Get Yourself A Frightened Rabbit For Christmas.

Wait a minute. Did she just say Christmas? In AUGUST? Calm down, matron! It’s for a good cause! After a sell out UK tour, and the release of their stunningly supercalafragalistic album, Winter of Mixed Drinks, Frightened Rabbit have announced a headline show in the Academy, Dublin on Thursday 9th December.

There’s plenty to be said about Frightened Rabbit. How, even as indie-folk bands go, they’ll feck properly meaningful symbolism at you in scattershot, singalong lyrics. How they can make those down feel validated, even championed. How they can make those optimistic feel heart-burstingly determined. How listening to them will make you want to be a better musician, even if the nearest you’ve ever come to making music was that time you played with the spoons in Dunnes’ homewares department. But that I love Frightened Rabbit to hyperbolic heights is no great mystery - they’re woefully underrated, so I feel it’s my civic duty to nag the nerves off anyone still undecided. Also because they’re better than Mumford & Sons [/yeahIwentthere]

This is thier latest release, Living In Colour, a song with “unabashed four-to-the-floor type stomping“, about realising “a new appreciation of the tiniest things in life, a rejuvenated sense of sight and sound, a general tingling of the nerve-endings” according to frontman Scott (who is, conveniently, a Scot). If this doesn’t make you happy and loose with your wallet, it’s an indication of deafness (aural blindness, hyperbolic writers like to call it). This, friends, is a song I wish I had written.

Tickets are priced at €18 inclusive of booking fee, and go on sale tomorrow, 5th August. Get in early.

About Lisa McInerney

That cranky young wan from award-winning blog, Arse End Of Ireland, Lisa’s also noted for her dedication to cobbling together unrelated imprecations to make new and bemusing insults, mostly because she’s not eloquent enough to otherwise explain her deep-seated terror of genre fiction and Fianna Fail. In 2006, The Irish Times called her “… the most talented writer at work in Ireland today”, and her mam still can’t understand why this is better than being the new Marian Keyes. Which it totally is. Alright? Website Twitter: @SwearyLady Facebook.com/sweary Last FM: LeislVonTrapp

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