He’s running with the pack

Boeckner happy Wolf Parade reformed

Canadian indie rockers Wolf Parade return to Dublin next week to showcase tunes from their new album.

The band released Cry, Cry, Cry last month – their first album in seven years – and will play Dublin’s Button Factory on Monday, November 20.

The four-piece – Spencer Krug, Dan Boeckner, Arlen Thompson, and Dante Decaro – formed in 2004 in Montreal and released three albums for Sub Pop: Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005), At Mount Zoomer (2008), and Expo 86 (2010).

After being on hiatus for five years, Wolf Parade announced last year that they were back and began playing a string of gigs.

Speaking about their 2016 reunion singer, Spencer Krug (circled) said: “The band itself is almost a fifth member of the band, something more or at least different than the sum of its parts.

“We don’t know who or what is responsible for our sound, it’s just something that naturally and consistently comes from this particular combo of musicians.”

Dan Boeckner added: “Once we got back together, I was playing guitar, writing and singing in a way that I only do while I’m in Wolf Parade. It’s just something that I can’t access without the other three people in the room.”

Meanwhile, punk rock activists Pussy Riot also play the Button Factory next week.

The trio hit the headlines five years ago when they were imprisoned in their native Russia for hooliganism after staging a performance in an orthodox church.

Riot Days – which accompanies band member Maria Alyokhina’s written memoir of the same name – is a show directed by Russian theatre director Yury Muravitsky that traces the story of the band’s notorious guerilla protest and what followed in the aftermath.

Marrying punk, electronica, theatre, documentary footage and protest, the show will stop off at Dublin’s Button Factory on Thursday, November 23. Tickets for both shows are priced €20 and available at Ticketmaster.