THE WALLS – BIOGRAPHY SPRING 2011

Formed by brothers Steve and Joe Wall The Walls started their own record label Dirtbird Records and released their first album Hi-Lo in 2000. It went Gold in Ireland on the back airplay and constant touring. Their second album New Dawn Breaking went Top 5 and was amongst the top selling home releases of 2005. Singles released from it include Passing Through, Black and Blue, Drowning Pool and To the Bright and Shining Sun, containing that infectious guitar riff which helped The Walls become a household name when it was used on a major TV commercial. The Walls have supported the likes of U2, Bob Dylan and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as well as touring regularly at home and abroad.

In March 2006 they went to the United States where they played to packed houses in New York, LA and Austin Texas as part of the SXSW Music festival and they were invited by Nic Harcourt to perform a session on his legendary “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show on KCRW.

Over the following two years the band played in France, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and undertook their first ever trip to Australia where Crowded House offered them lucrative support slots on their massive re-union gigs in Sydney and Melbourne in 2007.

The band built their own recording studio in Dublin and in 2008 they retreated into the darkness to work on album number three. Work has finished and the album will be released in 2011.

Steve and Joe took a break from recording to perform a set of new songs at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin Texas on March 20th. In June 2010 they released a double A-sided single “Carrying the Fire” and “Phantom Power”, both tracks from the forthcoming album “Stop the Lights” due to be released later in 2011.

A four-track EP “Bird in a Cage” will be released in March 2011, containing two tracks from the album and two previously unreleased songs.

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