Sleep Thieves

Sleep Thieves, are Sorcha Brennan (vocals, synths), Wayne Fahy (Vocals, synths, bass, programming), and Keith Byrne (synths, guitar, bass, programming). The Dublin-dwelling trio met through Twitter where they bonded over film soundtracks and vintage synths. This musical friendship was solidified in the recording of their self-released EP, Islands in 2012, which garnered accolades from the press. Their full length album, You Want the Night, was released in 2014 (via Minty Fresh Records US). Their music is haunting, dreamy and cinematic, it opens up and rolls in like a storm, enticing and caressing the listener.

Recently Sleep Thieves have played Electric Picnic, Culture Collide in San Francisco and LA, the FMC tour Ireland, Forbidden Fruit, Body and Soul, CMJ Music Marathon and MONDO New York, and in London, Paris and Italy.

With Millions of plays and almost 100,000 unique listeners per month on Spotify, the band has gained a great listener ship worldwide.

Album Press
You Want the Night:

Amoeba records top 50 albums of 2014
No. 1 on The Last Mix Tape end of year list
Top 25 in Nialler9’s best Irish albums of 2014
Pansentient.com Top 20 Synth pop Albums 2014
No fear of pop – Album feature
Press Quotes

“Dublin-based trio Sleep Thieves make perfect music for a late night drive through quieting streets, past twinkling lights and the occasional wanderer–the sort of music that sits wonderfully alongside the work of groups like Glass Candy and Chromatics” – Pigeons and Planes

“City of Hearts is the very definition of noir-disco: dark, almost malevolent, with a cinematic tinge to it. Listening to it, you can just feel the night air whip past your face as you drive through the empty streets of a dark brooding city – the streetlights your only light, this track the only sound you can hear.” – The Line of Best Fit

“Dublin-based Sleep Thieves will definitely entice you to stay up late, whether to dance or drift off in a daydream, but you won’t hold that against them.” – The Guardian

“Dublin’s Sleep Thieves skate along feathery synths and breathy female vocals. Their new single City of Hearts kinda sounds like what might happen if Johnny Jewel was producing Phantogram.” – Under the Radar Magazine

Live
Performed two sets at Ireland’s seminal Electric Picnic festival Tagged: “Top 5 acts we saw at Electric Picnic” by Joe.ie)
Sleep Thieves headline a stage at the long running Cork Jazz Festival in October 2014
Selected for the FMC Tour 2014 with Fight Like Apes & Kid Karate – 6 gig showcase around Ireland, fully funded and promoted by Irish Arts Council music body FMC
Culture Collide festival in San Francisco and Los Angeles in October 2014 – playing alongside Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Nina Persson (The Cardigans), Cloud Nothings
CMJ music marathon 2015 in New York.
Opened for: Austra (Canada), MS MR (US), Maximo Park (UK), Wild Nothing (US), Destroyer (Canada), St Etienne(UK), Spector(UK), Trust(US)


Radio play and support by many of the UK scene’s leading radio DJ’s such as

Eddie Temple-Morris (XFM)
John Kennedy (XFM)
Nemone (BBC 6 MUSIC)
Chris Hawkins (BBC 6 MUSIC)
Tom Robinson (BBC 6 MUSIC)
Radcliffe Maconie (BBC 6 MUSIC)
Lauren Laverne’s show (BBC 6 MUSIC)
Simon Raymond (AMAZING RADIO)
Frank Skinner (AMAZING RADIO)
Radio: US and Canada:
Top ads and Charting on
BreakThru Radio New York, NY
KSYM San Antonio, TX
KUPS Tacoma, WA
Radio CUH Honolulu, HI
WMNF Tampa, FL
WNSU Ft Lauderdale, FL
WRIR Richmond, VA
WUTK Knoxville, TN
WWSU Dayton, OH
Amazing Radio – various shows
Absolute Radio – various shows
2fm, 2xm, Today FM, 98fm, Dublin City Radio, FM104, Galway BayFM, Red FM

6 Million plus plays on Spotify

“Harder, fitter, faster, stronger, (Sleep Thieves) are not afraid to stare their audience in the face and demand that they dance and with music this melodic it would be rude not to reply with your feet.”

“.. irresistible, hip-shaking, (their sound) is the sweetest of kisses followed by the bloodiest of punches.”
State.ie

“ … sparkling, swaggering electro-pop... Definitely worth staying up late for”
The Ticket, Irish Times