Blue Violet release their new single Barefoot On The Seine

North London alt-indie duo BLUE VIOLET share their new single Barefoot On The Seine. They will tour with Echobelly this November and December and their new album, Faux Animaux, will be released on 24 January 2025 on Me & My Records via High Head Recordings,

Barefoot On The Seine – inspired by witnessing protests in Chicago and Europe – is a schizophrenic dispatch from the edges of a Parisian riot: its verses lost in graceful Gallic romance; its choruses all grunge rock eruptions; its whole a righteous call to arms in support of essential personal freedoms.

Singer Sarah McGrigor says: “It’s a protest song that promotes the message that love conquers all. It is about freedom; the freedom to make the world you want to live in a reality. The freedom to make choices about how you wish to live your life – who you are, who you want to be, what clothes you want to wear – and, most importantly, that no one has the right to tell you otherwise, It’s a kick back at anyone who thinks it is their right to try and make anyone feel small or insignificant.”

Guitarist Sam Gotley adds: “We weren’t going to release this song as a single, but in the midst of so much political unrest this year when many feel so vulnerable, it felt like this song might speak to people and remind them that love and acceptance is always the way forward.”

Blue Violet will spend the autumn on the road with the legendary Echobelly ahead of the release of the album on 24 January 2025. Preorder the album here

NOVEMBER
Fri 15 NEWPORT Corn Exchange
Sat 16 GLOUCESTER Guildhall
Mon 18 BIRMINGHAM Rainbow
Tue 19 BIRKENHEAD Future Yard
Wed 20 STOCKTON Georgian Theatre
Fri 22 EDINBURGH Cabaret Voltaire
Sun 24 GLASGOW King Tuts
Mon 25 YORK Crescent
Tue 26 GRIMSBY Docks Academy
Wed 27 NOTTINGHAM Metronome
Fri 29 BOURNEMOUTH Old Fire Station
Sat 30 EXETER Phoenix

DECEMBER
Sun 01 BRIGHTON Concorde 2
Tue 03 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Wed 04 SHEFFIELD Network 2
Thu 05 CAMBRIDGE Mash
Tickets available here: https://www.songkick.com/artists/10169018-blue-violet