Glasgow indie-punk band Heavy Rapids self-release their debut EP ‘Cash In Hand’. It’s a flurry of riffs and impassioned proclamations on everyday routines and situations, as well as social predicaments particular to their hometown, and the UK in general. 

The previously-unreleased ‘Hurricane E’ is about escaping your week day problems at the weekend with the people you love. The collection also includes the rip-roaring ‘Infected Nightmares (Frankenstein)’, which has seen significant support from BBC Radio 1, including love as Tune of The Week on The Indie Show, and the bracing ‘Going Down’. Latest single ‘Paisley Pattern’ is about the vicious cycle of violence and crime in the town the band have grown up in. As guitarist Jamie Crawford says, “it’s a working class town with a lot of great history but in the last 40 years it has seen its decline into a notorious crime hot spot. Over the years it's had the highest murder rate in the country and although the town doesn't look to be getting any better, it's home to most of the best people I've met in my life.”

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The Minutes are: 
Mark Austin – Lead Vocal and Guitar
Shane Kinsella – The Drums
Tom Cosgrave – The Bass Guitar

We are a 3 piece rock band from Swords, Co. Dublin and even have roots to Australia (Luke Rogers).
We originally formed in early 2009 but parted ways for a while in 2010..
We reformed again in 2011 and have been writing songs, recording and performing since..

Our sound is very rock based, influenced by progressive, grunge, metal and even dance styles..
We write all our own songs and try to gig around Dublin a regularly as possible.

We rehearse in coolock in BR metals.. You could say that is what gives us our industrial sound ;D..

That pretty much sums us up in a small box..
Any questions drop us a line...

..Of the progressively abstract-electronic persuasion
..With radically contrasting influences
..Background in sound engineering & music technology
..Catalogue of ep/lp releases & concept soundtracks, 2010 to date

We focus alot of our music making & enjoyment around jamming in rehearsal. Our music reaches each end of the genre spectrum with a main emphasis on a funk rythm, collaborated with bluesy riffs and a raw slap back vocal.

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