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Understudy

About Me

Understudy have been gigging together for a year now, and play the sweeter streams of the indie river. Our mission is to wake up a sleepy Irish music scene and re-ignite it with both fast and powerful, and slow and rising songs. Our EP is entitled 'The Silent Approach' is can be heard here on Myspace and is available on CD at our gigs. Phantom FM's Icon show have made it Demo of the Week two weeks running in January 08.Holy fuck this needs updating... it's January 09 now as these keys get tapped. We worked our socks off in 2008 and there's not much left on our 'to do' list for the last 12 months. Personal hygiene has gone down but confidence has gone up, I guess that's a good sign for the music. We played Whelans 3 times last year and what a great place to play, somewhere to really feel good about it all. We also finished the year on the crest of a writing wave, with 3-4 new songs nearly finished. Also, we're delighted with what we think will be a crowd favourite in months and years to come in the guise of 'We Go Back', a song about more than one person going back. Oh yes. Songs are gonna stay upbeat, maybe get a little quicker but there'll be the odd itch to write a slow burner and keep the old flames new. Hope life is good with you, it's gonna be a fine o nine.Hope to see ye at a show sometime!!!

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Member Since: 21/02/2007
Band Members: Aidan Scahill - Vocals and Guitar, Alan Brosnan - Drums, Brian Kelly - Lead Guitar, Darragh Ryan - Bass
Influences: Led Zepplin, QOTSA, Pink Floyd, Doves, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Audioslave, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, The Doors, RHCP, Pearl Jam, Muse, Editors, Interpol, BRMC and many more...
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Three Years of Understudy

Hello there. We're 3 three years young next week, and it's a strange feeling. Three years of meeting up so much and getting drunk and nearly never having words with each other. We're walled away writi...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:42:00 GMT

The Future Tense... Phantom's Next Big Thing, Drinking on the Dart with David Kitt

The Future is Bright. We've been confirmed to play Phantom's I-Con Next Big Thing and can't wait. This is what we've been gearing up for all summer and hopefully we'll catch a few eyes and impress man...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:27:00 GMT

We Came Back... From Coachella!! Put the kettle on

Coachella is hot, smoking hot. Located in the Empire Polo Grounds, local affluence is as abundantly clear as the need for sunscreen. Between us, wed experienced our fair share of festivals but to say...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 17:51:00 GMT

Drink Canada Dry

The Office (US Version) is about to start.. hard to judge it based on the other one but it's a good problem to have, a little like us trying to decide on a setlist at the moment. We practiced for a go...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:21:00 GMT

All the way from Tasmania

Greetings from Understudy. We're just home from a gig in Dorans where we tried out a few new songs. The guy seemed to like usĀ and so did his dog.. ah no, there were a few heads in but we were on prett...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:37:00 GMT

The Year of the Ox

Hello hello and a happy new year to you. Understudy are in great form at the moment, morphing steadily into the band we want to be. January '09 has seen one very sniffly practice session with hands on...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:01:00 GMT