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Fight Like Apes

Fight Like Apes (also referred to as FLApes or FLA[5]) are an Irish alternative rock band formed in Dublin in 2006. Their members are Mary-Kate "MayKay" Geraghty (vocals and synth), Jamie "Pockets" Fox (keyboard and vocals), Tom Ryan (bass) and Adrian Mullan (drums). They are known for their elongated record titles, usually inspired by B movies. They have released two EPs, How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? and David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch (both in 2007), and one album, Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion (2008). In 2009, they released an EP for the American market titled You Filled His Head with Fluffy Clouds and Jolly Ranchers, What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?.

Fight Like Apes have toured the UK with The Von Bondies, The Ting Tings, The Prodigy and Kasabian and have played festivals such as Oxegen, Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, South by Southwest and Hard Working Class Heroes throughout their career. They have appeared on several television shows in Ireland, including Tubridy Tonight, WeTV, The View, Other Voices and The Cafe. They have also had some success in Asia, where they have been signed up by Sony Music Entertainment Japan for an album release on that continent in April 2009. The band have been nominated for five Meteor Music Awards, Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion was nominated for the Choice Music Prize and Fight Like Apes were named the fourth best Irish musical act of their generation by The Irish Times in 2009.

Career

Formation

Fight Like Apes formed on 2 November 2006 when Mary-Kate Geraghty (known as "MayKay"),[6] a former choir singer, and her friends, Jamie Fox (known as "Pockets"),[6] Adrian Mullan and Tom Ryan, all of whom had experience in other bands, came together.[2][7] MayKay and Pockets first met as teenagers on holiday in Spain where they realised they both went to nearby schools and shared the same "extremely optimistically cynical outlook on life".[7] When MayKay told Pockets she loved singing he had her sign a contract on a piece of tissue in a bar which bound them together musically.[6] Pockets's parents were unhappy with their son's "disgusting" taste in music; he dropped out of his final year of study at Dublin City University and a potential career in journalism to pursue his musical career.[7] MayKay had been studying medicinal chemistry, and later a philosophy course at Trinity College Dublin.[7] They habitually met from early morning and spent their days eating together before deciding to form a band.[7] Their chosen name was inspired by Caesar's battle cry of “Now fight like apes” in the self-described "notoriously bad" Battle for the Planet of the Apes.[8]

How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? and David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch (2007)

Their debut EP, How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns?, was released by Irish indie label FIFA Records in early 2007 and sold out, generating a significant amount of interest in the media and in the Irish blogging community in the process.[6][9][10] In May 2007, Fight Like Apes won Phantom FM's Topman Unsigned Band Search; their prize was to be a support act of The Holloways at show in Dublin.[11] Fight Like Apes played both Electric Picnic (their first major Irish festival)[3] and Hard Working Class Heroes in 2007[2][3][9] and also performed at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York.[3][9][6] They were also chosen to play the Futureshock stage at EXIT in Serbia after sending a demo of their songs to the organisers.[12] On 13 October 2007, Fight Like Apes performed "Jake Summers" on television chat show, Tubridy Tonight.[13][14] Their second EP, David Carradine is a Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch, was released on 2 November 2007.[2][9][10] The title was inspired by the film Future Force starring David Carradine, which the band found on the internet.[2] The EP's lead track, "Do You Karate?", was a minor hit on the Irish independent music scene.[9] The band set off on their first UK tour after the EP's release and their "Jake Summers" single was released there through the label, Cool For Cats (sister of Fierce Panda).[9] In February 2008, the band toured Ireland and the UK as a support act of The Von Bondies.[3][9][15] Von Bondies member Jason Stollsteimer has described Fight Like Apes as “candy wrapped in barbed wire”.[16] Fight Like Apes were invited to participate in the sixth series of RTÉ's annual Other Voices music show,[17][18][19][20][21] performing on 19 March 2008.[9][22] They also appeared on RTÉ Two's WeTV television show.[23] Fight Like Apes performed at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas in 2008.[24] Upon their return from South by Southwest in March/April 2008, they went on a national tour of Ireland.[25] Later that year, Fight Like Apes appeared at several music festivals in Ireland and the UK, including an appearance on the Futures Stage at T in the Park,[26] and two appearances at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival,[27][28][29] as well as Oxegen 2008 and Indie-pendence in Ireland.[30] The single "Lend Me Your Face/Lightsabre Cock-sucking Blues" was released in the UK on 21–28 July 2008.[29]

Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion (2008)

Fight Like Apes performing live in the 2FM tent at Oxegen 2008 (l–r; MayKay, Tom)

The band spent a month in Seattle, Washington, in early 2008, recording tracks for their debut album, produced by John Goodmanson.[7][31][32] The album, titled Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion, was released on 26 September 2008 on Model Citizen Records,[33][34][35] selling continually well in Ireland and the UK.[36] It was preceded by the release of the single "Something Global" on 11 July 2008.[31] They played a sold-out launch show at Whelan's in Dublin,[35] which was broadcast live on Phantom FM on the day of release. The Irish Times described the album as an "astonishing debut that encompasses melancholy and whimsy (both lyrically and musically)".[37] The Irish Independent, on the other hand, "strongly urge[d] all not to waste their money" on "the woeful debut" of a band with "lots of blogger and media friends, all aurally challenged".[38] These blogger friends responded to the criticism of the band but Maykay remains unbothered by criticism as long as the album is simply being reviewed.[7] RTÉ also gave the album a lukewarm response.[39] Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion reached the top five of the Irish Albums Chart, meaning the band became the first alternative act from Ireland to achieve this for several years, and "Jake Summers" and "Lend Me Your Face" became regularly played at indie clubs throughout Ireland.[1]

They went on to support The Ting Tings on a sell-out UK tour,[1] receiving kung fu lessons from their security guard Preston and a champagne bottle on the final night.[8] They appeared on The Cafe on 16 October 2008.[40] The Prodigy personally invited the band to support them on their already sold-out arena tour of the UK; all of the members are fans of Fight Like Apes and Liam Howlett entered their dressing room to give his regards.[7][8][36][41] Sony Music Entertainment Japan signed the band for the Asian release of Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion.[41] They headlined the Levi's One to Watch Tour in November 2008.[8] In December 2008, a video of students of the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, featuring several females miming to "Digifuckers", was released.[42]

Eurosonic, UK, US and Japan (2009)

Fight Like Apes played the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, the Netherlands, in January 2009,[43] a show which had large queues of DJs and journalists.[44] The band reacted positively to being chosen to represent Ireland, commmenting that Groningen was known to them for its "gorgeous students and excellent hardware shops".[45] This meant they qualified for admission into the European Talent Exchange Programme, enabling the band to be booked for music festivals across Europe, including Glastonbury and T in the Park.[46] Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion was released in the UK on 26 January 2009.[47][48] The band played a studio session for Steve Lamacq of BBC Radio 1 around this time, with Maykay also encountering Jonathan Ross, a fan of the band who has played their music on his show.[7][49] They released a video for a new single, "Tie Me Up with Jackets", later that month[50] and performed the song on The View on 10 March 2009.[51] Also In March 2009, came the release of the EP You Filled His Head with Fluffy Clouds and Jolly Ranchers, What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? for the US market as well as a return to South by Southwest.[7][16]

Fight Like Apes on the Green Spheres Stage at Oxegen 2009. The band's drum kit is visible in the background.

On 3 April 2009, The Irish Times named Fight Like Apes the fourth best contemporary Irish musical act, above Lisa Hannigan and below Cathy Davey, Jape and David Holmes.[37] The newspaper claimed that "Ireland has, quite simply, never seen a band like Fight Like Apes", reasoning that this was due to them "acting as a palette-cleansing antidote to the dour “woolly jumper brigade” that dragged Irish music into the depths of despair not a decade ago".[37] The list, originally numbering fifty, was later expanded to one hundred.[52] In an Uncensored Interview, they discussed items such as pop culture, wrestling and their song "I'm Beginning to Think You Prefer Beverly Hills 90210 to Me".[53] Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion was released in Japan in April 2009,[7] with Fight Likes Apes filming a music video for the international release of their "Something Global" single in Whelan's, Dublin.[54] They played at the 2009 Trinity Ball in May, an event likened to "a mini-Oxegen without the mud".[55]

The band's summer tour consists of domestic dates at festivals such as Castlepalooza[56] and Oxegen, as well as international dates at Glastonbury,[57] T in the Park, Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, The Great Escape,[58] Pukkelpop, Reading and Leeds Festivals and an appearance in Wales.[54] Their appearance at Oxegen 2009 was their second at the festival,[36][59] with band members banging chairs during their performance and The Irish Times tipping them to appear on the Main Stage in 2010.[60]

Style and influences

BBC Radio 1's Steve Lamacq has described Fight Like Apes as a "great Misfit band" inhabiting "a lonely place out on the periphery of the indie rock world".[49] At one show in June 2008, he witnessed them "thrash about on their guitars and keyboards and wotnot like it's some kind of pop exorcism" and saw them "rolling around the empty dancefloor playflighting".[49] Today FM presenter Alison Curtis has described them as "really talented... kind of rocky and metallic and their front girl is extremely watchable, almost going into Debbie Harry territory".[61]

The band's influences include emotions such as anger, jealousy and greed, B movies, goblins, computer games, kebabs, kung-fu, ice-cream, bad television (including "watching idiots falling over") and wrestling.[2][3][8] Musically they are fond of My Bloody Valentine, Mclusky and Tom Waits,[7] whilst they also admire Grand Pocket Orchestra, Adebisi Shank, Jape and Giveamanakick.[6] They dislike guitars and have been known to perform with kitchen implements such as pots and pans when on stage;[2][3] MayKay and Pockets even play keyboards with their heads.[7] They purposefully construct lengthy record titles to "piss off" journalists and radio presenters and their self-defined "karate rock" genre was directed at the NME.[2][3]

Vocalist MayKay has been described as one of Ireland's "most mesmerising front women" in recent history, with her long black hair and banshee wail provoking male fans to confess simultaneous feelings of terror and attraction online.[7] She is known to scream lyrics such as "you're like Kentucky Fried Chicken but without the taste" and "you’re a fucking disappointment to the human race", taken from the song "Jake Summers", a song inspired by a pornographic actor and a character from California Dreams.[8][49][62] "Do You Karate?", "a thumping bass driven flourish of a song",[3] displays the band's "trademark twin-synth attack"[63] and the Pixies-style "Canhead" has been described as "a concise ode to fish and chips".[3][64] Pockets writes most of the band's songs, plays the keyboard and provides vocals for some of the band's songs.[7][62] Adrian and Tom tend to remain in the background, choosing not to be photographed.[62] The band have never written anything fictional and their lyrics have been described as "occasionally literally gynaecological in their detail and regularly relatively shocking in their honesty".[7] MayKay and Pockets claim that most of their lyrics are shaped by one person who has broken each of their hearts.[7] All of the band apart from the drummer are known for their consumption of alcohol, with MayKay even drinking wine during interviews and Pockets drinking Buckfast prior to performances.[7]

Discography

Main article: Fight Like Apes discography

EPs

Studio albums

Awards

Choice Music Prize

The band's's debut album, Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize in January 2009.[7][38][59][65] The award was won by Jape for the album Ritual on 4 March 2009.[66][67][68][69][70][71][72]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2009 Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion Irish Album of the Year 2008 Nominated

Meteor Music Awards

Fight Like Apes were nominated for two Meteor Awards in 2008, one for Best Irish Live Performance for their November 2007 show at Whelan's in Dublin and the other for Best Irish Band.[3][73] In 2009, they were nominated for three Meteor Music Awards, for Best Irish Band, Best Irish Live Performance and Best Irish Album.[7][59][65][74][75][76]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2008 Fight Like Apes Best Irish Band Nominated
2008 Whelan's Best Irish Live Performance Nominated
2009 Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion Best Irish Album Nominated
2009 Fight Like Apes Best Irish Band Nominated
2009 Whelan's Best Irish Live Performance Nominated

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  60. ^ "Oxegen: The Reviews". The Irish Times. 2009-07-13. Retrieved 2009-07-14. Jumping into the crowd, banging chairs against the barrier, climbing the scaffolding: Fight Like Apes know all the tricks of the festival trade. More importantly, they've learned that songs are every jot as important as japes. And they throw these songs out with a casual aplomb that comes from practice. Even when running amok, the beat is steady. This time next year, the main stage will be their playground. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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  65. ^ a b "Kings and Killers lead the Meteors way". The Irish Times. 2009-01-29. Retrieved 2009-01-28. The Killers and Kings of Leon are the only international acts to receive three nominations. Irish groups The Script, Fight Like Apes and The Blizzards also have a similar number. The Script, who had international success with their eponymous debut album, are nominated for best Irish album, best Irish band and best Irish pop act. The Blizzards have also been nominated for best Irish band and best Irish pop act. Their performance at Oxegen saw them nominated for best Irish live act – and they really did play the festival last year. Pop-punk outfit Fight Like Apes have been nominated in the best Irish album category for their well-received debut, Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion , which was released in September. The album has also been nominated in the Choice Music Prize. The band, who are currently in the middle of a UK tour, are also included in the category for best Irish band and best live Irish act for their performance at Whelan's last year. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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