Tycho Brahe, Dublin indie band, play a late night gig at the Olympia on the 21^st of November. The band have just released their second album, played a festival on the continent and worked with Today FM's Donal Dineen providing music for one of his movies. Tycho Brahe is finishing an eventful year with a concert in the Olympia.

The musical talents of Carol Keogh and Donal O' Mahony were first unleashed on the Dublin music scene with The Plague Monkeys. The band had a very inventive and distinctive sound with Keogh's brittle and whispered vocals backed by O' Mahony shimmering, minimal guitar playing.

The band released two albums Surface Tension and The Sunburn Index and developed an audience of music fans who wanted something more adventurous and subtle than what the Irish music scene had to offer at the time. But the band were frustrated that they did not make more of an impact in Ireland and abroad and subsequently broke up. 

After a break of a year or two from music, Keogh and O' Mahony found themselves making music together again. They decided to involve Diarmuid Mac Diarmada, the multi-instrumentalist from The Jimmy Cake. The three band members  had played together in a previous incarnation called The Low Babies. They decided to christen their new band Tycho Brahe, after a famous Danish astronomer from the 16^th century.

Their debut album released in 2002, This Is showed a more musically confident band than The Plague Monkeys. The band blended sonic experimentation and complex music ideas with Keogh's expert vocals and eclectic lyrics.The album was well received at home and abroad with the B.B.C. playing “Your House from Mine” and John Peel featuring the album on his show.

During the summer the band released their follow-up album Love Life. The band has enough songs for one album but songs kept coming and the band saw two different styles of songs emerging and decided to make a double album with the individual titles Love and Life. This concert in the Olympia will top of a busy year for Tycho Brahe and galvanise their growing popularity. 

Time : 11pm
Tickets : €15

Tickets are available from Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.ie.

The Olympia
72 Dame St,
Dublin 2
Tel : 6793323