Wasps vs Humans – new single ‘Are You Having A Good Dream’

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