CHROMA Announce Goldie Lookin Chain 2024 Support Tour
“One of the highest anthem counts of any record around…supercharged female empowerment” - Joyzine
“Like a spaceship of aceness has flown over Wales and dropped them in the valleys” - Adam Walton, BBC Wales
"Gossip-by-way-of-DFA1979 pummelling riffage led by firestorm up front in Katie Hall" - Sweeping The Nation
“If their debut is anything to go by they’ll be filling out stadiums in no time” - Noizze [8/10]
"Summon the spirits of Beth Ditto and Kathleen Hanna" - PRS M for Music Magazine
“One of Wales’ best-kept secrets…righteous bilingual noise pop” - God Is In The TV
“This is the kind of debut that most bands would pray for” - The Soundboard
“Ones to watch” - Under The Radar Magazine
CHROMA Announce Goldie Lookin Chain 2024 Support Tour
Plus Further Extensive 2024 Shows w/ Foo Fighters, Loose Articles, Bob Vylan + Eurosonic Festival, FOCUS Wales, Beam Me Up Festival
New Single ‘Girls Talk’ Released 11th January 2024
Stream and share: https://bfan.link/girls-talk
Announced As Latest Music Venue Trust Patrons + Present S4C Curador Episode This Week
Bi-Lingual Welsh Alt-Rockers’ Debut Album Ask For Angela Out Now via Alcopop! Records
Stream/purchase - https://www.chroma.band/links
Ahead of an appearance at Eurosonic Festival later this month, Pontypridd, Wales bi-lingual alt-rock trio CHROMA are delighted to announce that they will support Newport comedy hip hop troupe Goldie Lookin Chain on their forthcoming 2024 headline dates later this year.
To celebrate the news, new single ‘Girls Talk’ will be released on 11th January 2024, and is the latest track to be taken from the band’s gigantic Alcopop! Records 2023 debut album Ask For Angela.
Recorded at Giant Wafer Studios, Llanbadarn Fynydd in the heart of Wales, CHROMA’s much lauded debut was produced and mixed by Steffan Pringle (Adwaith, Future of the Left, Boy Azooga) and mastered by Tom Langrish at E1 Mastering (IDLES, Fontaines D.C, DITZ) in London.
Commenting on the track, vocalist Katie Hall said: "Girls Talk is one of the first songs that we wrote together that has actually stuck throughout the years. When I wrote the song I was experiencing a lot of misogyny, and I always found myself in the same situation saying the same thing, which was ‘don’t talk over me, and don’t tell the boys you're going to f*ck me after the show.' Girls Talk looks at the power we have when we talk to each other and stand up against misogyny together. It changed the way I wrote songs and inspired our album, Ask For Angela."
The band will also be presenting an episode of S4C’s returning TV series Curadur this week, with Hall inviting some of her favourite bands and artists to join her Clwb Cysgu Cwl (Sleepover Club). Featuring performances from The Joy Formidable, Panic Shack and of course Chroma, the episode will be broadcast on S4C on Friday 12 January at 10pm, and available on catch-up via BBC iPlayer and S4C Clic.
Riding high on a run of packed shows at SXSW Festival, FOCUS Wales, and a support slot with The Mysterines, the band announced their signing to Alcopop! Records in early 2023 and were recently hand-picked to support legendary US rockers Foo Fighters at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester on 15th June 2024 alongside Coutney Barnett. They will also play further shows alongside Loose Articles, Bob Vylan, and more.
The trio have also just been announced as one of the latest patrons of the Music Venue Trust, and will support the work of the charity in sharing the importance of Grassroots Music Venues and their crucial role in the music industry's ecosystem.
Commenting on the news, the band said: “It’s an absolute honour to become patrons of Music Venue Trust. Grassroots Music Venues provide a vital network for emerging talent, artists and crew alike. Without these essential spaces, corporate greed prevails. Long live Music Venue Trust and all that they do to keep these doors open for communities to thrive."
2024 UK Live Dates:
18 Jan - LONDON - Signature Brew (John Kennedy’s: The Remedy)
19 Jan - GRONINGEN - Eurosonic Festival
09 Feb - LINCOLN - Beam Me Up Festival
10 Feb - OXFORD - Beam Me Up Festival
21 Feb - CARDIFF - Summit Festival, Porters
02 Mar - CARDIFF - Tramshed (w/ Bob Vylan)
09 - 11 May - FOCUS Wales
07 Jun - HEBDEN BRIDGE - Trades Club (w/ Loose Articles)
08 Jun - MILTON KEYNES - Craufurd Arms (w/ Loose Articles)
09 Jun - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach (w/ Loose Articles)
15 Jun - MANCHESTER - Old Trafford Cricket Ground (w/ Foo Fighters)
06 Sep - MANCHESTER - Gorilla *
SOLD OUT - PRESTON - The Ferret *
19 Sep - NORWICH - Epic Studios *
18 Oct - NOTTINGHAM - Metronome *
19 Oct - NEWCASTLE - The Cluny *
01 Nov - GLOUCESTER - Guildhall *
02 Nov - BRISTOL - SW *
08 Nov - NARBERTH - Queens Hall *
SOLD OUT - BIRMINGHAM - Hare & Hounds *
09 Nov - SWANSEA - Sin City *
16 Nov - LONDON - Electric Ballroom *
22 Nov - BIRKENHEAD - Future Yard *
* w/ Goldie Lookin Chain
CHROMA are:
Katie Hall - Vocals/guitar
Liam Bevan - Bass
Zac Mather - Drums
CHROMA online:
https://www.chroma.band/
https://www.facebook.com/CHROMAbanduk/
https://twitter.com/chromabanduk
https://www.instagram.com/chromabanduk/
More about CHROMA:
Following 18 long months of waiting to get back into the studio during the pandemic, CHROMA are immensely proud and excited to finally be sharing brand new material from their forthcoming album, recorded during lockdown with support from Festival Republic and PRSF.
Influenced by the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and The Gossip, CHROMA have already received a groundswell of early radio support from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Kerrang! Radio, Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru and ongoing support from BBC Introducing.
Boasting a healthy amount of live notches on their belt for a band yet to even release an album, they’ve previously appeared at Reading & Leeds Festival, BBC Radio 1’s Biggest Weekend, FOCUS Wales and Festival Number 6, along with European festival appearances in Barcelona and Brittany. Most recently supporting stablemates Tokky Horror, they've also played sold-out shows all over the UK with the likes of IDLES, Peace, The Joy Formidable, VANT and Tigercub.
They’ve been added to key editorial playlists across Spotify, given televised performances on BBC Wales and S4C, featured regularly on FA Wales media content and Visit Wales, and seen press support from the Metro, PRS M for Music Magazine, South Wales Argus and Y Selar. Pre-pandemic, the three piece secured a notable appearance at Maida Vale Studios in 2019, recording a live session for BBC Radio Wales which later got picked up by BBC R1 and played on air.
“It brings us such joy to announce that our debut album Ask For Angela is finally being released to the world this October,” say the band of the recent news. “After a few long gruelling years of waiting for the right time, at least it finally feels right that we put our first baby out for the world to see and hear. This album takes us in a direction that we as a band feel as if it affirms the sound that we’ve always wanted to create, and with thanks to Steffan Pringle and Tom E1 Mastering and Duplication, they’ve helped bring these songs to life. Ask For Angela is no longer just ours, but it’s yours, now and forever. We hope you find as much joy in this record as it was for us to create.”
Taking its name from the campaign of the same name launched to prevent sexual assault in the UK, the material on forthcoming debut album Ask For Angela variously reflects on the band’s collective experience growing up in the South Wales Valleys, and explores the myriad lived experiences of young women. Exploring infighting within the feminist movement, the oppression of trans rights in the UK, violence against women, and other weighty but hugely important topics, the trio ultimately invite the listener to a place of safety and empowerment with their inclusive music.
Previously-released 2023 singles ‘Don’t Wanna Go Out’, ‘Don’t Mind Me’ and ‘Woman To Woman’ picked up support from Huw Stephens at BBC 6music and BBC Wales, Alyx Holcombe at BBC R1, John Kennedy at Radio X, Amazing Radio, Total Rock and many more, plus a groundswell of grassroots tastemaker support from Complete Music Update, Under The Radar, BUZZ Magazine, God Is In The TV, Noizze, Stereoboard, Distorted Sound, Sweeping The Nation and more.
Fresh from an appearance at DMZ Peace Train Festival in Korea, the band also recently returned from an autumn 2023 cultural exchange visit to Aotearoa/New Zealand, as part of a project examining live music and its importance to minority languages.
Prosiect Pūtahitanga is a creative practice and research project led by Cardiff University in partnership with the University of Waikato and FOCUS Wales. It aims to find points of connection between te reo Māori (the Māori Language), te ao Māori (the Māori world/world view) and Welsh-language culture through the lens of each country’s music scene.
Watch the video for lead single ‘Don’t Mind Me’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEKCgFcumdk
Listen to latest single ‘Woman To Woman’:
Watch the video - https://youtu.be/1UCtuFsNte0
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