The Black Keys

Tripod, Dublin Wed 7.30pm Sold out 0818-719300

Two members? One drummer and one singer/guitarist? It’ll never work, surely? Well, for every White Stripes there’s a Black Keys, and if it works for Jack and Meg then as sure as beans is beans it works for Dan Auerbach and Pat Carney.

These days blues-rock has a different connotation than it had back when Stevie Ray Vaughan ruled the roost. The Black Keys utilise the garage-rock aesthetic and 8-track recording method, which has little time for frills or overdubs.

Not that Auerbach and Carney don’t like to mix it. In their 10-year career they have collaborated with artists as diverse as Dangermouse and Raekwon (the latter on 2009’s Blakroc, a hip-hop/blues-rock hybrid album), while their songs have been covered by the likes of Kelly Clarkson.

This gig, meanwhile, is sold out, two words that could never be levelled at The Black Keys.

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