Theme Tune Boy

Tonight’s typically diverse bill brings three of Limerick’s best down the N20 for our appreciation. If THEME TUNE BOY may not yet be a household name, then you may know his alter ego Niall Quinn rather better as the drummer in veteran Indie quirksters The Hitchers. In his new guise, he’s released three ace EPS of idiosyncratic Punky Pop and tonight he shows what a natural he is standing centre stage.

Although he’s armed with merely a battered acoustic, woolly hat and combat jacket, Niall’s brilliantly off-centre wit and hilariously skewed worldview instantly eclipses the standard singers and strummers you’re often forced to sit through at the wrong end of the evening. Instead of the regular ‘sensitive’ singer/ songwriter fare, he’s a one-man Half Man Half Biscuit, writing songs about H.R Pufinstuf and black metal bands being photographed in graveyards - y’ know, the stuff that really matters. Perhaps his best of all is the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it ‘Rose’ (surely the best sub-1 minute break-up song this writer’s ever heard), but if you head over to Bandcamp you’ll discover there’s a lot more where that came from.
- whisperin and hollerin