Hatcham Social Announce London Show at White Heat Club
HATCHAM SOCIAL
LONDON SHOW – THE LEXINGTON – 10TH DECEMBER 2021
NEW SINGLE – ‘IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY (THREE CHEERS FOR OUR SIDE)’
NEW ALBUM – ‘WE ARE THE WEIRDOS’ – FIERCE PANDA – MARCH 2022
After a half-decade-long hiatus, Hatcham Social continue their re – emergence with a London show at White Heat at The Lexington in Kings Cross on Friday the 10th of December 2021.
Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/xSBgwWY0Ikb
The band recently played for the first time in six years as part of the Pandemicamonium mini – festival and have a new digital single ‘If You Go Down To The Woods Today (Three Cheers For Our Side)’ which has already picked up airplay on BBC 6 Music and is available on celebrated independent Fierce Panda.
Brand new and unreleased, a version of track was originally recorded with Brian O’Shaunghessy (Go-Kart Mozart, Denim, My Bloody Valentine& Primal Scream) more than ten years ago and will feature on the forthcoming career-spanning compilation entitled ‘We Are The Weirdos’ which is due in March 2022.
Pandamonium! Playlist
‘We Are The Weirdos’ then – offbeat by name and offbeat by nature. A rickety, rackety, rockety compitation album which brings together the very best and lost singles and sing-a-longs from the four albums released during the curious career of one of the UK’s greatest unsung beatpop groups. Those tunes tippytoe from 2006 to 2015, a near-decade filled with melodic indie nonchalence and casually excellent haircuts. Now, six years on those tunes resurface to shine a light on a highly enlightened collective.
Hatcham Social – for ’tis they – very much see themselves as the creative partnership of brothers Finn and Toby and the families they have created along the way. With a shared love of Orange Juice, the Beach Boys and Josef K they formed Hatcham Social proper, naming themselves after the original name of New Cross, meaning a Clearing In The Woods, and taking the idea of utopian anarchism from the pages of an Art Theory textbook as a starting point for a band that wanted to fuse the anger and anarchy of punk with a lyrical absurdity born of Dada, and a messy pop sensibility.
After a string of furiously catchy and scratchy DIY singles and a cassette mini album, they signed to TBD (ATO) Records in the USA and fierce panda in the UK and went in the studio with Tim Burgess to record their debut long player, ‘You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil’.
Fuelled by some suitably precocious press support (a 10/10 review from Vice for ‘You Dig The Tunnel…’ was a particular standout), they went on to release three more albums and gig extensively over the following years with various musicians based around the brothers supporting a selection of indie delights such as Crocodiles, The Charlatans, Tim Burgess, The Maccabees, Good Shoes, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Walkmen and Crystal Stilts.
‘We Are The Weirdos’ collects together some of those key early singles and adds in three extra never-released before tracks – Baxter Dury’s version of ‘Hypnotise Terrible Eyes’, Tim Burgess’s version of ‘Wild Creatures’ and the afore mentioned ‘If You Go Down To The Woods Today (Three Cheers For Our Side)’.
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