricity meets high art 

Sparks have a new album and are on their way to play in Dublin

Sparks: Russell and Ron Mael have a new album, entitled Mad! 

Sparks brothers Ron and Russell Mael expect to feel thoroughly at home when playing Dublin’s National Stadium this July. When not hosting live music, the stadium is a boxing arena – a dead ringer, in fact, for the venue featured on the cover of Sparks’ Whomp That Sucker, one of the classic albums the art-pop siblings from Los Angeles released in their first golden streak of success in the 1970s and early 1980s. 

Over video link from his home in Los Angeles, Russell nods enthusiastically: “We can recreate our Whomp That Sucker cover!”