Bristol’s THE PLEASURE DOME Reveal New Single ‘Good Luck’ Out Now
“Unrelenting noise, serving a signature blend of punk rock with thrash metal moments” - CLASH
“A burning effigy of resolve that has no intention of going out quite yet” - So Young Magazine
“Newcomers on the punk scene, but brimming with potential” - The Line of Best Fit
"An insane piece of alt rock music" - Jack Saunders, BBC R1
“Snarling post-punk...this rowdy lot have got the goods” - DIY
“A forthright Bristolian blast” - Louder Than War
Bristol’s THE PLEASURE DOME Reveal New Single ‘Good Luck’ Out Now
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Debut Album EQUINOX Released 22nd September 2023 via Hound Gawd! Records
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September/October 2023 UK Headline Tour Dates On Sale Now
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Bristol grunge-rock/punk trio The Pleasure Dome are pleased to reveal their new single ‘Good Luck’, which is out now on all good streaming platforms.
The single is the latest to be taken from their debut album EQUINOX which is set for release on 22nd September 2023 via new label home Hound Gawd! Records.
Recorded in Wales in February 2023 at the secluded Mwnci Studios over a week, EQUINOX was produced by friend of the band Tom Smith, mixed by James Trevascus (Beak, Billy Nomates) and mastered by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney).
A driving, full-throttle assault that shows the heavier side of the trio’s snaking garage punk, ‘Good Luck’ grooves along on a helter-skelter riff that never lets up for the duration of the single’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it runtime.
Commenting on the new track, frontman Bobby Spender says: “‘Good Luck’ is about being too scared to talk to someone you fancy. I had a crush on a bartender at a venue we played while on tour in Belgium. The next day we picked up our gear, we were chatting and I fancied her so much but I didn’t say anything. When we said goodbye, she said ‘Good Luck’ and it left me feeling like I had anything but.”
“I wrote the song the next night in the Netherlands and the following night we debuted it at the legendary Vera, Groningen in the Netherlands when we got an encore. We’d been learning it in the dressing room and played it once in soundcheck. It’s a burst of energy. Like with the rest of the album, we recorded live without a click, so that stop near the end before we all come back in was natural. It happened by mistake on stage when I forgot to play the riff, but we all came back in together in time so we kept it as part of the song.”
Previously released AA-side single ‘Love Is Dead’/’Insane’ and follow up ‘Down The Alley’ are also out now on all good streaming services, picking up radio support from Jack Saunders at BBC R1 and featuring on Spotify's Students' Union playlist, with a 7” vinyl release of the former also on sale now - https://tinyurl.com/2p9f3wwj
Tickets for the band’s September/October 2023 UK & EU headline tour dates are on sale now (see below for listings).
Live Dates:
27/09 - The Chintz, Falmouth, UK
28/09 - The Grace, London, UK
29/09 - The Hope & Ruin, Brighton, UK
30/09 - Crofters Rights, Bristol, UK
05/10 - Oporto Bar, Leeds, UK
07/10 - Bar La Fosse, Laval, FR
08/10 - The Jokers, Angers, FR
10/10 - Merleyn, Nijmegen, NL
11/10 - Patronaat, Harlem, NL
12/10 - Hofman, Utrecht, NL
13/10 - Oefenbunker, Landgraaf, NL
14/10 - Here's The Thing Festival, Tilburg, NL
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A three piece rock band from Bristol, UK, Bobby Spender (vocals and guitar) Loz Fancourt (bass and backing vocals), and Alex ‘Bert’ Elvin (drums) formed The Pleasure Dome in July 2019. They have already toured extensively across Europe and the UK, notably headlining Supersonic in Paris earlier this year with a capacity audience queuing around the block to experience their live show.
The band’s name came to front man Bobby Spender in a fever dream about an enormous futuristic amusement arcade. “Above its doors in neon lights was written ‘The Pleasure Dome’,” he explains. “The next day I learnt that the romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the first person to coin the phrase pleasure dome in his opium-induced poem Kubla Khan. The name stuck!”
“We’re just three friends who love to play music, really,” says Spender. “I write these songs about moments in life, things I’ve learned or don’t understand, and together we work them out. We’re loud, but we also like the delicate moments too, the calm and the thunder.”
In part influenced and inspired by the rapid success of homegrown UK talents King Krule, Wet Leg, IDLES, and Katy J Pearson, the band pull their musical direction from a wide range of artists and sounds. “The Beatles are my favourite band,” enthuses Spender. “As a songwriter, for me, it’s all there in that songbook. Nirvana are of course a huge inspiration, but I listen to all sorts of music really.”
The band’s previous standalone singles and EP releases have already netted them a host of fans at UK press, with a solid bundle of radio airplay at BBC R1 (Jack Saunders Rock Show, BBC Introducing), BBC 6Music (Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, Craig Charles), BBC Radio Wales (Adam Walton), and BBC Bristol (Introducing).
