A huge thank you to the. @choiceprize team for a wonderful night. Kilian got the trophy home safely to Emma ❤️
It's Easy Being A Nominee. 🦍
#RTEChoicePrize
A grand merci to @lacarrierefest 🇧🇪 and everyone who came to see us, especially baby Ava who enjoyed her first show with constructive feedback on her father's guitar rig.
It's a wonderful family festival. Huge thanks to karaoke band @karaokaylive for a wonderful ending to the night. Karaoke done right!
Huge thanks to everyone who came to @under.the.drum festival this weekend. It was a huge honour to close the field stage at such a beautiful independent festival that deserves all the love it's getting. ❤️
Next up - @lacarrierefest in 🇧🇪 on August 22nd
🥁SILVERBACKS🥁
Post-punk Irish band Silverbacks are a six piece with members scattered around Ireland and Paris.
Their latest albumn Easy Being A Winner (2024) is an accumulation of their experimental blend of influences like Nick Cave, Elvis, Talking Heads and Mercury Rev, into their own unmistakable sound.
Their first album Fad (2020) and Easy Being A Winner were both nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, and we think they have big things ahead of them.
We are super excited to have them as one of our headliners on our Field Stage on 9 August.
UTD Team Song Picks 🎵: Rosanna likes Selling Shovels, Billion Star Night Light and Archive Material.
📸 Photo credit to Róisín Murphy O'Sullivan
#silverbacks #silverbacksband #underthedrum2025 #underthedrum
💿IRISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR SPOTLIGHT💿
Now on their third record, Dublin art-rock six-piece Silverbacks have reached new heights on ‘Easy Being A Winner’, the most experimental, exciting and downright fun album of their discography so far.
With members scattered everywhere from the suburbs of Paris to Drogheda, ‘Easy Being A Winner’ finds a band content in their boundaries; with live beyond the studio providing more than enough solace to alleviate the pressures of releasing music. This in and of itself offers the band the opportunity to experiment the way many others would fear; introducing new sonic palettes with increased woodwind sections and added guitar lines.
Compared to its predecessors, ‘Easy Being A Winner’ feels like a band more comfortable in their skin, unafraid to be upbeat; at the same time as many of their fellow Dublin bands following the more aggressive but no less successful post-punk route. Silverbacks themselves feel the same, with lead singer and guitarist Daniel O’Kelly saying in an interview with SPIN in support of this album that, while they didn’t make this album to distance themselves for post-punk, this is certainly the first time he’s felt the band has sounded how he’s always pictured them: an indie-rock band.
Sometimes the most obvious thing is the best thing, and with that in mind, the band’s decision to steer clear of the darkness has seen then thrive; with tracks such as ‘Billion Star Night Light’, ‘Spinning Jenny’, and title track ‘It’s Easy Being A Winner’ amongst some of the best they’ve produced. ‘Easy Being A Winner’ feels like a liberation of sorts, and long may it continue. Third time’s the charm.
8/10 @clashmagazine
Massive congrats to @silverbacks_band on their RTÉ Choice Prize Album of The Year Nomination.
Huge thanks to our sponsors @imroireland , IRMA, @explorerte , @rte2fm , @raap_ireland , @cultureireland , @first_music_contact@mindingcreativeminds , Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet & @cnam.ie are also official project partners of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize.
#RTEChoicePrize #silverbacks #rtechoicemusicprize
Happy out to announce we've signed to the @mergerecords publishing team. We've been big fans of Merge and their work for a while, means a lot. ❤️
A flurry of gigs coming up in Spring. Hopefully catch ye at them!
Here are our 2025 dates so far with more to be announced.🎸
Buzzing to announce our next Paris show at @stationgaredesmines on Sat, April 12th. 🎫 Tickets in bio.
Next up for us, a night @choiceprize in Vicar Street.
Tour poster - Original artwork by @camtaylorbxl
Howdy,
You can now listen back to our @betadasilva__ feature on the @rte2fm player. Link is in our bio. A big thanks to Beta for having us on, a true gentleman. We played some @junkdrawerband@jockband@searchresultsband@maria__somerville@the.pvp alongside a whole lot of other cool music we’ve been enjoying lately! 🇮🇪
We are also happy to announce we’ll be playing the @choiceprize live event next month. Getting to play the @vicar_st stage for the first time ever has us very excited. We are currently pricing smoke machines and weird pedals in hot anticipation! See photo #4
We’ll have some more news soon!
SBs xoxo
