Dublin six-piece Silverbacks have returned with a new song, ‘Selling Shovels’. Recorded with Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, it marks the band’s first new music since their 2022 LP “Archive Material”.
Discussing the single, vocalist Daniel O’Kelly said in a statement: “The idea for these lyrics came from a habit I have – maybe everyone does it? When reading a historical figure’s wikipedia page I often lose interest and so I jump straight to the ‘personal life’ and ‘death’ part of the page to see how they died and the circumstances they were in at the time.
The lyrics flicker between mundane distractions and fairly horrific images of war. “Selling Shovels” is a reference to ‘selling shovels during the gold rush’.
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