KING CARA are an alternative rock band based in Dublin. The band consists of Jimmie Byrne (vocals, guitar), Ignas Baranauskas (guitar), Eoin Kinahan (bass), and Samuel Eliasen (drums), and they serve a boiling soup of fuzz-flavoured riffs, wry lyricism, and driving rhythms. After a series of searing live performances in venues across Dublin, including a headline gig in The Soundhouse, the band released their debut single ‘Favourite Crusade’ in March 2023.
KING CARA are returning with ‘Eden Quay’ on 10th April, marking this momentous occasion with a headline gig in the Workman’s Club Main Room on 11th April.
Workman’s Headline Gig 11/04/24 Tickets
“I suggest that you get your air guitars out, turn it all the way up to 11…make it a bit filthy as well, with some pedals, cos [Favourite Crusade’s] about to rock your world”
Del Osei-Owusu, Islington Radio
Jimmie Byrne explains the inspiration behind ‘Eden Quay’:
“I used to work in a nightclub in Dublin. We usually finished up around 3-4am. I was too cheap to get a taxi and there was no Nightlink to Drumcondra at the time, so normally I’d end up walking home. My route would usually take me through Temple Bar, down O’Connell Street and Dorset Street.
Every night, people would fill the streets as the late bars and clubs closed, almost all absolutely plastered. Their priorities were either getting home, or getting food. Queues of people would be waving for taxis like marooned sailors on a beach, and every McDonalds sign was a beacon calling the faithful to prayer. I found it surreal, it wasn’t a sight I was used to experiencing sober.
After one of these nights, I came home and couldn’t sleep. A guitar riff kept circling in my brain and keeping me awake. I recorded it on my phone, and the next day I wrote the lyrics, inspired by what I saw that night.”
‘Eden Quay’ was recorded in Audioland Studios by Anthony Gibney, and mastered by Simon Francis.
