Wasps’ take no prisoners on death row
Wasps vs Humans will release their new single, 'Death Chamber Visits' on Friday 5 September with a launch show the same evening in Fred Zeppelins with an exclusive screening of the single's video, before it goes public.
Special guests for the evening are bilingual electronic hip/hop duo shelovescalpol (SLC), featuring poet Julie Goo and Tir Na gCasta DJ/producer Mike Millis.
Wasps vs Humans will be joined for their set by Liam O'Shea, singer and guitarist from one of Cork's much loved bands, The Grunts.
'Death Chamber Visits' is a raw, hard hitting track, tackling the horrors of American style capital punishment; an execution with punk guitars, thundering bass, fast-paced rhythms and urgent vocals in the Wasps' punk rock style.
Initially a solo project, Wasps vs Humans punk poet/drummer, Carl Antony Plover has opened for the likes of John Cooper Clarke, Whipping Boy, and for Mark E Smith's The Fall.
As a musician, he has released an album and single with ‘80s svant garde band 4,000,000 Telephones, with critical acclaim in the UK national press and making the playlist on BBC radio's John Peel Show.
Having partnered up with musician wife Linda Plover, Wasps vs Humans have honed a distinctive punk/folk sound over the last eighteen months, whilst promoting their debut album, 'Scratchcard Empires' released in October 2024.
It features singles, '20 million Andrew Tates', 'Price You Pay' - which was a Hot Press Pick of the Day and 'Ugly America' - a dark take on life’s expectations, dealing with disappointment, inner city violence, an obsessive fame craving culture, with a huge dollop of desperation.
Award-winning spoken word poet, Julie Goo is a bilingual poet, writer and singer from Cork city. Widely published, she has read/performed her work at numerous festivals & conferences and is currently compiling her first English language poetry collection.
Her debut Irish language collection ‘DÁNA’ was published by Coiscéim in 2021 with selected poems having been translated into German and Italian.
The following night, WvHs return to play The Thomas House in Dublin, joined by very special guests, Thewlis. The Dublin-based duo, named after renowned English actor David Thewlis, are Donegal native Danny McElhinney, and Dubliner Cormac Curtis.