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I realise it can be difficult to find something to do in Dublin on a Saturday night which doesn’t involve rubbing shoulders with people in short-sleeved Ben Sherman shirts who, having just seen their bird get off with a trainee garda in one of the capital’s more salubrious niteclubs, are stomping around the city centre looking for someone with spectacles and a bony nerdlike frame to punch in the face.

Well have I got news for you! Fresh from their triumph as winners of the coveted Artist of the Week accolade on Tom Dunne’s Pet Sounds, The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra bring their gentle, witty, melodic but still quite rocking sensibility, understated good looks and leather-jacket cool to Slattery’s on Capel Street TONIGHT.

The BPLO are led by none other than David Blake Esq, who hardcore Dublin scene merchants will recognise from his regular stints at David McWilliams’ Leviathan political cabaret. David (Blake that is, not McWilliams) is one half of Leviathan’s dynamic White Cholera duo along with Eanna Hickey of The Carnival Saloon.

David has been producing textured, accessible but mathematically intriguing patterns of melody in his bedroom for some years now and polished them to the degree of shiny perfection which makes them ready for mass consumption. David was very good at languages in school (he won a Spanish prize and was pictured in the local press) and his lyrical wordsmithying continues reflect this facility. If you’re still unsure, you can listen to the BPLO’s Fireside Chat EP here as you carry on browsing around the rest of the Interwebs. Also available at the link is the BPLO version of The Sugababes’ Hole in the Head which featured on The Ray D’Arcy Show covers album, Even Better Than The Real Thing.

If, like me, you’d like the opportunity to listen to good music surrounded by good-natured people while enjoying creamy pints and middle-brow conversational stylings, doors are at 8 p.m. and admission is a mere €8. As the band points out on their site, this is the price of a Mars bar in Dublin.

And I guarantee you won’t get beaten up.