JW Paris to follow Radio 1 Big Weekend show with new single and Luton tour kick-off

JW Paris onstage at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Luton's Stockwood Park
JW Paris onstage at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Luton's Stockwood Park. Photo by c24photography

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.

The artwork for 'Something Going On' by JW Paris
The artwork for ‘Something Going On’ the upcoming single by JW Paris

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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