***2024 – NEW SINGLE***
The Very Things GXL – Driver (single)
on all major digital platforms.
Release date: 21st June 2024
Buy digital or at Bandcamp
Driver is the first new release from The Very Things’ marque for over 35 years.
From the forthcoming album, Mr Arc-Eye (under a cellophane sky), release date 26th July 2024, developed over the past ten years by principal ‘The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes’ and ‘Motortown’ writer, RR Dallaway.
It features: original 80s teen drumming phenomenon ‘Disney Time’, Steven Burrows (guitar, bass), Tony Sherrard (bass) and Dallaway (vocals, guitar, keyboards and found sounds).
It contains: a commentary tower, supernatural powers, sprinklers, a noisy night in the boozer, red flags, burning trees and the all-powerful Driver.
It’s about 'coincidence, simultaneous events and questions about who is controlling lives'.
Facts
1. The Driver video cost £40 and about several trillion hours to make.
2. The track features a 1963 Fender Jaguar, reputedly once owned by the legendary Brian Wilson. Used nightly in Mr. Wilson’s Circus Show Band.
3. Disney’s legendary ‘backwards’ style of drumming can sometimes be mistaken for someone kicking a drumkit down the stairs. Nevertheless, he grew up in the same village as Mr. John Bonham of The Led Zeppelin Band. Coincidence?
4. WARNING: Driver contains sounds which may cause severe indigestion for those with delicate constitutions. AVOID CALORIFIC FOODSTUFFS UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF THE RECORDING.
More
Who is it that pushes you along every day, putting you under pressure, making you anxious? Maybe it’s the seemingly all-powerful ‘Driver’, who seems to know everything that is happening in your life.
It’s race day and this is a snap-shot of various incidents all happening at the same time, set against the backdrop of the last race of the day. So what’s in store for the winner, and more importantly, what will happen to the runner-up?
Recorded initially as a spontaneous jam, the track developed to include a spikey clavinet and Animoog played on an iPad.
Driver is a reflection on being your own worst enemy, a reluctant competitor and trying to get by amid the random chaos of everyday life.
The Very Things GXL – Mr. Arc-Eye (under a cellophane sky) (album)
on vinyl and major digital platforms.
Release date: 26th July 2024
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