Lady Grinning Soul

As The Supremes so wisely put it way back in 1966, you can’t hurry love…

When you care deeply, passionately, obsessively about getting it right, time suddenly has no meaning.

Which may explain why Good Vibrations took seven months. And why The Beatles went underground and took quadruple the time to produce their 8th album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band.

For Kilcoole band Look To The Lady, pretty much straight after they unleashed their self-released debut single, 2014’s Mechanical Lights, they decided that, from then on, they would take their sweet time over every single song they released.

“We were very excited about that first EP,” says Josh Meakin today, one of the band’s two guitarists, “but, we also felt, hey, we could have made an even better EP if we’d waited a little longer. That’s why we’ve taken three years to follow-up Mechanical Lights. We wanted everything to be as great as we could possibly make it…”

The first fruits of Look To The Lady’s 3-year hibernation is My Name, officially released on Wednesday, June 7th at 5pm, and soon to be followed by a 6-track EP later in the year. With so much work in the bank, the band’s debut album will follow soon after.

Comprising of Kelly Bolger on vocals, Meakin and John Dunne on guitars, and the Newell brothers, Michael and Paul, providing the drums and bass. You can find out more about the band on their Facebook page here, and you can catch the Olga Kuzmenko-directed video for that groovy new single right about here.

In the meantime, we asked Josh about taking the long road, coming from a somewhat legendary musical family, and bringing Wham! to the mix…