CULT NYC indie rockers Nada Surf make their Belfast debut at The Limelight 2 on Sunday night as part of the 15th anniversary tour for their Let Go album.
Billed as 'An Evening With Nada Surf', the current show finds Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca and Ira Elliot performing their fan favourite 2002 LP (the tour started last year) in full followed by an encore of their other top tunes, which will hopefully include summer 1996's slacker anthem, Popular.
"On our first record we had a little hit [Popular]," Caws told Indiespect.ch prior to the tour's current leg, which also includes a sold-out Dublin show at Whelan's tomorrow night.
"On our second album the record company really wanted us to somehow do it again. But it was an accidental hit and I’m not good at just sitting down and writing a funny song, you know?
"So, by [Let Go] we were just doing it for ourselves. There was no expectation. There was nobody on the phone telling me that they were worried we didn’t have a hit on the album. So, we were very free."
The Surf have also just released Standing at The Gates: The Songs of Nada Surf’s Let Go, an album featuring (surprise surprise) cover versions by artists including Aimee Mann, Manchester Orchestra, Ed Harcourt, Rogue Wave and Ron Gallo.
Sales from the album, which is available via their website (and possibly also from the merch table on this tour), benefit the American Civil Liberties Union and children's cancer charity The Pablove Foundation.
:: Tickets £18.50 via Ticketmaster outlets
