Feature: Introducing - Starters
Posted on AlterThePress.com in July 2010.
Hailing from Dublin, Ireland pop-punk quartet Starters are the latest in a long of line bands to bring back the genre back to its DIY roots. Influenced by the likes of Title Fight and Tigers Jaw, the band got together late last year after several years playing in hardcore bands, as bassist/vocalist Ian Kelly recalls: “We had all been involved in the Dublin Hardcore scene for a long time. I think Ian (Fox - guitars/vocals) was talking about how he would love to do a band that sounds like Tigers Jaw and Ciarán (Parnell - guitars/vocals) and myself were both down so we took it from there.”
With the addition of Anthony Kelly (no relation to Ian) on drums shortly after and the band quickly realised it was going to work. “We’d been involved in the scene a long time and been in various bands but never with each other. I really liked the idea of being in a band with these lads where we could all sing together and bring our various vocal styles to the table. After jamming together a couple of times I was so excited about this band. says Ciarán.
The bands instant connection led to the creation of their 4-track demo, which was recorded in the lead up to their first gig. Ian Kelly told us how the demo came together; “The demo basically came together in the weeks leading up to our first show which was in March this year. Ciarán and Ian both had a bunch of really cool ideas. We recorded the whole thing between our practice space and Ciarán’s bedroom.” “We basically scrambled four songs together pretty quickly from various bits that Foxy and I had.” Parnell remembers.
