ATTENTION THIEVES post the video for new single, ‘Tell Me’, and announce UK dates!
ATTENTION THIEVES post the video for new single,‘Tell Me, and announce UK dates!
Attention Thieves have posted the video for new single, ‘Tell Me‘, taken from their forthcoming album, ‘Year of the Jackal’, released on May 18th.
Speaking of the track, singer Alex Green says, “Although the album is very diverse musically and subject wise Tell Me is a straight up Rock/Pop song, but that doesn’t mean it is any less genuine. Like the other songs, it’s a story I am telling from experience, but in this case it is about having feelings for someone who has a hold on you, your feelings are in their hands. The lyrics are fairly self-explanatory but I think a lot of people can relate to them and Tell Me is probably the song we are most proud of writing. Believe it or not it actually took the longest to write, we just couldn’t get it right for over a year!”
The band will also play the following UK dates with Acoda and Press To Meco:
May 29th – Birmingham – Asylum 2
May 30th – London – Camden Rocks Festival
May 31st – Swansea – The Scene
June 1st – Newcastle – Academy 2
June 2nd – Glasgow – Broadcast
June 3rd – Hull – Orileys
June 5th – Sheffield – Corporation
June 6th – Reading – Bowery District
June 7th – Norwich – Owl Sanctuary
June 8th – Southampton – Joiners
Click above to watch the video for ‘Tell Me’, taken from ‘Year of the Jackal’
Berkshire quartet, Attention Thieves, have been away for quite some time and no one seems to know quite what happened?
From promising beginnings – playing festivals such as Reading & Leeds, touring and sharing the stage with such bands as Enter Shikari, Mallory Knox, Deaf Havana and Neck Deep, their last release, 7 track EP, ‘Hard Truths’, received rave reviews and was championed by many radio/TV stations, magazines and press.
How was it then, that the band tipped by many as the next UK rock band to breakthrough, disappeared quietly into the background?
The truth is a week before the release of, ‘Hard Truths’, the band’s label went bust on them and they were promptly dropped by their management, due to the massive campaign debt the label had left them with. Finally and perhaps most importantly, the band had also been dealing with their own demons.
The four piece found the chain of events difficult to deal with, working so hard for so many years to get within spitting distance of their dreams, only for them to spiral away and out of control. To be capable of touring whilst shouldering a slipped disk, singer/guitarist, Alex Green, had become further reliant on self-medication to deal with the pain which resulted in addiction. It all came to a boiling point when he had a heart attack, aged 27, during the recording of their debut album, ‘Year of the Jackal’. A complete lifestyle alteration was needed, and fast… for some member’s it would prove lifesaving.
The new look Attention Thieves completed the album that almost never saw the light of day and it is by a country mile, their strongest material to date. ‘Year of the Jackal’ is a genuine triumph, both musically and subject-matter wise, littered with passion and irresistible hook-laden choruses.