Sangria Furlo: DREGS EP
(Self Released)
DL/Streaming
Available 12th March
Sangria Furlo, the three-piece, fronted by the Dublin-born singer/songwriter and film director, Mark Waters have announced details of their debut EP and some UK live shows.
The trio, who reside in Andalucia, comprise guitarist/vocalist Mark Waters, Wasps’ drummer Roly Quesnel and Ukrainian-born bassist Denys Kyrylenko. The debut EP, entitled Dregs, the contains three tracks, King Bartholomew – a song lifted from the band’s debut album, Trans European Metal Disco; plus the Joy Division sounding Morsure Sauvage – a French version of Downed Uniform and Les Banshees Gemissent, a French version of King Bartholomew.
At school, Mark was in a teenage superstar band called Presque Nul, an outfit that once boasted Sean Lennon, son of John and Yoko and Yari Carrisi Power, son of Italian popstars Al Bano and Romina Power, and grandson of legendary Hollywood actor Tyrone Power within its ranks. Waters also attended the school with Strokes star Julian Casablancas. The track Song 9 (on Trans European Disco Metal) is about the character of Julian Casablancas, as opposed to the real Julian Casablancas. In Song 9, Mark recalls a Strokes show he saw in Spain, where the band still haven’t played his favourite song, Heart In A Cage, by the ninth number, and interweaves recollections of the newly-famous Casablancas, Mark used to hang out with, together with semi-fantasies inspired by the acutely-barbed Scorsese-directed kidnap-drama, The King of Comedy.
Waters was also a close friend of erstwhile Cream lyricist/collaborator Pete Brown until Brown’s untimely death in 2023. As a film-maker, Waters directed White Rooms and Imaginary Westerns, a documentary on Brown’s life featuring interviews with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Arthur Brown, and Martin Scorsese. Mark and Pete also produced and released the film The Cream Acoustic Sessions, a re-imagining of Cream songs re-arranged and recorded at Sensible Studios and Abbey Road.
The lease track on the EP, King Bartholomew, throws the spotlight on a real-life, self-declared King Bartholomew, who used to write letters of harassment to Waters Snr – who just happened to be the Director General of Ireland’s National TV and Radio Broadcasting corporation, RTE – claiming to be the ruler of Ireland with super powers, although Waters Jnr expands the imagery to include an experience he had as an 18-year old when he ended up in Belfast by mistake, and found himself surrounded by sectarian murals, an experience that conjured up the lyric, ‘Murals rolling home, rolling home to you.,
Their debut album, Trans European Metal Disco was released last year and the band have announced details of two live shows in the UK at the end of March, followedby a number of dates in Spain in April and May.
UK Dates
Friday, March 27th 2026 Ashford Coachworks w. LiVES and The Ovines.
Saturday, March 28th, Islington Hope and Anchor w. LiVES and Unorfadox.
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All words by Iain Key. See his author profile here or find him via his LinkTree
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