{"id":12368,"date":"2015-08-05T09:06:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T08:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2015-08-05T10:17:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T09:17:15","slug":"introducing-penrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/08\/introducing-penrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Penrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12642\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/08\/introducing-penrose\/penros\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Penros.jpg?fit=960%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,639\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Penrose\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Penros.jpg?fit=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12642\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Penros.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Penrose\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in 2013 Irish musician Darragh McGrane started Penrose as a two person acoustic act. This quickly built up hype, as the band performed at Dublin venues such as Sweeeney&#8217;s and The Mercantile, as well as through appearances on Balcony TV and Radio Nova.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the past two years, the band has grown and supported others such as The Mighty Stef and The Statics. Penrose also gigged at The Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest with Paddy Casey, an event which was well-received by those in the media that night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Penrose spent the following year gigging around Dublin, and after a few line-up changes have released their debut EP, which they recorded in January this year. &#8216;Live For The Dream&#8217; is a great first release from a band that can be described as a solid Indie Rock\/Pop band.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Penrose&#8217;s current line up includes\u00a0Caolan Fitzsimons on Rhythm Guitar, Bassist Mark Bolger and Drummer Alan Byrne joining Darragh McGrane on Vox and Guitar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find Penrose online on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penroseofficial.com\/home-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penroseirl\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/penroseofficial\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/penroseofficial\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Penrosemusic11\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. Live For the Dream is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ie\/album\/live-for-the-dream-ep\/id1021228513\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out &#8216;See You Again&#8217;, from their EP &#8216;Live For The Dream&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F208646716&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;color=ff5500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin band Penrose are a solid Indie Rock\/Pop band with a great debut album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[2299,251,286,1109,369,2343,67,77,2342,226,2344,2345],"class_list":["post-12368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","tag-debut-ep","tag-dublin","tag-ep","tag-indie-rock","tag-irish","tag-live-for-the-dream","tag-new-artists","tag-new-release","tag-penrose","tag-pop","tag-sweeneys","tag-the-mercantile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-3du","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19033,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/03\/penrose-on-tour-ahead-of-new-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":12368,"position":0},"title":"Penrose On Tour Ahead Of New Music","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"17\/03\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Ahead of new music coming out soon, Irish\u00a0band Penrose are setting off on tour - including dates in London. 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