aaamusic | On 01, Sep 2010

Following the success of ‘Birds And Planes’, Dinosaur Pile-Up are set to release new single ‘Mona Lisa’ digitally and as a 7” backed by B-side ‘Headspinner’ on 27^th September. That’s the week before the band’s highly anticipated debut album ‘Growing Pains’ drops via indie label Friends Vs Records. Vocalist / guitarist Matt Bigland says of the track “Mona Lisa is about having no money, no time, living on instant noodles, with no heating. I was sitting in my room surrounded by crap and just thought ‘Hey, this is kind of like trying to paint my ‘Mona Lisa’”

The band have unveiled a music video befitting of such a melodic rock anthem-in-the-making which sees the members of the band taking on various characters. Several facts pertaining to the making of the video are as follows :

Bonus Fact 1: DPU made the bad guys’ costumes out of exercise balls and silver gaffa tape.
Bonus Fact 2: Matt’s giant head took 1.2 kilometers of plastic piping, 3,000 cable ties and a shit load of pink paper to make.
Bonus Fact 3: The dead dude under the white sheet in the doctors’ surgery is Matt’s best friend, Matt Maude. The pair wrote and co-directed the video together.

Produced with longtime collaborator James Kenosha, Dinosaur Pile-Up’s debut album ‘Growing Pains’ will be unleashed on the world the week after ‘Mona Lisa’ is released and the band will set off on a full headline tour shortly after that.

LIVE DATES

SEPTEMBER

18  Norwich  Arts Centre  (warm up show)

25  Skipton   Culture Shock Festival   (warm up)

OCTOBER  (headline tour w/support from Turbowolf)

6              Stoke                      Sugarmill

7              Wrexham              Central Station

8              Liverpool               Masque

10           Birmingham           Hare & Hounds

11           Exeter                    Timepiece

12           Bristol                     Cooler

13           Brighton                 Coalition

14           Southampton        Joiners

16           Sheffield                Plug

17           Nottingham           Bodega

18           Cambridge             Haymakers

19           London                  KCLSU

21           Manchester          Ruby Lounge

22            Crewe                   The Box

24           Edinburgh              Cabaret Voltaire

25           Glasgow                 Nice N Sleazy

26           York                        Stereo

27           Leeds                     Cockpit