The Róisín Dubh will celebrate its 20th birthday next week with a performance by one its management’s favourite bands, Soda Blonde.
The Choice Music Prize nominees will play the Dominick Street venue on Saturday, June 22, with doors at 8.30pm.
Following two successful introductory EPs - 2019's Terrible Hands and 2020's Isolation Content - Soda Blonde released their debut album, Small Talk, in 2021. The LP was subsequently nominated for RTÉ’s Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, and received rave reviews from Paste Magazine, Atwood Magazine, and The Irish Times, which called it "a record so articulate and expressive that its title has to be a wry in-joke."
The band have matured tremendously in the two years since their debut. Whereas Small Talk was an anxiety-fuelled coming-of-age record about navigating their twenties, their latest offering, Dream Big, is a mature awakening to the world at large; one that dives deeper and hits harder than its predecessor.
“It definitely was a conscious titling, that relationship between Small Talk and Dream Big,” the band’s guitarist and producer Adam O’Regan explains. “Small Talk was trying to decipher whether everything meant something or nothing. With Dream Big, we’ve arrived at the point that it means something.”
Tickets €20 from www.roisindubh.net
