Otherkin had a simple solution when they couldn’t find places playing the music they liked – start their own nights up.

The Dublin foursome are one of rock’s most exciting new bands, and they’ll bring exhilarating new single Bad Advice to Glasgow in a couple of weeks.

However the lads took a DIY approach when they were starting out.

“There was a lot of great bands we admired in Ireland but we didn’t know any places locally, so we just started playing house parties,” says Dave Anthony, their bassist.

“We set up our own night, because Luke (Reilly, their singer) and I were living in the fanciest squat you’ve seen, just this big house in Dublin with all these people living in it. We started putting on bands we really liked – we once had the punk band Wounds there and they were singing a song that went ‘dead, dead’ and Luke, who’s the nicest man in the world, had to answer the door to four policeman who were concerned about the noise.”

The group say they want their music to be punchy and lean, and their early releases have all lived up to that. Having formed out of a mutual love of the likes of the Dandy Warhols, Blur and the Clash the quartet have delivered tracks like Ay Ay and I Was Born, sub three minute shots of garage rock adrenaline.

Dave is hopeful that music is swinging away from bands being too polished, and going back to something more raw.

“We just want to bring people back to a time when it was all guitar bands and people just lost themselves at a show, which is going back a generation or two,” he says.

“Although I think even some of the biggest English and Scottish bands still have that rawness about them. Biffy Clyro’s popularity is only peaking now and they’re a great band, and although a band like Blossoms are quite polished, there’s the likes of Wolf Alice coming out too.

“Maybe there’s a younger generation who are discovering albums their older brothers or sisters had and getting into music that way.”

Just don’t mention current chart king Ed Sheeran to Dave…

“All the top tunes on Spotify at the moment being Ed Sheeran is hard to take,” he chuckles.

“Fair play to him for being successful, but that song Galway Girl on his new album, I read someone say that song has done for Irish culture what Steve Bannon (Donald Trump’s controversial strategist) has done for Irish ancestry, and that’s rough but probably true!”

The band have been championed by the likes of Annie Mac already, have played the Reading and Leeds festivals, toured with emerging Scottish talent like Babystrange and White, and found themselves playing Europe.

“We actually played in Russia where there was snow coming in at the side of the stage and we had to find some practical use for the towels onstage,” recalls Dave.

“We were playing an outdoor venue for an Irish week event in Moscow, and then our own club gig. You kinda forget that Moscow is just a European city and it’s like any other show on the continent, with crazy people. I guess at a garage rock show, you’re not going to meet any Putin esque characters there, and it’s more people into the Western side of things.”

The next aims for the band are their current tour, which stops at the Glasgow Garage (Attic) on Tuesday February 21, and then an album.

“We want to play to as many shows as we can and let people know that it’s alright to go crazy at a gig in the middle of the week,” adds the bassist.

“If you want to stand at the back with your arms folded then fair play, but just let it all out – you’ll feel better if you do!”

Otherkin, Garage (Attic), March 21, £8, 7pm