Hello folks!
With Halloween nearly upon us, the ever-busy Piney Gir releases her new single today. Available via all the usual digital outlets as well as through our online shop. We also have a limted Voodoo doll + CDR version for those of you that prefer your music on something tangible. Also we'd like to introduce a new band from the Medway stable, The Shall-I-Say-Quois should appeal to any Headcoatees or Billy Childish fans out there. Their debut release, a limited 6-track 10", is available on French red, white or blue vinyl! If that wasn't enough Giuda release a video for Wild Tiger Woman, a track from their forthcoming second album. Read on for more info!!
Piney Gir - My Halloween - OUT TODAY!
As well as the digital release we also have a special limited edition (of around 50) sets of the new Piney Gir single 'My Halloween' on CD and it comes with a VOODOO DOLL!
These lovely dolls were hand crafted by Ms Piney Gir herself while travelling around London town over the last month or so.
So click on the pictures above to grab a set before they sell out.
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Right thats enough creepy stuff...here's some more about the songs and bonus tracks...
“I’ve got a shiny black coffin, with room enough for two,” coos Piney Gir in this musical treat with a sassy bag of tricks thrown in for good measure. My Halloween is set for release on October 28th, just in time for the annual day of the dead.
Inspired by her favourite holiday, Piney couldn’t let Halloween pass her by this year without writing a song especially for it. For those of you who are just discovering Piney Gir, she is from Kansas and was subject to a strict religious upbringing, so growing up in the Bible Belt meant that Halloween was the one night a year where she could dress up and be anything she wanted to be (luckily she was allowed to celebrate the festive event). “Us kids would hang around in packs and go trick or treating. It was empowering, it represented a night of freedom, a time when I could go a little bit wild, howling at the moon and getting high on too much sugar... For one night I could be something else and eat lots of candy, both of these things were really appealing!” recalls Piney. “Then when we got older, Halloween was a holiday for different kinds of wildness, we’re talking Lost Boys-esque, rebel-cave hide-aways with moonshine in a jar and cit rus raves in warehouses down by the docks, dancing to bands like Book of Love and the KLF. Halloween was the ultimate escape.” And escape she did! She’s lived in London for over a decade now,
“But I still miss a good ol’ American-style Halloween,” says Piney.
The lead track My Halloween was spurred on by reruns of The Munsters and Twin Peaks, it’s a playful, twisted take on the macabre… channelling Nancy Sinatra by way of David Lynch; guaranteed to help you get in touch with your inner vampire!
B-side Family Portrait is about being haunted by memories of the past, but there’s warmth to these memories, a welcome spirit from days gone by. “It’s fond recollections of pumpkin-carving with your Mom… or going on a haunted hayride for a school trip. I remember how I was always scared of bobbing for apples because I thought I would drown. It’s about nostalgia but also about the mystery of what’s coming next,” explains Piney.
Last but not least, Ghost of The Year is a duet seeing Piney partner up with her L.A.-based friend Correatown. Angela Correa happened to be in London on a song writing trip and popped into Hackney’s, Dreamtrak studios to hone her song with Oli Horton, Piney and Garo Nahoulakian to create this beautiful and heartfelt ballad. Laden with sweet, honeyed harmonies like a modern homage to Simon and Garfunkel, featuring distant slide guitars reminiscent of Brian Eno’s Apollo; it curses a ghost that’s been “chasing you around.”
Check out Piney's video for My Halloween here!
Introducing The Shall-I-Say-Quois! Brand new 10" on a choice of three colours!
6 BRAND NEW TRACKS FROM A NEW BAND PUT TOGETHER BY EX-HEADCOATEES KYRA RUBELLA, LUDELLA BLACK & THE BUFF MEDWAYS / MBE’S, NURSE JULIE
IF YOU LOVED THEE HEADCOATEES THEN THIS IS RIGHT UP YOUR STRASSE, 6 TRACKS RECORDED AT MEDWAY’S FAVOURITE STUDIO ‘RANSCOMBE’ AND FEATURING BILLY CHILDISH ON GUITAR AND WOLF HOWARD ON DRUMS.
300 COPIES ON BLUE, WHITE OR RED VINYL, (OR BUNDLE PACK OF ALL 3 COLOURS!)
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1: Racist Attack
2: Shall I Say Quoi
3: Oh Mein Gott Baader Meinhof
Side B
4: It's So Hard to be Happy
5: The Kids Are All Square
6: Et Moi, Et Moi,Et Moi
Giuda - New Video for Wild Tiger Woman!
The release date for the Giuda album "Let's Do It Again" has gone back a week to the 18th November, but to keep you all happy the band will be releasing a video for Wild Tiger Woman. Check out the exclusive preview via the Mojo Magazine website tomorrow!!