Unlike many of their peers, who were content to stay in the domestic comfort zone, Dublin band Stand - Neil Eurelle, Alan Doyle, David Walsh and Carl Dowling - headed to the US five years ago to boost their career.

It's a move which appears to have paid off. The band have garnered much media and industry attention to date, chiefly for their live shows.

They're currently starting work on material for album number five, the follow-up to Travel Light.

Irish fans can run the rule over those new songs when Stand play Dublin's Whelan's on December 21st.