Girl Band has been played on NTS in shows including Round Trip, featured first on 30 May 2014. Songs played include Pears For Lunch, Lawman and Salmon Of Knowledge.

Dublin, Ireland

The lineup: Dara Kiely (vocals, guitar), Alan Duggan (guitar), Daniel Fox (bass), Adam Faulkner (drums).

The background: Girl Band are the latest in a long line of "Girl" bands that includes such notables as Girls, Shy Girls, September Girls and Girl Unit - and that's not even mentioning the "Women" ones such as Women, Woman E and Woman's Hour. Usually when an indie band adopts the female sex (is there an indie band called Female Sex?…