LIMERICK band Theme Tune Boy launch their new video ‘Recess’ featuring dozens of brave Limerick citizens who lent their lip syncing skills at the recent video shoot at The Music Hub.
Theme Tune Boy is the most recent incarnation of Niall Quinn (drummer/songwriter with The Hitchers). TTB’s debut album The Return of the Living Dead was released in Spring 2013 to great reviews. The band will play a full set and record another video on the night before making way for 90’s punk rockers The Hitchers who have come together for the night to do their first show in five years.
The Hitchers released two albums and a slew of singles/ EPs in the late ‘90s. The Limerick band came to the attention of legendary BBC DJ John Peel who championed the bands debut UK release ‘It’s All Fun and Games ‘Til Someone Loses An Eye’. The ‘Strachan/ You Can Only Love Someone’ double A-side single featured in Peel’s Festive 50 songs of 1997.
Though The Hitchers officially de-mobbed in 2001 they have occasionally reformed for one-off shows and media interest in the band is rekindled pretty much biennially around the time of World Cups and European Championships, which recently led to The Guardian readers voting their song ‘Strachan’, dedicated to the current Scotland manager, “the greatest football song ever”.
The Hitchers and Theme Tune Boy play Seoda Shows, Bourke’s Bar on Sunday October 27. Ticketholders are entitled to a free Hitchers or Theme Tune Boy CD or vinyl of choice on the night while stocks last.
