Reinvention transforms Cars from Green to Soda Blonde

Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell

Emerging from nearly a decade of success, four out of the five members of Little Green Cars have reformed almost immediately following the band’s amicable conclusion. And – now performing as Soda Blonde – the Dublin alt-pop four-piece are wasting no time.

The group have quickly followed up their mesmerising debut single Swimming Through the Night with Terrible Hands, a four-track EP released last weekend.

Soda Blonde play Galway’s Róisín Dubh on Saturday, November 23, as part of a UK & Ireland tour. The tour, along with the band’s recent releases, follows several months of rediscovery for Faye O’Rourke, Adam O’Regan, Dylan Lynch and Donagh Seaver O’Leary.

And at a time of major change and confusion, the quartet managed to rally and return to doing what they do best.

“We’ve been kind of buried away for the majority of this year,” Donagh admits.

“Little Green Cars ended around November and we were a bit headless for a while so we resorted back to what we always did which is we just hung out and wrote songs together.

“The majority of spring and early summer, we were just writing and recording without much direction. That’s where these four songs have come from. The weight of expectation was lifted. I don’t mean that in a negative way…

“All of a sudden, we were free to do whatever we wanted. There wasn’t any worry of ‘Will people who liked the early stuff like this?’ For the first time in maybe eight years, we got to just write songs for us and make the sort of music we wanted to.”

Recorded in a living room, the new EP is indicative of the approach Soda Blonde are intent on taking with their music. The band are producing their own songs and releasing them under their own, independent record label Overbite.

“It might sound a bit trite to say we’re kind of embracing the digital age but there’s some truth to that,” Donagh notes.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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