Squarehead are an Irish garage pop band from Dublin composed of lead singer / guitarist Roy Duffy, bassist Ian McFarlane and Ruan van Vliet on drums.

History

Squarehead were formed in January 2010 when Roy Duffy began recording solo acoustic songs. Roy and Ian had previously been in a band (called Vimanas) with Lar Kaye of

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. The band released their first single "Fake Blood" on

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through Any Other City Records, a label run by Villagers drummer, James Byrne. In a public vote on Nialler9 Music Blog, "Fake Blood" was voted Number One in "Irish Songs of 2010" The band's second single, "Midnight Enchilada" was released by the Richter Collective Label (

, The Redneck Manifesto, ASIWYFA) on 21 March 2011. The single has received plays on

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show on

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, the

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show on

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and the X-Posure show on XFM On 25 February 2011,

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attended a Squarehead show at the Workmans Club, Dublin

Discography

References

External links

Squarehead Myspace

Squarehead Twitter
{{Authority control Irish pop music groups Musical groups from Dublin (city)