Bristol's Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine to release debut EP via Velvet Echoes - Psychedelic/Post-punk // Crack, Rough Trade, Radio X-backing
Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine
Release debut EP
A Good Way to Get Yourself Killed
Out now via Velvet Echoes
Listen/download for free on Bandcamp
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Listen to focus track 'BJJ MMA TFF. BK 1' here
“Best band name of the month and that sounds fantastic!” John Kennedy, Radio X
“Counter Culture” Rough Trade
"Best New Music" Crack Magazine
“A mind-bending gem of psychedelic synth indie rock.” Fame Magazine
(on Backseat Driver) “One the best pieces of garage punk we have heard this year” Acute Pop
Ahead of their biggest headline show to date at Bristol’s Crofters Rights on 6th July, psychedelic post-punk quintet Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine today share debut EP 'A Good Way To Get Yourself Killed' - out today (5th July) via Velvet Echoes, and available to download for free from Bandcamp.
Plumping the relentless grooves of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard with delicate 60s psych-pop harmonies, Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine fuse psychedelic melodies with the fuzzed-up fury of high-octane post-punk, all powered by an embrace of all things silly and irreverent: “fun and mischievous ways of expressing yourself within art is probably an artist's greatest weapon”, explains drummer Seamus 'Mr Business' Daley-Dee, “Collectively we enjoy being a bit silly with our ideas and keeping the writing process interesting and playful".
Accordingly, The EP delivers an ever-playful 4 song set of chaotic and colourful surprise. Inspired by various behaviours and irks observed in their Bristol hometown, elliptic Graffiti sightings (‘BJJ MMA TFF. BK 1’), videos found online of old welsh men walking tripping on magic mushrooms (“Magic Hill), irksome 'backseat driving' and sustainable transport (“E-Scooters”) are the main concerns in Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine’s ebullient fuzz-pedalled world.
Produced at the recording space of beloved Bristol venue The Louisiana with Alfie-Tyson Browne (Langkamer, Katy J Pearson and Saloon Dion), offering some insight into the writing process for the EP, Daley-Dee notes:
"I’ve realised I've become an observer. These songs I wouldn't say they are particularly about anything but I definitely have a moment when I know the reason why I have written them, some because I found something funny or because irritation is the start of inspiration."
More about Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine :
Slowly assembled together after years of “life's wonderful lived experiences” - at college, at Green Man festival, on Gumtree adverts, at gigs - Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine eventually emerged in Bristol in 2020, influenced by the likes of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Snapped Ankles, and the New Wave trailblazers DEVO and B-52s to define their frentic psychedelic/post-punk sound.
Coming off the back of recent shows with Ellie Bleach, Canned Pineapple and The Pleasure Dome, the band then signed to Bristol Independent label Velvet Echoes (Dreamwave). In the last month, EP teasers 'Backseat Driver' and 'Magic Hill' have garnered multiple plays from John Kennedy (Radio X), as well as backing from Rough Trade Counter Culture, Crack Magazine, The Most Radicalist, Acute Pop and Post-Brexit Pop. Celebrating the arrival of their forthcoming EP, Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine ready themselves for their biggest headline show to date at Bristol’s Crofters Rights on 6th July,
Upcoming Dates:
6 JULY // Bristol, Crofter’s Rights - EP launch Show
19 OCT // Bristol, Downstokes Festival
Wakey Wakey Rise & are:
‘Smudge’ - Guitar/Lead Vocal
Harri Elliot - Synth/Vocal
Duncan Whitelock - Bass/Vocal
Cam Smith - Lead Guitar
Seamus ‘Mr Business’ Daley-Dee - Drummer
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A Good Way To Get Yourself Killed EP by Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine
Out Now via Velvet Echoes
