Dublin trio Really Good Time have kicked off 2026 with the release of their latest single, Bob Dylan Was On Pawn Stars in 2010, accompanied by a striking new music video directed by Sophie O’Donovan.
The track marks the band’s first new material of the year and follows a breakthrough 2025 that saw the group build a reputation as one of Ireland’s most electrifying emerging live acts. Over the past year, they have performed at major international showcase events including SXSW, The Great Escape and Other Voices, while sharing stages with artists such as Franz Ferdinand and The Murder Capital.
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Their new single captures the band at their most unfiltered. Blending spiralling hooks with chaotic energy, the track transforms a fleeting pop culture discovery into a meditation on ego, nostalgia and the awkward reality of growing up online.
Frontman Wastefellow explains that the idea for the song came after discovering that Bob Dylan once appeared on the reality TV show Pawn Stars in 2010 while researching the Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.
“The seed for the song was planted on a bus home after seeing the film,” he says. “While draining the internet for pointless information about it, I discovered Bob Dylan had appeared on Pawn Stars in 2010. I found this shocking, like an affront to a truth I thought I understood about the world.”
Wastefellow admits the reaction may have been slightly overdramatic. “It may surprise some, given my lyrics and generally poor table manners, but I am in fact not fifteen,” he jokes. “Yet in that moment I really felt it. So naturally we had to write a song about it.”
Despite its absurdist premise, the track ultimately explores something deeper: the process of stepping outside your own head and engaging with the world around you. According to the band, many of the lyrics were written while attempting to run up a hill in Cork — a chaotic creative process that mirrors the track’s breathless energy.
The accompanying video leans into the group’s fascination with spectacle and self-sabotage, drawing inspiration from chaotic physical challenges and ritual humiliation as a form of release. Director Sophie O’Donovan describes it as a reflection on modern masculinity and the strange ways people cope with existential dread.
“Through clowning camaraderie, these men get to experience a kind of primal escapism,” she explains, citing influences ranging from reckless stunt culture to traditional competitions like the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake.
As they enter 2026, Really Good Time continue to build momentum through relentless touring and growing audiences across the UK and Ireland. The band have already confirmed several live appearances, including a slot at The Great Escape and a major Dublin show alongside Super Furry Animals and Baxter Dury later this summer.
With more dates expected to be announced, the trio — Wastefellow (vocals and guitar), Ado Tornado (drums) and Jacque le Coque (bass) — continue to cement their reputation as one of the most unpredictable and combustible new bands emerging from Ireland’s thriving underground scene.
UK & Ireland Live Dates
MAY
12th – London – The Sebright Arms
14th – Brighton – The Great Escape
AUGUST
30th – Dublin – Collins Barracks (with Super Furry Animals & Baxter Dury)
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