The Clockworks in Warsaw! The rising Irish alternative band, who will release their latest album, "The Entertainment," in March, will perform on October 27 at Hydrozagadka.
➡️ Limited Alter Art presale will begin on February 26 at 10:00 AM at alterart.pl/wydarzenia/the-clockworks
➡️ General tickets sale begins on February 27 at 10:00 AM
When Galway-born, London-based alternative quartet The Clockworks wrapped up touring for their debut album, 2023’s ‘Exit Strategy’, they concluded a game-changing period of their lives that was buoyed by a greater sense of community than ever. That record had cemented the importance of their move to the capital. Not only had it led to them working with Bernard Butler on the album, but it had also set off a domino chain of pinch-me events that saw them tick off support tours with some of their heroes. In 2022, they were taken on the road in the US by Pixies; last year, they wrapped up a string of dates with Johnny Marr.
It was a monumental time for The Clockworks, during which the band decided to move to London. But when James McGregor, Tom Freeman, Sean Connelly, and Damian Greaney stepped back into the writing room, they soon had the instinct to turn their focus elsewhere. The new material that swiftly began pouring out of McGregor was rooted in a very clear and distinct world that looked outside of their creative bubble and saw a society wrestling with an increasing isolation born from shiny new toys and bright lights. In stark contrast to their debut, which had been laid down with Butler in a flurry of activity, running on snap decisions with no time to look back, their latest album ‘The Entertainment’, set for release in March, was produced by Sean Connelly, recorded over a period of months and using almost meta techniques to mirror the jarring conceits inside. Musically, nothing was off limits for the quartet. “Our first album was pretty much four lads in a room making noise, but this album has so much piano, synths, string arrangements, found sounds, weird noises…” McGregor explains. “We grew up with The Strokes and The Libertines, but we have too much interest in other things to contain ourselves to that”.
