When Danny O’Reilly (vocals/guitar) met Graham Knox (bass) for the first time, O’Reilly was only two weeks old while Knox had barely escaped his mothers’ womb. All their lives they were surrounded by music but it wasn’t until O’Reilly began writing songs at the tender age of 13 that they decided it would be cool to start a band. They recruited Terenure College school friends Conor Egan (drums) and another close friend to form Kiros and performed their first gig on a Saturday afternoon in a run-down pub in Dublin’s city centre to about 10 friends. The lads were all of 15, already hooked. Their adventures as Kiros, however, were short-lived as the band broke up before they turned 18. O’Reilly, Knox and Egan, however, continued to create music but soon they began to miss the thrill of live gigging and, calling themselves Corona, they decided to start playing to anyone who would listen.

They recorded a live EP in 2004 entitled “Corona – live at the Voodoo Lounge” and to this day they still get people requesting songs that they played that night as the EP began to get burned and passed around the Dublin college scene. In 2005, they recorded their debut EP in a house in Wicklow and although it was well received and contained some songs that the band still play today, they knew that something was missing from the band’s sound.

Shortly after its’ release they met a young man from Monkstown called Dave McPhillips (lead guitar), in a frat house in Vancouver, of all places, and were so impressed with his guitar-shredding ability that they asked him join the band. They locked themselves away in a house for weeks creating their sound and began gigging around Dublin, creating an ever-growing following.

In December 2006 they sold out two shows in Whelan’s purely from word of mouth and this led to the band being signed up by independent label 3ú Records.   2007 saw them change their name to “The Coronas” (due to an Italian dance act already called Corona) but this did not hinder their success as they began to take the Irish music scene by storm with their debut single “Decision Time” which reached no.8 in the retail charts in January ’07. Another top 20 single followed entitled “The Talk”.

Their hit singles include “Grace, Don’t Wait!”, “Heroes or Ghosts” and “San Diego Song” which spent a staggering 24 weeks in the Irish top 40 and the release of their debut album “Heroes or Ghosts” in October of 2007 was met with rave reviews and has been lodged in the Irish charts ever since spending 57 weeks in the Irish Charts.

“The album is definitely a reflection of our journey as a band so far”, says lead singer and the bands main songwriter Danny O’Reilly. “Our only aim was to make an album we were proud of and we’re delighted to say that we’ve surpassed our expectations.”

With tours in the USA and UK and having singed a deal with JVC in Japan at the end of 2008 The Coronas firmly have there sights on conquering other countries. “Decision Time” will be The Coronas first release in the UK and it’s set to be released on 23rd of March with there album “Heroes or Ghosts” to follow in May.