Since forming in 1992 the band has released ten albums and toured worldwide extensively and won high profile fans in Steve Albini, Kurt Cobain and Lou Reed. If you fancy having your face peeled off by some speed-of-light grind core – Melt Banana will be firing up our stage with their inferno of noise rock. ‘Japanese noise assassins Melt-Banana may well have been thrashing out blistering rockets of screeching, avant garde, hardcore for well over twenty years now, but my gawd do they still feel like a pulverising assault on the senses.’ With influences ranging from the cyclical rhythms of EBM to the freedom and expression of the London Jazz scene, the band have been compared to everything from Post Punk heavyweights Talking Heads and Devo to modern art-rockers Squid and EBM outfit Scalping.Īfter winning plaudits from the likes of Steve Lamacq at 6Music, Jamz Supernova on Selector Radio and Matt Wilkinson on Beats1, 2021 saw Regressive Left explode onto the live scene, making their performance debut at Latitude Festival and a string of festival shows that culminated in a sold out London headline at The Windmill. Regressive Left wear their politics on their sleeve. Folly Group attempts to interrogate the job of the band it’s an allergic reaction to stasis and complacency.
Its members have all played with each other in various projects over the last three years, now Folly Group is a way to mess with form, structure and signifiers. Elsewhere, Folly Group is an amorphous creative entity, encompassing a group of friends whose practice spans various disciplines. On stage, Folly Group is the sum of drums, percussion, bass, guitar, vocals and a sampler. 'Kealy is not only marching to a different drumbeat, but creating one that we all want to march to.' 'Overall, Junior Brother's debut is very much like rural Ireland: raw and stark - but very beautiful.' 'Part of new folk revolution that's making household names of Lisa O'Neill and Ye Vagabonds, Killarney's Junior Brother, aka Ronan Kealy, is a strange and wonderful talent.' 'There is a fierce, coarse wildness to Ronan Kealy's debut album, which stands toe-to-toe with the finest folk that Ireland has to offer'. His debut album "Pull The Right Rope" was released in May 2019 to high press acclaim, and vigorous approval from figures such as the Rubberbandits and Cillian Murphy, the latter playing Junior Brother several times on his BBC6 Music Radio Show. He has been aired on such broadcasters as BBC6 Music, 2fm and RTE Radio 1.
Junior's unique work was acknowledged with 2 nominations for the 2019 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards, for Best Folk Album and Best Emerging Folk Act. He has played support for a variety of like-minded acts such as The Proclaimers and Glen Hansard, the latter bringing him on a tour of the US East Coast in July 2019. Junior Brother has been steadily building a fanbase around Ireland and beyond, winning hearts in iconic venues such as Vicar Street (Dublin), The Beacon Theatre (New York), Cork Opera House (Cork), Blackpool Opera House (UK) to name just a few.
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