UKNY for January 26
Dublin's Inhaler (photo courtesy of Polydor/Interscope)
Two bands from Dublin on tonight's UKNY at 11 with a U2 connection — one very direct. The quartet Inhaler finished fifth in the BBC Sound of 2020 and the young band is getting a lot of attention, partly due to their obvious chops and partly due to frontman Elijah Hewson, whose father happens to be Bono. (Just think of the spotlight that Sam Springsteen got as a firefighter, without ever singing a note.) Inhaler, who toured the States last year with Blossoms, are back in New York this spring for a show at Bowery Ballroom on April 27.
One of 2019's standout releases was the kinetic debut from The Murder Capital, called When I Have Fears, produced by Mark Ellis, far better known as Flood and instrumental in U2's sound on albums like The Joshua Tree, Zooropa and more. The Murder Capital, who will be at Coachella this spring (as will their equally thrilling Dublin brethren, Fontaines D.C.), will play Brooklyn's Knitting Factory on March 12.
In addition, brand new releases from Manchester's Whyte Horses, the Hackney trio deep tan, south London's Greentea Peng, Nottingham's Yazmin Lacey, and the return of Isobel Campbell, who releases her first solo album in 14 years, There is No Other, on February 7.
That's UKNY, Sunday nights from 11 p.m.-midnight on 90.7FM, streaming online, and in the Weekend Archives after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Temples, “Holy Horses,” Hot Motion
2. Whyte Horses feat. Mélanie Pain, “I Saw the Light (Todd Rundgren cover),” Hard Times
3. Isobel Campbell, “The National Bird of India,” There Is No Other
4. David Bowie, “As the World Falls Down,” Labyrinth: From the Original Soundtrack of the Jim Henson Film
5. deep tan, “Shimmer,” single
6. Yazmin Lacey, “Not Today Mate,” single
7. Islet, “Good Grief,” Eyelet
8. (Dublin, IE) The Murder Capital, “Feeling Fades,” When I Have Fears
9. (Dublin, IE) Inhaler, “We Have To Move On,” single
10. (Kinshasa, DRC) KOKOKO!, “Malembe,” Fongola
11. Greentea Peng, “Risin’,” Rising EP
12. Ren Harvieu, “Yes, Please” (radio edit), Revel in the Drama
13. Broads and Milly Hirst, “Happisburgh (single edit), Ollust
