Biography

Formed by two founding members of The Stunning - brothers Steve & Joe Wall – the band’s debut album ‘Hi-Lo’ was released in 2000. U2 offered them a support at their Slane Castle show in 2002 after the band sent them copies. In 2002 the single ‘To the Bright and Shining Sun’ was used on a TV commercial and became a top ten hit in Ireland. Their second album ‘New Dawn Breaking’ hit number 5 in the Irish charts. The movie ‘Begin Again’ starring Keira Knightley & Mark Ruffalo features the track ‘Drowning Pool’ over the opening credits. The song ‘Open Road‘ proved a favourite with Nic Harcourt on his KCRW show Morning Becomes Eclectic and in 2006 he invited the band to Santa Monica to play in studio. Their third album ‘Stop the Lights’ (2012) included ‘Bird in a Cage’ which became a firm favourite with Irish radio. In 2013 and 2014 the band played their first shows in Russia before taking a break to concentrate on other projects. Drummer Rory Doyle records and tours with Hozier. Steve developed a career as an actor, appearing in the TV series The English (BBC/Amazon); The Witcher (Netflix); Raised by Wolves (HBO/Ridley Scott); Vikings (MGM); Tin Star (Sky Atlantic). He recently played the Jazz musician Chet Baker in a Dutch feature film ‘My Foolish Heart’, about the trumpeter’s final days in Amsterdam. Joe Wall is a lecturer in BIMM Music College, Dublin and bassist Jon O’Connell is an in-demand musician/producer in Co. Clare in the west of Ireland.