Dublin trio Really Good Time have officially broken their 2026 silence with the release of their most brilliantly unhinged track to date: “Bob Dylan Was On Pawn Stars in 2010.” Following a breakout 2025 that saw the band storm stages at SXSW and open for the likes of Franz Ferdinand, the new single finds the group sharpening their “sweat-soaked” live energy into a spiralling, hook-heavy eruption. The track transforms a bizarre piece of reality TV trivia into a cathartic meditation on the humiliations of growing up online, the death of teenage nostalgia, and the “absurdity of ego.” It is a song that manages to be both a “serious, stupid, and earnest” anthem for anyone who has ever felt personally affronted by a Google search.
Of the single, the band state,
“For a moment I was fifteen years old and Bob Dylan was supposed to be mine, and I was never going to live in that world again… Naturally we had to write a song about it, to try and lay that feeling out and own all its teenage hysteria.”
The single is accompanied by a high-octane music video directed by Sophie O’Donovan, which draws inspiration from the ritualistic masochism of Jackass and the chaos of the Cooper’s Hill Cheese Rolling Race. Exploring themes of modern masculinity and “clowning camaraderie,” the visual reframes existential dread as a literal, frantic sprint down a hill at breakneck speed.
As the band prepares for a massive summer, including a coveted opening slot for Super Furry Animals and Baxter Dury, they continue to solidify their reputation as one of the most unpredictable and combustible live acts emerging from the Irish scene. Whether they are capturing the “spirit of running up a hill in Cork” or laying out the hysteria of their fifteen-year-old selves, Really Good Time are entering the new year louder and more locked in than ever.
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