Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club to play Monroe’s Live

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Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club have announced they will be performing an intimate show at Monroe’s Live, Dominick St. on Saturday, July 23.

The band’s superb third album The Beautiful Untrue featured some extraordinary guest performances from two of Ireland’s finest female vocalists, Imelda May and Carol Keogh and it received much critical acclaim.

Many critics saw The Beautiful Untrue as a response to the recession, but the album’s concerns predate our economic woes.

“You would think it’s about the recession but really it was about before that,” says Jerry. “I thought we were all high on money. It probably will be looked at as the Irish crime of the century, the so-called Celtic Tiger.”

But the singer remains hopeful. “Our instinct is just to keep going. Most of us still have shoes on our feet, y’know, and food in our bellies. The world is full of inequality. The key is just to try and get yourself happy somehow, whether that’s spiritual or whatever. I kind of do that through music and playing to audiences.”

Jerry Fish has described his sound as ‘indie lounge lizard schmooze’ and ‘mariachi swampadelica.’ The album mixes New Orleans jazz, Brazilian funk and black mambo jive together with Fish’s unique tonal range to give a truly eclectic sound.

Jerry – aka Gerard Whelan – and his Mudbug Club will perform tracks from this new album, including the sublime single Back To Before, as well as tracks from his previous studio album Be Yourself at Monroe’s Live.

Doors at 9.30, tickets €20.