There will be no monkeying around when hotly-tipped Dublin band Fight Like Apes bring their thrilling, digital punk rock sound to The Underground at Baker Place on Friday November 2 to promote their wonderfully-titled  new EP, ‘David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Who’s Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch’.

The follow-up to their debut EP, which had the equally long-winded title of  ‘How Am I Supposed To Kill You When You Have All The Guns?’, is a veritable double-chocolate fudge cake of music featuring the splendid ‘Do You Karate?’, ‘Canhead’, Accidental Wrong Hole’ and ‘Snore Bore Whore’.

And according to Fight Like Ape’s breathy and vampy lead singer, Maykay, the verbose EP titles are something they do just to “p**s off” journalists and radio presenters, such as myself.

“Ah, we have more fun coming up with the titles than we actually do recording the music,” Maykay quips.

“We do it just to p**s you guys off. The new EP title was something we found randomly on the internet. It’s a plotline for a David Carradine movie called ‘Future Force’. It’s a really fun title and we just thought it was perfect. David Carradine is some man too, so we couldn’t go wrong,” she tells me.

Fight Like Apes are influenced by, to name but a few interests, B-movies, anger, jealousy, greed, goblins, kung-fu, bad television and wrestling. They describe their unique sound as ‘karate-rock’, hate guitars and often play pots and pans on stage.

“We are all really into B-movies and those cheesy kung-fu movies. The whole ‘karate-rock’ thing was something we came up with to p**s off NME. We played a showcase with two other bands fronted by women that they were labeling as alt-rock or electro-pop. We didn’t fall into either of those categories so we said our sound was ‘karate-rock’ just to get to them.”

“These magazines use these categories as a way of showing off by putting you into a little box. We couldn’t give a s**t about their categories. I mean they call both Klaxons and CSS nu-rave and neither of those two bands sound anything alike; it’s just total rubbish,” declares Maykay.

In recent months Fight Like Apes have toured extensively with their debut release, played their first ever major Irish festival with a performance at this year’s Electric Picnic and kicked some serious ass at Hard Working Class Heroes. Not bad for a band that has been together for just exactly one year when they take to the stage in Baker Place on November 2.