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Crimson City Exists - First single out now!
James Kapella
June 25, 2024
What’s happening?...
Our first single
What’s coming next
Please share with your friends
Hey everyone,
I can only imagine the first few people who will be getting this will be people we know directly, maybe we’ve sent you a link, in which case, thanks for supporting us by clicking in, we couldn’t have done any of this without you. Thank you.
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Tell you when we’ll release recordings, videos
Share our live dates
Write about interesting things to do with being in a band in this cursed time
Starting at the top…
Our first single, Revenant King, is out now
Doot doot
Revenant King is a song about being dead, and rising from your grave to haunt those you loved in life. Relatable stuff. It’s a song about feeling terrible, but having someone who loves you anyway.
It’s one of our most traditional songs; a little country inspired number, with some very cool organ provided by the producer for this track, Jon Segar (thanks Jon!) and a ripping guitar solo.
In terms of more music, and stuff to listen to and watch - In two weeks time we’ll be releasing an awesome music video cut together by our bassist Elle, featuring us recording the song at Factory Studios in Bristol.
A couple of weeks after that we’ve got a cool performance vid coming out, and then we’ll release our second single, Queen Foul. Lots more on that to come.
We’re playing a show at The Moon in Cardiff - 27th June
Looking forward to this one. The other bands we’re playing with The Financial Year and Bedford Falls are excellent, so if you’re not away getting sunburnt to fuck at Glastonbury and can get down to Cardiff, it’s well worth it.
We’ll post any future dates on our insta, and also share them here with as much time as we can.
Our music, our personalities and basically everything else about us just doesn’t translate well to the main social media platforms. We’re too old and our skin hangs flaccid from our tired bones.
We do have an instagram, because you’re not allowed to be a band without at least ONE social media presence, so please do follow us there if the mood takes you
We’ve always been skeptical about how useful these things are for musicians, except for being able to broadcast “we’re doing a gig” or “here’s a new song”. It obviously works for some, which is great.
Music is an intimate thing: it has a lot of important social aspects, but ultimately a song is just the people playing it, and the people listening. Trying to make that relationship work, while also trying to make sure you’re delivering your message in a way that keeps people scrolling doesn’t seem fun at all.
Most social media platforms are built to maximize anxiety and envy, as anxious and envious people tend to sit and look at their phones (which is very good if you want people to look at adverts for Galaxy Projectors and Japanese trousers), and as someone who is as easily pulled into that stuff as anyone else any opportunity to get away from the unending hell-hole of social media is always welcome.
If we’re going to put energy into sharing thoughts and what we’re doing, i’d rather do it properly, with space for context to talk about interesting things, and to not worry if i’m serving the algorithmic overlord in the best way possible
There’s a lot of subjects we’d like to talk about, cool music (not just from us) that we’d like to share, and stories to tell. We’d also love to hear from you: anything you find interesting, or anything you’d like to know about being in a band, what hair products we’re recommending, or where to buy the best galaxy projector.
If any of that sounds interesting to you, please subscribe and we’ll be back in your inbox soon (but not too often, don’t worry!).
Keep on keeping on.
Cheers,
Crimson City