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‘I get idiot men calling me arrogant’: Irish post-punks Sprints confront the mansplainers and misogynists
As they announce a dystopian new album and play Glastonbury, Karla Chubb and co explain why they’re not keeping quiet about Palestine and sexism
Between the so-called “Craic Pack” actors (Cillian Murphy, Saoirse Ronan, Barry Keoghan), a tranche of garlanded authors (Sally Rooney, Paul Lynch, Anna Burns) and the zeitgeist-dominating likes of Kneecap, Fontaines DC and CMAT, Irish culture is evidently having a moment. Letter to Self’s forthcoming sequel, All That Is Over, leans harder into certain existing influences – Bauhaus, PJ Harvey – to arrive at a sound Chubb is semi-jokingly calling “gothic cowboy”, while expanding into less autobiographical territory by drawing on novels ( Prophet Song, The Bee Sting, the works of Octavia Butler) and video games (Fallout). In the early days of Sprints, Chubb felt pressure to perform solos “to prove that I could play the guitar, because people were automatically going to assume that I didn’t.” Today, she cares far less about the opinions of random blokes: “With this album, I don’t really give a fuck.”
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