Cliffords are a very decent young band from Cork in Ireland who have just dropped the excellent single, “Bittersweet”, their first through newly formed label, Soil To The Sun.
The Cork band self-financed and self-released a debut EP last year, but “Bittersweet” marks their first steps working alongside a producer in Richie Kennedy [at Battery Studios in London], aiming their sights beyond the confines of their home city.
Fronted by Iona Lynch, Cliffords deal in a “melody-rich, guitar-heavy merging of both shoegaze and grunge”.
Ioana says: “Bittersweet is a more abstract look at nostalgia and our last few years of living in Cork. The first few lines of the song, ‘the city begged look up,’ comes from something my grandad always said to me, ‘look up or you’ll miss half the beauty of the city’.
“Bittersweet reflects the mixed emotions of us as a band finding our way in music and in ourselves as young adults. The lyrics poke fun at heartbreaks and how dramatic and potent those feelings felt at the time.”
Cliffords Live:
16th March – Misneach Festival, Sydney
17th March – The Lansdowne, Sydney
19th March – The Gasometer, Melbourne
12th April – Heartbreakers, Southampton
13th April – The Louisiana, Bristol
15th April – Dublin Castle, London
16th April – The Bodega, Nottingham
17th April – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
3rd May – Sound City, Liverpool
10th May – The Road to the Great Escape @ King Tut’s, Glasgow
15th May – The Great Escape, Brighton
16th May – The Great Escape, Brighton
17th May – London Calling, Amsterdam
24th May – Live at Leeds
25th May – Neighbourhood Festival, Warrington
14th June – Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek
21st June – Bludfest, Milton Keynes Bowl
6th July – Rock Werchter, Werchter
25th July – Latitude Festival, Suffolk
26th July – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
27th July – Tramlines, Sheffield
3rd August – Y Not Festival, Derbyshire
23rd August – Victorious Festival, Portsmouth
Photo credit: Cal McIntyre
