The River Fane

The River Fane is an experimental folk-rock band based in Dublin City.

The band started out in 2009 as a recording project for Wexford natives Derren Dempsey and Johnny Fox, who had previously played together in hard-rock band ‘Laminate’ and who had been developing a good working understanding of one another’s more subtle creative inclinations through a number of collaborations on each other's solo efforts (see ‘Johnny Fox’ & ‘Swallowing Shoes’).

The River Fane project initially spawned two self-recorded EPs; the exploratory and decidedly lo-fi EP1, and the more considered, evolved and sonically lush EP2. The two EPs were released as a single 12” vinyl album in the summer of 2011 and can be found digitally at http://theriverfane.bandcamp.com/.

The band became a four piece at the beginning of 2011 and went on to play a host of shows around Ireland before circumstances forced the band into an indefinite sabbatical (Johnny spent some time living in Brazil, while Derren kept himself busy playing as part of Cathy Davey’s live band).

The band regrouped in mid-2013 - with Neil Paltridge reassuming his position as the bands’s bassist, and Oisín Trench (ex-Enemies) taking over on drums - and went about figuring out what it was that the band would go on to become.

The ensuing process of discovery has produced a band with altogether different dimensions to that which preceded it, a wealth of newly recorded material and a musical togetherness brought about from mutual appreciation and understanding and a collective surrendering to the moment and to the unknown.

The band released the five track EP, ‘Ah Here’ in May 2015, with a full-length album to follow later in the year.