The Prongs are delighted to be playing Dublin's legendary Button Factory on May 30, and honoured to be joined by special guests Martin Bramah (House of All, Blue Orchids, The Fall) and rising punk-rock star Molly Vulpine.

The Prongs have been described as 'fake stars of a sociological fresco', having emerged from the pages of the critically-acclaimed The Now Now Express by John Fleming, a coming-of-age yarn about youth and reverse ambition. This is an incendiary New Wave cabaret dragged out of a hovel in E17 in 1985. Think The Fall meets Suicide meets Whipping Boy meets your granny's wedding band meets The Fontaines DC. Think sophisticated, literary verse over classy post punk musical etchings. It’s a bit theatrical with bespoke visuals and a six piece band. The Prongs played the Project Arts Centre in Dublin last July and tore the full house down. Then they proved they could be a real band too and did Whelan’s in Nov and filled that too. The Prongs appeared at The London Irish Centre in Camden on March 20th sharing a bill with Sean O'Hagan of Microdisney, Stereolab and The High Llamas. This one-off  show in their native Dublin  will celebrate the launch of a new four-track EP Map of A City, on ten-inch vinyl. Later in the year The Prongs are slated to play All Curious Minds at The All Together Now Festival in August. The Prongs' album Theme From The Now Now Express has been championed by the BBC's Gideon Coe on his BBC 6 Music show Riley and Coe. The Album was written by Fleming and Niall Toner along with award-winning cellist and composer Elliot Murphy and recorded and produced by Toner in his own studio. 

Did I mention the feature film? Well okay. It's an art-housey crime caper called The Accidental Assassination of a Saint and stars Irish Celtic rock legend Eamon Carr as St Patrick. It is currently concluding filming in Dublin under the direction of long-time Prongs collaborator and legendary conceptualist David Clifford.