{"id":24071,"date":"2016-11-07T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=24071"},"modified":"2016-11-07T16:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T15:40:59","slug":"its-a-fight-to-the-death-on-dollymount-strand-with-not-monsters-new-single-sharpshooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/11\/its-a-fight-to-the-death-on-dollymount-strand-with-not-monsters-new-single-sharpshooter\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Fight To The Death On Dollymount Strand With Not Monsters&#8217; New Single, &#8216;Sharpshooter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/11\/its-a-fight-to-the-death-on-dollymount-strand-with-not-monsters-new-single-sharpshooter\/not-monsters-1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?fit=5500%2C3131&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"5500,3131\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Kevin Goss-Ross&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1434984208&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright:Kevin Goss-Ross&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"not-monsters-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?fit=640%2C364&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24073\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?resize=640%2C364&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"not-monsters-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>You&#8217;ll remember Not Monsters, the Dublin alt rock band who\u00a0came together when N\u00f6el Duplaa, of CFIT, joined forces with three members of Punch\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Face Champions, Dave Newell, Des Hickey, and Jakub Was. Back in May the quartet released their debut track, &#8216;On Tilt&#8217;, which we talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/05\/not-monsters-are-on-tilt-with-new-single\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not Monsters are known for their love of, in their words, &#8220;highbrow, complex social satire&#8221;, and have accompanied the release of their latest song, &#8216;Sharpshooter&#8217;, with a great video, their interpretation of how the US Elections would pan out &#8211; if in reality it wasn&#8217;t a fight for presidency of a rather powerful country, but rather a fight to the death on Dublin&#8217;s Dollymount Strand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_97978\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlpgt9ZSYYA?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Not Monsters - Sharpshooter\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/jlpgt9ZSYYA\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video is quite humorous, with\u00a0&#8220;Hillary&#8221; and &#8220;Donald&#8221; getting all hot and sandy\u00a0on Dublin&#8217;s famous beach, and Donald shown to be a bit of a bully in the beginning, when he knocks over a girl&#8217;s sand castle for no good reason and then throws money about. You&#8217;ll have to watch to see who wins, but we think\u00a0we know which way Not Monsters hope it will go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find out more about Not Monsters on their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.werenotmonsters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NotMonsters\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/werenotmonsters\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Sharpshooter&#8217; is available from the band&#8217;s Bandcamp page. <a href=\"https:\/\/notmonsters.bandcamp.com\/track\/sharpshooter\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Monsters comment on the US presidential elections with their new song, &#8216;Sharpshooter&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24072,"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":true,"_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":[9],"tags":[1345,6688,2566,8009,6793,251,8013,126,5710,5715,203,8010,8011],"class_list":["post-24071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-alt-rock","tag-beach","tag-cfit","tag-dollymount-strand","tag-donald-trump","tag-dublin","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-ireland","tag-not-monsters","tag-punch-face-champions","tag-rock","tag-us-elections","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-6gf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20585,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/05\/not-monsters-are-on-tilt-with-new-single\/","url_meta":{"origin":24071,"position":0},"title":"Not Monsters Are &#8216;On Tilt&#8217; With New Single","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"27\/05\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Irish alt rock quartet Not Monsters release their debut single, 'On Tilt', on May 28.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Artists","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/new-artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Not-Monsters-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13188,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/08\/introducing-cfit-throwaway-survival-machine-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":24071,"position":1},"title":"Introducing: Cfit &#8211; &#8216;Throwaway Survival Machine&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"24\/08\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"CFIT is an aviation term standing for 'Controlled Flight Into Terrain'. 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