DUBLIN’S BLEECH 9:3 SHARE NEW SINGLE AND DEBUT EP PLANS

Bleech 9:3 today announce their hotly anticipated self-titled debut EP – which is set for release May 15th on Polydor Records. The Irish four-piece also today share new single Underrated which was premiered last night by Jack Saunders at BBC Radio 1.

The band will hit the road for a mammoth run of live dates, which include a sold-out show at London’s Scala on May 16th; European slots alongside Keo, Wunderhorse and Nick Cave; and appearances at festivals including The Great Escape, Latitude, and Reading & Leeds. 

Headed up by Baz Quinlan (vocals/guitar) and Sam Duffy (guitar) – the pair met at AA, where Baz became Sam’s sponsor. The moved from Dublin to London together in 2024. “I think the vulnerability of those meetings helped us be a lot more comfortable with each other from the get go” they say about these first recordings. 

Bleech 9:3’s early singles have been metwith widespread critical acclaim from publications such as The Guardian, Dork, So Young, NME, The Line Of Best Fit, Kerrang! and Ralph Magazine. Radio support has been no less effusive with BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music heavily invested. 

On the new single, Underrated, Bazsays- 

“I wrote it at the end of 2024, it was one of the first Bleech songs that we jammed back then. Bad worship is a theme that runs through the EP. I felt driven to write about how it twists love into something else. How the twisting becomes the thing that you end up wanting.”

Underrated is accompanied by a new video – an intense, claustrophobic visual that showcases the band’s distinct aesthetic.

When Bleech 9:3 songwriters/guitarists Barry Quinlan and Sam Duffy first crossed paths in their early twenties, it almost seemed inconceivable that they hadn’t met before. Throughout their tumultuous teenage years spent gigging in various projects around Dublin, they’d lived near-parallel lives mired by the chaos-purgatory spiral of addiction; like two shadows cast by the same light but never touching.

In the throes of the early stages of recovery – when a better life still felt elusive and intangible, something to be hoped for, though not necessarily to be believed in – Barry and Sam were introduced to each other at a 12-step rehab programme. Barry soon signed up to be his new friend’s sponsor and take him through the process, and felt energised by the similarities in their ambitions and worldview.

“I think to find someone your own age, with the same dreams as you, from the same city and is also suffering from the same thing… we knew immediately that we could help each other,” recalls Sam. “You can lose your mind thinking about how rare that is.”

However unsteady their respective circumstances may have been at the time, a brighter, more creative future suddenly came into focus. In between “secret” writing sessions the foundations of Bleech 9:3 were born, giving Barry and Sam purpose to move forward. “From the point of view of recovery and sobriety, we shared an intrinsic understanding of each other. It felt like we were building something very, very special” says Barry.

Tour Dates

29th April  – Voodoo, Belfast, UK
1st May – Whelan’s, Dublin, IE 
2nd May – Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool, UK
3rd May – Gold Sounds Festival, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
4th May – SWG3 Poetry Club, Glasgow, UK
6th May – Waterfront Studio, Norwich, UK 
7th May – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK 
9th May – Projekts Skate Park, Manchester, UK (supporting Deadletter)
11th May – Camden Assembly, London, UK
12th May – Camden Assembly, London, UK 
14th May – The Great Escape, Brighton, UK
15th May – The Great Escape, Brighton, UK
16th May – Scala, London, UK
18th May – Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield, UK
19th May – YES, Manchester, UK 
21st May – Heartbreakers, Southampton, UK 
23rd May – Dot To Dot Festival, Bristol, UK 
24th May – Dot To Dot Festival, Nottingham, UK
28th May – Big Next, Trefpunt, Ghent, BE 
29th May – Dauwpop Festival, NL
30th May – Vestrock Festival,  NL
6th June – This Is Not A Love Song Festival, FR
10th June – Malahide Castle, Dublin, IE (supporting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
10th July – Les Nuits Secretes, Aulnoye Aimeries, FR
24th July – Latitude Festival, UK
25th July – Truck Festival, UK
26th July – Tramlines Festival, UK
30th July – Wilderness Festival, UK
2nd August – Kendal Calling, UK
6th August – Haldern Pop Festival, DE
7th August – AFF Festival, NL
13th August – Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, Steinberggasse, CH
14th August – Syd For Solen, DK
25th August – Custom House Square, Belfast, UK (supporting Wunderhorse)
26th August – City Hall, Cork, IE (supporting Wunderhorse)
28th, 29th August – Reading + Leeds, UK
29th August – Rock N Roll Circus, Sheffield, UK
4th September – Brighton Psych Fest, Brighton, UK
5th September – Manchester Psych Fest, Manchester, UK
6th September – Edinburgh Psych Fest, Edinburgh, UK
5th-7th September – Iceland Airwaves, Reyjkavik, IS
12th September – Misty Fields, NL