Following a sold out Halloween show at 100 Club and the news that they’ll be travelling to the US for the first time to play SXSW next year, the London-based six-piece Man/Woman/Chainsaw release their acclaimed debut EP ‘Eazy Peazy’ via indie tastemakers Fat Possum. Listen to ‘Eazy Peazy‘ here.
To celebrate the release the band have shared a live session recorded at The George Tavern, a venue held dear by the band and one that has seen many of their earliest shows, directed by Ella Margolin. Watch ‘Live From The George Tavern’ via YouTube below.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw also share a visualiser for an EP highlight in Sports Day, a song that pairs looping, gritty post-punk in its verses to melodic, soaring piano and viola in a dual-voiced chorus becoming an immediate fan favourite across recent live dates. Watch the visualizer for Sports Day via YouTube below.
The band had the following to say about Sports Day: “Sports Day takes commonplace memories of shame and embarrassment on sports day to ridiculously exaggerated levels. We were inspired by the brash, campy worlds of American films like ‘Grease’ and ‘But I’m A Cheerleader’ to set memories of teenage insecurity against a bright backdrop, with an instrumental that mimics the pomp and pageantry of a marching band.”
Since their debut at 16 years old and across three self-released singles, Man/Woman/Chainsaw have proven themselves as one of the most exciting and unpredictable young acts in the capital, both joyous and raucous in equal measures. Last year’s What Lucy Found There was to be their breakthrough, securing attention for the band from the likes of The Quietus, NME, So Young, BBC 6 Music and more.
Recently celebrating their 100th gig, this November the band truly come of age with their debut EP landing on the indie taste-maker label Fat Possum Records. Recorded with Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox at Echo Zoo studio in Eastbourne, the group present us with cinematic arrangements, mauled by moments of cacophony; the band’s Billy Ward says of their writing process, “we thrive on the thin line between pretty and noisy, often trying to jump between the two – it’s that chaos that excites us.”
‘Eazy Peazy’ track listing
Listen here
1. The Boss
2. Sports Day
3. Maegan
4. Ode To Clio
5. Grow A Tongue In Time
6. EZPZ
The group have a busy touring schedule ahead of them, and announced not only SXSW next March but their biggest London headliner yet in April at The Scala.
Tour dates
3/01 – Bognor Regis, Rockaway Beach
14/02 – Where Else, Margate
15/02 – The Joiners, Southampton
16/02 – The Cornish Bank, Falmouth
17/02 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
19/02 – The Bodega, Nottingham
20/02 – YES, Manchester
21/02 – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
22/02 – The Crescent, York
10-15/03 – SXSW, Austin
09/04 – The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
10/04 – The Scala, London
11/04 – Esquires, Bedford
24/05 – Bearded Theory, Walton-on-Trent
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