Dublin based band Fight Like Apes’ combination of Pavement, Roxy Music and Patti Smith’s influences has earnt them the praise of Zane Lowe, Mark Riley and Steve Lamacq since their emergence in 2006. After 3 nominations at the Irish Meteor Music Awards back in 2008, the bands debut album was finally released in the UK back in January. Named after Mr T’s post A-Team cartoon series ‘Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion’ the record has been described as ‘twelve sticks of electronic punk dymanite’.
