Wiggle are a four piece electro dub band from Cork who recently released ‘BRIGHTEN THE WORLD’, a 13 track self produced album.

Wiggle began by experimenting with sequencers and live instruments crossing psychedelic folk with electro dub and thus the Wiggle sound was born. As they grew so did their sound and their array of mystical instruments and wiggly effects.

Wiggle play with sound using stuff like drum machines, sequencers, samplers, computers, keyboards, melodica, occasional box accordion, electric and bass guitars. Blending roots reggae with drum and bass beats strumming bleeps and loops and spacing sonicly. Irish Drum n Bass, Dub and Jungle from down by the Lee, astral vocals, spectral guitars, sub-bass bombings, glittering keys and Trí eye beats, blips and bleeps.

Dub music is a huge influence on all of them, and they owe a huge debt to dub music technically. The likes of King Tubby, Lee Perry, and Augustus Pablo and their studio antics certainly resonate with and inspire them. Unlike many live dub soundsystems, where they play back pre-recorded material and add effects, vocals and EQ live, Wiggle’s sound is created and manipulated completely live. Everything you hear is created live by someone doing something to an instrument on the stage.

Dub is not their sole influence however, they listen to and are influenced by lots of other music; roots reggae, jungle, breakcore, dubstep, hiphop, metal, punk, country, tango, klezmer… pretty much everything. Wiggle play for the dancers, a symbiosis happens where the music feeds the dance feeds the music feeds the dance and on until they’re told to stop.