Dopamine Fix have released their debut single, Welcome To The Sharktank. We asked them the BIG questions . . .
Dopamine Fix are Aidan Macnamara (voice, guitars) and Eoin Devereux (synths) and Welcome To The Sharktank was recorded between Berlin, Coventry and Limerick and is available as a digital and 7" vinyl release via Galway label Blowtorch Records.
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In the words of the group's "manifesto", "With a nod to the Dadaists, we create post-punk, experimental and electronica which aims to unnerve, to disturb and to question.
"It is not a song; it is a mirror with teeth."
Tell us three things about yourself . . .
Eoin: Dopamine Fix is a duo. We are both doctors. Aidan is a medical doctor; I’m an academic one. I can’t fix broken legs, but I can write poetry. We write from two very different but complementary perspectives. Outside of our professional lives we have always been artists/writers/musicians. Other than music, we have very little in common with each other.
I interviewed Bono in a Fiat Mirafiori in 1980.
In a previous life, I wrote the Bank Holiday 100 Question Quizzes for the late Gay Byrne.
How would you describe your music?
Aidan: Post-punk, experimental and electronica which aims to unnerve, to disturb and to question. Our first single, Welcome To The Sharktank, is a soundtrack for the alienated and the awake - aimed at those, like us, treading water in a dystopia they never asked to enter. Equal parts urgency and melancholy, it pulls you under and dares you to swim.
Who are your musical inspirations?
Eoin: The Virgin Prunes, Joy Division, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, The Fall.
What was the first gig you ever went to?
Aidan: Echo and the Bunnymen SFX, Dublin in 1983.
What was the first record you ever bought?
Eoin: Looking After No. 1 by The Boomtown Rats.
What’s your favourite song right now?
Aidan: Can I be greedy and take two? Wolf Like Me - TV On The Tadio. It’s like putting 2000 volts through your brain. Psycho Killer by Talking Heads – "I can’t seem to face up to the facts …. "
Favourite lyric of all time?
Eoin: "His mother bought him a synthesizer, got the Human League into advise her, now he’s making lots of noise, playing along with the art school boys" - My Perfect Cousin by The Undertones.
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Aidan: Atmosphere by Joy Division. Fragile beauty - like a cobweb on grass in the morning dew.
Where can people find your music/more information?
We can be found at Blowtorch Records and all the usual music platforms - Instagram - @the.dopamine fix and on X @dopaminefix1.
Alan Corr
