Dark Room Notes make their mark

Dark room Notes come to the róisín Dubh this Saturday to promote the release of We Love You Dark Matter, one of the most impressive Irish debuts released this year. The Dublin-based band features two Galwegians, Menlo’s Ronan Gaughan and Rurai Ferrie, with Dubliners Darragh Shanahan and Arran Murphy completing the lineup.Dark room Notes’ debut was recorded in London over an intense two-week period. The band were well prepared before anything was put to tape, however. “Before we went over we had done a lot of pre-production,” says Ronnie, the band’s frontman. “We’d done a few months of working with Ciaran Bradshaw, our producer; we were kind of editing the songs and just making them exactly right, so that when we went to London we knew exactly what the song was.We weren’t going to be sitting around in the studio going 'maybe we should put that there or change this’. We already knew.”The band worked on a track a day, choosing 10 from 14 for their debut.Was this an intense or exciting way to record? “Both!” laughs Ronnie. “It was really good fun over there and it was really intense because it was 14 days in a row of 10 to 12 hour days. It was...