Belfast’s Madams Last Discovery Released Latest Single ‘Orange Juice’
By The first single from the Belfast psychedelic post-punk band’s debut EP, “The World’s End”
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Madams Last Discovery, or Madams, as their fans have affectionately nicknamed them, are a psych-induced post-punk band from Belfast. Carrying an explosive, unapologetic sound as a tyrannical mix of Sean Ryder’s Happy Mondays, on a three-week Belfast bar crawl, having run into David Byrne, Grian Chatten and the devil along the way. Would you like to be coming back from a night out like that?
Based in Belfast, the band has been together for 3 years. In 2025, the band toured the UK, performed at Stendhal Festival and Output Belfast, and released three singles so far. The band finished 2025 with their biggest show yet, supporting Inspiral Carpets at Limelight 1 on the 17th of December.
‘Orange Juice’ is something out of the comfort zone for Madams and quickly became their attention-grabbing opener for live shows. Produced and mixed by Darragh Tibbs (Esmeralda Road, Pillow Queens), and recorded at Analogue Catalogue Studio, the sample at the start features an old 50s movie, “Plan 9 from Outer Space”, which has been given a facelift in this track.
The chorus lyrics are based on the infamous quote from Pinocchio, “I’ve got no strings on me”. Relating to the sense of when all the weight is removed from your shoulders and having nothing else in the world hold you back. Orange Juice quickly found its home with a frenzied crowd anywhere it was played. It features the band’s first sample and synth work and has a “distance relative” of dance within it, with influences from The Prodigy and Stereo MC’s creeping in.
Speaking on the track, lead singer Flinn O’Grady states, “For this song, I had to give myself a bit of a challenge. I wasn’t allowed to use the words ‘Me, you or them’ when addressing a person, which I feel can become very repetitive. From this, I used the word ‘one’ instead, and the contrast with using this traditional and formal English in a post-punk scene made the lyrics unsettling; it made them stand out.”
The track reads like an inner monologue from an individual, a debate ongoing inside their head that never seems to want to end. The chorus of the track reaches a stalemate, where the only choice is to shut down the thoughts and listen to the music.
This is the first single off their debut EP which will be released on 11/03/26.
About Madams Last Discovery
Madams Last Discovery kicked off 2025 by releasing their single “Work of Art”. This gained them a placement in BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Where Music Matters’ playlist for January, as well as airplay from BBC Across the Line Introducing and Dublin City FM on Tilt.
Madams joined the talent development program, ‘Scratch My Progress’, as part of the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast. Through this, the band has been working to release their song ‘Champagne’ in March with industry professional guidance and support. The song was heavily praised on RTÉ 2FM’s New Music Show with Beta Da Silva, as well as getting plays from RTE 2XM with Dan Hegarty, ATL Introducing and Stephan McCauley on BBC Radio Ulster. After they got their first shows across England in London, Liverpool and Manchester under their belt in June, along with their single WASTE, the band continued to build with performances at Stendhal Festival, Output Belfast and a support slot for The Howlers and Inspiral Carpets