The Victorian English Gentlemens Club release brand new single 'Parrot' today (6th July) - and it's available as a FREE DOWNLOAD from the band's website RIGHT NOW!
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It is also available on limited edition YELLOW 7" vinyl.
The band are playing live tonight at London's Lexington to celebrate the single's release, and have a string of further live dates confirmed for across the Summer.
The video for 'Parrot' after the hump
'Parrot' is taken from the band's forthcoming second album and the track has already been included in NME's '10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week' feature, and has received radio play from Radio 1, XFM and BBC 6 Music to date.
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
'Watching The Burglars' - 10th August
'Love On An Oil Rig' - 7th September
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1. Love On An Oil Rig
2. Parrot
3. Watching The Burglars
4. Bored In Belgium
5. Periscope Envy
6. Worker
7. Driver's Companion
8. Women Versus Children
9. God Save Us From Being So Damn Primitive
10. Dog
11. The Venereal Game
12. I Say What I See
BIO:
Since the release of their first album, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club toured for too long, then locked themselves away. They wrote 100 songs, disposed of 88 humanely, and have now laid out the remaining dozen on a 3? silver platter, for your dirty soul to revel in.
Their previous opus was based on a severe lack of musical understanding. Their eponymous debut saw them groping their instruments like over-anxious teenagers, fast, furious and lots of fun. Their second is full of confidence and somewhat brutally, demands your respect.
'Love On An Oil Rig' takes triple distortion, the most obscure of harmonies and refracts them through the prism of pop. Where the first record wore its influences on its sleeve, this one stands alone. The stripped down primal ideas are defined and sharp, retaining their well-developed Art school sensibilities of the absurd, the outrageous and the other. Since the recording, a new drummer and fourth club member has been recruited to enhance the ferocity of their sound, taking the noise to the next level with offset guitars, shouts and wails.
The first album dealt with foetal burials, plastic windows and banning gin in 1840. The second features parrots, the primitiveness of modern life and sexual yearning on long distance lorry drives. It's hard not be intrigued by the titles alone: 'Love on An Oil Rig', 'Women Versus Children', and 'Periscope Envy'.
This is the sound of the purest voices, guitars, basses, drums, circular saws, churches, hands, boots, thoraxes and lungs, juxtaposed to an awkward perfection. The band do not and will not use keyboards, synthesisers or system three acrylic.
In the last two years they have performed in three forests, two churches and one circus. They still live in Cardiff. They collectively enjoy: effects pedals, Sonic Youth, bells, taxidermy seagulls, yellow mackintoshes, distortion, bonsai, black gaffer tape, bone and ivory dominoes and Wire.
'Love On An Oil Rig' was produced, mixed and engineered by Charlie Francis.
LIVE DATES:
JULY
6 London The Lexington (single launch)
AUGUST
3 Manchester Ruby Lounge
4 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
5 Glasgow King Tuts
6 York Fibbers
7 Newcastle Cluny
8 Bath Moles
9 Birmingham Flapper
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