Bill no. 02750 × 70 cm · 3 coloursScreenprinted Flood Street Yard, Limerick

Nova Parish

A four-piece from Limerick · fourth record out 6 November · sixteen rooms, March to June 2027

A singer in silhouette with arms wide under a wall of blue floods at the end of a set
100%Ultraviolet SundaySixteen rooms · March to June 2027

The Gasworks Shed, Limerick — second encore, 5 June 2026. Photograph: Dervla Mangan.

On saleFri 9 Oct09:00 · presale Wed 7th
100Nova Parish
60Pale Anchor
35Kolberg Social
12Siv Halloran
4The Small Print · 1,940 names

Clause 11(b) · artist rider, every date

Nobody gets a type size they did not earn.

Billing is the only clause in a touring contract that is also a design system. Ours runs the whole site: a record, a venue, a hoodie, a drummer and a fan are each printed at a percentage of the headline, and that percentage decides how big they are set. Nothing is decorated up and nothing is quietly shrunk.

  • 100%The headline. Cap height 142 mm on a 50 × 70 bill. One name only.
  • 60%Second on the bill. Never above 60% of the headline, never on the same line.
  • 35%Main support. Gets the dressing room with the window.
  • 12%Openers, crew, label, pressing plant, the room itself.
  • 4%The small print. 5.7 mm. Where the fan club lives, and it is the line we read first.
Buy 4% for €28
The billing ruler: cap heights at 100, 60, 35, 12 and 4 per cent on a 50 by 70 centimetre bill700 mm sheet100%142 mm capthe headline60%85 mm · second35%50 mm · support12%17 mm · crew4% · 5.7 mmMeasured on the cap height of thelargest line, not the artwork box.Breach: the bill is reprinted at thepromoter's cost. It has happened twice.

Fig. 1 — the billing ruler, drawn to scale from clause 11(b).

A year of this is nine thousand three hundred and forty kilometres, four ferries and one broken crash cymbal.

Photographs by Dervla Mangan and Saoirse Dunphy, 2026. Each frame carries the billing it would get on the back of the bill.

Kilometres driven
9,340
Nights in the van
11
Longest leg · Kaunas to Rijeka
1,180 km
Confetti, per night
1.2 kg
A crowd with arms raised, lit from the stage behind them
100Hala Wschód, Katowice · 17 Apr
Lighting trusses and lamps seen from directly underneath a stage rig
60Mid truss, 6.1 m · load-in 08:00
A touring van parked in a dark field with its interior light on
35Overnight, Brno to Ostrava · 170 km
A squeegee pulling pink ink across a screen under a safe light
12Bill no. 027, second pass · pink
A drum kit lit blue on an empty stage before doors
12Ishbel's kit, line check · 17:40
An empty auditorium with its house lights on, seen from the stage
4The room, 11:20, before anyone
Five records · 2018 to 2026

What does a record weigh on the bill?

All five, with matrix numbers →
Beams of blue light cutting through haze above an empty stage100%

Ultraviolet Sunday

LP · Hollowbrick Recordings · HBR-027 · 2026 · 12 tracks · 52:09

A · 26:18B · 25:51

Cut by Ansgar Pohl at Flatbed Mastering. Pressed 180 g in Wexford, first run 1,500 — 500 of them acid green. Side B is one take with the room mics up.

A drum kit and amplifiers on a smoke-filled stage lit from behind60%

Parish Noise

LP · Hollowbrick Recordings · HBR-008 · 2022 · 11 tracks · 48:33

A · 24:02B · 24:31

Recorded in eleven days above a tyre fitter on Flood Street. Still our loudest; still the one we open with.

Channel meters glowing on a mixing console in a dark control room35%

Low Sodium Light

LP · Wet Pavement Tapes · WPT-031 · 2020 · 10 tracks · 41:07

A · 20:44B · 20:23

Out of print on vinyl since March 2024. We are not repressing it until we can afford the 180 g stock.

A bass player's hands on the strings, photographed from the side of the stage12%

The Gasworks Tape

Live LP · Hollowbrick Recordings · HBR-019 · 2024 · 9 tracks · 63:41

A · 31:08B · 32:33

Two nights in the shed, mixed off the desk by Dervla Mangan in a week. You can hear the roof.

Front elevation of the Nova Parish touring lighting rig: three trusses, forty-eight floods, two confetti cannons and the front-of-house position8.40 mT1 · 8.40 mT2 · 6.10 mT3 · 3.80 mC1C2FOH · 24 m out48 floods · 4 gels · 11.4 kW · 1 rigger

Fig. 2 — front elevation, A-rig as it hangs in a 2,000-capacity room. Drawn by Tomás Féry, revision 7.

What actually travels

Two trucks and a splitter van. If a room cannot take the A-rig we hang the B-rig and tell you before you buy, because a 35% light show at a 100% ticket price is the thing we hate most about touring.

A-rig, as hung
Trim height, T18.40 m
Floods48
Load11.4 kW
Rig weight1,180 kg
Hang time4 h 20
Smallest room it fits740 cap
01 · The rig

Forty-eight floods, four gels

  • Three trusses at 8.40 m, 6.10 m and 3.80 m
  • Ultraviolet, acid green, hot pink, blackout — no white
  • 11.4 kW on two 63 A three-phase feeds
  • Two cannons, 1.2 kg of paper confetti a night
02 · The pack

Nineteen cases, 2,140 kg

  • Case 1–6 lighting · 7–11 backline · 12–14 control
  • Case 15 merch, 180 kg, the heaviest thing we own
  • Case 19 is spares: one snare, two heads, forty cables
  • Load-in 08:00, doors 19:30, out by 01:15
03 · What we refuse

No dynamic ticket pricing, ever. No strobes above 4 Hz. No support slot that has to buy on. No room where the merch cut is over 15%.

04 · Who is in the truck

Four of us, five crew: Dervla Mangan at front of house, Tomás Féry on lights, Bea Olszewska tour managing, Cillian Rourke on backline, Saoirse Dunphy on merch. Everyone is billed at 12%.

Ultraviolet

The Ultraviolet Sunday Tour

Sixteen rooms, set at the size of the room.

A city's type size on this list is its capacity. Katowice is 3,400 and prints at 100%. Rijeka is 420 and prints at 12%, and it will be the better night.

All sixteen dates, prices and curfews
Moving lights seen from below on a rig at the end of a soundcheck
  1. Sat 17 Apr 2027KatowiceHala Wschód · 3,400 · €41.00 · 100%
  2. Sun 11 Apr 2027LinzGleishalle Drei · 1,600 · €39.00 · 60%
  3. Thu 18 Mar 2027NantesHalle Verrière · 1,100 · €36.00 · 35%
  4. Tue 16 Mar 2027NijmegenZaal Kolk · 480 · €28.50 · 12%
  5. Sun 30 May 2027RijekaKlub Sidro · 420 · €26.00 · 12%
  6. Sat 5 Jun 2027LimerickThe Gasworks Shed · 2,200 · €47.00 · 100% · last night
Doors to curfew + 15 min

The merch table bills you in centimetres.

Every garment is sold at its print size. Screenprinted by Saoirse Dunphy at Flood Street Yard, water-based ink on 180 g blanks, sixty pieces a city.

Hands pulling a squeegee across a screen, yellow and pink ink on the mesh
Pulling the 34 cm bill, 7 Sept 2026
Paper confetti caught in the air above a crowd at the end of a show
1.2 kg of paper, Limerick
  • Bill Tee — 34 cm chest, 2 colours
    €32
  • Rig Longsleeve — 20 cm front, dates up the sleeve
    €41
  • The Bill — screenprint 50 × 70, edition of 300
    €24
  • Soundcheck Tape — C46, dubbed in real time
    €9
1,940 members
€28 a year
5.7 mm tall
Register mark used on the back of every bill

Join The Small Print and your name goes on the back of the bill.

Four per cent billing, posted to you once a year with a soundcheck tape and a one-page letter. Nobody is upsold to anything.

Presale opens Wed 7 Oct, 09:00 IST. Two tickets a member. We post one letter a year and sell your address to nobody.