CVC are BACK! Listen to 'The Lowrider (Just About Meant To Be)'

Long distance love, sleazy synths, an 80’s super producer and the biggest live dates of their lives. CVC make a statement return with…

The Lowrider (Just About Meant To Be)

“More “ooh-la-la-lahs” and “doo-wahs” than you can shake Brian Wilson at”
- The Observer
 
“There seems little end to CVC’s capacity to refresh and beguile”
- DIY Magazine
 
CVC – The Lowrider (Just About Meant To Be)
OUT NOW 
+ FOUR NEW UK TOUR DATES
(Inc. BIG Cardiff homecoming show!)
On General Sale Fri 13 September 2024, 10am
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Tougher, stronger and laden with exuberant new ideas, inimitable next-gen-yacht-rock six piece, CVC make a return by crash landing their orbiting vessel to earth with new single, The Lowrider (Just About Meant To Be). Their first new music since the release of their acclaimed 2023 debut album, Get Real, the single sweeps in on a plump bed of warm bass synth, heavy chunks of Thriller-esque guitars and Bee Gee-tight vocal harmonies to bring a slick CVC back in rude, bossing form.
 
Never happier than when on the road, whether at home, in Europe, or over in the USA, the South Wales-originated group simultaneously announce a run of some of their biggest UK shows to date, including a statement homecoming where they’ll be playing to almost 2,000 people in Cardiff University’s Great Hall on Sat 14 Dec 2024. Tickets for the four new dates, including appearances in Glasgow, Leeds and Oxford go on general sale on Fri 13 Sep 2024 at 10am.
 
Entering as an NME 100 hotly-tipped act early last year and closing out ten insane months with a Welsh Music Prize nomination, all while squeezing in a run of BBC 6 Music and Radio X-playlisted singles (including the heavily-streamed, live fan favourite, Sophie), the band’s understandable sense of ‘where next?’ has led to the upping of antes and kicking at even bigger doors. Adjourning to studios in Wiltshire to finesse bold ambitions and digitise pure magic, The Lowrider is the first, tangy fruit of CVC’s work with producer, Chris Hughes, famed for his work across mega-hit albums, including Tears For Fears on 1985’s pivotal Songs From The Big Chair.

Whilst stardust swirls around a gifted band flush with confidence and poised to escalate their honey-voiced, party-percolating profile, at the heart of CVC is an artistry as deep seated as any other. When it comes to The Lowrider, it’s still all about matters of the heart.
 
Co-songwriter and vocalist on the track, Dave Bassey says: “’The Lowrider’ was written after a lengthy session in our old local (The City Arms in Cardiff) about my long-distance lover and how we are ‘just about meant to be’! Then when we got home and hit the ‘bass’ setting on the synth - the rest of the song just poured out. It’s called ‘The Lowrider’ because we thought it’d be great to get Snoop Dogg involved with it at some point, cos it shares a lot of that that West Coast flavour!”
 
Taking care of the beat, the bop and the boogie, CVC (Church Village Collective in longhand, after where they were brought up together in rural isolation) have confounded critics at the same time as causing tremors at every point of Britain’s A-To-Z, by yielding fresh crops from seasoned seeds. A band that had Dr Dre, Hall and Oates and The Doobie Brothers doodled on their school notebooks in letters of equal height, the people they seek to please are the good timers. CVC are the band everyone wants to be with - or be in!
 
Bringing that swell of melodic momentum to another run of UK towns and cities, new CVC headline dates for 2024 are confirmed as follows:

Wed 11 Dec - Glasgow, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut

Thu 12 Dec - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

Fri 13 Dec - Oxford, O2 Academy2

Sat 14 Dec - Cardiff, University Great Hall

Tickets links for all shows can be found at www.cvcband.com
 
With the promise of more new music to come this year, CVC remain the six-headed, close-knit, cradle-to-grave band of brothers: Francesco Orsi (Vocals & Keyboards); Dave Bassey (Vocals, Guitars & Keyboards); Elliot Bradfield (Vocals, Guitars & Sax); Daniel 'Nanial' Jones (Keyboards & Percussion); Ben Thorne (Bass) and Tom Fry (Drums).
 
For the most up-to-date CVC information, including new music and additional live dates, connect with the band online at:
 
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