PRESS CLUB RELEASE NEW SINGLE + VIDEO
Photo credit Nick Manuell.
At 0:00 'Cancelled’s heart-rate monitor starts ticking. The song is a rigid dynamo. A creative embellishment on their previous releases, with a refined attention to detail. The crude elements of Press Club are on the catwalk as lead singer Natalie Foster demands “who said I can't do this better? Who says I can't live forever!”
‘Cancelled’ is the first of Press Club’s new self-produced works to see light of day, and despite its title, bears no reference to show cancellations, nor cancel culture. The song’s lyrical content is actually an honest stocktake of one’s former self, in crystallite retrospect. In the engine room Frank Lees (drums) and Iain MacRae (bass) lurch ‘Cancelled’ forward like two indefatigable pistons. The deft guitar work of Greg Rietwyk, at times hostile, becomes the perfect melodious compliment for Foster at the most opportune moments.
The new single, as first played on triple j, is delivered with the perfect visual accompaniment shot by longtime collaborator, friend and video director Nick Manuell the video clip for ‘Cancelled’ captures the fierce grit of the track.
At the hands of countless roadblocks facing the arts as a whole over recent years, Press Club spent all their time together crafting new material in their studio under the shadow of Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge. They focused relentlessly on songcraft, methodically burning through hundreds of demos. As time is currency, they paid a refined attention to timbre, instrumentation and dynamics they could never afford before, amidst their helter-skelter touring schedule.
With the promise of more new music imminent, Press Club kicked off a national tour around Australia last night. Audiences in Brisbane, Hobart, Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra, Hobart, Geelong and Melbourne will be witness to the first taste of new tracks as well as favorites from albums Late Teens and Wasted Energy before the band head over to Europe to play a stack of shows including Download festival in the UK and Southside and Hurricane festivals in Germany.
PRESS CLUB CANCEL THIS TOUR 2022
Thu 5th May - The Brightside, Brisbane - TICKETS
Fri 6th May - Altar, Hobart - TICKETS
Sat 7th May - Barwon Club, Geelong - TICKETS
Thu 12th May - La La La’s, Wollongong - TICKETS
Fri 13th May - The Lansdowne, Sydney - TICKETS
Sat 14th May - UC Hub Canberra - TICKETS
Sat 21 May - Corner Hotel, Melbourne - TICKETS
UK & EUROPEAN DATES
Wed 8 June - The Joiners, Southampton UK - TICKETS
Thu 9 June - The Horn, St Albans, UK - TICKETS
Fri 10 June - Download Festival, Donnington UK - TICKETS
Sat 11 June - The Walks Stadium, Kings Lynn UK
Mon 13 June - The Hope & Ruin, Brighton UK - TICKETS
Wed 15 June - V11, Rotterdam, Netherlands - TICKETS
Thur 16 June - Willemeen, Arnhem, Netherlands - TICKETS
Fri 17 June - Beard Ättäck Festival, Leipzig, Germany - TICKETS
Sat 18 June - Southside Festival, Neuhausen, Germany - TICKETS
Sun 19 June - Hurricane Festival, Scheessel, Germany - TICKETS
Tue 21 June - Lucky Luke’s, Trier, Germany - TICKETS
Wed 22 June - Haldern Pop Bar, Haldern, Germany
Fri 24 June - Booze Cruise Festival, Hamburg, Germany - TICKETS
Sat 5th Nov - OSLO, London UK - TICKETS
