Category: Questions

Next week Protex hit the studio to begin work on their new album, due for release in early 2016.

Protex  are confirmed to play the Hilden Beer festival in Lisburn, Northern Ireland  on Friday 28th August 2015 and the Bello bar in Dublin on Saturday 29th! They'll be joined at both shows by New York's excellent Baby Shakes, with whom they played in New York and New Jersey earlier this year. More bands to be announced closer to the time.

           Well a great time was had by all! Thanks again to Johan, Marcus and everyone at Push My Buttons for making it all happen, and to Roland Parviainen for these pics. Great sets too by Dee Rangers and Makeouts! Tack!

To answer the inevitable question – why did Protex reform after a such a long time? It happened after Sing Sing Records in New York released an LP/CD of Strange Obsessions, recorded and produced by Chas Chandler in 1980.   Aidan Dave Paul and Owen got talking and made an agreement with Sing Sing Records that Protex’s cut of all the sales of the recordings, both physical and downloaded should go to a NI charity, notably, the NI Hospice. Meanwhile there was growing interest in the band, with the John T Davis movie clips of the live    New York set getting a steadily growing number of hits on uTube – over 30,000 at the last count. The dust settled , and that gave us time to actually listen to the songs.  …