Trains and rock ‘n’ roll have a lengthy lineage. The Iron Horse holds a special place in the lexicon of the blues, the language that much of rock music took as its own. Now Irish six-piece Fizzy Orange have added something new – a homage to the DART.
The often-criticised Dublin-Area-Rapid-Transit – to give the service its government name – is a fixture of life in the Irish city, so much so that it has seeped into the songwriting of Fizzy Orange. New single ‘Choo Choo’ is self-explanatory – from the riff down, it aims for directness.
90s leaning scuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll, it finds the six-piece adopting a real physicality to their sound, something that leans in to their live prowess. Initially a blues-driven monster, Fizzy Orange took the song apart, injecting some melodic inventiveness in the process.
A searing piece of guitar pop, it’s out now – they comment…
We first played this tune during a writing session in an attic in co. Leitrim last year. Kev (lead singer) had penned the lyrics about the experience of using our local train service in Dublin. The Dublin-Area-Rapid-Transit or the DART as it’s better known. Always late, northbound or southbound, we all got his experience straight away.
It was originally played as a fairly stripped-back blues. But once that distorted repetitive guitar riff came in from Jack (lead guitar) we knew this track had to come up to that energy. We recorded it a few days later in Sonic Studios back in Dublin. It’s our heaviest playing so far, the bass and drums could have filled out the track by themselves! Complemented with classic boogie-woogie piano playing and 60’s vocal harmonies, our own style and sound really starts to creep in.
Tune in now.
