Luton’s JW Paris have announced a new single ahead of a tour starting which starts with a hometown show at The Castle this Saturday (September 14).
The grunge and Britpop inspired three-piece of Danny Collins, Aaron Forde and Gemma Clarke last appeared in town back in May when they played at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Stockwood Park with Coldplay.
The Vandalism Begins at Home headline show at The Castle with support from Blue Cabs and Gaylips, will kick-off a five-date tour and precede brand-new single ‘Something Going On’ which will be out on September 19, via Blaggers Records, which you can pre-save here.
Drawing inspiration from bands like Fontaines DC, Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age and the darker side of Blur, this single will revisit JW Paris’ heavier sound.
Packed full of grungy guitars, driving drums and a melancholic vocal hook that will have you feeling like you’re listening to Placebo for the first time in the 90s, ‘Something Going On’ Is a heartbreaking look into how we’ve come so fractured from being genuine good human beings and now plugged into false rhetoric that we consume across our social timelines.
With lyrics like “Feedback of emotions, I can hear myself cry” the song takes the listener on a journey of how all of us can’t escape the echo chambers we find ourselves in from our mobile phone. “Plugged in switched on, there’s something going on” is that wake-up call for us to remove ourselves from this cyber landscape, uneasy socio-economic politics and ‘plug’ ourselves back into that analogue mindset.
You can catch JW Paris on tour this month at:
14th September: The Castle – Luton
20th September: Cameo – Ashford
23rd September: O2 Academy Islington
24th September: The Horn – St Albans
26th September: Six Six – Cambridge
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