CHERYM- New Single and Tour News

CHERYM Slam Irish Gender Inequality On New Single ‘Alpha Beta Sigma’ Listen HERE

CHERYM also announced The Undertones Autumn 2024 German Support Tour + Badlands Festival Appearance and a Feb/Mar 2023 UK/NL Headline Tour Dates + Enter Shikari March 2024 Ireland Support Tour On Sale Now HERE

The opening track from their long-awaited debut album Take It Or Leave It, set for released on 16th February 2024 via Alcopop! Records, the track is a vitriolic statement on the gender inequality and violence against women which still permeate Irish culture.

Alongside the new single, the band are also delighted to announce that they have been hand-picked by bassist Mickey Bradley to support ‘Teenage Kicks’ legends The Undertones on their autumn 2024 German tour dates later this year.

Riding high in Irish tastemakers Hot Press Magazine’s Hot For 2024 list this month, Cherym will commence their own UK and Netherlands headline dates this Feb/Mar 2024, ahead of their support slots with Enter Shikari on their 2024 Irish tour dates (see below for listings).

Commenting on the single, drummer Alannagh Doherty says: “We are amidst an ongoing epidemic here in Ireland. Despite modern day Ireland having made some progress in terms of women’s rights, such as the closure of mother and baby homes in the late 1990s and the legalisation of abortion in 2018 (south of Ireland) and 2019 (north of Ireland), what remains is a deeply embedded culture of violence against women.” 

“In the last 5 years we have seen a huge rise in gender based crimes against women and girls in this country. We have witnessed the trivialisation of violence and victim-blaming attitudes from the police, the government and the media. ‘Alpha Beta Sigma’ is about how gender inequality permeates every single aspect of our society. It is about the threat that men and patriarchy pose to women in this country. It is about the reclamation of our autonomy and our rights. It’s about freedom from fear and freedom to physical integrity, and overall it’s about having the freedom to just BE a woman.” 

The band recorded their forthcoming debut album Take It Or Leave It in 2023 with long-term producer and friend George Perks at Vada Studios in Alcester, just outside Birmingham. Not only is Take It Or Leave It chock full of pop-punk hooks and melodies, it’s also bravely and lucidly political—much more so than anything the band have written previously.

“We wanted this record to be our testimony as a band on topics like abortion rights in the North of Ireland, the fall of the church, being trans, being gay,” explains Doherty. “We were well prepared for the haters whenever we wrote it, hence the album title, but I also think it’s important to note that this is probably the most honest we have ever been in our music and as a band.”

The single is the latest in a slew of successful releases from the album, and follows on from ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ which picked up multiple spins across BBC R1.

Roaring pop punk ADHD anthem lead single ‘Do It Another Day’ was released in autumn 2023, picking up a BBC R1 Future Artists play from Jack Saunders and landing on Spotify’s The Punk List.

Lead single ‘Taking Up Sports’ dropped last summer to coincide with the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The official music video saw the band take on the Derry FC football team at The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium, with a guest appearance from Tramp vocalist Sianna Lafferty as love interest. 

2024 Live Dates: 

Feb 21st - The Hug & Pint - Glasgow (UK)
Feb 22nd - Headrow House, Leeds (UK)
Feb 23rd - Gullivers - Manchester (UK)
Feb 24th - Paper Dress Vintage - London (UK)
Feb 29th - Willem Twee - Hertogenbosch (NL)
March 1st - V11 - Rotterdam (NL)
March 2nd - Luxor Live - Arnhem (NL)
March 21st - The Academy - Dublin - (Enter Shikari Support)
March 22nd - The Academy - Dublin - (Enter Shikari Support)
March 23rd - Limelight 1 - Belfast - (Enter Shikari Support)
March 25th - Molotow Music Club - Hamburg (DE)
March 26th - Cassiopeia - Berlin (DE) (Get Jealous Support)
March 27th - Naumanns - Leipzig (DE) (Get Jealous Support)
March 28th - Druckluft - Oberhausen (DE)
April 5th - The Arts Club Loft - Liverpool (UK)
April 6th - Badlands Festival - Lincoln (UK)
11th September - Paradiso - Amsterdam (DE) (The Undertones Support)
13th September - Markthalle - Hamburg (DE) (The Undertones Support)
14th September - Zakk - Dusseldorf (DE) (The Undertones Support)
15th September - ZOOM - Frankfurt (DE) (The Undertones Support)
28th November - SO36 - Berlin (DE) (The Undertones Support)
29th November - Beatpol (DE) (The Undertones Support)
30th November - Technikum (DE) (The Undertones Support)