aaamusic | On 08, Apr 2011

Celebrating this week’s release of new single ‘Jenny Kelly’, Fight Like Apes have now unveiled the song’s cheesetastic music video. In the spirit of rural cheese rolling events, The video sees the band mounting their BMX’s and taking up the chase of a giant cheese wheel. The song itself is classic Fight Like Apes, both sonically and lyrically off-kilter with a rousing and memorable chorus.

FIGHT LIKE APES

‘THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE LEGS OF TINA TURNER’

RELEASED APRIL 25^th

VIA MODEL CITIZEN RECORDS

http://www.fightlikeapesmusic.com/

Relentlessly pilfering the brightest parts of post-hardcore synthery, cartoon punk and sugar-rush twee, these totally hinge-free magpies have built a nest from shards of Enter Shikari, Test Icicles and Le Tigre and then thrashed the shiny fuck out of it – NME

This is a quirky blend of tender indie-pop and jangly mayhem….….dominated by MayKay’s wailing Debbie Harry-ish vocals steering the band through familiar off beat terrain – The Sunday Time

Fight Like Apes are set to unleash their new album ‘The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner’ on April 25^th via Model Citizen Records.

Following ‘Jenny Kelly’, the first single to be taken from their second album ‘The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner’, this release sees our intrepid sonic stevedores sink deeper and darker into the treacly tar pits of their collective dank and fetid imagination.  Here Indie Monsters are called out and slain. With pitch black rhymes and ridicule, Fight Like Apes take the tumescent cadaver of 21^st century pop and hotwire it with a million volts of electro-punk therapy.

Febrile with white heat intensity of a world tour which saw the band travel far and wide from New York to Newcastle, to Berlin to Benicassim, Fight Like Apes decamped to London to work under the production hand of Gang Of Four’s guitarist Andy Gill (past production duties have included Futureheads, Young Knives and Red Hot Chili Peppers). Here, hidden behind the street traders of Leather Lane the new Fight Like Apes long player was kicked and screamed into being.

The Dublin alt-rockers have already garnered a reputation for their raucous on stage antics and quirky track titles from the blogsphere to national music press alike. The album has already caused a furore on its initial release in Ireland in August, charting at # 1 in the digital charts and giving Katy Perry and Eminem a run for their money, entering at # 3 overall.

Like a snotty kid poking a dead crow with a shitty stick; or a scabby knee that you just can’t help but keep picking at; these are scenes from the A&E at the end of the world, and Fight Like Apes are open for admissions.

BE SURE TO CATCH THE BAND ON TOUR

APRIL

30^th – Leeds, Live at Leeds, Joseph Well www.seetickets.com/Tour/LIVE-AT-LEEDS

MAY

1^st – Glasgow, King Tuts www.gigsinscotland.com  08444 999 990

2^nd – Sheffield, O2 Academy2 www.ticketweb.co.uk 0844 477 2000

4^th – Liverpool O2 Academy2 www.ticketweb.co.uk 0844 477 2000

5^th – Manchester Night & Day www.gigsandtours.com/?a=fight+like+apes&site=fightlikeapes 0161 832 1111

6^th – Nottingham, Bodega www.alt-tickets.co.uk 0845 413 4444

8^th – Birmingham, O2 Academy3 www.ticketweb.co.uk 0844 477 2000

9^th – Bristol, O2 Academy2 www.ticketweb.co.uk 0844 477 2000

10^th – London KCLS www.Kclsutickets.com 0870 90709