“It has all happened so fast, I mean we aren’t even together a year yet. We only formed 11 months ago and so much has already happened for us. Our gig in Limerick will actually be our first year anniversary. We are rehearsing at the moment for our trip to New York for CMJ so we don’t sound like total s**t and make complete asses of ourselves. We’ve just done some shows with Delorentos and we do our own tour to promote the new EP when we get back from America. Yeah its been all go, it’s cool.”

As well as winning first prize for imaginative and lengthy EP titles, the four-piece have been all over the UK performing their unique combination of loutish vocals, brutish bass and digital distortion on stage. The Apes have also just released the popular ‘Jake Summers’ as a 7” vinyl in the UK with Fierce Panda’s little sister label, Cool For Cats and have been championed by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 and by pretty much everyone in XFM.  They will return to the UK in December for a 10 date Artrocker tour.

“We were on Steve Lamacq’s show recently and that was amazing. We were told that he is a bit weird but he is really cool. To get the likes of him and XFM behind us is just brilliant. We are going back over to the UK again later this year, so yeah exciting times,” says Maykay.

Having created a huge amount of interest on the Irish music scene over the last few months with their debut sell-out EP ‘How Am I Supposed To Kill You If You Have All The Guns?’ Fight Like Apes return this November with another splendid electric punk rock offering, ‘David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Who’s Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch’.

The EP features lead track ‘Do You Karate?’ – a thumping bass driven flourish of a song, ‘Canhead’ – a concise ode to fish and chips, ‘Accidental Wrong Hole’ – God knows, and ‘Snore Bore Whore’ – possibly their finest musical offering to date. Fight Like Apes release their new EP on Friday November 2. They play The Underground at Baker Place that same night, so don’t miss them. You’d be a right ape to!

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