Peter Perrett shares new single "Disinfectant" & announces UK + Euro tour for Feb 2025

Peter Perrett shares new single “Disinfectant” – watch video here

Announces UK & European tour for Feb 2025 + Q&A at London’s Rough Trade East

New album The Cleansing due Nov 1st

Last month, Peter Perrett unveiled his ‘third coming’ with news of his new album The Cleansing– due November 1st. Today, Perrett is pleased to share the second single “Disinfectant” from the forthcoming record. Alongside Bobby Gillespie and Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell who featured on first single “I Wanna Go With Dignity”, Dream Wife’s Alice Go appears on “Disinfectant” together with his trusted team of sons Jamie (guitar / production) and Peter Jr (bass) and members of his live band.
 
“Disinfectant” was the first track that Carlos O’Connell worked on - having met each other at a Fontaines D.C. after show, Peter bumped into him in the neighbourhood. O’Connell then visited Perrett at Pathway Studios and jammed along to “Disinfectant”. “I really liked what Carlos played,” says Perrett. “We went back into the studio, and he ended up playing on eight tracks.”
 
Watch the video for “Disinfectant” here.
Stream “Disinfectant” here.
 
The Cleansing doesn’t only match Perrett’s best work but expands it: an ambitious double album comprising 20 songs. Perrett’s uniquely narcotic and alluring melodies, gorgeous South London drawl and ravishing rock dynamic now allied to a wider span of musical arrangements and lyrical concerns – touching on themes of art, addiction, ageing, social media and witch trials amongst others. “I know some of the subject matter is death, suicide and depression,” Perrett notes, “but I feel there is an uplifting atmosphere to the album, because I’m obviously enjoying recognising what is going on around me.”
 
“I feel that, the older you get, the more reflective you get,” Perrett says. “I’d always been flippant about the way I approached life, only living in the moment, but then you start to look back at the choices made. I wanted to be more focused about what I wanted to say. I’m still writing about love and the human condition, but perhaps more sentimental, and less abject cynicism, than usual. I also am more focused about the music. Before, I’d put down two guitars, bass and drums, and that was the song: I didn’t give the process much thought. But then we started opening things up.”
 
With The Cleansing, the saga of Peter Perrett can finally, and irrefutably, move on from his first coming with The Only Ones, one of the most distinctive and charismatic of all new wave bands with a thrilling live reputation. The band thrived from 1976 to 1981 - almost despite themselves given the drug consumption of those times, and when they finally imploded, Perrett’s increasing drug habit saw him go to ground. Perrett finally re-emerged in the mid-‘90s fronting The One, a valiant but short-lived effort to recapture former glories, and again when The Only Ones reformed in 2007, though the band only played live and never recorded a new album. Having never done things the easy way, it seemed almost like fate when the pandemic turned up the year after Humanworld was released, and given the precariousness of Perrett’s health, it was only reasonable to expect that he might not record again, and indeed, it was touch and go for a while. 
 
The Cleansing is notable for Perrett’s observations of the world outside, written from the perspective of a man who realised how much had changed (not least himself). Cleansed, revitalised, survived: one of rock’s great non-conformists is in the form of his life, and one of rock’s great comebacks is primed to keep going.
 
Having swiftly sold-out London’s Moth Club, Peter Perrett has confirmed a full UK & European tour for February 2025 as well as a Q&A at London’s Rough Trade. 
 
Watch the video for “I Wanna Go With Dignity” here.
 
Upcoming live dates
Saturday 19th October - Moth Club, London – sold out
Saturday 2nd November – Rough Trade East, London – Q&A
 
Wednesday 12th February – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Thursday 13th February – King Tut’s, Glasgow
Saturday 15th February – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
Sunday 16th February – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Tuesday 18th February – The Fleece, Bristol
Wednesday 19th February – Islington Assembly Hall, London
Friday 21st February – La Maroquinerie, Paris
Saturday 23rd February – Paradiso (Upstairs), Amsterdam
Monday 24th February – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin
Friday 28th February – Upload, Barcelona
Saturday 1st March - 16 Toneladas, Valencia
Sunday 2nd March - Sala Sol, Madrid

Tickets
 
The Cleansing is available to preorder on DomMart-exclusive red double vinyl with exclusive print, standard double vinyl, CD and digitally. Preorder: Dom Mart | Digital
 
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