Whirlwind success of young kingscourt band

Kingscourt-based rhythm and blues band The Whereabouts have just celebrated their first year together with a fantastic publishing and management deal. The four lads, Wayne Watters Reilly, Evan Murphy, Dara Curtis and Joseph Adcock, all 17 years old, have been on a rollercoaster ride since they won a local open-mic contest a few weeks after they got together.
In August last year they recorded a six-song EP in Matt Adcock's home studio (Joseph’s father) and made a video with an Iphone all of which were uploaded to YouTube. These were noticed by Dawn Moonan, Liverpool, who works in the music industry and she in turn told her colleague’s in LA.  As a result, David Chatfield, LA music attorney and career advisor came to see them in Dublin in December and he signed a representation deal with them.
In June they signed a worldwide, multi year Synch representation agreement with Peermusic, one of the biggest music publishing companies in the world.
They have just recently signed a very exciting management deal with Steve Strange (Coldplay, Black Eyed Peas, Kodaline), Stirling McIlwaine (Daughtry) and veteran manager Andy Gould (Rob Zombie, Linkin Park, Pantera, Guns'n’Roses).
Steve Strange (based in Belfast, London and LA) and McIlwaine and Gould, (based in LA) told the lads when they came to see them rehearse in Kingscourt in July, that they are friends and they wanted to work together on a project. Luckily for the Whereabouts, they are the project they have chosen and they now have three of the best names in the music business to guide their career.
This year they have played some exciting gigs including Liverpool’s Sound City Festival, also supporting Daughtry at the Acadamy, Imelda May in Galway, Tom Odell in Cork, Imagine Dragons in Belfast and played at the Electric Picnic at the weekend. The Whereabouts have been working hard and they will release a new extended EP in the coming weeks called 'I Don’t Care’.