Republic of Loose are an Irish funk rock band from Dublin. Formed in 2001, the band currently consists of lead vocalist Mick Pyro, bass guitarist and vocalist Benjamin Loose, keyboardist Deco, guitarists and vocalists Dave Pyro and Brez and drummers and percussionists Coz Noleon and Andre Lopes. Additional percussion and vocals are provided by Gargos, Orla La, Emily Rose and Eve Ill Jones.
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- Republic of Loose are an Irish funk rock band from Dublin. Formed in 2001, the band currently consists of lead vocalist Mick Pyro, bass guitarist and vocalist Benjamin Loose, keyboardist Deco, guitarists and vocalists Dave Pyro and Brez and drummers and percussionists Coz Noleon and Andre Lopes. Additional percussion and vocals are provided by Gargos, Orla La, Emily Rose and Eve Ill Jones. With a self-described musical style of "the stuff your dad likes", the band signed to Big Cat Records in 2003, recording their debut album This is the Tomb of the Juice which was released in 2004. They were named "Hope for 2004" at the 2004 Meteor Awards. In 2005, the singles "Comeback Girl" and "You Know It" received significant airplay on Irish radio. Republic of Loose's second album Aaagh!, released in April 2006, reached number two in the Irish Albums Chart, achieving platinum sales and a Choice Music Prize nomination in the process. It spawned several more successful singles, including "Break" which achieved notoriety in South Africa where a radio station banned it following complaints regarding its allegedly explicit lyrics. Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil, Republic of Loose's third album, was released in 2008. That album produced their highest chart performer to date, "The Steady Song", which peaked at number twelve and stayed in the Irish Singles Chart for thirteen weeks. Having earned the admiration of several musicians, including members of Snow Patrol and U2, as well as Sinéad O'Connor—with whom they have recorded, released and performed a duet at the 2008 Meteor Awards—, and had their music played on radio stations in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, The Irish Times placed them at number thirty-seven in a list of "The 50 Best Irish Acts Right Now" published in April 2009, referring to them as "one of Ireland's most original bands" led by "the gruff singer with the extraordinary soul voice [... ] simultaneously channelling the spirits of James Brown and James Joyce in one fell swoop. Aside from U2 and Bell X1, they are the Irish band with the most airplay in their native country.
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- Sample of "Comeback Girl"—taken from the 2006 album ''Aaagh!'', this was the breakthrough hit of Republic of Loose, described by Irvine Welsh as "one of the greatest songs ever recorded".
- Sample of "The Steady Song"—taken from the 2008 album ''Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil'', this is the band's most successful and highest impacting release in the Irish Singles Chart to date.
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