Just Mustard (Dundalk, 🇮🇪) — We Were Just Here (Partisan Records, 2025)
Katie Ball — vocals, tambourine, lyrics
David Noonan — guitar, vocals, lyrics
Mete Kalyoncuoglu — guitar
Robert Hodgers Clarke — bass
Shane Maguire — drums, percussion, staircase
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Ребята рассказали в интервью NME о том, как «безумный опыт» гастролей с The Cure вдохновил их на новый альбом:
Just Mustard on how “mad experience” of touring with The Cure inspired their new album (By Andrew Trendell, NME - 28th October 2025: https://www.nme.com/news/music/just-mustard-interview-mad-experience-touring-with-the-cure-inspired-new-album-we-were-just-here-3902620)
Just Mustard have spoken to NME about how the “mad experience” of being handpicked to tour with The Cure inspired their acclaimed new album, ‘We Were Just Here‘.
The Irish noise-rock five-piece released their third LP on Friday (October 24), hailed by NME as “a blinding effort, full of feeling and perfect for goths twitching to lurk in the shadows of the dancefloor”, likening it to “My Bloody Valentine coming up on a pinger”.
‘We Were Just Here’ also sets the band up for returning to join The Cure as special guests on a number of their huge UK and European outdoor shows next summer, having previously been invited by Robert Smith to support them in South America back in 2023.
“Whenever we played in those stadiums in South America with The Cure, that influenced the new album because they made us want to write more songs for people to dance and sing along to – to have a discernible melodic core,” singer Katie Ball told NME. “It inspired us to want to play songs in those kinds of places, but I don’t see us headlining stadiums any time soon!”
Guitarist David Noonan agreed: “The Cure’s music is so melodic, where every element is a hook. We saw people even singing along to the guitar parts, the basslines, the drums.”
Receiving many of Smith’s legendary “funny as fuck” emails sent in ALL CAPS, Ball said that the frontman was always “quite hands-on and will help out in any way he can”.
Noonan continued: “What’s crazy and inspiring is just how much he’s involved in the whole production. He runs the show and it’s just out of love for The Cure. Everyone is coming from a good place. Also, for us to get to watch The Cure and watch Cure fans watch The Cure is just a mad experience. It can be overwhelming.
“We were watching them in Brazil and had to walk through a crowd of 60,000 fans to leave the stadium. To see all these people losing their minds will always stick with me.”
“Sonically, we still have a lot of tension,” he said. “We’re playing with tension a lot, but on this album the tension is pulling in a different direction. Previously the light was getting sucked up by the darkness, but this time we’re trying to go in the opposite direction.
“All of our touring has been quite atmosphere-heavy and internal. We wanted something that made us more excited and made us move.”
In a four-star review of ‘We Were Just Here‘, NME concluded: “Album number three from Just Mustard is a more three-dimensional, glorious noise – reaching for euphoria while capturing the rollercoaster of comedowns and the spaces in between; driving melody through the malaise on a psych-driven neon bullet train.
“This time, there’s light on the horizon, a once blackened sky now awash with bleach. It’s a blinding effort, full of feeling and perfect for goths twitching to lurk in the shadows of the dancefloor.”
‘We Were Just Here’ is out now via Partisan. Just Mustard will be hitting the road in 2026.
APRIL 2026
8 – Stockholm – SE, Debaser
9 – Oslo, NO – John Dee
11 – Copenhagen, DK – Loppen
12 – Hamburg, DE – Nochtspeicher
13 – Cologne, DE – Helios 37
15 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
16 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
17 – Paris, FR – Le Trabendo
19 – Norwich, GB – The Waterfront
20 – Birmingham, GB – The Castle & Falcon
21 – Newcastle, GB – The Grove
23 – Glasgow, GB – Glasgow School of Art
24 – Leeds, GB – Brudenell Social Club
25 – Manchester, GB – Gorilla
27 – Bristol, GB – Thekla
28 – Brighton, GB – CHALK
29 – London, GB – Electric Brixton
MAY 2026
1 – Dublin, IE – 3Olympia Theatre
8 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
9 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
10 – Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
12 – San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord
14 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
16 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
17 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar – Music Hall
19 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
21 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
23 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison
24 – Montréal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB
26 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
29 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
30 – Washington, DC – Songbyrd Music House
JUNE 2026
26 – Marlay Park – Dublin, Ireland w/ THE CURE
28 – Belsonic – Belfast, Northern Ireland w/ THE CURE
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Just Mustard - We Were Just Here (2025)
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Just Mustard - Mirrors (2022)
Just Mustard - I Am You (2021)
Just Mustard - Deaf @ Live Session STC studio, Dublin (2016)
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