The Immediate
The Immediate were an avant-garde Irish rock quartet, based in Malahide. They made a considerable impact on the Irish music scene despite releasing only one album during the span of their association together. The album was In Towers and Clouds (2006). It received primarily positive critical feedback and was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year 2006. Alongside their sole album, several extended plays and singles were also released by the band.
They split suddenly in May 2007, citing "existential differences". The final line-up of the band consisted of David Hedderman (vocals, guitar, bass), Conor O'Brien (vocals, guitar, drums), Peter Toomey (vocals, drums, bass) and Barra Heavey (keys, guitar, bass, drums, backing vocals). The band was known for swapping instruments regularly throughout sets.
History
Early days
The band members were raised in middle-class Dublin during the Celtic Tiger boom years. O'Brien called it "a spiritually bereft place". They lived in Malahide. Hedderman, O'Brien and Toomey came together at St Conleth's College in Ballsbridge, Dublin. Heavey joined the band at a later stage and they first performed as The Subterraneans. Hedderman studied painting at the National College of Art and Design, while O'Brien studied for an arts degree in English and Philosophy at University College Dublin. The band took their name from their favourite adjective—"immediate".
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- In Towers and Clouds released: 2006
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