Acoustic gig from My Fellow Sponges

Galway band My Fellow Sponges, who had a sold-out concert at the Taibhdhearc last March as part of the Cúirt Festival of Literature, will play a unplugged afternoon show this Saturday, July 25, at 5pm in the intimate surroundings of the Ruby Room on the top floor of the King’s Head Pub in Shop Street.

Fronted by two singers, Anna Mullarkey on piano and Donal McConnon on guitar, My Fellow Sponges will play a stripped down acoustic set of their quirky songs  at the Ruby Room, with selections from their debut album Bonne Nuit and their most recent EP Something Like Light which was featured on the RTÉ Radio 1 playlist.

My Fellow Sponges first started raising eyebrows with the brilliantly kaleidoscopic video for This Dream Song, which was shot backwards and in one take by the award-winning director Mia Mullarkey.

That production earned My Fellow Sponges a position in the Golden Plec’s Top Ten Irish  Videos of 2013.

Their debut album, Bonne Nuit, was recorded in various houses around Co Galway and  was also released in 2013.

The most recent Sponges EP Something Like Light demonstrates a slightly more reflective side, although they have not lost their original folksy charm.

It features four  tracks, Floating and All We Need (both by Donal McConnon) and Cold Winter and Other Than Myself, written by the group’s other main songwriter,  Anna Mullarkey.

Last month My Fellow Sponges won a lot of new fans at the Body and Soul Festival in Westmeath with their onstage theatrics, mixing musical styles from  jangly folk to hip-swinging bossa nova to eerie minimalism.

Next month they are booked to play  Electric Picnic in Stradbally.

Doors for this Saturday’s afternoon concert at the  Ruby Room upstairs at the King’s Head are at 4.30pm and My Fellow Sponges will start their show at 5pm. The capacity of the Ruby Room is just 60 people and  tickets are €8.

For reservations contact 087-2491262.