College drop outs that never actually dropped in. Fight Like Apes started life as a bunch of friends who had played together in their teens in “various crap bands”. Nothing had ever been taken seriously, apart from the grief created by a string of useless guitarists. Finally the band coalesced in 2006 with the avowed aim to make “obnoxious pop”.
They quickly made waves on the Irish gig scene with their powerful,confrontational live performances.
They released their first EP, entitled ‘How Am I Supposed To Kill You If You Have All The Guns’ on The Frank & Walters’ Fifa Records label early in 2007‘ and followed it with a second 4tracker– ‘David Carradine Is A One Armed Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch’ – which was released in November 2007.
Around this time Fight Like Apes signed to Irish independent label Model Citizen Records, and went to Seattle in Spring 2008 to record their debut album with John ...
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College drop outs that never actually dropped in. Fight Like Apes started life as a bunch of friends who had played together in their teens in “various crap bands”. Nothing had ever been taken seriously, apart from the grief created by a string of useless guitarists. Finally the band coalesced in 2006 with the avowed aim to make “obnoxious pop”.
They quickly made waves on the Irish gig scene with their powerful,confrontational live performances.
They released their first EP, entitled ‘How Am I Supposed To Kill You If You Have All The Guns’ on The Frank & Walters’ Fifa Records label early in 2007‘ and followed it with a second 4tracker– ‘David Carradine Is A One Armed Bounty Hunter Whose Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch’ – which was released in November 2007.
Around this time Fight Like Apes signed to Irish independent label Model Citizen Records, and went to Seattle in Spring 2008 to record their debut album with John Goodmanson (LosCampesinos, Sleater – Kinney, Bikini Kill).
In 2010 Fight Like Apes recorded 'The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner' with Gang of Four's Andy Gill.
The band has since toured with bands such as the Prodigy, The tings tings and Kasabian, played Glastonbury, reading, Leeds and Pukklepop as well as countless other european festivals.
After a successful Crowdsourcing campaign in 2013 in which the band raised 20,000 ,FLA are on the cusp of releasing their third LP.
The "Whigfield Sextape" Ep was released in May 2014 as a precursor to this as of yet unnamed third album.
The bands last album went number 3 in the Irish music charts. Only been beaten out by Eminem and Katy Perry. They have been nominated for 5 Meteor music awards and nominated for the choice music prize for both released albums.
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