Hellfire Cub
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland | SELF
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"Known for the post-punk of Autoban, Hellfire Cub stands alone with a guitar. It’s a testament to his presence, the power of his sand-paper vocals and the sweet melody lines he casually throws out that he’s not lost on stage. He fills the room as the room fills with people. A cover of ‘The Killing Moon’ captures the brooding intensity of the Bunnymen, but the real stand-out has to be ‘Cois Farraige’, which carries a peach of a chorus that’s still swimming around this writer’s head.” - HotPress Magazine
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Still working on that hot first release.
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Hellfire Cub is a fresh start.
Influenced by everything from George Harrison to John Giles, Kanye West and Sparks, the Dublin troubadour hopes to blow your socks off with quirky, catchy lyrical trinkets and sandpaper vocals stuck always, always to a hook.
Hellfire Cub is the end product of a half-dozen years playing in bands, taking in some vague major label interest, some solid indie label interest that didn't work out, two self-financed singles and a self-produced unreleased EP, support slots with Echo and the Bunnymen, The Young Knives, some NME flavours of the month, a missed support with The Bravery, a chance encounter with James, some gigs (and parties) in London and every other county, city and venue in Ireland (to few and many people)...
Late 2010 saw Hellfire Cub's slow, purposeful emergence into the world followed by slots at the prestigious Hardworking Class Heroes Festival, radio play for his self-recorded tracks on Ireland's Phantom FM and a bundle of supports.
"The value of writing, recording, playing on your own is that you don't need to keep other people happy. You're not restricted to sounding like 'a band' or 'a genre'. If it sounds good and it happens to be trip-hop jazz-pop fusion, then record it... If you like it, maybe others will too..." HC
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