Queerness is in Pillow Queens’ DNA
Pamela Connolly and Sarah Corcoran—joint vocalists, guitarists, and bassists for Pillow Queens—are reciting a list they made early in their career, of all the loftiest goals they could conceive of.
“One of them was to tour in a tour bus,” says Corcoran. “We were able to cross that off that spring. We wanna do a US tour; we wanna tour Australia.” To Connolly, she adds, “I think you also said that you wanna be listed on Wikipedia in Donaghmede’s famous people.”
“Yeah. I tried to put myself in a few times, but apparently, you can’t do it for yourself,” Connolly deadpans.
In the few years since making that list, the four-piece have been diligently checking items off; winning the Music Award at the Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards 2019; festival appearances, and opening slots for bands such as IDLES, Pussy Riot, Future Islands. Currently, the pair are Zooming from their respective lockdowns at home in Dublin—likely not where they thought they’d be in the run-up to the release of their debut album, In Waiting, but it hasn’t by any means lowered anticipation.