It’s all been working out nicely for Ireland’s foremost rock ‘n’ rollers The Riptide Movement lately.

The Dublin four-piece scored a major success last year with their third album Getting Through, their first since joining the major leagues by signing to Universal.

The chart-topping record gave a major boost to the former buskers, and set them up for gigs all over the world.

Guitarist JPR Dalton told the Beat: “We have, it’s been exciting. It started with England where we did a lot of metropolitan Festivals.

“Then we were over in Germany where we supported Rea Garvey, that was brilliant. We also did Benacassim, Sea Sessions, there’s been loads.”

Now the band are set to make the breakthrough down under, with a five date Australian tour in October that will include gigs in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth.

With a ready-made Irish following already waiting on that side of the road, the band are understandably keen to get down there.

JP said: “We’re stoked. I’ve never been down there, I’ll have to break out the Factor 100! I’m not looking forward to the flight though.

“The longest I had was to LA last year, that was about 17 hours and I wasn’t right for about three days after. It probably didn’t help that I was hung over flying out I guess, but sure what can you do?”

But before that, the band will return once again to the Electric Picnic, where they’ll play two slots.

JP said: “We’re doing Saturday at 2.15. It’s nice to be on good on early. Nobody is too wrecked, the festivals just getting into full flow at that stage.

“Then we’ve another slot on the Salty Dog stage at 10.15, I think, that night. That’s nice, because we’re getting the best of both worlds really.”

After the performance of Getting Through the band have set themselves up nicely for their next record.

Work on the project has already begun, with JP suggesting this time around the band will develop a much more expansive sound.

He said: “The album did brilliant, it went really well for us. It definitely opened the door for us to get out to LA for the next one, so we’re really looking forward to that.

“We’ve been down in Kerry doing writing sessions, which have been going brilliantly. Sometimes it’s good to get a change of scenery like that.

“It really feels like we’re moving in a new direction. We’re using the same producer and we’re going out to LA at the end of the year to record.”

He added: “I don’t want to give too much away. You write music based on the way you’re feeling at the time.

“Our first album was very blues rock, the second was more country and folksy than the first. And the third one, which was our first with Ted Hutt.

“He really believed in us and he brought a lot to the table. I guess we ended up with a very Springsteen sounding record, which was cool. But we’re always moving forward and looking ahead.

“The next one is going to be much more expansive I think. It’s great not to be boxed into any one genre.”

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