Mark Prunty (guitar/vox), Podge Gill (guitar/vox), Ross McNerney (banjo/mandolin), Emmett Collum (drums) are the Longford men who together are Brave Giant. It’s been a remarkable 18 months for independent band, Brave Giant. Their single, The Time I Met the Devil (featuring Irish actor and comedian, Joe Rooney) has enjoyed over 60,000 views in less than twelve weeks adding to their impressive overa
ll tally of 500,000 online video views. Since June 2016 Brave Giant has had five consecutive sell-out headline shows in Dublin, including two sold-out shows at Whelan’s (main room) this spring. The band also joined they joined Gavin James and Roisin O as the musical ambassadors of the Bord na Móna ‘HearthSessions’ in winter 2016. Thus far in 2017, the boys have performed on RTE’s flagship The Late Late Show, supported Picture This during their five-night sell out run at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre and most recently were delighted to play the Heineken stage at Longitude 2017. Ahead of traveling to Electric Picnic in September, Brave Giant travel to the USA for shows at Milwaukee Irish Festival and in New York.
