Coughin’ Vicars Nod To Local Time Slip Legend On New Single ‘Rips of Rain’
Coughin’ Vicars Nod To Local Time Slip Legend On New Single ‘Rips of Rain’
Released 12th June 2024
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Liverpool DIY Punks’ New Album Curses & Prayers
Released 26th July 2024 via Venn Records
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Rebellion Festival + Leodis Requiem Festival + Further Live Dates Announced
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Liverpool DIY punks Coughin’ Vicars are pleased to reveal their new single ‘Rips of Rain’, released 12th June 2024 via Venn Records.
Another rugged slice of ‘80s infused punk from the Scouse quintet, the new single is a nod to the local paranormal legend of the Bold Street ‘timeslip’ in Liverpool, and is situated in the rain-soaked drift home where all time and logic are lost, and transcendental navigation takes over.
“I’ve walked and worked on the street for many years and I’m convinced this is a genuine phenomenon,” says vocalist Roman Remains. “In a certain sense this song is an effort to arrange all the layered complexities that thrive in the headspace between infamous Liverpool rock pub The Swan’s jukebox and the last order bell.”
“‘Rips of Rain’ is about all the thoughts that go through your mind whilst killing time embarking on impulsive inner city walks in our island’s most guaranteed weather condition. It’s fists clenched in jacket pockets. A march into a headwind song. The kind of rain that stains your socks, but gives your mission purpose—it allows you to think way beyond the comforts of domestic life. Ghosts, ambitions, visions, fears, regrets, and by the end of it hopefully fulfilment and conclusion.”
Coughin’ Vicars signed to Venn Records last month and will release their new album Curses & Prayers on 26th July 2024, with ‘Rips of Rain’ following on from lead single ‘Until The Feeling Turns Cold’ released last month to support from Kerrang! Magazine, Vive Le Rock, VISIONS Magazine, The Punk Site and more.
Produced by the band’s own Adam Clarkson (guitar) in Vagrant Studios, Southport during Oct/Nov 2023, the album was mixed by Coughin’ Vicars and mastered by Piers Mortimer (Robert Fripp, Creedence Clearwater), featuring composer/saxophonist Daniel Thorne (Erased Tapes) on ‘The Reach’.
Fresh from supporting legendary punk bassist Mike Watt (The Stooges, Minutemen, Dos, Firehose) in Liverpool, the band will be appearing at Swine Fest, Leodis Requiem Fest, and Rebellion Festival this summer, with details of a secret album release show on 26th July to be revealed (see below for listings).
Further live dates TBA.
New album Curses & Prayers released 26th July 2024 via Venn Records
Live Dates:
05th July - York, Swine Fest @ Fulford Arms
12th July - Leeds, Leodis Requiem Fest @ Boom
26th July - Liverpool/Southport TBC (Album Release)
01st Aug - Blackpool, Rebellion Fest
Coughin’ Vicars are:
Sunday Mourning - Drums
Oliver Turner - Bass
Gabriella Rose King - Vocals / Synths
Adam Darksun - Guitar
Roman Remains - Vocals
Coughin’ Vicars online:
https://coughinvicars.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/coughinvicars
https://www.facebook.com/coughinvicars
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5YxRHZE2tnUA9LhSeVtzTA
More info:
Born from a desire to make androgynous songs amongst a macho musical landscape, the band are indebted to years of service as reluctant protagonists in the city's loudest back rooms, with members previously appearing in the lines ups of Napalm Death, SSS, Cold Ones, Salem Rages and more. The appeal for Vicars was forming a new guard who struggled with books, yet devoured their pages with an almighty gaze; a gang of side-stage students; mosh-pit mutants.
Two years in the making in-between honing their live chops and creeping up the bill alongside the likes of Bo Ningen, Glitterer, Tokky Horror, Serious Sam Barrett, Bruise Control, and more, the album was conceived and constructed in the draughty, bare-brick local institution of dockside rehearsal rooms Vulcan Studios.
The band’s 2022 Ritual Discipline 12” LP was first issued as two self-released Lockdown Tapes (Jan/Oct 2020) under a different lineup, pressed and released in the US by longterm friend Jamie Barrier (The Pine Hill Haints) and his Arkam Records imprint.
The Vicars cemented their current line up with synth player Gabriella on Local Lockdown Heritage Hits featuring covers of Soft Cell (Southport), Mansun (Chestser), Pink Military (Liverpool) and more, introducing her vocals for the first time on 2022 standalone single 'Possession of Fire'.
Contact Coughin’ Vicars Communion - Send SAE:
Coughin’ Vicars Communion
23 Roscoe Lane
Liverpool
England
L1 9ID
Liner notes:
Brothers and Sisters of Tomorrow LISTEN UP ...and listen up good. The mettle of your crown will bring you to the sounds of Zenarchist Magnetists COUGHIN' VICARS!
Prophecies of A New Realm reverberate, and protagonists calmly wait—destruction of tight-knit boundaries is the aim of this game. Rising free, dressed black, our United Mutations march to the future, flying the freedom flag of Anti-Faction. Rips of rain punish the pavement these disciples walk upon, hard freeze upon their jeans... could this ever be worth it? A voyager speaks: "Until the feeling turns cold" - and it never will, for Lo…
...And Behold! Clouds clear and a Summer Sun's frail ray illuminates the way - Liverpool warehouse dry / Irish Sea endless sky / Dublin nights / Brooklyn Heights / San Francisco sorrow / Knowhere tomorrow. True sound of liberty! Or true sound of lost? Is this comic debris or cosmic slop?
Vehicle passing gives the splash/soak phase... lower the gaze, don't look at it man - 137 is the Police Patrol Van. Repeat, repeat, repeat... yet again, Stop-And-Search "one cuff fits all" philosophy for all... Security Dogs and Feral Cats - which is witch within these acts? Thief of joy? Oh boy... Hardcore Petrichor fills the air.
<<< In this space spare a thought for those before, those now, and those to follow that will share this journey >>>
Infection spontaneity of cobbled streets with pubs to meet is alchemy hard to resist. Under the volcano mentality kicks out, another drink sinks in... Black Stuff / Jet Fuel / Junk Food and then into the ether. Strike a match for the Doomsday Lottery - magical number: 23. Along the velvet trail to the rotten row, balance redefined: Zero. WHO CARES? Last but not least - these are travellers from night to light! Rewind, get back to work and reverse the wound! Check it Zedd, a riot lies ahead - dig THAT daddy-o!
In the hypnagogic static slump of dawn they act ...navigating with instinct over precision - energy as currency and compass. From grapes of wrath at Roscoe Knight (the crossroad where years go and Swallows fly, and drifting generations on a Georgian descent pass by) to the ritual of the savage at Ancient Chapel, Toxteth. No coincidence - this is The Reach!
Fire and fury will mark the time between this fine-line of ragged Human refraction and Rock & Rolling Interzonal action - and that, pals, IS A FACT! Whether you are A Winner / A Sinner / A Strobe-Light Beginner... come to the VICARS!
After all, it's not the cough that will carry you off—it's the COUGHIN' they carry you off in.
- The Reverend Jonathan Matthias (Polytheist and student of Huono Viisaus)
