den Atelier & Banque Internationale à Luxembourg - BIL proudly present:
Inhaler (IE)
Barely 15 months after the release of their debut album, Inhaler are teeing up the release of their second. But the Dubliners are also taking a moment to reflect on how far they've come since "It Won't Always Be Like This," a number one triumph on both sides of the Irish Sea, heralding the arrival of the most exciting four-piece guitar band since... well, feck knows when?
So, how far? Creatively: a good distance – "Cuts & Bruises" is the sound of a terrific young guitar band firing on all cylinders and purposefully alchemizing the magical momentum of a staggering breakthrough into an 11-track banger that smartly, confidently builds on everything they've already achieved.
But geographically: frankly, literally, no distance at all.
"When we found out we were Number One, we were sitting right here where we are now, in McGlynn's pub," begins frontman and guitarist Elijah Hewson, supping a pint of the black stuff in the same establishment in London's Kings Cross one late autumn afternoon.
"On the way here, we were doing a radio interview in the back of a car," says drummer Ryan McMahon. "The Uber driver was wondering why we got so excited in the back. We were, like, 'Oh, we just got a Number One album,' and he was like, 'Oh, cool. Didn't believe us!'
To be fair, the band couldn't quite believe it themselves. "It's just a weird thing to digest," admits bassist Robert Keating. "But it proved that we have a good fanbase and that we were, you know, moving in the right direction."
"And," adds guitarist Josh Jenkinson, "it was a massive achievement for an Irish band to do that as well.
Still, with the paint still wet on Inhaler's remarkable, out-of-the-box success – big slots at Glastonbury and Lollapalooza, an Arctic Monkeys support, international tours galore, with landmark gigs to come with Sam Fender, Harry Styles and more Monkeys business – it all takes getting used to.
"We still have a bit of impostor syndrome about it," admits Hewson, "because it's something that you always heard about with your favorite bands growing up. And to be in a guitar band that's gone to Number One these days seems very bizarre – and so '90s!"
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Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster
Rue Münster
Grund Luxembourg
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