Question: What are Chvrches and The Fatima Mansions?

Context articles: Bertie's Brochures
The Back of the Pipes, Dublin
Fatima Mansions (housing)
Chvrches
The Fatima Mansions
Against Nature (album)
Lost in the Former West
Come Back My Children
Viva Dead Ponies
Cathal Coughlan (singer)

Recorded and released between "Viva Dead Ponies" and "Valhalla Avenue", the "Bertie's Brochures" mini-album found The Fatima Mansions displaying their more subtle side, with the record being dominated with slower, piano-led ballads such as the title track and their cover of Scott Walker's "Long About Now", although their radically altered take on REM's "Shiny Happy People" and "Mario Vargas Yoni" represented the band's noisier and more scathing side too.
The Back of the Pipes was the name of a lane-way in Dublin 8, Ireland, located between Dolphin's Barn and James's walk.
 it ran parallel to the back gardens of the houses on Rubens Street from the Dolphins Barn end across from the Leinster Cinema, down the back of Fatima Mansions, on past the back gardens of the houses between Mallin Ave and Lourdes Road, past the stone sofa and finally coming out at James's walk across from the old Iron foot Bridge which crossed the grand canal (now filled in) for access to Basin Lane (Basin Street) and the main grand canal harbour area, It took its name from an important part of the Dublin water supply originally erected in 1245.
Fatima Mansions is an extensive public housing complex located in Rialto, Dublin.
 In recent years it has undergone a substantial urban renewal programme with the assistance of public and private funding.
 All existing apartment blocks were demolished to make way for 600 accommodation units, consisting of social, affordable and private housing along with community, business and leisure facilities at a cost of €200 million.
 The blocks have since been renamed Herberton Apartments, but the area is still referred to locally as Fatima, which is the name of the adjacent Luas Red Line tram stop.
Chvrches (pronounced and written as "churches" in Roman form and stylised as CHVRCHΞS) are a Scottish synth-pop band from Glasgow, formed in September 2011.
 The band consists of Lauren Mayberry (lead vocals, drums, additional synthesisers, samplers), Iain Cook (synthesisers, guitar, bass, vocals) and Martin Doherty (synthesisers, samplers, vocals).
The Fatima Mansions were an art rock group formed in 1988 by Cork singer/keyboardist Cathal Coughlan, formerly of Microdisney.
 The original line-up consisted of Coughlan, along with Nick Allum, Jonathan Fell, Zac Woolhouse and Aindrias O'Gruama.
 They took their name from the Fatima Mansions corporation flats in Rialto, Dublin.
Against Nature was the debut album from Fatima Mansions.
 It was released in September 1989, receiving almost universal critical acclaim, described by "NME" as "staggering in its weight of ideas...never loses its capacity to suddenly stun you", and also described as "a startlingly well-rounded debut".
 A review from "Allmusic" stated "Coughlan's lyrics are similarly aggressive throughout, with actions of overt and implicit violence in nearly every song and a grouchily misanthropic, almost nihilistic lyrical world-view throughout".
Lost in the Former West was the final album released by The Fatima Mansions, continuing the focus on hard-rock anthems that had begun on "Valhalla Avenue".
 As with "Viva Dead Ponies", the track listing of "Lost in the Former West" as released in the US differed from the UK version, incorporating "Something Bad" and "Go Home Bible Mike" from "Valhalla Avenue", while excluding "Sunken Cities".
Come Back My Children is a compilation album by Fatima Mansions consisting of all eight tracks from "Against Nature", along with other early singles and B-sides and covers of "Stigmata" by Ministry and "Lady Godiva's Operation" by The Velvet Underground.
 Its title is derived from a lyric in "On Suicide Bridge".
Viva Dead Ponies (originally titled "Bugs Fucking Bunny" ) was the second album by The Fatima Mansions, and features elements of both their original, more synth-led and melodic sound on songs such as "You're A Rose", as well as the noiser, guitar-oriented style that would become more prominent in their later works (a notable example of this being "Look What I Stole For Us, Darling").
Cathal Coughlan is an Irish singer songwriter, formerly of Microdisney, and The Fatima Mansions.
 His work with both bands has received much critical acclaim, as has his solo material.