Violet May announce new single ‘Jennifer Lies’
aaamusic | On 09, Nov 2010
“Electric and inspiring… their time is now.” – The Guardian
“Electrifying… Familiarise yourself with these mugshots, for you will definitely be seeing a lot more of them this year” – Clash Magazine
“Really, truly, brilliant… single of the year so far”- Whisperin And Hollerin
“Music so cool, it doesn’t walk – it swaggers” – Music Week
“A stoner-riff-laden, carpet-bombing barrage of musical brilliance” – Artrocker
“World Class… They’re from Sheffield and add a violent rush to the hedonistic stoner riffs of Josh Homme” – Alan McGee
http://soundcloud.com/thevioletmay/jennifer-lies-single-version
You might not know it yet but you already know The Violet May’s lead singer Chris McClure. He was the iconic dishevelled figure on the front cover of the massive selling debut Arctic Monkeys album, “Whatever You Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” and the brother of John McClure of Reverend & The Makers. Now fronting his own band The Violet May, he looks set to be icon in his own right.
It’s been a big year for The Violet May, the band started 2010 being hotly tipped as one of The Guardian’s “15 Tips For 2010” whileAlan McGee sang their praises in the press.
Their debut single “Bright Or Better” then followed in May. Despite being limited to only 500 strictly limited edition copies, the Sheffield 5-piece found themselves winning widespread support from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, XFM, NME, Clash Magazine and Artrocker, being invited onto Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6Music show as his “New Favourite Band”, headlining London’s KOKO for Club NME and even reaching as far as L.A. and New York where “Bright Or Better” was picked up for rotation on K-Roq and instore at Top Shop New York.
Former Jesus & Mary Chain member Douglas Hart heard the track and got in touch offering to make the video for the single for free, (he also directed videos for My Bloody Valentine, The Libertines, The Stone Roses and The Horrors) and invites quickly followed to play stages at Leeds Festival, Secret Garden Party, Standon Calling and a headline residency at London’s Death Disco before the band embarked on a sold out mini-tour of Italy and opened the Energy Sessions Festival for Band Of Skulls and Boxer Rebellion in October.
The Violet May’s frenetically wild live shows throughout the country have been the basis of the band’s growing and fervent fanbase of supporters, led by enigmatic frontman Chris McClure’s onstage antics. The music meanwhile has always done the talking, an urgent, high-octane statement of intent, marrying Queens of The Stone Age-esque guitars with the wry lyrical delivery of McClure.
Now The Violet May’s second single “Jennifer Lies” is set for release on November 22nd and the first track to be taken from their forthcoming EP. A blitz of disorientating and howling guitars build up to the anthemic ending, displaying all the rock n’ roll stylings of a band about to be break into the bigtime. In the words of The Guardian “Their Time Is Now…”
The Violet May play XFM’s Eddy Temple Morris’ night at Proud Galleries this November 25th 2010.
The Violet May are: Chris McClure (vocals); John Kubicki (keys, guitars, vocals); Jono How (guitar); Dan Booth (bass); Alan Whittaker (drums).
www.myspace.com/thevioletmay – www.facebook.com/thevioletmay – www.youtube.com/thevioletmay
