What happens when four highly motivated couch potatoes, trawl through the b-movie underworld in search of the purest of gold...? They Fight Like Apes!
Hailing from Dublin, and weighing in at over six hundred pounds, Fight Like Apes combine the Synth with the Sword in a heroic conflagration of loutish vocals, brutal bass and digital distortion.
Formed in 2006 from the remnants of various 'crap bands', with an avowed intention to scare audiences with 'poppy songs played so obnoxiously that everybody leaves'. Fight Like Apes are: MayKay (vocals, keyboards), Pockets (keyboards, backing vocals), Tom (bass, backing vocals) and Adrian (drums). (‘Pockets’ so named for his habit of pocketing his cohorts’ cigarette lighters).
Warming to the thrilling FLA live experience, audiences first stopped leaving and then started coming to their gigs. Encouraged, Fight Like Apes released two EP’s in 2007 on Dublin independent label Fifa Records.
The first one 'How Am I Supposed To Kill You If You Have All The Guns' - spawned ‘Jake Summers’ (a fan letter to 90’s teen-drama 'California Dreams' ); which was picked up by Fierce Panda offshoot Cool For Cats for a UK 7' single release.
The 'David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch' EP, released at the end of 2007, consolidated their position as the most exciting new band in their native land, rounding off a year of gigging around Ireland, the UK and a trip to New York for CMJ.
Further UK touring with Untitled Musical Project (on the Artrocker tour) and The Von Bondies preceded a trip to SXSW, before the group moved onto Seattle this Spring to record their debut album with producer John Goodmanson (Los Campesinos, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill), scheduled for release in September 2008 on new Irish indie Model Citizen.
Inhabiting a topsy-turvy world, where Mclusky's hardcore shred rubs raw against kung fu queen Cynthia Rothrock, Fight Like Apes choose music as their weapon; a synth-stained hybrid of tasers and nunchucks in high-voltage pop songs the size of Saturn. It's the Apes' planet - we just live on it.
Fight Like Apes UK summer shows 2008
19th June London Calling @ The Metro, Oxford St, London (headline show)
20th June Don’t Panic, Dance @ Proud Galleries, Camden, NW1
23rd June Kasbah, Coventry (supporting We Are Scientists)
24th June 53 Degrees, Preston (supporting We Are Scientists)
25th June Metropolitan University, Leeds (supporting We Are Scientists)
27th June Glastonbury Festival (Late ‘n’ Live stage)
28th June Glastonbury Festival (BBC Radio 1 Introducing stage)
29th June Weymouth Boring By The Sea festival
10th July Forum Music Centre, Darlington (all ages show)
12th July T In The Park, Kinross (Futures Tent)
15th July Somerset House, London (supporting We Are Scientists)