We Are Bouts.

March 17th - April 16th 2012

Ten gigs, 750 miles and a recording session. Our Get Sick // Turn Away vinyl tour was the most fun we’ve ever had. Thank you Galway, Cork, Limerick, Monaghan, Belfast, PUSA, Honningbarna, We Are Losers, Girl Band, Tremoya, Terriers, Amateur Historians, Autumn Owls, Caroline Duke, Vinnie D, John, Darragh and Shane C. Enjoy the photos!

Pre. So young and full of fresh-faced promise.

Vicar St soundchecking like he just don’t care.

Same.

PUSA after-house-party attitude. Really.

Tower Recs. And a fine selection of footwear.

Bouts (indie-rock)

Gav E goes wedding singer at The Workmans.

Idiots with sunglasses.

Idiots without.

The key of shame.

Limerick.

Limerick is nice to bands.

Bourkes is Bouts.

Room with a view.

Riverdancing penguin phantoms.

Enda looks. Boys read.

Barry laughs. Colin doesn’t.

All Good Friday and nowhere to go. Started role-playing. “Come here often?”

Couldn’t. Be. Happier.

“Ball” to begin a new game ?!

The Weakest Link / Bridge of the Enterprise.

Indian Limerick.

The little things.

Not happy.

Bouts take cake seriously.

Very.

Eh.

Eyes closed-off.

Eyes open-off.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan…

The fuuuuuuuuuuuucuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkk…

Ladsladsladsladsladsladsladsladsladslads.

Cork. Palm (like) trees. How far south are we?

On the line between cool and not, this is probably the right side.

This…is not.

Setting up in Pluggd. Lovely.

Like father like son.

Colin will kill Enda now.

So glad we brought those spare PLASTIC KNIVES.

Classy in Monaghan.

Sax in Monaghan.

Crowdsurfing in Monaghan.

Pirate mustache men in Monaghan.

Post-Monaghan face warp.

Tired now. Still in Monaghan.

Half tonne down.

Galway likeness. Guess who’s who??

If a van could look like a band sounded, Honningbarna win.

Bouts always insist on top billing.

Belfast jelly burger.

Tour shadow Belfast style.

Red wine and red set-list paper.

Innocence.

Enda went for the budget braces option.

Makes the bass.

Makes the singing.

Makes the drum. Very happy about it too.

Till the next one folks…

Bouts

Turn Away! Its Red and Seedy…

Our next video, for “Turn Away”, looks like it was shot in a brothel. That seedy red hue and murky atmos is not photoshopped.

We were packed into a tiny karaoke booth at midnight with about ten mates, a bottle of whiskey, some giant hand-written notes with lyrics, a camera man, two cameras…

It’s one of the craziest things we’ve ever done. The footage is with our team of expert helper monkeys and you’ll be able to see the results very very soon.

In other news, our drummer Daniel is currently on an epic trek across the USA. The very wonderful Enda is filling in seamlessly - you didn’t notice did you?? - but Daniel is blogging the whole trip right here. Makes you want to hop in a Cadillac down Route 66. And here we all were in Daniel’s kitchen few weeks before he left * wipes away solitary tear *

Thanks so much for checking out our brand new vinyl and we’ll see you on the tour!

Bouts x

What The Drift looks like live 4mins and 24seconds in…
(Thanks to Lui Guiney for the photo)

What The Drift looks like live 4mins and 24seconds in…

(Thanks to Lui Guiney for the photo)

Whelans 10 / 11 / 2011

Our second ever show.

Our first ever Poster. Thanks Karen!

Some photos. For posterity, myth-building and the vanity of collective Bouts members. Thank you John Graham!

People gather while (L-R) Colin, Daniel, Barry Niall - aka Bouts - implement the playing of the “music”.

EP Recording

So last year we did our album. Played one gig. Hibernated. Then Daniel & Barry spent nine months writing new material. Four of those tracks make it on to our new EP. Along the way we lost original member Nigel to Canada, but gained two more in Colin and Niall.

We reunited with Producer (and all round tech & gaming enthusiast) Shane Cullen of K9 Studios, recorded said tracks and here’s the Hipstamatic prints to prove it! Although they seem to show us not doing a whole lot. Oh well.

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