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PONY CLUB (Live)
with Guest Performances (tba)
Friday May 1st 2009
Whelans (Main Room), Wexford Street, Dublin
Tickets €12 (subject to booking commissions) on-sale now from WaV Ticket-Office & Usual Outlets.
www.ponyclub.tv
www.myspace.com/humrecordings
www.whelanslive.com
• Over 700 copies of Post Romantic sold to date
• Diplomat featured on RTE promo for Grey's Anatomy
• New video for "What Are You Angry For?" online
• Girls Aloud get a Pony Club make-over
• Summer ep on the way
In the wake of considerable critical acclaim for their latest album ‘Post Romantic', Pony Club recently made a welcome return to the live music scene for their first shows in over two years. During their two week February residency in Whelans, the band's new six-piece performed current album tracks alongside classics such as ‘Dorset Street', their newest penning ‘Invincible' and a cover of Girls Aloud ‘The Promise' which has since graced our screens on Podge and Rodge.
Having sold almost 700 copies of Post Romantic (no mean feat in these days) since it was released in November on hum recordings and garnering some of the most rapturous reviews for any album released in 2008 (see below), Pony Club are back and taking their return to the spotlight in their own good stride.
A gorgeous new video for the song "What Are You Angry For?",a video portrait piece by young Irish photographer Ciaran Og Arnold can be viewed now on the hum Recordings Myspace page and You Tube.
RECENT MEDIA
www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0205/theartsshow.html - Arts Show interview / performance
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www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0114/1231738221723.html
IN PRIASE OF POST ROMANTIC
"One of the great Irish songwriters of the past decade.....Cullen's melodic gifts are intact, as are his incisive lyrics"
Irish Independent (Top Ten Irish Albums of 2008)
"a gorgeously layered electro-indie collection kept honest by frontman and lyricist Mark Cullen's unhoneyed angst, is their strongest yet....We're talking 12 clear wins here for the game of music and not a dud in sight"
Irish Times - 4 stars
"this record reconfirms Cullen as one of the best lyricists of his generation, Irish or otherwise"
Sunday Tribune - 4 stars
"endlessly charming and utterly seductive...a world class pop misanthrope"
Metro - 4 stars
"..quite possibly, his strongest set of songs to date....This gifted songwriter has been waiting for more than a decade for the world to sit up and take notice. Now would be a good time to start"
Sunday Business Post - 4 stars
"Music-lovers and beat-diggers will doubtless hunt down this collection of seedy, bright, shiny, dark, glam, glum pop as an overlooked classic"
Star - 4 stars
"a firmly likeable record and undoubtedly Pony Club's finest hour to date"
entertainment.ie
"Cullen makes short, exceedingly sweet pop songs with plentiful electropop touches, and a dark, cyncial lyrical underbelly"
Hot Press
"Four years have passed since we last heard from mainman Mark Cullen and co, but domesticity has inspired some of his richest lyrics to date - hum along and then shudder as you see you or yours in a verse."
rte.ie
"...some of the most outstanding songs ever to have emanated from an Irish artist....if there was ever someone who deserved to sell millions it's Pony Club"
Irish Mirror
"...one of Ireland's most articulate and criminally under-rated songwriters...Cullen is too smart a writer to immerse himself in fanciful reveries but deals head-on with the dilemma of growing older, while still maintaining touch with the fire that inspired his songs in the first place"
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