Really Good Time
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Dublin trio Really Good Time announce their debut album Affirmations out 7th of August & share new single and music video for "Do It".
Today, Dublin trio Really Good Time share their new single "Do It" and announce their long-awaited debut album Affirmations, set for release on 7th August.
The announcement marks a significant new chapter for the band, who have spent the past few years establishing themselves as one of the most vital and combustible acts on either side of the Irish Sea.
Following a breakout 2025, that took them from SXSW to The Great Escape and Other Voices, and saw them share stages with Franz Ferdinand, The Murder Capital, and Gurriers. The trio enter this next phase sharpened, louder, and with their most fully realised work to date.
"Do It" arrives with a clockwork precision that barely conceals its menace. Motorik guitar riffs drip with attitude as the rhythm section locks in with an almost mechanical relentlessness, building the kind of tension that has no choice but to detonate.
Lyrically, the band are at their most unflinching, a graphic, grimly funny account of grinding through Irish suburbia in the teeth of a financial and housing crisis, of doing everything you were told to do and watching the goalposts move anyway.
Your dating app is Daft.ie. The bank told you to move back in with your da. The song knows exactly how absurd that is, and it doesn't blink. It is tense, coiled, and enormous; the kind of song that turns a crowd into a single, bouncing organism.
Speaking on the single, frontman Wastefellow said:
"'Do It' is a song about impossible tasks. It's about trying to do everything you have been told to do in life, and never achieving what was promised. The goalposts have shifted, no, that isn't how you do it.
"Are you angry? Are you ashamed? Go and roll that stone up the hill again."
The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Sophie O'Donovan, the filmmaker behind the band's previous video "Bob Dylan Was On Pawn Stars in 2010". Speaking on the collaboration, Wastefellow said:
"Sophie wanted the visuals to embody what the song is about in the abstract, and in exploring that, she tapped into something that runs through the performance and the sonics of the record - presenting us as completely at the mercy of the world around us."
Affirmations brings together "Do It" alongside previous singles "Shit One" and "Bob Dylan Was On Pawn Stars in 2010". More than a collection of songs, it is a record that sits with the temptation to disengage - from the news, from other people, from the relentless grind - and refuses to give in to it.
On the album, the band say:
"'Affirmations' is a collection of songs about turning inwards when this fresh hell becomes too much to process. Why not fixate on some petty little anxiety instead? You'll probably… feel better?"
"We find ourselves at a curious moment, where our techno-fascist god-kings are taking any opportunity to decry empathy and introspection as the root of all evil, while their pathetic devotees and mouthpieces try to boil every human interaction down to something transactional."
"It's easy to look at the horrors unfolding around the world right now and just switch off, give in to your own powerlessness and say 'fuck it, it's all fucked anyway'. The culture and the attention economy that suckles it almost seems to demand this from us."
"That feeling must be spat out and rejected."
"Lurching from one panic attack to the next, our album ultimately seeks a rejection of navel-gazing nihilism - by recognising how easy it is to slip into, then pointing at it and laughing; whether that's trying to escape the indignity of other human bodies on a crowded Dublin bus by glueing your eyes to a phone, or a stream-of-consciousness existential breakdown about finding Bob Dylan on an episode of Pawn Stars."
"Go climb a tree, scream into a pillow, and tell your friends you love them."
Since kicking off their new era with "Shit One", Really Good Time have earned an ever-widening circle of support. Championed on radio by Steve Lamacq (BBC 6 Music), John Kennedy (Radio X), Gemma Bradley (BBC NI), and RTÉ 2FM's Dan Hegarty and January Winters, the band have also drawn consistent praise from Rolling Stone UK, CLASH, and The Sunday Times.
Live Dates
Sat 9th May - Glasgow - Road to the Great Escape - King Tut's
Sunday 10th May - Huddersfield - Amped
Tue 12th May - London - The Sebright Arms
Wed 13th May - Bristol - The Croft
Thu 14th May - Brighton - The Great Escape
Fri 29th May - Galway, Ireland - Éalú Le Grá
Sunday 31st May - Eupen, Belgium - Eupen Musik Marathon
Sun 30th Aug - Dublin - Collins Barracks (w/ Super Furry Animals & Baxter Dury)
