MUSIC The Delorentos to play The Clubhouse, Castlebar

SHED LOADS OF MUSIC The Delorentos (pictured) will play in The Clubhouse, Castlebar, on Saturday night, with support provided by We Cut Corners, Senakah, New Sunset Hotel and Social Welfare.

Delorentos to play in Castlebar this weekend


The Delorentos are set to play in Mayo’s newest independent music venue, The Clubhouse at Castlebar Celtic, this Saturday night, March 10.  The new venue aims to promote some of the best independent national and local original artist and bands over the coming months ahead.
Comprised of Rónan Yourell (vocals, guitar, piano), Kieran McGuinness (vocals, guitar), Níal Conlan (bass, backing vocals) and Ross McCormick (drums, backing vocals), The Delorentos hail from the small seaside town of Portrane in north Co Dublin. Their earlier two albums have both been critically acclaimed – 2007’s ‘In Love With Detail’, was nominated for Best Album at both the Choice Music Prize and the Meteor Awards, while 2009’s ‘You Can Make Sound’, hit No 2 in the Irish charts and won Entertainment.ie’s Album of the Year.
The Castlebar gig will be part of the Delorentos’ tour to promote their recently released third album, ‘Little Sparks’. No doubt this tour will generate more tales for the lads, who are building up quite a stock of quirky anecdotes from their time on the road.
Years ago, the band were invited to perform at the National Student Youth Awards, an Irish band competing against English, Scottish and Welsh acts. (“It sounds like the set up to a joke,” they acknowledge.) Once there, singer/guitarist Kieran McGuinness was essentially held hostage by three cannot-be-named-for-legal-reasons record execs, and was told that he had to sign a contract, on the spot, or The Delorentos “would not be eligible for the awards.” Naturally, the band scarpered.
Another night, a support slot for the Arctic Monkeys resulted in both bands’ set of parents watching the show together, as if their kids were playing Sunday football.
Also in the scrapbook is the memory of sipping champagne under cherry-blossom trees at the massive South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas, whilst quite delirious with flu. A far cry from their home town of Portrane, where, Kieran explains, “the local music scene is virtually non-existent – Portrane has one chip shop and a pub; that’s it!”
Having established a strong live set up, The Delorentos continued to pack out headline dates, on top of shows with Supergrass, The Coral, and a hilltop tour of Italy (in association with Myspace). Whilst playing on a bill with The Dave Matthews Band, drummer Ross broke a metatarsal bone in his foot, but miraculously played on. A more perfect encapsulation the band’s never-say-die spirit there could not be. Ross did, however, have to sit out one of their euphoric sets at Oxegen, during which Delorentos-branded beach balls danced across the crowd. The following year, it was Níal’s turn to wrestle with his physical being. In hospital right before the festival with a kidney infection, he arrived at Punchestown swaying, sweaty and pale and full of painkillers…
Hopefully no band member will be suffering from a bodily complaint on Saturday night – but it seems like if any of them are, they’ll play regardless. And no doubt there will be many fans ready and willing to catch any of them should they fall from the stage. Support on the night comes from Choice Music-award-nominees We Cut Corners, Senakah (whose front man, Rob Hope, is a Breaffy man), and Castlebar bands New Sunset Hotel and Social Welfare.

Tickets, priced at a very reasonable €10 each, for this exclusive show are now available now through Downtown Records in Castlebar.

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