CHROMA Explore Limerence On New Single ‘I Wanna Be Where You Are’ Out Now via Alcopop! Record
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Supporting Foo Fighters This Week
+ Goldie Lookin Chain 2024 Support Tour (Limited Tickets Remain)
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Bi-Lingual Welsh Alt-Rockers’ Debut Album Ask For Angela Out Now via Alcopop! Records
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Pontypridd, Wales bi-lingual alt-rock trio CHROMA are pleased to reveal the official video for their new single ‘I Wanna Be Where You Are’ released on 12th June 2024 via Alcopop! Records.
The news comes ahead of a huge support slot with Foo Fighters for the band this week, and they also support Newport comedy hip hop troupe Goldie Lookin Chain on their forthcoming 2024 headline dates later this year, with limited tickets remaining.
The track is the latest to be taken from the band’s gigantic Alcopop! Records 2023 debut album Ask For Angela.
Commenting on the single, vocalist Katie Hall said: "This song is about limerence. It’s a new word I’ve learnt from the Lalala Let Me Explain podcast. It means to be emotionally and romantically infatuated with someone. It’s like when you have an intense crush on someone who’s not good for you. It’s not necessarily because they're a bad person, it’s because you’re in a bad place so you try to mask your problems with love. In an age of modern technology, love and dating seems disposable. When I fall into limerence it’s usually because I feel lonely. I think it’s something a lot of people go through. We wanted to write a punk song about turbulent love that people could maybe relate to."
The track comes with an official music video directed by Ren Faulkner, with artistic direction from the band's Katie Hall, movement director Bronwen Wilson Rashard, hair and makeup by Yasmine Davies, featuring model Emily Koko, styling by Alaw Griffiths and clothes by Rosie Evans.
“One of the coolest things about being in a band is being able to creatively direct your own music video,” says Hall of the challenge. “The idea for ‘I Wanna Be Where You Are’ came from a hinge date I went on in Port Talbot. I’ve always been fascinated by the steel works every time we drove past that area as a kid, and it’s been on my music video bucket list.”
“On the date we chatted a lot about the steelworks closing. It’s an estimated 20,000 jobs in the area. It’s hard to think of the pressure this puts families under during a cost of living crisis. I think Port Talbot is lush, the people and the place. The video also features Welsh designer Rosie Evans' clothes. I love Rosie’s work, and it’s been a dream of mine for some time to wear one of her corsets.”
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.
The band recently presented an episode of S4C’s returning TV series Curadur, 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 is 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 Courtney Barnett. They also played further shows alongside Bob Vylan and more.
The trio have 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.
2024 UK Live Dates:
15 Jun - MANCHESTER - Old Trafford Cricket Ground (w/ Foo Fighters)
05 Jul - LEWISHAM - Fox & Firkin
SOLD OUT - MANCHESTER - Gorilla *
SOLD OUT - PRESTON - The Ferret *
19 Sep - NORWICH - Epic Studios *
SOLD OUT - NOTTINGHAM - Metronome *
19 Oct - NEWCASTLE - The Cluny *
SOLD OUT - GLOUCESTER - Guildhall *
02 Nov - BRISTOL - SW *
SOLD OUT - NARBERTH - Queens Hall *
SOLD OUT - BIRMINGHAM - Hare & Hounds *
09 Nov - SWANSEA - Sin City *
16 Nov - LONDON - Electric Ballroom *
SOLD OUT - BIRKENHEAD - Future Yard *
SOLD OUT - NEWPORT - Corn Exchange *
SOLD OUT - NEWPORT - Corn Exchange *
* 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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