AGEING punk rockers and the late John Peel’s favourite Limerick band, The Hitchers are to briefly reunite and undertake a Summer Tour. In what drummer Niall Quinn describes as a, “gruelling gigging schedule that takes them all the way to Galway, then Ennis, then Limerick, then home to bed”, The Hitchers revisit a couple of their favourite haunts and get to blow the doors off a new venue, The Kasbah Club in their native city.
Releasing two albums and a slew of 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 & Games ’Til Someone Loses An Eye’ and had the band record a session for his show that gets repeat broadcasts to the present day.
Warner Bros Germany re-released The Hitcher’s song ‘Strachan’ in 2010. The song is a homáge to “the tiny wee Scotsman” that regularly turns up in lists of the best football songs ever recorded.
The Hitchers play Róisín Dubh on June 25, Brandon’s Ennis on June 26 and then Kasbah Social Club, Dock Road on Saturday June 27.
