FIGHT LIKE APES

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Fight Like Apes have rescheduled some of the dates on their forthcoming tour, and will be returning to the UK as special guests of The Ting Tings on their imminent sold out national tour... don't miss their headline show at the Coo Coo Club at the Jericho Tavern with local fidget popsters Baby Gravy and young outfit The Scarletts!

Hailing from Dublin, and weighing in at over six hundred pounds, Fight Like Apes combine the Synth with the Sword in a heroic conflagration of loutish vocals, brutal bass and digital distortion.

Formed in 2006 from the remnants of various "crap bands", with an avowed intention to scare audiences with "poppy songs played so obnoxiously that everybody leaves". Fight Like Apes are: MayKay (vocals, keyboards), Pockets (keyboards, backing vocals), Tom (bass, backing vocals) and Adrian (drums). ('Pockets' so named for his habit of pocketing his cohorts' cigarette lighters).

Warming to the thrilling FLA live experience, audiences first stopped leaving and then started coming to their gigs. Encouraged, Fight Like Apes released two EP's in 2007 on Dublin independent label Fifa Records. The first one – 'How Am I Supposed To Kill You If You Have All The Guns' - spawned 'Jake Summers' (a fan letter to 90's teen-drama 'California Dreams' ); which was picked up by Fierce Panda offshoot Cool For Cats for a UK 7" single release.

The 'David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch' EP, released at the end of 2007, consolidated their position as the most exciting new band in their native land, rounding off a year of gigging around Ireland, the UK and a trip to New York for CMJ.

Debut album 'Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion' out on Irish release on Friday 26th September.

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