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  • Dinosaur Pile-Up Live at The Academy 2 Review

    Dinosaur pile up academyLeeds grunge kings, Dinosaur Pile-Up made their way to The Academy in Dublin on June 17th for a rescheduled gig. It was to be a night to leave your Granny at home, she wouldn’t be able to rock that hard.

    Nova Static started off the proceedings and have had a chance to open for a couple of UK acts lately. It shows. The band are coming on in leaps and bounds and lead singer, Daniel Heffernan is growing in confidence. They can be clearly placed at the heavier end of indie and the audience show their appreciation for the Laois four piece.

    There’s no airs and graces with Dinosaur Pile-Up. Matt Bigland, Harry Johns and Mike Shiels come to the stage themselves and get their gear ready for their set. Once they’re ready, there’s no leaving the stage again and no set list. They just get stuck in.

    From the opening first notes, it quickly becomes apparent that even with ear plugs, this is LOUD! Face meltingly so. This is the only gig ever where I moved back down the venue a bit, standing near the speaker, I could feel every drumbeat and bass go straight through me, so much so I thought I was going to be sick. (more…)

  • Interview with Matt from Dinosaur Pile-Up

    dpileupThe past year has seen quite a rise in stature for Leeds band, Dinosaur Pile-Up. Following the release of their album ‘Growing Pains’ they have toured extensively, gaining a reputation of being a force to be reckoned with on the live scene as well as spearheading a grunge revival. (Alister from Cloud Control told me they were one of his favourite bands at SXSW) They play a rescheduled date in Academy 2 on June 17th. I caught up with frontman Matt Bigland,  literally just after sound checking in Stoke.

    There’s always one question that a band get asked that you wish people would stop asking. What is it?

    ‘Probably either about Foo Fighters or Nirvana, people love asking about how into Foo Fighters we are or how into Nirvana we are. It’s kinda frustrating because we’re massive Nirvana fans, of course we are, along with a million other kids that were, God knows how old when Nirvana were kicking off or just ending. Foos are a great band I love their first few records and they’re great but.. a lot of people always ask us about that and I guess it’s like, can we not talk about the Foo Fighters cos they’re kinda huge and we’re kinda, getting there. People love ringing us up and talking about Dave Grohl and it’s like wait, we don’t we talk about us?’

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