THE STAR DEPARTMENT
COUNTY DUBLIN
The Star Department are a new two piece who have a burning desire to make music full of pop hooks, inventive arrangements & imaginative lyrics while still aiming to capture the heart of the listener.
They're debut album 'The Pea Green Boat' is very near completion & will be released in February '10 on Toy Ship Records. The band are currently rehearsing with new live members & will be gigging extensively from Autumn '09 including the CMJ Festival in New York (www.cmj.com)
Past highlights include:
Legendary producer Kramer (Low, Daniel Johnston, Galaxie 500) declaring himself a big fan and mastered both the debut & Auditions EP
The band were chosen as one of Today FM's (Irish National Radio) 'Rising Bands of 2007'
Their song "Embers" being chosen for the the Aer lingus in-flight track-list.
Gig highlights include:
-Support for The Futureheads at the Ambassador Theatre
-IMRO Showcase Tour
-Club NME Dublin
-Hard Working Class Heroes headline
-Numerous successful headline shows in Crawdaddy & Whelans.
"The Star Department offer quite a brilliant sonic and emotive outlay of unstructured indie-crossover forays and it's difficult not to fall into its charm. Underneath it all the themes run deep indeed." -frequency-ireland.com
