PREGOBLIN release a new single Nobody Likes Me, with special guest vocalist Jessica Winter, through Strap Originals on Wednesday 8th November. Nobody Likes Me whichwas premiered on Lauren Laverne’s BBC6 show earlier today, is available to stream/purchase here:Nobody Likes Me
Nobody Likes Me, with its defiant lyrical mantra, is a deliciously infectious slab of disco pop. It is the third earworm to be released from the forthcoming album PREGOBLIN II, which is coming on 19th January 2024. Previous singles from the album include These Hands AKA Danny Knife featuring Peter Doherty and Big Hitters featuring Armand Schaubroeck
The video for Nobody Likes Me was directed and filmed by Alex Sebley, Phoebe May Ford & Sophie at Coppin at Cheybassa Lodge (Rest Home), Hayling Island, Portsmouth.
Says Alex: “Recently I was caring for my mum, in the last few months of her life, and this video kind of fits with that experience. My friend Vicki Knight is a nurse at a local care home and she gave me the idea. I would see Vicki at the pub between visiting with my mum.”
Packed with sublime melodies and unforgettable tragi-comic lyricism,PREGOBLIN II was recorded in Brixton and Margate and can be preordered on vinyl and CD here: PREGOBLIN II
Having toured with Peter Doherty and recently sold out their own headline shows at the Windmill in London and Left of the Dial Festival in Rotterdam, PREGOBLIN head out on the road in November & December to play the following shows:
NOVEMBER
28th Tuesday Paris Le Trabendo (with Peter Doherty & Lias Saoudi) TICKETS Paris
DECEMBER
7th Thursday Manchester YES (The Basement) TICKETS Manchester
8th Friday Glasgow SWG3 Poetry Club TICKETS Glasgow
15th Friday London Third Man TICKETS London
The creative journey to this point has been labyrinthine and frequently painful. As far back as the early ’10s, Sebley was registering his embryonic talent alongside Lias and Nathan Saoudi in The Saudis, the chaotic pre-Fat White Family ensemble where he played guitar and co-authored raw, post-punk material including FWF’s breakthrough tune ‘Touch The Leather,’ before departing the band just as its ascent began.
PREGOBLIN II is a strange name for a debut album. For the artist who created it, Alex Sebley aka PREGOBLIN, its astonishingly heartfelt and brilliantly catchy assemblage of songs is the culmination of a tortuous genesis period. Its release finally, he hopes, will usher in a fresh, more positive chapter for him, a sequel to all the misery and bullshit up to this point – hence the title.
PREGOBLINreceive a healthy 50,000 plays a month on Spotify. Previous singles include: Combustion which to date has amassed 2.2M streams and was dubbed ‘Single of the year’ last year in The Quietus. Other PREGOBLIN songs include Anna (flowers Won‘t Grow), Love Letters, Snakes & Oranges and Wimpy & Wimpy Lovewith the Pop Group.
