Jul 18, 2026 · 13 min · 10 segments
Music doesn’t just soundtrack history. Sometimes it captures emotions before we have the language to describe them. In this episode of *The Last Mixed Tape*, Stephen White explores how Dublin’s Gilla…
Sometimes it's hopeful, other times angry, and it rarely captures something we don't have the words for yet.
For a generation growing up in post-recession Ireland, that sound is Gilliband.
From the groundbreaking France 98 EP through to the genre-defining Holding Hands with Jamie, Gilliband gave shape to post-recession trauma and malaise via an Irish lens.
The sonic forefathers of Fontaine's DC, the murder capital in Sprint's, but to name a few, the Dublin noise rock act pulled the world around them into sharp focus in a collision of roaring sounds and singer Derek Coyley's stream of consciousness lyricism, oscillating between absurdist humour and profound vulnerability.
Sometimes it's hopeful, other times angry, and it rarely captures something we don't have the words for yet.
For a generation growing up in post-recession Ireland, that sound is Gilliband.
From the groundbreaking France 98 EP through to the genre-defining Holding Hands with Jamie, Gilliband gave shape to post-recession trauma and malaise via an Irish lens.
The sonic forefathers of Fontaine's DC, the murder capital in Sprint's, but to name a few, the Dublin noise rock act pulled the world around them into sharp focus in a collision of roaring sounds and singer Derek Coyley's stream of consciousness lyricism, oscillating between absurdist humour and profound vulnerability.
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