Madams Last Discovery, or Madams as their fans have affectionately nicknamed them, are a psychedelic post punk band carrying an explosive unapologetic sound as a tyrannical mix of Sean Ryder’s Happy Mondays, on a three-week Belfast bar crawl, having run into David Byrne, Grian Chatten and the devil along the way. Would you be coming back from a night out like that?
Based in Belfast the band has been together for 3 years. During 2025 they toured the UK, performed at Stendhal, Output festival, Whelan’s Ones to Watch and supported Inspiral Carpets.
To start the year running Madams released their exhilarating track “Orange Juice” in January. This featured on BBC Radio 1, Radio X, RTÉ 2FM, Hot Press Magazine and more.
Now to follow-up its predecessor the band releases one of their oldest tracks on the setlist ‘The Message’. This track has been notorious at Madams live shows with its lyrical tribute in the chorus to the world-famous town of Strabane*.
This is followed by announcement of their debut EP “The World’s End” which is to be released on the 11th of March.
This is the second single off Madams Last Discovery have released off their debut EP and one of the oldest songs to still feature in the set. Written back in 2022 back in school “The Message” is a track that has grown with the band over the years changing with each new influence.
Nathan Shawe (Guitarist) – “I was really into a band called ‘Eleven’ at the time, and Alain Johannes’ style of playing, that’s where the chuggy, slow, swung style of playing was taken from. The guitar part was first brought to us by Flinn and was at a much faster pace. This is where I came in and slowed everything down, it was the first time we had a song like this. However, after being in our set so long, it has evolved so much, with us adding elements to try and make it more impactful and punchier for a live audience. There’s a lot of emotion in just the instrumentation of this song alone, especially as it has a real groove to it, and I think we all feel that when performing.”
Flinn O’Grady (Lead Singer) – “I ended up writing the lyrics in my head while running late for a bus, I remember scribbling them down on my hand. I just wanted to just start with something very cliché with the main line being ‘Hey You’.
I have no idea where it came from but for some reason I wrote about ‘a job down the alleyway in Strabane’. I couldn’t even tell you the last time I was there, but especially at our first few gigs people would come up and say, ‘I love that Strabane song’.”
This slower style of track is where the groove influence, running through each member of Madams blood, really takes centre stage. With each live performance, the song is without fail met with a row of head bangs.
Artwork by Flinn O’Grady.