Getdown Services - Massive Champion - 1LP

New Single ‘I Can’t Die Like That’ out 20th May, listen here

PRESS

‘Massive Champion’ is the highly anticipated new album from Bristol’s Getdown Services, set for release on 14th August via Breakfast Records. The follow up to cult classic debut Crisps, it arrives alongside lead single ‘I Can’t Die Like That’ and news of the duo’s biggest UK headline tour to date, including Roundhouse on 8th December. The announcement follows Getdown Services’ debut appearance on Later... with Jools Holland earlier this week, where they performed BBC 6 Music playlisted single ‘The Radiator’, one of ‘Massive Champion’s’ genuinely irresistible thirteen tracks.

An odyssey of anarchic joy, seditious wit and boundless energy, the album finds Josh Law and Ben Sadler pushing deeper into the singular world they have been building for years, while opening up new emotional and lyrical ground. Written in green rooms, on long car journeys and in the gaps between relentless touring, it stands as their boldest and most expansive statement to date, an ode to childhood, British cultural detritus and the absurd poetry of everyday life, distilling everything that has made Getdown Services one of the most exhilarating and unpredictable bands around. In the band’s words it is “about self pity and realising that maybe all of the healing your inner child stuff you hear about isn’t actually total bollocks. Musically and lyrically I think it’s about us trying to clean up our act a bit.”

New single ‘I Can’t Die Like That’ provides the second taste of the album and is the kind of instant earworm built for festival crowds. Wildly infectious, it is quintessential Getdown Services, pairing huge hooks with the band’s perceptive and poignant lyricism. As the band explain, “‘I Can’t Die Like That’ is about the feeling of simple things becoming complicated. We thought it was interesting to think about the ways in which something as straightforward as dying can be difficult. It’s also about clinging on to feelings that comfort you but aren’t necessarily healthy.” Like much of ‘Massive Champion’, it finds catharsis in contradiction, meeting often heavy subject matter with both candour and humour.

A triumph of hard work and the grassroots scene, Getdown Services jokingly coined themselves Britain’s Best Band. With ‘Massive Champion’, it feels less like a punchline and more like a statement of intent. As their audience continues to grow exponentially both at home and across the world, they look every bit on a fast track to becoming one of the country’s biggest and most vital bands. Joyous and utterly singular, ‘Massive Champion’ feels set to soundtrack the year ahead and, very likely, many more to come.

1. Poor Bannister

2. I Can’t Die Like That

3. Probiotic

4. Cha Cha Slide

5. The Radiator

6. The Definitive Map

7. A Crazy Story

8. What’s On Your Mind?

9. Stop Living

10. No One Likes Me

11. Check The Definition

12. Lentils

13. 600 Dance Lessons

GETDOWN SERVICES PLAY:

General on sale is Friday 22nd May from 10am

MAY

21st O2 Apollo, MANCHESTER w/ Super Furry Animals (Sold Out)

22nd Bearded Theory Festival, DERBYSHIRE

27th Brightside, BRISBANE (Sold Out)

29th Oxford Art Bar, SYDNEY (Sold Out)

30th The Tote, MELBOURNE (Sold Out)

31st The Corner Hotel, MELBOURNE (Sold Out)

JUNE

2nd Double Whammy, AUCKLAND (Sold Out)

3rd San Fran, WELLINGTON

14th Best Kept Secret Festival, HILVARENBEEK (Sold Out)

16th Meltdown Festival, Southbank Centre, LONDON  (Sold Out)

19th-20th Mablis Festival, STAVANGER (Sold Out)

24th Bristol Sounds Festival, BRISTOL w/ Super Furry Animals

26th En Nord Beat Festival, BAILLEUL

27th Days Off Festival @ Philharmonie de Paris, PARIS

28th Ferrand Festival Europavox, CLERMONT

JULY

3rd Roskilde Festival, ROSKILDE

17th-18th Spirit of Eden Festival, KENT

24th Truck Festival, OXFORD

25th Latitude, SUFFOLK

26th Deer Shed Festival, YORKSHIRE

31st Belladrum Festival, KILTARLITY

AUGUST

2nd All Together Now Festival, WATERFORD

7th Boardmasters, NEWQUAY

9th OFF Festival, KATOWICE

12th Parades de Coura Festival, PAREDES

14th Oya Festival, OSLO

16th PALP Festival, COL DU LEIN

21st Green Man, BRECON BEACONS

23rd Pukkelpop, BELGIUM

27th Canela Party, TORREMOLINOS

29th Wynthenshaw Park, MANCHESTER w/ The Courteeners

30th La Belle Angele, EDINBURGH

31st La Belle Angele, EDINBURGH

NOVEMBER

19th Tramshed, CARDIFF

21st Concorde 2, BRIGHTON

22nd Concorde 2, BRIGHTON

23rd Waterfront, NORWICH

25th Boilershop, NEWCASTLE

26th Galvanizers, GLASGOW

28th Academy 1, MANCHESTER

29th Project House, LEEDS

30th Project House, LEEDS

DECEMBER

2nd Vicar Street, DUBLIN

4th Rock City, NOTTINGHAM

5th Foundry, SHEFFIELD

8th Roundhouse, LONDON

JANUARY

8th Rockaway Beach Festival, BOGNOR REGIS

16th Bristol Beacon, BRISTOL

17th Bristol Beacon, BRISTOL

Manufacturer:

Breakfast Records 90 East Street, Bristol BS3 4EY support@breakfastrecords.co.uk

EU Representative:

UAB Mushroom Agency

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