Band open up on support for Kneecap

DUBLIN post-punks The Murder Capital are gearing up for their biggest headline show to date this summer at the Iveagh Gardens.

- By Cathal Ryan

The five-piece are currently on tour around Europe after dropping their third album, Blind-ness earlier this year. The record was penned throughout Europe, and recorded in a three-week stretch in Los Angeles.

“It had been a dream of mine to just go to LA in general in my life”, The Murder Capital's bass player Gabriel Paschal Blake told The Scene.

“When I was a kid watching Illegal Civilization skate videos and wanting to hang out in North Hollywood, and for whatever reason, I was just really taken by witnessing LA from being a kid.

“But at the same time, it was so amazing to have gotten there, but we still had a job to do.

"That was a big thing. I felt the responsibility almost of the opportunity that was in front of me. I was very aware that I was doing something that I've dreamed about since I was a kid, and that just made me lock on.

"This is an opportunity, a huge one, and it's to be respected in that way.”

Last year, the group played a string of dates supporting Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds.