Much touted Dublin four-piece Really Good Time, whose exhilarating sold-out gigs have established them as one of the most exciting bands on the live and festival circuit, release their brand new track ‘Mountain of Spit’ on September 28th.
The first song from their forthcoming debut EP ‘Escape from the Mountain of Spit’, “Mountain Of Spit”, is a high energy, hook-laden monster and the centrepiece of the band’s live set. It’s also a perfect introduction to the theatrical fervour they bring to all their shows and a perfect calling card for what to expect both live and on record. Really Good Time is a band at the start of something hugely exciting.
“Mountain of Spit” was born out of intense conversations with teenage relatives about self-help gurus on YouTube and TikTok. The song takes aim at the internet demagogues preying on the young, the vulnerable and the disaffected, from the deeply misogynistic ‘self-made’ men who claim to know the secrets to wealth, power, and ‘what women want’ to seemingly altruistic academics who sow division under the notion of free speech. Really Good Time imagines them holding court, spit lashing from their mouths as they tell us “How to live our lives”, using clever rhetoric to mask their base, cornered-dog urge to suck whatever profit, status, and social capital that can be wrung from the post-capitalist ideological hellscape they help to maintain.
Continuing the ambitious visual world built around the band, the accompanying video, directed and animated by Callum Patrick O’Brien, is a heavily stylized neo-noir, taking visual cues from Sin City.
Really Good Time is Diolmhain Ingram Roche, lead vocals/guitar (nametag: Dilly), Jack Hitchcock, bass/vocals (nametag: Le Coque), Alex Conway, guitar/backing vocals (nametag: The Duke) and Adrian Garvey, drums/backing vocals (nametag: Ado). A few immutable principles guide their songwriting: if something isn’t immediately exciting, discard it or speed it up; if there’s a concern that something is too cheesy/poppy, too weird/noisy, lean into it. If a song doesn’t feel like it would be unimaginably fun to play live… it isn’t for this band.
After getting matching boiler suits made because having a really good time is hard, serious work, the band played their first show in July of 2021, headlining a semi-legal 200-capacity festival at 1am in the rain. From that moment on, they decided to play every show like they were in an arena because that’s where they’re intent on getting to.
Since then, they have sold out headline shows in Dublin, toured up and down the UK and built a fervent, ever-growing group of fans eager for their next move. A couple of singles and videos later, they’ve developed their own world of art-rock magnificence, declared themselves the greatest band on earth, and launched their second music video during a red-carpet premiere at a local pub. Closing out a summer that has seen them supporting Franz Ferdinand at Collins Barracks and storming the Something Kind of Wonderful Tent at All Together Now, RGT are ready for the next chapter with the release of ‘Escape From the Mountain of Spit’ via Everybody’s.
Watch the video for ‘Mountain of Spit’ – BELOW:
With a run of showcase festivals booked around the release, Really Good Time is intent on having one and dearly hopes that you will join them. They hit the UK again in October – The Social (10/10), Beyond The Music Festival, Manchester (13/10) and Live at Leeds (14/10).
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