Kilkenny band Saving J will open for Meteor Award nominees Delorentos this Saturday in Kilkenny’s Set Theatre. The Kilkenny quartet have also toured with the likes of Fight Like Apes, The Blizzards, and The Coronas over the past few years.
A highlight for the local band was playing to 10,000 people when they opened for Mundy and Sharon Shannon in the JFK Music Festival in 2008. The band also played an outstanding gig at the Set Theatre for the Rockfall Festival opening night last October and this will be their first Kilkenny appearance since then. Having recently played a snap of London dates and signed a deal with Lander PR in the UK, Saving J are scheduled to tour there again to promote the release of their debut UK single. This will take them to Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and to several key London venues. The tour will be supported through several radio and TV appearances in the UK. It will certainly be a busy time for the band as they prepare to share the stage with Duke Special and The Coronas when the play The Helix in DCU and NUI Maynooth for Rag Week later this month.
The band also released their debut album This City Street to great acclaim in 2009 in Ireland with a string of successful radio hits and videos such as ‘Bus Stop’, ‘ABC’, ‘Indication Street’, ‘Kick Off’, ‘Valentine’, and ‘Everybody’ and are quickly becoming household names on the Irish scene. Saving J create the sort of pop/rock sounds of early nineties American acts such as REM, Weezer, and Jimmy Eat World. For further details on Saving J log onto their site www.savingj.com
