APPLICANTS

"They just might be bona-fide geniuses"
NME
Escape from Kraken Castle 8/10
"A band so riotus, so punk rock and so endearing as to be impossible. In an alternative universe Applicants would be playing Wembley and Muse playing The Dublin Castle. The most startling thing about these songs is that despite their anarchic jollity, you could imagine any one of them played on Radio 1 - even in the daytime!"
ARTROCKER
"where Atari Teenage Riot battles with ‘Into The Groove’-era Madonna in a world-pulverising showdown, replete with space-age weaponry and the inevitable plot-twist ending to leave you reeling".
DROWNED IN SOUND
"The intercontinental Applicants. parallel universe popstars with a fondness for fake blood and liver-destroying quantities of booze, and that's just on the bus to the the gig. Bring your own serviettes - it's going to get messy".
THE GUARDIAN GUIDE