Wingmen announce UK tour
WINGMEN have announced a headlining UK tour!
Set for January next year, the tour will coincide with the release of the self-titled debut album from the new band featuring members of THE STRANGLERS, THE DAMNED, RUTS DC and JOHNNY MOPED.
Watch a tour preview here:
Tour dates are as follows:
18th January – Colchester Arts Centre
20th January – Milton Keynes Crauford Arms
21st January – London Islington Academy
22nd January – Bristol The Fleece
24th January – Newcastle The Clunty
25th January – Leeds Old Woollen Mill
26th January – Liverpool Academy 2
28th January – Birmingham Academy 2
29th January – Brighton Concorde 2
Wingmen was written and recorded during the lockdown period between 2020 and 2021 and is scheduled to be released in January next year via Cadiz Music.
Speaking about how the band came together, drummer Marty Love explains, “I called Paul and suggested to him that we should have a go at a new project after enjoying working together on THE SENSIBLE GRAY CELLS record and if so, did he have anyone in mind. And we both wanted to work with Leigh, and he was interested in the idea. I asked Leigh if he knew any vocalists that may fancy it and he said Baz Warne could be worth a call, and to my surprise Baz said yes! So, then there were four. We all started sending song ideas to each other. The first was Brits from Baz and then Starting Blocks from Leigh. After that the songs just kept coming…”
Bassist Paul Gray adds, “Although we’d recorded various parts at our homes for our respective bands before, none of us had employed this process to make a complete album! Only Marty and I had worked together before, so it was a complete leap into the unknown. We all had loads of ideas to throw into the pot – some songs arrived completely fully formed that we simply added our own parts to, and others were more akin to musical sketches that ended up as co-writes. The album is a true collaboration inasmuch as none of us knew what parts or melodies or lyrics might be added by anyone else – it was an immensely exciting process! No rehearsals, no pre-production, just us winging ideas to and fro, with the drums going on last of all in the studio – which is completely the opposite of how things are usually done, of course.”
You can view the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below.
Track List:
- Starting Blocks
- The Last Cigarette
- Louie Smokes The Bible
- Brits
- I Would If I Could
- Down In The Hole
- Mary Go Round
- Oh! What A Carry On
- Backstage At The Opera
- It’s Raining All Over England
Wingmen is set for release on January 27th via Cadiz Music. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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