Get To Know : Search Results
You’ve said that you formed after moving to Dublin in 2019 and bonded over punk and garage rock influences. How did the change of location from your individual home counties to Dublin shift your approach as a band?
We had no idea who each other were before moving to Dublin. It’s very hard to make music with an imaginary friend.
What aspects of the hometown scenes you came from remain in your music now?
Jack: The “scenes” you speak of do not exist, and may not have ever existed. Depending on how you look at this, nothing or everything has remained in our sound, and in many ways, that is all we know.
Fionn: I was a bass player in a jazz orchestra and had played in several bands through my teens that played covers of songs I had no real personal interest in or connection to so upon SR forming it was the first time I played music that felt like my thing.
You’ve described the early days of the band as being built during the pandemic: writing songs and living together to some degree. In what ways did those early recordings shape your current studio work?
SR: The way we started recording back then was with a tape machine and a laptop and we have been sticking with that ever since really. We like to get things done with and this method of working seems to be fastest. We used to release almost everything we would make. In hindsight, this has allowed us to make a load of public mistakes, but also establish some variety across different releases.
Your name itself is intriguingly playful. Do you feel the name reflects something deeper about how you see the band’s identity?
SR: The vagueness of it does us the favour of giving us a bit of freedom creatively
Your DIY ethos comes through strongly in the way you use home recordings, tape machines, cassettes, self‑organise shows etc. Is there a tension between wanting to stay raw/DIY and wanting to polish, and how do you navigate that?
SR: It just comes down to what we can afford and, again, the most time-efficient means of creating. There’s certainly no tension while writing or recording. But being a “””lo-fi””” band makes it a bit difficult to get radio play and the like. Any tension comes from external forces that we are eternally on the battlefield with. They may smite us with a great blow, but our legions remain strong and defensive
You’ve mentioned that you all share vocal duties. What is your system for deciding who sings which part or takes vocal lead on a song?
SR: “You sing what you write”, next question baby
Given how you’ve evolved from your early EPs to the current album, what is something you haven’t done yet as Search Results but really want to?
SR: Writing and recording EPs and LPs is still our main concern. We still haven’t gone to Brazil though.
Catch Search Results at The George Tavern, 3rd November 2025