The name is a stumbling block. I’ll admit that up front. It’s a stumbling block for me, anyway. Maybe you don’t have that problem. Maybe you’re like, “Oh, Theatre, what a perfectly normal and acceptable name for a band. What’s that? They actually stylize it THEATRE? That’s fine! I will honor that decision whenever I write about the band!” That’s just not where I am, personally. I have this innate thing where I see the word “Theatre,” when it’s spelled like that, and I immediately get annoyed. There’s no reason that the Irish band Theatre would know this about me, so I can’t really hold them responsible. Here’s the point: You know that this band’s new song is good when it smashes right past my persnickety aesthetic proclivities.<\/p>\n
So. Theatre. Or THEATRE, if you prefer. (They would. I would not.) They’ve got a big, churning sound that’s plenty familiar at a moment when we’re getting a lot of shoegaze-leaning alt-rock. This band stands out because they’ve got a singer, Maeve O\u2019Shea, with a gigantic and unreal voice that recalls past Irish greats like Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor and Dolores O’Riordan, and also because they know how to smash down the gas pedal on the chorus. <\/p>\n
Today, Theatre share their debut single “The Fall,” and it’s a good one. I don’t think it’s about Mark E. Smith. Musically, we’re very much in post-Deftones territory, but most of the bands working in that zone don’t have singers like O’Shea. The band says that the song “tells the story of a broken friendship, a changeling like person, and the torment that comes with loving someone as toxic as that.” Below, check out the Keelin Sutcliffe-directed video, as well as the dates for Theatre’s upcoming UK tour with Bleech 9:3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
TOUR DATES:
4\/16 – London, UK @ Third Man Records
5\/05 – London, UK @ Elephant\u2019s Head
5\/06 – Norwich, UK @ The Waterfront Studio *
5\/07 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds *
5\/09 – Glasgow, UK @ The Road To The Great Escape
5\/11 – London, UK @ Camden Assembly *
5\/12 – London, UK @ Camden Assembly *
5\/14 – Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape
5\/15 – Paris, France @ Supersonic Block Party
5\/16 – London, UK @ Scala *
5\/18 – Sheffield, UK @ Yellow Arch *
5\/19 – Manchester, UK @ YES (Pink Room) *
5\/21 – Dublin, Ireland @ Whelan\u2019s Upstairs
5\/22 – Listowel, Ireland @ Mike the Pies
5\/23 – Limerick, Ireland @ Kasbah
7\/15 – Topcliffe, UK @ Deer Shed Festival
7\/26 – Oxfordshire, UK @ Truck Festival
8\/29 – Sheffield, UK @ Rock N Roll Circus<\/p>\n
* with Bleech 9:3<\/p>\n
“The Fall” is out now on BMG\/Echo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The name is a stumbling block. I’ll admit that up front. It’s a stumbling block for me, anyway.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-605737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}