WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THE NEW SINGLE ‘MISFITS & FREAKS’ HERE:
UK TOUR FOR JUNE ANNOUNCED TODAY!
Tickets go onsale Thursday Feb 17th at 10am and will be available HERE:
“Adrenalized crunch! Martin and Flavia make spit ‘n’ snarl garage rumble-meets-Phil Spector pop”. Mojo
“Their songs are short, hard-hitting mini masterpieces - every track could be a hit single.” Vive Le Rock
“Fuzz-crunched garage rock doused in soulful 60’s girl-group melodies. From the off, they blast in.” Louder Than War
The Courettes are an explosive garage rock duo from Denmark and Brazil who blend an exciting concoction of garage, surf, 60s girlie pop and riot grrrl attitude. Completed by the husband-and-wife partnership of vocalist/guitarist Flavia Couri (from Brazil) and drummer/backing vocalist Martin Couri (from Denmark, where they are based), following the critically acclaimed release of 2021’s ‘Back In Mono’ album and a hugely successful UK tour in October of that year, the very fabulous Courettes return with a brand new single and news of a UK in June later this year.
Available on 7” (with one thousand copies on white vinyl), ‘Misfits & Freaks’ is a new recording of a stand-out track from ‘Back In Mono’, coupled with a brand-new song called ‘Killer Eyes’ on the flipside, available February 25th via Damaged Goods Records.
“Misfits &
Freaks” is a song about a bittersweet concert we played
on the very evening France went
into its first lockdown in 2020,” explains Flavia Couri.
“The pandemic broke loose in
the middle of our tour and uncertainty was in the air. It felt a bit like being
in a kind of science fiction film. People were partying that day as if there was
no tomorrow. And it was indeed the end of the world as we knew
it.
We tried to capture this
feeling in the video featuring some old b-movie apocalyptic scenes, while we
keep on partying, singing, and dancing at the end of the world. We´ve all
been struggling to keep ourselves sane, safe, strong, and sweet in the last two
years. And we did it. Cheer up!”
Watch the ‘Misfits & Freaks’ video HERE:
Hot on the heels of the excitement The Courettes created last October as the UK welcomed back live music with open arms, The Courettes return in June 2022 for a full UK tour.
“Our last tour in the UK in October was really a blast. The world was opening again, the venues were packed, many shows were sold out and we had such a great time. We are looking so much forward to being back this Summer. We´ll be promoting our latest album “Back in Mono”, our new single “Misfits & Freaks” and a very special new release that is due to come out on Damaged Goods Records by the beginning of the tour. Cheer up, cheer up!”
Catch The Courettes live at the following dates:
1 June Bristol The Louisiana
2 June Portsmouth The Wedgewood Rooms
3 June Margate Margate Mod/Sixties Weekender @ Olby's
4 June Thetford Red Rooster Festival
5 June Stourbridge Katie Fitzgeralds
7 June Bedford Esquires
8 June London The Moth
9 June Brighton The Albert
10 June Middlesbrough Westgarth Social Club
11 June Glasgow McChuills
12 June Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms Ballroom
13 June Manchester Marc Riley BBC 6Music Session
14 June Newcastle The Cluny
15 June Liverpool Zanzibar
16 June Manchester Night & Day
17 June Folkestone Chambers
18 June Southend The Moonraker
Tickets go onsale Thursday Feb 17th at 10am and will be available HERE:
The Courettes - Misfits & Freaks (Ltd. white vinyl 7")
The A-side 'Misfits & Freaks' is a re-recorded track from the The Courettes' third album, Back In Mono. Presented here with a longer intro and extra verse.
It comes backed with an exclusive new song 'Killer Eyes'.
Cheer up, cheer up! It's the end of the world!
“We wrote 'Misfits & Freaks' after a bittersweet concert in France in 2020, on our last tour in the pre-pandemic world. We played on the very evening France went in its first lockdown - our show at 9 pm, lockdown at midnight. Back then, nobody actually knew what was a lockdown, what was a pandemic and what the hell we were getting into, so people that day really partied as if there was no tomorrow. The audience and us, we were really having a party at the end of the world! That's how we felt that day: at the end of the world as we once knew it. And I guess we were right on that.
It's also an ode to all the misfits & freaks, a call to our punk rock community. We were worried about the possible consequences of the pandemics, with venues being closed and the economic choking of independent and experimental artists. The fear of a boring new world without places to breathe and drift away from the established mainstream cultural diet, a boring new world without the community feeling that only a rock show can create. A call against the normalisation of Netflix and isolation, a hope that us misfits and freaks would survive. And now, two years later, we can say that we did. Cheer up!”
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See you down the front!
Ian & Duncan