Silverbacks Return With New Song ‘Selling Shovels’

Dublin six-piece Silverbacks have returned with a new song, ‘Selling Shovels’. Recorded with Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, it marks the band’s first new music since their 2022 LP Archive Material. Check out a video for it below.

Discussing the single, vocalist Daniel O’Kelly said in a statement: “The idea for these lyrics came from a habit I have – maybe everyone does it? When reading a historical figure’s wikipedia page I often lose interest and so I jump straight to the ‘personal life’ and ‘death’ part of the page to see how they died and the circumstances they were in at the time. The lyrics flicker between mundane distractions and fairly horrific images of war. Selling Shovels is a reference to ‘selling shovels during the gold rush’.”

Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Silverbacks.

Silverbacks 2024 Tour Dates:

Aug 23-25 – Féile Na Gréine, Limerick
Oct 19 – Workman’s Club, Dublin
Oct 20 – Coughlan’s, Cork
Oct 24 – YES Basement, Manchester
Oct 25 – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
Oct 26 – Shacklewell Arms, London

Konstantinos Pappis
Konstantinos Pappis
Konstantinos Pappis is a writer, journalist, and music editor at Our Culture. His work has also appeared in Pitchfork, GIGsoup, and other publications. He currently lives in Athens, Greece.
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