Dott keeping it natural as they enjoy rapid rise

Having recently released their infectious debut album, Dott play Nuns Island Theatre this Saturday, December 21 and then follow that gig with a headline show in the Róisín Dubh on St Stephen’s Day.

Lead singer and songwriter Anna McCarthy looks back at a productive 2013.

 “It’s been a really exciting year; we recorded our debut, played The Late Late Show and we’re heading off to America in early 2014,” she says.

Swoon was released last month and the album is being distributed by the American label Graveface.

“I just got an email out of the blue from Ryan in the label Graveface,” Anna says. “He said ‘Hi, we can’t stop listening to the EP [Button, released in 2012]. If you ever want to do anything, let us know’.

“That was August last year. We’d only just released Button and we didn’t know what we were going to do next. He offered to put the EP out on seven-inch vinyl, and as soon we were deciding to record the album [label founder] Ryan said ‘can I put this out too?’.”

Dott launched Swoon with a string of shows, but had to do the gigs without the physical copies of the album.

“The vinyl came and that was no problem but there’s this package that’s somewhere in limbo between America and Ireland and America again,” Anna says. “It has all our CD copies and the special edition vinyl, there was only 200 copies of those.

“They were coming in time for the album launch. First of all they went to India for some reason. Then they came to Ireland, but before they came to Galway they were sent back to America, damaged or something. We’re still waiting for it to show up in America, our mystery package!”