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"Gurriers are a deep growl of Irish post-punk, or however you want to call it. But before a genre beats itself to death in endless repetitions, before everything really becomes and is called 'post-punk', and the dedication and cool excitement, which is actually so typical of this genre, fades away in a shoulder-shrugging perceived oversupply, we want to drag the outstanding among them to the surface. Because they are good and special, because they are different, because they don't offer musical paint-by-numbers. Because they damn well are Gurriers.

Described somewhat martial by the Irish Times as 'raw as a butcher’s cut and just as fresh', Gurriers have been celebrated by the likes of Steve Lamacq and Huw Stephens from BBC Radio 6 Music and Anthony Fantano from The Needle Drop. The Line Of Best Fit praised their first single as 'a full-blooded post-punk masterpiece' and noted that 'Gurriers stand at the forefront of one of the most compelling scenes in modern Irish music.' And rightly so: Singer Dan Hoff's vocals bark and spit confidently against a tumult of intensity, the tonelessness bounces off power, their outrage against societal excess solidifies in Gurriers' loud epics into manifestos of anger. And this without complacency, because the reflection on their own actions only amplifies their discontent.

Their single 'Sign of the Times' explores, according to the band itself, 'the human obsession with violence and how we are all desensitized to the horrors we witness online through the growth of social media.' Their goal: feel something, do something, don't stay on the sidelines, raise your voice. How they do this in a completely dogmatic and - yes: fresh - way is indeed admirable.

Gurriers have not been around for very long, forming during the pandemic, their debut concert took place on Halloween 2021. But since then the five Dubliners have quickly become an important part of the Irish scene and have been able to bring their stirring and hypnotic shows to European festival stages over the past two years. Festivals like The Great Escape (UK), Mad Cool (ES), Reeperbahnfestival, Orange Blossom (DE), Haldern Pop (DE), and London Calling (NL) have been turned inside out by them.
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Noble robbers in devil’s clothing - “The Goblins“, John Suckling (1638)

The post-punk duo from Hamburg sketches a hypnotically dark soundscape to a world that is crumbling. Songs that resemble a fragile dystopia of crumbling concrete, breaking steel, and shattering glass: The sounds of a city that is consuming itself. Their debut single from the new album will be released soon: “Morsleben“, an ode to the ugliest place in the world.

Doors: 19:30"

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