Fighting With Wire blasts Northern Ireland’s music “dinosaurs”

Cahir O’Doherty from recently signed Fighting With Wire has been talking to Keith of Mucho Danke about recent developments with the band, including being supported by Radio One’s Zane Lowe, getting signed to Atlantic Records and used the opportunity to air his grievances of some of Northern Ireland’s musicial industry players who class bands like La Faro or And So I Watch You From Afar as redundant rock: “People in positions of power…don’t give bands a chance…I’m on about the younger people coming up…what have they got to look forward to?”

Cahir praised projects such as the ATL Rockschool and Oh Yeah Centre but the Fighting With Wire frontman continued, “The way I see it, there’s always been that cliquey thing amongst the older generation of musicians and people of power who can actually make things happen for bands…if they would drop their fucking bullshit and look at the talent that’s in Northern Ireland and actually stop just going for the safe option all the time or jumping on the latest fad. Just bloody look for good bands that work hard and write good songs. Songs are the most important thing. Take a chance.”

The Fighting With Wire debut album ‘Man Vs Monster’ is out on March 10th on Smalltown America.