NewDad

2024 turned out to be the biggest year yet for Galway, Ireland band NewDad, with the release of their debut album MADRA at the beginning of the year followed by a tour and numerous festival dates. Earlier this year the band saw the departure of bassist Cara Joshi and now, down to three official members in Julie Dawson (vocals & guitar), Sean O’Dowd (lead guitar) and Fiachra Parslow (drums), they release their brand new EP 'Safe'. 

It was the second edition of Edinburgh Psych Fest and we headed down for the day to celebrate with a great musical line-up.

We spent our weekend down by the sea at Boardmasters.

We spent our weekend at Pikehall enjoying four packed days of live music, check out what happened on the Friday of the festival.

A packed day in Glasgow, find out what we thought of Saturday at TRNSMT.

The event is taking place on 1st September 2024.

Towards the end of 2023 many media outlets made their predictions of which bands would break through in 2024, and NewDad seemed to be on every one of them. Big things are expected of the Galway four-piece this year, starting with the release of their debut album 'MADRA', their first on Fair Youth/Atlantic Records. Here's what we thought of the highly-anticipated record...