Setlist

Brother

You vs. Me

Ephemera Poem (spoken word by Stevie Appleby)

The Garden of Death

The Factory

Tour Dates

05/27/16 Manchester, “Dot To Dot”
05/28/16 Bristol, “Dot To Dot”
05/29/16 Nottingham, “Dot To Dot”
06/01/16 London, Village Underground
07/17/16 Suffolk, UK “Latitude Festival”
07/23/16 Dublin, Ireland Iveagh Gardens

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Little Green Cars

Here’s a little secret– Little Green Cars are being driven by minors. As lead Stevie Appleby (vocals/ guitar) put it mid-way into their 60 min. set, “we’d love to join you drinking, but with these black ‘X’s’ on our hands…”
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Ahead of their tour-ending final North American stop at the Cedar Cultural Center, Dublin alt/indie-folk band Little Green Cars stopped in to local record store The Electric Fetus, to perform a gentle but arresting twenty-minute set followed by a meet and greet, in support of second full-length album, Ephemera (on Glassnote/Island Records).

Little Green Cars

Adam O’Regan, Stevie Appleby, Faye O’Rourke, Donagh Seaver O’Leary and Dylan Lynch played an enjoyable four-song acoustic set, though were also looking forward to returning home to Ireland for a brief break, before beginning a European summer tour.

Without fanfare or even proper intro, the band began with ‘Brother’, armed with only acoustic guitars, handheld percussion, and small keyboard. ‘You vs. Me’ brought tall and usually shy singer Stevie Appleby to the forefront, supported by the band’s pitch-perfect harmonies and gentle finger-plucking.

“We have a new record out, and I wrote a poem about it” Appleby said next, mentioning that “Ephemera means all things must pass” as he summed up the album’s vision and its place amongst all the other musical works in the marketplace.

“Today is actually the last day of our seven-week tour… we’re gonna make you smell us now” Appleby joked as the quintet moved away from the amplification and speakers and stepped forward, to finish their set off-mic and as close to the gathered crowd as possible.

‘The Factory’ proved a proper set closer, it’s gospel-tinged chorus of “Jesus, Mary, Mother of God, I’m alive again” ideally suited to their well-honed harmonies, perfected from rehearsals and countless hours in tour vans, practicing acapella.

The W.B. Yeats poem of the same name that inspired the new album reflects its themes of transitory enjoyment and random items of short-lived importance in its lines, “Before us lies eternity; our souls are love, and a continual farewell.”

With an endearing free acoustic set, Little Green Cars provided the apt farewell to North America… until the next time.