In the lead-up to the release of their second album, The Day Homo Sapiens Destroyed The Earth, Wasps vs Humans (WvHs) drop their fourth single, ‘Are You Having A Good Dream’, on Friday, 25 September.
Are you having a good dream? Wasps vs Humans pose the question. An up-tempo track with a busload of hooks and melodies, ‘Are You Having A Good Dream’ marks a departure from the hard-edged Wasp sound. But the lyrics remain sharp. “At school dressed in grey / They took the colours away.” We are moulded and shaped by life’s rules — conforming, moaning, but still doing as we’re told. Playing the game. Measuring ourselves against the bar we set. Tied to it into old age. When reality doesn’t match the dream, the sense of failure is all the more real.
WvHs are an anarchic mix of drums, bodhrán, whistles, punk poetry, songs and beats. A sonic assault, their brand of electronic punk-folk energy tackles disappointment, inner-city crime, a fame-obsessed culture and social decay with a huge dollop of desperation, balanced by equal measures of anger and wit, creating a darkly humorous soundtrack to modern life.
Initially a solo project, WvHs punk poet/drummer Carl Antony Plover has opened for the likes of John Cooper Clarke, Whipping Boy and Mark E. Smith’s The Fall. He has released an album and single with 80s avant-garde band 4,000,000 Telephones, receiving critical acclaim in the UK national press and airplay on BBC Radio’s John Peel Show.
Since joining forces with musician wife Linda Plover in 2024, WvHs have continued to expand their sound, with live shows that surge with intensity. Electronic beats fuse with distorted guitars; poems are screamed straight into your face, alongside post-punk hooks ensuring every performance is as confrontational as it is uncompromising and raw.
AUTUMN ALBUM TOUR DATES
Fri Oct 2 @6pm – Spindizzy, Dublin
In-store & signing
Sat Oct 3 – Crane Lane Theatre, Cork
OFFICIAL CORK ALBUM LAUNCH
HEADLINE SHOW with special guests THEWLIS
Fri Oct 9 @ 8.30pm – Thomas House, Dublin
special guests to JINX LENNON
Fri Oct 23 @ 8.30pm – Cleere’s Theatre, Kilkenny
TRIPLE BILL with JINX LENNON / WASPS vs HUMANS / CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT
Sat Oct 31 @1pm – Music Zone, Cork
In-store & signing
Fri Nov 6 @ 8.30pm – Spirit Store Dundalk
special guests to JINX LENNON
Sat Nov 7 @1pm – The Steamboat, Limerick
In-store & signing
Sat Nov 14 @ 8.30pm – Thomas House, Dublin
OFFICIAL DUBLIN ALBUM LAUNCH
HEADLINE SHOW with special guest THEWLIS
Sat Sat 21 @ 8.30pm – Record Rooms, Limerick
HEADLINE SHOW with special guests JAPANESE JESUS
Fri Dec 4 @ 8.30pm – Coughlans Live, Cork
Double Bill with JINX LENNON