Monday 29th March 2010

INTRODUCING: GIRLS NAMES

Girls Names are the latest addition to the Tough Love family. Some of you may already be familiar with the Belfast duo (soon to be a trio) following our blog post about their song “Graveyard” a while back. Or because you use the internet and have seen their name in a lot of places. Either way, I’m happy.

We’ll be providing more details on their forthcoming debut TLV release in the next week or so. For now, here’s a biog, alongside the requisite MySpace link >>> HERE <<<

“Formed in January 2009 with their first gig booked before even playing together,  Belfast’s Girls Names unabashedly hark back to the early/mid eighties shadow world of Beat Happening, Black Tambourine, Felt, C86 and the Sound of Young Scotland. In their short existence they have quickly honed their craft in creating their own self-styled “disposable noise pop”, masking subdued bittersweet vocals and melodic hooks with reverb drenched guitars and Mary Chain primal drums.

Having sold out of their debut home taped demos on Cass/Flick (Belfast) last summer and after a string of support slots with the likes of Sic Alps, Wavves, Times New Viking, Lovvers and Gary War, Girls Names are set for their first release ‘proper’, with a 12″ EP on Brooklyn’s much talked about Captured Tracks label and a full UK tour with label buddies, La La Vasquez in the spring.”