HUMANZI

It's not often that a band I really appreciate get recognition in The Irish Meteor Awards, the annual national music awards in Ireland. Humanzi, winners of The Best New Irish Band award earlier this year, are one of the very few exceptions.

However, no other band could really have won it. Humanzi signed to major label Fiction/Polydor in 2005 and then ambitiously went about setting up their own label, Sound Foundation Recordings, which they have used since to showcase other upcoming bands in Ireland with a similar edge, including The Things, Channel One and TwinKranes. Then they released their much lauded debut single Fix The Cracks (available for download from their myspace), an anthemic song with an incredibly great bass line of Joy Division immensity, and some elements of Primal Scream in the mix, although not as apparent as in some of their other songs.

It's been a long time since a band as riled and disgruntled as Humanzi have been making it big from Ireland, a band whom under the watchful eye of the media have the balls to deliver an angry anti-establishment punk anthem with a line taunting "this is the shit so get used to it" in their latest single, which preceeds their debut album release.

Their new single, 'Diet Pills and Magazines' is released on July 17th, the video to which can currently be streamed from their myspace, with their debut Album 'Tremors' released the following week on July 24th. Having already toured extensively in the UK and Ireland over the past few months, they play a number of festivals this summer, including T in the Park and the Reading/Leeds festivals in the UK, and Oxygen Festival in Dublin, all the details to which can be found on their website and myspace.

Related Links:

http://www.humanzi.com

http://www.myspace.com/humanzi