UK dark electro pop provocateurs 404 Error share (g)impish new single and video, ‘Vote for Us’
‘Vote for Us’ is not actually about the UK General Election, though, as 36663 told Devolution:
“When we wrote ‘Vote for Us’, the UK Government hadn’t yet called a General Election. It just so happened that they did so at a time when we’d been thinking about releasing our second single.”
As to the true inspirations behind the song, 36663 continued:
“I really hate it when promoters/festivals do the whole “which bands do you want to see?” bullshit. I mean, OK – getting feedback from your attendees is good, and it can be a way of finding bands who’ve bubbled under the radar. But in most cases, it means one of two things:
“One is that the post is for engagement, and there is little-to-no intention of booking the bands, which feels dishonest. The other is that the promoter just doesn’t know what they’re doing.
“It’s inevitable that one band or another will enlist an army of fans to vote for them. And depending on the polling system, automated bots aren’t that hard to write! And of course, fans want to support bands they like, of course! Especially if this is a big opportunity. But if the fans are on an entirely different continent from the event in question, and therefore not going to attend anyway, then it’s moot.
“That being said, everyone should tell your local promoters to book 404 Error, and definitely vote for us for any single-of-the-month / album-of-the-year type polls.”