Irish band Gurriers share new single Nothing Happens Twice

Irish band Gurriers have released "Nothing Happens Twice," the third preview of their second album, Nobody's Coming To Save You, due September 25 via Play It Again Sam, NME reported on August 13. The song was inspired by Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot and is described as an absurdist take on the state of the modern world, combining existential lyrics with the "dead internet" theory that much of the online world is now made up of bots rather than real people.

"Nothing ever happens here, nothing happens twice!" frontman Dan Hoff snarls in the bruising chorus, expressing frustration at feeling stuck in modern life. The accompanying video, directed by Thomas James, was shot in drummer Pierce O'Callaghan and guitarist Mark MacCormack's hometown, turning it, in James's words, into "a changeling, psycho fairy trip through grief and ritual."

The single follows the album's title track in May and "Party Lines" last month, and comes after "Erasure," the band's first new material since their 2024 debut album, Come And See. NME previously named their unreleased performance of "Nothing Happens Twice" among the top sets at The Great Escape 2026, writing that the song "has people shouting its chorus back before it's even been released."

Gurriers have not shied from politics before: discussing Come And See with NME, the band described joining the mass boycott of SXSW 2024 by Irish artists over the festival's military ties. "It was important that the Irish bands all did it together," O'Callaghan said, while Hoff called the debut album itself "a statement of intent."

Gurriers play Boomtown, Leeds Festival and Electric Picnic this month, ahead of a UK and Ireland record shop tour through Dublin, Edinburgh, Dundee, Liverpool, Nottingham, Cardiff and Oxford, and a UK and European headline tour in the autumn. Nobody's Coming To Save You sits within rock and the release calendar ahead of its September release.