{"id":974560,"date":"2020-01-21T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=909647"},"modified":"2020-01-21T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:00:49","slug":"inhaler-how-an-asthmatic-irish-band-went-from-talent-shows-to-interscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/inhaler-how-an-asthmatic-irish-band-went-from-talent-shows-to-interscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Inhaler: How an Asthmatic Irish Band Went From Talent Shows to Interscope"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Irish rock band Inhaler<\/a> got their name because of lead singer Elijah Hewson\u2019s asthma. \u201cEverybody saw the band as quite nerdy and geeky and we thought it was cool,\u201d Hewson tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI had asthma for a while and people just kind of started calling us the Inhalers. It was something that stuck. It felt right.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a rather endearingly un<\/em>-rock & roll beginning for the Dublin five-piece, whose frontman just happens to be Bono<\/a>\u2019s son. Yes, that<\/em> Bono. Despite Hewson\u2019s lineage, Inhaler is a democratic affair: They grew up together, and now they play to sold-out crowds together. What started as a teenage talent show group is now a proper touring band \u2014 Interscope record deal and all.<\/p>\n

The five members of Inhaler first met in school, drawn together by their mutual love of guitar music: Hewson (lead vocals and guitars), Josh Jenkinson (guitar), Keating (bass), Louis Lambert (keys), and Ryan McMahon (drums). \u201cIt started off as us listening to anything with a guitar in it, really,\u201d Hewson says. \u201cNone of our friends were really into it. We found each other through that. It was a little haven. The Stone Roses was our first big moment of, \u2018Music is amazing!\u2019 Then we tried to emulate it. Our first cover was \u2018Smells Like Teen Spirit\u2019 at our school.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That show went over like the proverbial lead balloon. \u201cTo be in a band in school is not as cool as it sounds. Not in our school, anyway,\u201d Keating says. \u201cPeople gave us weird looks. We dressed weird, listened to weird music. Who were we kidding? We weren\u2019t ready to be in a band until we grew up and learned how to play our instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, the boys started writing their own music, learning how to compose a song as they expanded their musical vocabulary through bands: Nirvana, Metallica, Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth, New Order, etc. The result was the recent single, \u201cIce Cream Sundae,\u201d a song five years in the making. The poppy track definitely evokes some of the more atmospheric bands listed (with a dose of Interpol) and Hewson\u2019s voice is a dead-ringer for his father\u2019s. Still, this is \u201cIce Cream Sundae,\u201d not \u201cSunday Bloody Sunday\u201d \u2014 the sound is all Inhaler\u2019s own and it\u2019s edging on sweet.<\/p>\n

Once that song was written, Hewson showed it to family friend Antony Genn, producer and former member of Pulp, among other bands. Genn let the band record it in his studio as a favor, but then he took them under his wing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was an important moment in our band when our producer told us we weren\u2019t actually good,\u201d Keating explains, laughing. \u201cWe blindly thought we were ready, but we weren\u2019t. So we stopped and practiced for three months. Now we\u2019re finally able to play our instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that practice paid off. Inhaler has gigged with the likes of Noel Gallagher in 2019, and hits the road for their first American tour this year. Tuesday, they\u2019re out with their next single, \u201cWe Have to Move On\u201d \u2014 a track off their upcoming debut album.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we first started writing it, we were going to all these places and seeing what a state [the world is] in,\u201d Hewson said. \u201cWe were exposed to the world all of a sudden. We were kids. It was interesting to see all these different cultures melting together and fighting each other all at the same time. It\u2019s just a song of letting go of old ways and trying to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now if they could just get over that talent show\u2026<\/p>\n

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Irish rock band Inhaler got their name because of lead singer Elijah Hewson\u2019s asthma. \u201cEverybody saw the band as quite nerdy and geeky and we thought it was cool,\u201d Hewson tells Rolling Stone. \u201cI had asthma for a while and people just kind of started calling us the Inhalers. It was something that stuck. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 20:05:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}