So we're beyong delighted to let you know that since the start of 2018 we're back in Camelot Studios writing and recording our second album. We cannot wait to share our new sounds with you. In the meantime, make sure youre following us on Instagram (@youthmass) for clips and snippets. Big Love - YM

Thrilled to be hitting the glorious city of Kilkenny on Friday the 8th of December. We play The Bowery and we have support from local band The Wha. And the gang of deadlies that run the Bowery have promised a free pint for the 1st 30 people in the door on the night - how cool is that (Youth Mass promote sensible drinking).

All the gig details are on this Facebook event page below 

See you there Kilkenny 

Source: https://www.facebook.com/events/1598950947...

Thanks to everyone who came to the midnight hour on Friday, the place was jammed, and the atmosphere was unreal, we're still buzzing.

Big shout to Caoimhe in Gardiner Management and also Dave and the chaps in Whelan's, top night.

Also the support act, Segrasso, 4 lads from Dublin, they were excellent, we'd play with them again for sure, check 'em live if ya have a chance. https://www.facebook.com/SegrassoOfficial/

Also big love to Aaron from Aetherlight Photography for trying to make us look less of a shower of bellends than we actually are - a truly uphill struggle in anyone's book. https://www.facebook.com/AetherlightPhotography/

We'll share Aaron's handy work later in the week, however, check out the awesome shot of Willy, cool as shit.

So happy to be playing in the Underground on Dame street in December. It's a venture by Abner Brown and a brand new club, just opened in the summer. Fair fucks Abner, it's a sweet venue in fairness, and we can't wait to play on Dec 7th. More to follow on support etc but here's the event page on facer  https://www.facebook.com/events/497575967282653/

We play the midnight hour in Whelan's in early Nov, Friday the 3rd actually. This is the first in a series of gigs we'll be announcing that should take us round the country, and finish up back in Dublin.

This Whelan's gig should be awesome, we're always really well looked after by Dave and the team in Whelan's, plus, come midnight, people are a little looser and kinda dance their rocks off, its so much fun.

All dates and support acts to follow, in the mean time we've an event page you an join up to just here. https://www.facebook.com/events/1778202278887945/

Peace YM

Our guitarist/lead singer/general leader has only gone and got himself hitched!!!

Wipe those tears folks, it had to happen at some stage. Darren and his long term partner Belinda got wed at the weekend. The beautiful Bride and the Groom head off to South East Asia for a month, back just in time for Whelan's lol.

What a weekend at the Picnic. Played a 50 min set on the Body & Soul Stage and pretty much dodged the rain as well. Thanks to every one who checked us out - all the fun!

Got to share this pic we were tagged in by Fergal Lynch - the hack of us, but we loved every minute.

So thrilled to share this news with you. Body & Soul have asked us to play their main stage on Saturday evening at this years festival. We're so happy, it's one of the best weekends of the year, and the natural amphitheatre that is their main stage is so cool to hang out in, never mind play. We played that stage a few years ago and had such a buzz, dying for it again.

Stage time etc to follow, don't forget to like our Facebook page and give us an ol' folly on the tweet machine for more YM news. https://www.facebook.com/thisisyouthmass/

Peace

Sending big love and thanks to deadly Co Meath photographer and all round cool dude John Jason Gray http://www.johnjasongray.com/ for allowing us to you his image for our EP. As soon as we saw it we fell in love, he's a serious talent, no doubt.

It's just one more sleep until our gig in The Workmam's Dublin, check out the event here https://www.facebook.com/events/277867062625806/.

Also check out our page for one final chance to win free entrance for you and 3 pals, and copies of "Lost Futures" https://www.facebook.com/thisisyouthmass/

Thank you thank you thank you to the good folks at The Irish Times and more specifically The Ticket for including us as one of their "best gigs to see" for the upcoming week, and saying cool stuff about us too.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-best-gigs-to-see-this-week-barrow-river-arts-festival-kasabian-maverick-sabre-and-more-1.3055310 

Posters for our EP release, they seem to be popping up pretty much everywhere in town, seen any yet? We even spotted one on a bus! It's pretty awesome seeing yourself on a poster when you least expect it, but it's absolutely mortifying as well lol.

Big thanks to (our deadly partner in crime for this show) Gardiner Music, amazing stuff.

Yay!!!

Sure there we are, on the cover of a magazine.

Thanks so much to Pure M magazine for letting us ruin them for ever by putting our ugly mugs on their lovely publication. They'll surely regret it some day, in the meantime, we'll just ride this fame wave.

Our front man Darren has the chats inside too, a full 2 page spread no less, where he talks about highs and lows, about love and loss, he doesn't hold back (well there's not a whole lot of that but he mentions the gig in The Workman's for sure).

Check it out, it's a sweet publication with music news and reviews, movies, the lot, all for €2.

http://www.puremzine.com/product/pure-m-issue-21/

This deadly bunch go by Pillow Queens and we're lucky enough to have them play with us next Thursday at our Workman's gig in Dublin. They are only together about 6 or 8 months but already we love them. Another reason to come to our show next week. Click below and have a listen.

So we play The Workman's Club Dublin next Thursday 27th to mark the release of our latest EP "Lost Futures", in association with Gardiner Music and Pure M. Support comes from the amazing Pillow Queens and Sean Rooney. Tickets at €10 are available below, and all profits go to Daisyhouse Housing Association.

https://billetto.ie/e/youth-mass-tickets-187547

We're crazy delighted to share our new EP with you at the end of the month.

It's called Lost Futures and we cant wait for you to wrap your ears around it!!

To all you wonderful people, thanks for your fantastic support in 2016, we here at Youth Mass hope 2017 is amazing for all of you!!

Happy New Year, or Novi God, from us, and another equally talented 4 piece - our Russian friends Steklovata

https://www.facebook.com/events/1647220865570245/

It's just €10 in to see ourselves and Almost Ghosts this Saturday night, however, by clicking the link above, which takes you to our event page on Facebook, you can comment "Guest list" and we'll make sure you get in for free, that's right, nada, zero bucks, and you can keep that €10 and buy one of our T-shirts at the merch stand ;-) 

Here's the podcast of the Totally Irish Show with John Barker on 98FM, including Darren and Gavin's appearance from last night. The boys had a quick chat and played two songs as well, the current single due out this Friday - Somebody Help Me, and future release - Fragile (the boys feature starts about 45mins in).

Big Thanks to John for having us in, he's a hero of home grown music, and gives sterling support especially to emerging acts.

http://www.98fm.com/Totally-Irish-Podcast--December-4th-2016

Gavin & Darren are joining John Barker on his show Totally Irish tonight, just after 9pm.

They'll be playing a few stripped down acoustics songs, live, and having the chats about everything Youth Mass, just click on the link to listen in real time !!

http://www.98fm.com/reader/523.524.551/16/0/

We're delighted to say our latest Video for our new single will be out in a few days, keep it here to see it first

Delighted to be announcing the release of our new single, 'Somebody Help Me', and we've a new video to accompany it. It will be out on Friday, 9 December and will be available in a digital store near you! 

We're working on some new material and hope to have a single coming out soon. I don't want to give too much away at this early stage, so here's a shot from the studio....

This is a great interview with Darren and Barry for The Co-Present on RadioMade. There's a few songs played, along with the first ever public airing of our new tune Stutter. Listen to it here

Interview with Darren and 'Nevin'!! backstage after our Workman's Club Gigonometry gig. Big thanks to Dave for this.

So excited that we're to headline the main stage at FaceFest in Charlville Castle on June 20th. Check out the line up in the poster!

Really happy to be playing our first gig in the sunny South East on the 28th of March its going to be whopper. Its €10 in and Bring Your Own Booze! Support on the night comes from OM! 

This Saturday 28th February, we're playing a special stripped back show in Abner Brown's Barber Shop in Rathmines. It's free in and BYOB! Support is from the excellent Paddy Hanna and he'll be kicking things off at 8pm. Really looking forward to this one.

We're really looking forward to being on The Co-Present program on radiomade.ie this Friday the 27th of February, We'll be playing a few tunes and having a chat with the wonderful Dwayne and Niamh. Make sure you tune in between 1pm and 3pm! 

We've made the list. So cool YouBloom expect us to break through in 2015... along with other YM faves like Sleep Thieves, Spines and The Other Breed.

Read the full list here

Very happy with this review from the Evening Herald from our Gigonometry gig in The Workman's on Thursday: 

You can read the full review here

What a fantastic review U&I gave our recent live gig in The Workmans, read it online and see some pictures here

Sample quote:

If you want to know what a musical orgasm looks and sounds like, this is it right here

AMEN!!

We've never made it a secret that the Spirit Store is our favourite venue, so we've a tingling in our trousers for what is hopefully the first of many in 2015. This friday night 23rd of January and its free in: also on the bill is Tim Thieves, Hunting Hall and Tyrannasonic Deaf Rays.

Thursday night it'll be kicking off in one of our favourite venues, The Workmans Club. Legendary gig night Gigonometry have asked us to headline their first show of 2015. With Australia's Modify and Mannequin Sex Drive on the line up, its going to be a double whopper.

Wow, U&I Magazine has voted our debut album Morning Run | Evening Sun the best Irish album of 2014... I've always said the guys at U&I had the best taste! Thanks lads

Read the full magazine here:

http://issuu.com/uandimusicmagazine/docs/the_little_christmas_edition_2014

The Irish Daily Star has selected us as one of their tips for 2015!!

See the full rundown here

2015 can't start any better than being asked to play the Whelan's Ones to Watch festival. We're playing the main room on Saturday 10th of January. The line up this year is savage and we can't wait to see Elastic Sleep, Columbia Mills, We Raise Bears and Travis Oaks as well as discovering new bands... Tickets are €5 per day or €10 for all four days plus a free drink... Seriously, what the fuck, these are good times we live in 

Straight after our gig in Whelan's on Saturday night, we're legging it over to take over 8 Radio with Dan McDermott! He'll be playing our favourite songs and we can't wait!

Okay this is amazing, Ceol Collective have chosen our song In Slow Motion as SONG OF THE YEAR 2014. Wonderful wonderful stuff. Big thanks to Peter Nagle and all the writing staff at Ceol Collective

read the full article here

And here is the the video for the song in question, directed by Jason Figgis who is the director of The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann and used the song for the soundtrack to the movie

Check out Baz's opinions on everything 2014 in the latest edition of InDublin magazine

The interview is available online here:

http://www.indublin.ie/news/my-dublin-barry-mullarkey-from-youth-mass#.VMOlGUesWSp

Good man Dan Hegarty for including Morning Run | Evening Sun in his favourite albums of 2014. 

We love that guy, read the full list here

Big shout out to the readers of The Last Mixed Tape for voting Morning Run | Evening Sun number 3 in its 2014 Albums of the Year Pole.

read the full run down here

Gas interview with Nev is up on Ceol Collective! Check it out here

So we've been up and down the country the last few months and had an absolute blast so far. But wait... there's still more to come... Check out the remaining dates as we head into the last leg of the tour! Get a load of Darren in the poster, dreamboat!

This Wednesday and Thursday, we're getting prepared for the fright of our lives.... KELLS!

We're DEAD excited to be playing the Haunted Spooktacular Horror Farm, its going to be a Youth MASSACRE (i'm sorry about this)...

Tickets are available from the official website here

and its all kicking off this Friday in Dublin's Voodoo Lounge...

More dates are going to be added between now and the end of the year, so watch this space!

We're honoured to be playing this gig for such a just cause in the Voodoo Lounge this Friday night 10th October. 

There's a marvelous line up with Find Home, Meridian Sway, Tiny Vinyls and We Were Giants all taking the stage. We would really appreciate your support. Tickets are €10 and are available here 

Here's Hey You by We Were Giants... great stuff

We couldn't be more excited to finally see The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann which is getting its World Premiere at the Irish Film Institute's Horrorthon this October in Dublin.

We were kindly asked by the amazing director Jason Figgis to use our song In Slow Motion in the film and we obviously jumped at the opportunity... (the song is meant to be used in a savage part of the film too!)

Here's the music video Jason shot for In Slow Motion featuring Ellen Mullen the gorgeous lead in the film:

Absolutely thrilled to be supporting New York's My Brightest Diamond this Halloween night 31st of October in one of our favourite venues The Workman's Club.

Tickets are available here

We are so happy with the review Rob Moro gave Morning Run | Evening Sun.

Read it here

Choice quote: Third track on the album is ‘Dream On’, an absolute belter of a track that should be on some sort of AIB advert or intro to a reality TV show because of the catchy riffs and bass line that would suit someone staring into the distance in a self-reflecting pose.  It floats effortlessly into your subconscious, you’re likely to sing it back for a while

Blown away by this review by 2uibestow for the Gig for Gaza night in the Sugar Club. Big thanks to Peter for the kind words.

Big thanks to the team at Hotpress for this great review of OETKB in their latest issue.

Its so cool to be asked by the good people of Monroe's to be a part of their Rocktober Fest this October in Galway. 

The line up is fantastic and its great to see The Flaws making a triumphant return to live music.

Earlybird wristbands can be bought from www.monroes.ie for an amazing €5

Anyone heading to Stradbally this weekend only needs to know one thing, and that's that we're playing the Body and Soul Mainstage at 3.00 on Saturday... Get in there!!

Absolutely buzzed that Stephen White has declared Old Enough to Know Better 'Song of the Week' on his influential blog The Last Mixed Tape. 

Sample Quote: 'Wrapped around this sonic core is a fuzz laden fluorescent backdrop that keeps the music sounding progressive and alive'

Read the full revew here

We're really looking forward to playing this gig in The Sugar Club on the 17th September. All proceeds go to the Red Cross, the line up is amazing and the legendary Paul McCloone will be the MC.

We're stupidly excited to announce that we're playing Electric Picnic this year!! With some amazing acts on the line up like Foals, Mogwai, Wild Beasts etc. its going to be another barnstormer at the Picnic.

We play the Body and Soul main stage on Saturday 30th August.

This is a special one..

We've been very kindly asked to play the first ever Select Sessions night in Four Dame Lane on Thursday 14th August

Its going to be a unique gig as there will be a Question and Answers session with the band before we play!! The first 30 people there get a free cocktail/ beer and some free chicken wngs. 

Its like its made for me! The line up is a cracker too, with No Bread and JJ Jupiter also playing. Excited!!!

We're delighted to announce that our next single from Morning Run | Evening Sun is (drum roll) Old Enough to Know Better!!!!!!

It's going to be released on Pickled Onion Records on 8th of August and we can't wait! More details to follow...

We're over the moon here in Youth Mass HQ to hear that Dream On is going to be used during the build up for the big GAA game on national television on Sunday! Mayo are playing Roscommon and Dublin are playing Laois, should be two great games! and these lads will be there...

Tune into RTE 2 Sunday from 1.30pm...

Many thanks to Fionnuala Jones who wrote this very generous review of our album.

Read it here

We're absolutely ecstatic to announce that we're joining indie label Pickled Onion Records. We're really looking forward to working together with these guys. Here's to the future with Pickled Onion!

http://www.mp3hugger.com/2014/05/youth-mass-dream-on/

We're playing The Mercantile in Dublin this Friday 9th May. Its a legendary Chew Your Own Fat presents night and support comes from We Raise Bears and entry is FREE IN!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'd like to thank BBC's Stephen McCauley for the nice things he said about Morning Run | Evening Sun the other night. We're honoured.

You can listen back to the podcast here

Here's a great review for the album by Cora O'Malley for The Dirt and the Roots. Sample quote: 

Youth Mass are out to be more than just an average indie band, and this album is a triumphant first step towards that goal.

http://thedirtandtheroots.co.uk/youth-mass-morning-run-evening-sun/

We're so happy that U and I gave the album 10 stars...

Lovely review of the album here by Graham Mooney for State.ie

http://www.state.ie/album-reviews/youth-mass-morning-run-evening-sun 

We're absolutely honoured to have been asked by Able Archer to support them for the release of their new single Ghostmaker in The Workman's this Thursday 17th April.

Ghostmaker is a beast of a tune, an urgent shot of adrenaline weighing in just over the 3 minute mark. We're so excited to be playing with these guys.

We've worked in co-ordination with the good people of fanfootage.com to make a video for Close to Tears filmed solely by people who were at the Whelan's gig last week. If you were there and took a video, please upload it to their website.

You can upload the video and check out what people have posted so far from their website here:

https://fanfootage.com/shows/645-youth-mass-whelan-s-dublin-10-4-2014

Dream On is a 'cracker'!

Tomorrow night we're playing one of our favourite venues, The Spirit Store in Dundalk! Its going to be mega. Admission is €5 and there is some quality acts playing too. Here's the stage times:

Youth Mass - 11.45

Almost Ghosts - 11.00

Manifesto - 10.15

Cult Called Man - 9.30

Trampoline Scene - 8.45

Come down early to see Other Creatures support! Doors are at 8! Admission is €10.

Hopefully we'll see you there!

Last summer we were invited by Red Shoe Productions and Una Mullally to go to TG4’s studio in Spideal and record a few songs for their programme Ceol ar an Imeall. You can find out tonight how we got on with our first TV appearance airing at 11.30! It’s repeated tomorrow night at 9.00 for the early birds among us. We loved our time in Galway and were treated really well by TG4 and the crew. Thanks to Una, Gina, Eoin and the whole production team for making the experience so pleasurable for us.

Check out some behind the scenes action below!

YM

We're absolutely delighted to announce that we'll be launching Morning Run | Evening Sun on the 4th April. To celebrate we will be having a launch party in Whelan's on Wexford Street Dublin. Support on the night comes from the absolutely fantastic Other Creatures

Tickets are available here:

http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/youth-mass-other-creatures/

Its always a special moment when you make the news in Hotpress!

Check it out here:

http://www.hotpress.com/news/WATCH--New-Youth-Mass-video/10993677.html

Thanks to German site 'Guthoerenistwichtig' for blogging Dream On

http://guthoerenistwichtig.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/tageslied-youth-mass-dream-on/

Gavin & Darren are joining John Barker on his show Totally Irish tonight, just after 9pm.

They'll be playing a few stripped down acoustics songs, live, and having the chats about everything Youth Mass, just click on the link to listen in real time !!

http://www.98fm.com/reader/523.524.551/16/0/

Big shout out to the guys over on Golden Plec for featuring our new video for Dream On.

You can read about it here:

http://www.goldenplec.com/youth-mass-dream-video/

We're very lucky to have Dream On included on the most recent State.ie mixtape.

Have a listen here:

http://www.state.ie/features/states-new-music-mixtape-2

We're playing the Sunday Roast in The Mercantile, Dublin this Sunday 9th of February.

Here's the line up

9.15 - Steven Sharpe

10.00 - Late City Edition

10.45 - Mannequin Sex Drive

11.30 - Youth Mass

Hope to see you there