Liverpool DIY Punks Coughin’ Vicars Sign To Venn Records
Announce New Album Curses & Prayers Released 26th July 2024
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Watch The Video For Lead Single ‘Until The Feeling Turns Cold’ Released 1st May 2024
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Rebellion Festival + Leodis Requiem Festival + Further Live Dates Announced
Liverpool DIY punks Coughin’ Vicars are pleased to announce they have signed to Venn Records and will release their new album Curses & Prayers on 26th July 2024.
To celebrate the news the band are releasing lead single ‘Until The Feeling Turns Cold’ on 1st May 2024 on all good digital service providers.
The opening track from the album and an anthem for solar-challenged goths everywhere, ‘Until The Feeling Turns Cold’ is built around an upbeat melody and a New Romantic howl-to-action against the slumber of warmth-induced comfort and lethargy that comes with the summer months.
Commenting on the track, vocalist Roman Remains says: “The carpet can get pulled at any moment so we gotta try our best to thrive in the moment of inspiration. Everyone loves the summer and the heat but let’s face it—the days are long and nights unsettling, the concrete is dry and wheels roll free too easily. EasyJet envy burns, the insects irritate, and the urge for another can turns into another midsummer moon. We’re most productive in the colder climates. Kicking against the conformity of hibernation, CV get stuff done while the masses wait with wide screen tvs. The B-side to this song could also be called ‘strike while the iron’s hot’. Rough seas make wise sailors, or something like that…”
Born from a desire to make androgynous songs amongst a macho musical landscape, the band are indebted to years of service as reluctant protagonists in the city’s loudest back rooms, with members previously appearing in the lines ups of Napalm Death, SSS, Cold Ones, Salem Rages and more. The appeal for Vicars was forming a new guard who struggled with books, yet devoured their pages with an almighty gaze; a gang of side-stage students; mosh-pit mutants.
Two years in the making in-between honing their live chops and creeping up the bill alongside the likes of Bo Ningen, Glitterer, Tokky Horror, Serious Sam Barrett, Bruise Control, and more, the album was conceived and constructed in the draughty, bare-brick local institution of dockside rehearsal rooms Vulcan Studios.
Produced by the band’s own Adam Clarkson (guitar) in Vagrant Studios, Southport during Oct/Nov 2023, the album was mixed by Coughin’ Vicars and mastered by Piers Mortimer (Robert Fripp, Creedence Clearwater), featuring composer/saxophonist Daniel Thorne (Erased Tapes) on ‘The Reach’.
The band’s 2022 Ritual Discipline 12″ LP was first issued as two self-released Lockdown Tapes (Jan/Oct 2020) under a different lineup, pressed and released in the US by longterm friend Jamie Barrier (The Pine Hill Haints) and his Arkam Records imprint.
The Vicars cemented their current line up with synth player Gabriella on Local Lockdown Heritage Hits featuring covers of Soft Cell (Southport), Mansun (Chestser), Pink Military (Liverpool) and more, introducing her vocals for the first time on 2022 standalone single ‘Possession of Fire’.
Further live dates and new music will be revealed over the coming weeks.
New album Curses & Prayers released 26th July 2024 via Venn Records
Live Dates:
24th May – Manchester @ Peer Hat (Staffordshire Hunt Sabs Benefit)
05th July – York, Swine Fest @ Fulford Arms
12th July – Leeds, Leodis Requiem Fest @ Boom
26th July – Liverpool/Southport TBC (Album Release)
01st Aug – Blackpool, Rebellion Fest
