Derry Melodic Punks PARKER Return With New Diss Track ‘Generic Indie Bands’
Derry Melodic Punks PARKER Return With New Diss Track ‘Generic Indie Bands’ Released 24th May 2024
Private listen on Soundcloud - HERE
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Announce May/June 2024 Irish/UK Tour Dates + Stendahl Ireland Festival Appearance
Tickets - https://linktr.ee/bandcalledparker
Debut Album Never Let This Go Out Now
https://bandcalledparker.bandcamp.com/album/never-let-this-go
Derry, Northern Ireland melodic punk trio PARKER are pleased to announce their return with huge airwave-bothering new single ‘Generic Indie Bands’, released on 24th May 2024.
The band have also just announced a run of May/June 2024 Irish/UK headline tour dates in support of the single, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).
The first taste of new material since the release of their well-received 2023 debut album, Never Let This Go, PARKER’s new single is another certified-bullseye, college-rock-inspired hit from the three piece.
Produced by Caolán Austin and engineered by Rocky O’Reilly, the single was recorded at Start Together Studios, mixed by Caolan Austin, and mastered by Matt Colton, with additional synth, programming, piano, vocals and organ by Caolán Austin.
Name-checking the likes of Beastie Boys, Billy Corgan and Rivers Cuomo as influences whilst pouring faux-scorn on “big-fringe tight-jeans disco music” and calling out The Courteeners and Oasis, ‘Generic Indie Bands’ showcases PARKER’s perfect ear for melody and razor-sharp Irish wit perfectly.
Commenting on the song, singer and guitarist Dylan Bradley says: “‘Generic Indie Bands’ is a tongue in cheek diss track about a bunch of bands I have a love/hate relationship with…as well as the industry as a whole that I have a love/hate relationship with! It doesn't take itself too seriously, yet it’s purely from the heart. It’s the first song in what I consider the future of Parker to be.”
Displaying a Trojan work ethic and building their fanbase in the time-honoured touring tradition of Proper Rock Bands since their lockdown inception in 2020, PARKER have played relentlessly across Ireland and the UK over the past few years, supporting the likes of New Pagans, WONK UNIT, Cherym, The Last Mile, and Fighting With Wire.
Produced by Cahir O’Doherty (New Pagans, Fighting With Wire, Jetplane Landing) and engineer Allan McGreevy (New Pagans, The Rupture Dogs), the band’s 2023 debut album Never Let This Go was recorded in January 2022 after a period of intensive writing and rehearsing during the pandemic.
A string of weapons-grade singles including ‘Ucluelet’, ‘Never Miss’, ‘Problems’, ‘Superhero’ and ‘Ruin My Life’ marked the band out as a burgeoning new talent and their music received early radio support from Nels Hylton on BBC R1’s Future Alternative, The Sunday Life, Across The Line, BBC Radio Ulster / BBC Radio Foyle, Chord Blossom, and Ireland Live.
The album went on to catch the ears of international alternative tastemakers at Bring The Noise UK, Punktuation Magazine, The Punk Site, Maximum Volume, The AU Review, Chordblossom, Dig With It and Scene Point Blank.
New single ‘Generic Indie Bands’ is released 24th May 2024
PARKER Live Dates:
24th May - Monroe’s - Galway
25th May - Black Box - Belfast (w/ Tramp)
8th June - The Pump - Trowbridge
9th June - New Cross Inn - London
13th June - Fred Zeppelins - Cork
14th June - Workman’s Club - Dublin
21st June - Bennigans - Derry
28th June - Oh Yeah Centre - Belfast
4th–6th July - Stendahl Ireland
PARKER online:
https://www.facebook.com/bandcalledparker
http://www.instagram.com/bandcalledparker
https://twitter.com/parkertheband
PARKER are:
Dylan Bradley - Vocals/Guitar
Eoghan Donegan - Bass/Vocals
Michael Brown - Drums
