Biography
Since their debut on the music scene in 2009, one thing that everybody has been able to agree on about Ireland’s No Monster Club is… well… nothing, really.
Their music has been variously referred to as “garage rock” (Austin Town Hall), “no bullshit pop” (Tiny Mix Tapes), “jangle-thrash” (My Old Kentucky Blog), “lo-fi tropical surf-pop” (Nialler9), “bedroom indie” (Impose Magazine), “sugary art-pop” (Gimme Tinnitus), “new wave-y indie rock” (Brooklyn Vegan), “like a stripped-down, sugar high Pet Sounds” (NYLON Magazine) and – perhaps most questionably – “a bit like Girl Talk” (Vice Magazine). When their 2011 Young Guts Champion EP ended up on the soundtrack of a number of Australian surf films, they even found themselves the toast of beach bums across the world.
What began as the solo project of Bobby Aherne, No Monster Club has featured a revolving cohort of collaborators, including Paddy Hanna, Mark Chester (Ginnels) and M.SORD (Jon Spencer and the HITmakers). In 2019, Aherne decided to adopt the name Sir Bobby Jukebox to start differentiating his solo material from the strictly collaborative future output of No Monster Club.
To date, SBJ (often accompanied live & in studio by of the Popical Island collective) has toured across the world, appeared on Irish & American TV, recorded a session on legendary radio station WFMU, been cited in books by John Hodgman and James Acaster, and shared a stage with acts like The Polyphonic Spree, Wavves, HEALTH, Girls Names, Even As We Speak, Jeffrey Lewis, Abe Vigoda, JEFF The Brotherhood, Juan Wauters, So Cow, Sic Alps & Ariel Pink.
No Monster Club's music has also been released by a array of independent record labels, including Emotional Response, Mirror Universe, Popical Island, CF Records, Cool For Cats & Already Dead Records.
Their music has been variously referred to as “garage rock” (Austin Town Hall), “no bullshit pop” (Tiny Mix Tapes), “jangle-thrash” (My Old Kentucky Blog), “lo-fi tropical surf-pop” (Nialler9), “bedroom indie” (Impose Magazine), “sugary art-pop” (Gimme Tinnitus), “new wave-y indie rock” (Brooklyn Vegan), “like a stripped-down, sugar high Pet Sounds” (NYLON Magazine) and – perhaps most questionably – “a bit like Girl Talk” (Vice Magazine). When their 2011 Young Guts Champion EP ended up on the soundtrack of a number of Australian surf films, they even found themselves the toast of beach bums across the world.
What began as the solo project of Bobby Aherne, No Monster Club has featured a revolving cohort of collaborators, including Paddy Hanna, Mark Chester (Ginnels) and M.SORD (Jon Spencer and the HITmakers). In 2019, Aherne decided to adopt the name Sir Bobby Jukebox to start differentiating his solo material from the strictly collaborative future output of No Monster Club.
To date, SBJ (often accompanied live & in studio by of the Popical Island collective) has toured across the world, appeared on Irish & American TV, recorded a session on legendary radio station WFMU, been cited in books by John Hodgman and James Acaster, and shared a stage with acts like The Polyphonic Spree, Wavves, HEALTH, Girls Names, Even As We Speak, Jeffrey Lewis, Abe Vigoda, JEFF The Brotherhood, Juan Wauters, So Cow, Sic Alps & Ariel Pink.
No Monster Club's music has also been released by a array of independent record labels, including Emotional Response, Mirror Universe, Popical Island, CF Records, Cool For Cats & Already Dead Records.
