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Cliffords announce new single “Bittersweet”
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Cliffords are pleased to share details of a new single, Bittersweet, their first through newly formed label, Soil To The Sun.
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The young Cork band self-financed and self-released a debut EP last year, but Bittersweet marks their first steps working alongside a producer in Richie Kennedy at Battery Studios in London, aiming their sights far beyond the confines of their home city.
Fronted by Iona Lynch, Cliffords deal in a melody-rich, guitar-heavy merging of both shoegaze and grunge, all widescreen and cinematic in their scale and approach. Iona’s vocals, unrestrained and almost feral, arrowed above and beyond the sweatbox venues Cliffords are sure to be filling over the next twelve months. As an opening gambit to the world at large, Bittersweet is a bold and ambitious statement of intent.
Vocalist Iona Lynch: “Bittersweet is a more abstract look at nostalgia and our last few years of living in Cork. The first few lines of the song “the city begged look up” comes from something my grandad always said to me, “look up or you’ll miss half the beauty of the city.”
“Bittersweet reflects the mixed emotions of us as a band finding our way in music and in ourselves as young adults. The lyrics poke fun at heartbreaks and how dramatic and potent those feelings felt at the time.”
It might be Ireland’s second biggest city, but Cork isn’t renowned for its pulsing cultural output, and whilst The Frank and Walters might resonate with a listener of a certain vintage, there’s little else paving the way for an ambitious young band kicking hard at the glass ceiling, and harbouring ambitions better aligned with those success stories 160 miles north in Dublin.
But every kid picking up a guitar for the first time needs a local inspiration or torchbearer to prove that anything is possible, and Cliffords, with very little interest in become a big fish in a small pond, could soon become that very inspiration and prove that Dublin or Wicklow aren’t Ireland’s sole routes to getting out.
In Iona Lynch the band have a magnetic frontperson, smart, literate and wholly lost in her own music – an artist who has the potential to single-handedly influence a new generation inside of Cork and far out of it too. But for now we have Bittersweet, Cliffords’ emphatic first calling card.
The band are set for live performances throughout the Spring and into the Summer.
Pre-sale tickets Wednesday 12th March HERE.
General on-sale tickets Friday 14th March HERE
Cliffords Live:
16th March – Misneach Festival, Sydney
17th March – The Lansdowne, Sydney
19th March – The Gasometer, Melbourne
12th April – Heartbreakers, Southampton
13th April – The Louisiana, Bristol
15th April – Dublin Castle, London
16th April – The Bodega, Nottingham
17th April – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
3rd May – Sound City, Liverpool
10th May – The Road to the Great Escape @ King Tut’s, Glasgow
15th May – The Great Escape, Brighton
16th May – The Great Escape, Brighton
17th May – London Calling, Amsterdam
24th May – Live at Leeds
25th May – Neighbourhood Festival, Warrington
14th June – Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek
21st June – Bludfest, Milton Keynes Bowl
6th July – Rock Werchter, Werchter
25th July – Latitude Festival, Suffolk
26th July – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
27th July – Tramlines, Sheffield
3rd August – Y Not Festival, Derbyshire
23rd August – Victorious Festival, Portsmouth
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