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The Whatmans Win Indie Week Ireland

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  • 23-04-2010 2:10pm
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    navannavan
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    The Whatmans win Indie Week Ireland
    The Whatmans-Today Indie Ireland, Tomorrow the World

    The Whatmans, Ireland's latest rock sensation, were crowned winners of the Indie Week Ireland 2010 competition at the Twister Pepper club in Dublin last week.

    The prestigious award, which carries with it the honour of representing Ireland at the Indie Week Canada 2010 Showcase event, in Toronto during October, came after a week of intense competition against fine bands from Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Galway.

    The Whatmans were announced as the winners at the Twisted Pepper on Friday, April 16. Playing their forthcoming single Kiss the Mind and current single Devil Shoes in the final showdown, The Whatmans took the title ahead of the other finalists, Amoric.

    “We always knew that there was no other band out there in Ireland like us. Getting to play at Indie Week Ireland was such an amazing chance to show off our talent to the music industry in Ireland, but to win the competition was a dream come true,Hopefully the radio will take notice and play devil shoes, its heartbreaking to play in front of 2-3 hundred people and they say they never heard of you” said lead singer John Brennan following the announcement.

    The band have a busy schedule ahead of them, including an appearance on the Hector and Tommy Show on RTE 2 on Saturday, May 1.

    Over the summer, The Whatmans are appearing at festivals in Cavan, Sligo and Northern Ireland. They also travel to Britain for the UK's biggest indie festival, where there will be supporting the legendary New Model Army.

    If you want to catch the Whatmans’ live experience before they become international superstars, they are playing in The Ulesses Venue Middle Abbey street next Thursday April 29th at 10 pm and they are appearing in the Backroom Sessions in The Lantern Bar in Navan at the end of May.

    The Whatmans go into the studio in June to finish off their next single, before returning to the the studio again in late July to complete recording on their forthcoming album(provisionally called -Our driver has no criminal record), which is due for release in November. The Band will also spend the Summer shooting 2 videos for the Album, which will include a 14 minute video for the Song "Solider".The band are also finalising a 20 minute short Documentary called "who the Fxxk are the Whatmans" which is also planned for release throughout indie film festivals during the year

    The Whatmans are singer John Brennan, guitarist Padar Mulvey, bass player Francis McGinn keyboard player Lizzy Oakes and drummer Aidan Carolan. The band formed in 2007 and they have described as What the Kings of Leon would sound like on Cocaine and Ireland,s best unsigned band.


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