Words & Photos By Ken Grand-Pierre
After releasing one of the finest (and certainly funnest) albums of 2009, Dublin based band Fight Like Apes (which is: Vocalist/synth player Mary-Kate “MayKay” Geragthy, Vocals/synths player Jamie “Pockets” Fox, Bassist Tom Ryan, and Adrian Mullan on Drums) treaded their way into the frozen tundra that has become New York City. The band was scheduled to play at the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan and Union Hall in Brooklyn and luckily enough for me I got to sit down with them in a pizza shop not too far from Mercury Lounge for a wicked interview on touring, success, and why being a band from Ireland is simply awesome.
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