Catharsis - Release - Rock & Roll
Name Your Queens
On April 19, Irish queer rockstars Pillow Queens dropped their new album, Name Your Sorrow. A painfully per fect break-up record, the band sat down with Alice Linehan to discuss how they created beauty from despair. Photo by Mark McGuinness.
It’s been two years since I last interviewed Pillow Queens for GCN ahead of the release of their second studio album, Leave The Light On. A lot has happened in that time. The band has toured around the world, with debut shows in places like Greece, Spain, Wales (and even Roscommon). They’ve sold out headline gigs in cities including New York, and flew the Irish flag loud and proud in another standout performance on The Late Late Show with James Cordon. The full list of their accomplishments is too plentiful to include, but I’m sure you get the picture - they’ve been doing pretty damn good.
Now, they are back on home soil, and three of the four members sit across from me at a hotel bar in Dublin, ready to reflect on the time gone by and tease their next era, which comes with the release of their new record. Christened Name Your Sorrow in a nod to Eavan Boland’s ‘Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet’, it sees the group chart unexplored territory, offering an uninhibited look at their artistry and humanity.