Menace Beach – ‘Tastes Like Medicine’ & new live date

MENACE BEACH UNVEIL NEW SINGLE ‘TASTES LIKE MEDICINE’

BAND ADD FEBRUARY NME AWARDS SHOW DATE TO DEBUT UK TOUR

DEBUT ALBUM RATWORLD RELEASED 19TH JANUARY

Leeds based Menace Beach are set to release their debut album Ratworld on 19th January 2015 via Memphis Industries. Today, they’ve shared new single ‘Tastes Like Medicine’ via Stereogum and have added a new date to their first ever UK headline tour. In addition to a full run of venues in Jan and Feb, Menace Beach have confirmed that they will be appearing at the Boston Dome (an NME Awards Show) on 12th February. Full dates are below; please email for a copy of Ratworld.

Back in 1990, Color Dream games released Menace Beach for the then popular NES games console from Nintendo. Imagine skateboarding through a side-scrolling 8-bit world filled with balloons, clowns and disgruntled dockworkers in search of your cute pixelated girlfriend Bunny. It’s from this slightly surreal, esoteric world that this Leeds indie rock revolving cast of local luminaries, headed by Ryan Needham and Liza Violet, draw their name. Its reference acts as the perfect backdrop to their ’90s American underground and pre-Brit Pop indie; colourful, energetic, pop and always surprising.

Ryan and Liza are ably assisted by Hookworm’s singer Matthew ‘MJ’ Johnson on guitar and production duties, Nestor Matthews on drums and Matt Spalding on bass.

Their debut album, recorded at MJ’s Suburban Home studios across the summer of 2014 is a thirteen song assault and journey through a psyche tinged wonderland, documenting moving away and waving goodbye to the fractured rubble of an unhappy lifestyle. Of the title, Ryan says “We’ve created our own grubby little Ratworld to inhabit. Everything is better when it’s a bit grubby and broken”. It’s that dreamy sensation of taking comfort in chaos, looking around at the perfect mess you’ve created and feeling deeply content as it’s yours and no one else’s.

MENACE BEACH DEBUT UK TOUR
19 January – Leeds, Jumbo Records (Instore)
20 January – Nottingham, Rough Trade (Instore)
22 January – Kingston, New Slang (Album Release Show)
25 January – Broadcast, Glasgow
26 January – The Castle, Manchester
27 January – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
28 January – Louisiana, Bristol
29 January – Sebright Arms, London
30 January – Prince Albert, Brighton
01 February – Brudenell, Leeds
12 February – Boston Dome, London (NME Awards Show)

Check out previous singles ‘Blue Eye’, ‘Fortune Teller’, ‘Tennis Court’ and ‘Come on Give Up’

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