Gilla Band Unveils First New Song in Four Years, ‘Giraffe’

Gilla Band have shared their first new song in four years in the form of the head-scrambling ‘Giraffe’ – check it out below.

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The influential Dublin group,  formerly known as Girl Band , have not released a studio album since their third record ‘Most Normal’ in 2022, but they are now back with new music.

They have also confirmed details of a string of US tour dates for the end of 2026 and a European tour in January and February 2027, at the end of which they will be playing in Bristol, London, Manchester and Glasgow – see all the details below.

‘Giraffe’ is typical of the band’s experimental, boundary-pushing approach to guitar music, with distortion and atonality at the fore, and singer Dara Kiely’s tortured, yelled vocals spilling out an internal monologue.

It will be available as a 7” picture disc via Rough Trade from Friday (May 29) and you can pre-order your copy  here .

Kiely has said: “In this track, the first few sections represent what my general headspace is like. It can be a very scattered and sometimes lonely place. Feeling unloved and finding it difficult to articulate what I’m actually thinking.”

“The outro on the other hand indirectly details a kind of confirmation that affection towards me does exist. While I appreciate it, I still find that hard to believe. ‘ She chased me out the door with a hairbrush demanding that I would wear a suitable jacket .’ It’s a very Irish Mammy action. That amount of love is difficult for me to accept but it is a beautiful thing to have in life.”

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Gilla Band will play:

OCTOBER

14 – Philadelphia, PA, Underground Arts

15 – Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere – The Hall

17 – Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall

19 – Montreal, QC Fairmount Theatre

20 – Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace

21 – Detroit, MI Third Man Records – Cass Corridor

23 – Chicago, IL The Bottom Lounge

24 – Saint Paul, MN Turf Club

27 – Denver, CO Bluebird Theater

28 – Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court

30 – Portland, OR Mississippi Studios

31 – Vancouver, BC The Pearl on Granville

NOVEMBER

01 – Seattle, WA Neumos

03 – San Francisco, CA The Independent

04 – Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room Highland Park

07 – Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar

08 – Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf

10 – Austin, TX 29th Street Ballroom

11 – Denton, TX Rubber Gloves Showroom

13 – Nashville, TN The Blue Room at Third Man Records

14 – Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle (Back Room)

15 – Washington, DC The Atlantis

JANUARY 2027

20 – Trabendo – Paris, France

21 – Le Botanique – Brussels, Belgium

22 – Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing, France

23 – Tolhuistuin – Amsterdam, Netherlands

25 – Ekko – Utrecht, Netherlands

26 – Betty – Hamburg, Germany

27 – Loppen -Copenhagen, Denmark

29 – SO36 – Berlin, Germany

30 – Hydrozagadka – Warsaw, Poland

31 – Subzero -Prague, Czech Republic

FEBRUARY 2027

02 – Durer Kert – Budapest, Hungary

03 – Flucc Wanne – Vienna, Austria

05 – Bogen F – Zurich, Switzerland

06 – Arci Bellezza – Milan, Italy

10 – Trinity – Bristol, UK

11 – Heaven – London, UK

12 – Band on The Wall – Manchester, UK

13 – Grand Classic – Glasgow, UK

Last year,  the band’s guitarist Alan Duggan Borges launched a new project called The Null Club , with a debut EP featuring collaborations with members of  The Horrors  and  Mandy, Indiana .

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