THE RED PAINTINGS SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘YOU’RE NOT ONE OF THEM’
NEW SINGLE – RELEASED 25th NOVEMBER (GRAPHITE RECORDS)
Trash McSweeney sees colour in music. Ever since suffering a near-fatal seizure, Trash set out to share with the world a lifetime’s worth of ideas about what he has seen and felt. By taking to his guitar, piano, and notebook, The Red Paintings were born.
The Red Paintings combine performance art and music in a spectacular live show. Each show features unique visual projections along with human body and canvas painters who join them on stage to create artworks that reflect their music and energy. Their sound evokes child-like lullabies of the future, to biting, alternative rock numbers. They are sometimes compared to multi-faceted acts like Radiohead, Muse, Smashing Pumpkins, Arcade Fire and their appeal reaches across baroque-pop steam-punks, metal-heads, indie-rock, prog and folk.
Watch the ‘You’re Not One Of Them’ video
The band have played festivals such as Big Day Out, Great Escape, Y-Not and toured internationally with acts including art-rockers Dresden Dolls, neo-punks Mindless Self Indulgence, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and post-rockers Mogwai.
Recently current Smashing Pumpkins bassist Nicole Fiorentino, joined the band making her live debut on U.S television in October on AXS LIVE, which is watched by over 36 million American households.
Tom Zutaut, former A&R executive for Geffen Records, best known for signing Guns N’ Roses now co-manages the band, showing they are clearly ones to be watched in 2014.
Their debut album ‘The Revolution Is Never Coming’ was released on 30th September through Graphite Records (LostAlone, Mojo Fury, InMe).
5 years in the making, this epic album was recorded and mixed with the late Bryan Carlstrom (Alice in Chains, Rob Zombie) in world-class studios around the globe. The album includes a 35 piece orchestra, a 22 piece choir, harp players, French horns, theremin and more.
Bryan Carlstrom – Producer, Engineer (Alice in Chains, Rob Zombie):
“In my entire 30 year career I’ve not mixed such a diverse, colourful and emotionally dynamic album such as this, it’s like a 21st century War of the Worlds.”
Trash McSweeney – The Red Paintings:
‘’People create an album around a life, I created a life around an album.’’
“Like a thrilling manic descent on a violent helter-skelter ride it’s grandiose absinthe-soaked delirium never wavers.” 4/5 – Rolling Stone, Australia
“To say that experimental art rock band The Red Paintings have a flair for the dramatic is an understatement. The group, the brainchild of Trash McSweeney, is well known for their raucous, bizarre and engaging live performances so we were definitely looking forward to seeing their latest video for “Wasps.” The result is a dark, cinematic and slightly disturbing clip that is not dissimilar in spirit to work from NIN or 30 Seconds To Mars” – MTV, USA
In November/December The Red Paintings will tour the UK with Mindless Self Indulgence:
November
28 Concorde 2, Brighton
29 Koko, London
30 Waterfront Norwich
December
01 Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh
03 Wulfrun, Hall Wolverhampton
04 Ritz, Manchester
05 Anson Rooms, Bristol