Post-funk band Arco Arena playing Odd Mollies this Saturday

Dance rock / Post-funk band Arco Arena are performing in Odd Mollies this Saturday July 15, with Drogheda natives Rowdy Outsider and Cavan crew Mudd Wizard in support.

Arco Arena are a four piece post funk / dance-rock band from Dundalk whose live shows have been described as “a rolling cascade of starting-never-stopping riffs and crowd singalongs.”

Mixing heavy funk-focused shifting time signatures with straight up hooks, taking their inspiration from bands such as Idles, LaFaro, Rage Against the Machine, And So I Watch You From Afar, and Pixies

If you’re not sure what that actually means think of bands such as Foals, Battles, Chic, Adebesi Shank, Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Talking Heads and the funk stomp of Breakwater, The Bar-Kays, and Parliament Funkadelic and you’re in the right ballpark.

With tracks like the sledgehammer groove of ”Docker Martins”, the frantic funk breakdown of ”Death Breathers”, and trippy dance sections of ”Asleep Too Long” and ”I Push Planets” and other as yet unreleased tracks, they bring the term ”dance-rock” to a new level of performance.

They’ve performed in prestigious venues all over Ireland from The Spirit Store in Louth and the Roisin Dubh in Galway, to The Workmans Club in Dublin.

Currently on their 2023 Irish tour, a slew of self-released singles and E.Ps under their belt, a debut album in the works, and their recognition and inclusion in RTE 2XM’s ”Lockdown Livestream” the future looks extremely bright for Arco Arena in 2023.”

Here’s their song Docker Martins recorded a couple of years ago: