GIRLS NAMES + TV WONDER PRESENTED BY GRAUZONE

Girls Names is a four-piece band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Formed in 2009 as a two-piece by singer/guitarist and songwriter Cathal Cully and drummer Neil Brogan, Claire Miskimmin joined on bass the following year and Charles Hurts guitarist Philip Quinn was added to the line-up in 2012. The band has released two albums, 2011's Dead To Me and 2013's The New Life, on Tough Love in Europe and Slumberland Records in the US, as well as several EPs, singles and split singles on labels such as Captured Tracks and CF Records.

This will be the 2nd time they will play at a Grauzone show. Last year they played an impressive show as support for the Canadian synth pop band TR/ST. Now they're back at the Sugarfactory to bring you to other dimensions..

TV Wonder's debut EP Bird Sounds introduces a shrewd brand of discordant guitar pop in the spirit of Goo-era Sonic Youth, taking in influences from the likes of Parquet Courts and Women along the way. The oxymoronic name befits this Amsterdam-based quartet's penchant for inverted musical shapes. Jagged guitar-lines slice and shimmer, occasionally bursting in to fuzz, all the while held down by sparse, shuffling grooves as ghostly vocal apparitions dart about. In just two years, TV Wonder has built quite a live reputation performing with the likes of Protomartyr, White Fence and Cold Pumas. Bird Sounds captures the early musings of a group dialling in and finding their sound, and serves as an exciting introduction to a band, as well as a proposition of what’s to come.