WELLY have shared their new single and video Cul-de-Sac and, by answering their call of duty as the next great British band, have also announced the southern leg of The National Service Tour with fourteen dates kicking off this month. (Watch this space for the northern leg coming soon.)
Cul-de-Sac is Welly’s vision of a love song – or love as soured in smalltown suburbia – with experimental shifts in tempo and tension starkly at odds with the statis of two people at “dead-end-road”. The video puts an irreverent spin on parochial storytelling, literally bringing smalltown politics to life. Filming took place at the legendary Wimbourne Model Town, made famous in Hot Fuzz.
Welly himself dedicates Cul-de-Sac to: “The girl next door, except you’ve both grown up a bit now and the WKD isn’t as sweet as it used to be. So whilst it’s fun to go back down the streets we used to own, we realise we’ve far outgrown them … but have we outgrown each other? This was the main idea for the music video; Cul-de-Sac was never meant to be a single, so I’d never bothered to dream up a visual for it to live in. But once my arm was forced, and I was scrambling around for any old nonsense to film, my director Harvey Payne came up with the model village concept. Perfect. And a perfect excuse to spend an evening half-drunk pretending I’m the indie-dance Godzilla.”
The National Service Tour, which initially covers the South of England, follow recent sold out London shows at The Century Club and Third Man Records and a number of scene-stealing sets across this summer’s festivals.
SEPTEMBER
Wed 11 GLOUCESTER Guildhall
Thu 12 NEWPORT Le Pub
Fri 13 EXETER Cavern
Sun 15 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
Mon 16 BRIGHTON Concorde 2 (Freshers Event)
Tue 17 ST ALBANS The Horn
Wed 18 READING Purple Turtle
Thu 19 NORWICH Waterfront
Sat 21 CAMBRIDGE Blue Moon
Sun 22 GUILDFORD Boiler Room
Tue 24 TUNBRIDGE WELLS Forum
Wed 25 MARGATE Where Else?
Thu 26 LEWES Con Club
Fri 27 NORTHAMPTON Garibaldi
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