GAFFA TAPE SANDY Announce Details of New Album 'Hold My Hand, God Damn It' Released 31st May 2024 via Alcopop! Records
GAFFA TAPE SANDY Announce Details of New Album Hold My Hand, God Damn It
Released 31st May 2024 via Alcopop! Records
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Stream Lead Single ‘Scrapbook’ Released 15th February 2024
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Announce Extensive September 2024 UK Headline Tour Dates
Tickets on sale 10am, Monday 19th February 2024 - http://www.gaffatapesandy.com
Album Launch Show 5th June @ Rough Trade East, London
Brighton trio Gaffa Tape Sandy are delighted to announce the details of their new album Hold My hand, God Damn It set for release on 31st May 2024 via Alcopop! Records, and have shared the album tracklist and artwork below.
The three piece are also pleased to announce an extensive run of September 2024 UK headline tour dates, with tickets on sale 10am Monday 19th February, plus a special album release show at Rough Trade East, London on 5th June 2024, with tickets on sale now.
To celebrate the glut of news, the band are sharing new single ‘Scrapbook’ set for release on 15th February 2024 via Alcopop! Records.
Featuring a rousing riff and gang vocal that pinwheel satisfyingly around a soaring chorus melody, ‘Scrapbook’ is the first song from the band primarily written by bassist Catherine Lindley-Neilson, who has been writing her own material since Gaffa Tape’s formation, but never had the confidence to share her output with the rest of the band.
Previously leaving the bulk of the songwriting down to guitarist Kim Jarvis, in keeping with their newly adapted method of songwriting, Catherine finally decided to bring ‘Scrapbook’ to the table, and the band are enormously proud of it. Not only musically, but in terms of what it represents for the songwriting trio.
Commenting on the track, Lindley-Neilson says: “Scrapbook is about lost time, and wondering what could've been with someone. Picturing what the scrapbook would've looked like if things had been different, and the mixed feelings you get when you see that person again.”
Gaffa Tape Sandy wrote forthcoming new record Hold My Hand, God Damn It nervously together as the world slowly emerged from the first COVID-19 lockdown. The album writing process proved difficult, as a myriad of anxiety and personal relationship issues plagued the trio. The band was battling post-COVID mental health problems and employment issues, all while Catherine and Kim were trying to navigate recent breakups that coincided with their first UK headline tour in March 2020, just before the pandemic struck.
Thankfully, the band persisted, and adopted a more cooperative writing method that made the songwriting process for Hold My Hand, God Damn It a revitalising experience, rather than a debilitating challenge. Rehearsals that started out as somewhat difficult became more like bonding sessions, and the friendships within the band started to flourish. The theme of the album quickly materialised.
Recorded and produced by George Perks (Wargasm, Enter Shikari, Skindred) at the legendary Vada Studios in the countryside surrounding Birmingham, UK, the album was made by three friends with boundless love and affection towards one another, who pulled together and preserved their musical output and friendship, despite the odds. As such, Hold My Hand, God Damn It is a frustrated-yet-compassionate, cathartic celebration of friendship and reconciliation in difficult times.
The trio released album track ‘Split’ late last year as a teaser of new material, picking up radio support from John Kennedy at Radio X, Total Rock, and more.
With their sights now firmly set on launching a full scale assault on 2024, Gaffa Tape Sandy will be pulling no punches as they reveal further new music and live dates over the coming months.
New album Hold My Hand, God Damn It is released 31st May 2024 via Alcopop! Records
Live Dates:
Wed 05 Jun 2024 - London - Rough Trade
Fri 20 Sep 2024 - Newcastle - Zerox
Sat 21 Sep 2024 - Glasgow - Broadcast
Sun 22 Sep 2024 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete's
Mon 23 Sep 2024 - Leeds - Hyde Park Book Club
Wed 25 Sep 2024 - Sheffield - Hallamshire Hotel
Thu 26 Sep 2024 - Liverpool - Kazimier Stockroom
Sat 28 Sep 2024 - Manchester - The Deaf Institute
Sun 29 Sep 2024 - Nottingham - The Bodega Social Club
Mon 30 Sep 2024 - Bristol - Exchange
Tue 01 Oct 2024 - Cardiff - Clwb Ifor Bach
Thu 03 Oct 2024 - London - Boston Music Room
Fri 04 Oct 2024 - Guildford - The Boileroom
Sat 05 Oct 2024 - Brighton - DUST
Sun 06 Oct 2024 - Tunbridge Wells - The Forum
Tickets on sale 10am, Monday 19th Feb 2024 - http://www.gaffatapesandy.com
Hold My Hand, God Damn It album tracklist:
1. Body In The Water
2. Scrapbook
3. Dead To Me
4. Evil, Evil, Evil
5. Get Off
6. Split
7. Rosemary
8. Devour (Rosemary Pt. II)
9. Medicine
10. Energy
11. Holding Hands
12. Queasy
Gaffa Tape Sandy are:
Guitar / Vocals - Kim Jarvis
Bass / Vocals - Catherine Lindley-Neilson
Drums / Backing Vocals - Robin Francis
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Formed in 2015 by three friends with a simple desire to make loud and exciting music, Gaffa Tape Sandy’s popularity quickly escalated thanks to a series of notoriously incandescent live shows and a seemingly endless hit parade of instantly memorable garage-punk-rock tunes.
Their 2017 debut EP Spring Killing led to them performing at Glastonbury Festival, with their next single ‘Beehive’ gaining much support including Huw Stephens’ BBC Radio 1 Tip Of The Week, before being included in NME’s 100 Essential Acts for 2018.
The Brighton/Bury St Edmunds outfit’s brand of giddily frantic, high-octane hyper rock ‘n’ roll has already landed them support slots with acts including IDLES, Peace, Art Brut, Weakened Friends, SuperGlu, Bloody Knees and UK tours supporting Indoor Pets and Skegss.
Regulars on the UK festival circuit, Gaffa Tape Sandy have appeared at the likes of Live At Leeds, Liverpool Sound City, Latitude and The Great Escape Festival, as well as a number of international festivals across Iceland and Germany. In 2019 they announced their signing with Alcopop! Records, who released their second EP Family Mammal on vinyl and digital platforms.
After successfully weathering The Great Pause of the pandemic—which dramatically cut short their debut UK headline tour and left them pondering the future of the band—as well as a break up between former partners and band members Cat and Kim, the three piece have emerged triumphant, all the better and stronger for their struggles, and raring to show the world how much they’ve grown, both as people and artists.
2023 saw the band kickstarting preparations for their forthcoming new release as they launched into a wave of live activity taking in a full UK tour supporting The Subways and several sold out nights supporting Mom Jeans within the first few weeks, followed up by a packed summer of festival appearances.
