1. It is a delicious, tasty snack, which I can happily snarfle down most days of the week;
2. It is a delicious, tasty band from Kells whose album Carry the Meek is just out, and whose singles I've been happily snarfling down most days this week.
Things you should also know about Ham Sandwich:
1. They recorded part of their album where Jonathan Swift got the idea for Gulliver's Travels.
2. They recorded another part of their album in a boarding school dorm between kids' bunkbeds.
3. Yer one, Niamh, is utterly adorable here, keeping time with a rubber ducky. I mean, what *can't* rubber duckies do for us?
Their album is all shiny and new, and being launched this Saturday in Whelan's in Dublin. They've the deadliest name since sliced bread (hee!), and gleefully knock away any monik-riticism with 'I guess we're experiencing the anguish of an early Engelbert Humperdick'. Who hasn't? My kid sister thinks they're great. I think my kid sister is great, and now, I think Ham Sandwich are great, too. Although they're not quite so great as my kid sister.
