Psychedelic Porn Crumpets just dropped off Bob Holiday and new tour dates
Perth, Australia's Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have today announced they will be postponing their upcoming North American tour this spring and have shared the newly rescheduled dates set for the fall.
NORTH AMERICA 2022 TOUR
Tickets Here all dates with support from ACID DAD (except Atlanta)
OCTOBER 2022
1st - San Francisco, CA The Independent TICKETS
3rd - Portland, OR Star Theater TICKETS
4th - Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret TICKETS
5th - Seattle, WA The Crocodile (Showroom) TICKETS
7th - Salt Lake City, UT The Urban Lounge TICKETS
8th - Denver, CO Globe Hall TICKETS
9th - Denver CO Globe Hall TICKETS
11th - Minneapolis, MN 7th St Entry TICKETS
12th - Chicago, IL The Empty Bottle TICKETS
13th - Chicago, IL The Empty Bottle TICKETS
14th - Detroit, MI El Club TICKETS
15th - Toronto, ON The Axis Club TICKETS
17th - Montreal, PQ Bar Le Ritz TICKETS
18th - Boston, MA The Sinclair TICKETS
20th - New York, NY (Le) Poisson Rouge TICKETS
21st - Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts TICKETS
22nd - Washington, DC Union Stage TICKETS
24th - Nashville, TN Exit/In TICKETS
25th- Atlanta, GA Terminal West TICKETS
27th - Houston, TX Satellite HTX TICKETS
28th - Austin, TX The Parish
29th - Dallas, TX Deep Ellum Art Co TICKETS
NOVEMBER 2022
1st - San Diego, CA The Casbah TICKETS
2nd - Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theater TICKETS
The band’s Jack McEwan tells us “G’day extremophiles! We’re sorry the worlds a bit weird right now and had to postpone a couple of shows, but rest assured we’ve locked in new dates and are scratching off the concrete on our cell walls counting down the days ‘till we return to your beautiful shores. It’s been two long dark years since we’ve left the comforts of our prison guard batons, the lager drenched sheets we cover ourselves to sleep in are almost ready to miss us, time to whip out the neck pillows and pain killers cause we’re heading back to THE U S of A! It’s going to be glorious.”
They are also dropping a new track today taken from their forthcoming album, Night Gnomes out on Marathon Artists/What Reality?Records April 22nd. “Bob Holiday” is a grimy, rustic track that pays homage to classic riffs McEwan remembers from his youth, like Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” “We’ve been trying to emulate that sound forever,” says McEwan, who also played in a Rage Against The Machine cover band when he was younger.
McEwan again…. “Quoted as being Danny’s favorite song on the record, this eccentric little rock’n’K-hole diddly could melt the fossils off a paleontologist’s bookshelf. Jelly even woke up with a Jolly Roger tattoo after mixing the (soon to be) Pulitzer award-winning anthem. The title of the track has nothing to do with the actor Bob Holiday who played Superman, I just thought it was a strong name, and it clearly is. The album was getting pretty dark and I wanted to write a track that would perk everyone back up, also I really wanted to write something that sounded classic, like it had been built in the ’70s and left to rust for 50 years until the old Crumpet mob got their filthy paws on it, drenched the relic in poor recording techniques and awful song artistry while polishing the absolute Aladdin out of it hoping Hendrix was inside. We think we got kinda close, and I like its rustic charms, I’ve still got 2 wishes left.
The North American trek will succeed a full run of dates in the UK/Europe. By the time Night Gnomes is released, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets will have had two new studio albums out and ready to share with audiences live - including the wild SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound from Feb 2021. The band has already given fans a taste of what to expect from the forthcoming album with the tracks “Bubblegum Infinity,” “Dread & Butter”, “Lava Lamp Pisco” and today, “Bob Holiday”.
‘Bubblegum Infinity’ comes layered with rich guitars and a decidedly more rock feel with careening melodies and hypnotic vocals, with McEwan describing it as:
“Our cute little playful member of the Night Gnomes club. I think there are mixed opinions of this song in the group but I'm sticking by it. I like its pop sensibility and melancholy notions. It's cheerful and good-natured, it's not trying to be something profound, more a statement of life at this time and by calling it 'Bubblegum Infinity', we're showcasing that lighthearted vulnerability. So go easy on us, metal fans.
A lot of the album is about trying to work out what the F#@! is going on, in general life, and obviously the period of time we've all found ourselves dormant in for the past two years. I started reading a few quotes from philosophers because, hey! They might know what's going on, but mostly it was a bunch of cleverly worded gibberish that was drenched in self turmoil that thankfully, serendipitously, unbeknownst to me was the thing I found comfort in. That nobody has a clue what life is and we're all winging it as we go! Cheers, William of Ockham.”
“Lava Lamp Pisco” is a riffy monster that delivers a much-welcome Black Sabbath-style slap to the head. It’s big, shiny, sleek and irresistible and Jack McEwan, the band’s fearless leader, has the battle scars from the four-second harmonica solo to prove it.
“I hadn’t blown the harmonica in five years. It was just sitting on my desk,” he recalls. “The first thing I did was suck in all this dust, and I couldn’t talk for like a day. Afterwards, the rest of the band was like, ‘You have to scrap that. It’s so cheesy.’ Anyone under 30 hates it, but it has the dad-rock vibe, so I kept it in.”
That devil-may-care spirit is present on each and every song on Night Gnomes. With guitarist Luke Parish, drummer Danny Caddy, bassist Wayon Billondana and multi-instrumentalist Chris Young by his side, McEwan bunkered down in his home studio, creating a sonic pastiche that almost sounds like turning the dial on a temperamental old radio every few minutes.
“A lot of these songs are structured from the beginning, but then we add another part towards the end to really keep it interesting, even if it’s just for ourselves,” he says of the project, which was recorded at McEwan’s home studio in and around Perth. “Like on Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues,” every song has an ending that is completely different than the first part. That was the idea here.”
For all of its varied vibes, the album never skimps on massive rockers sure to delight Psychedelic Porn Crumpets fans across the world in 2022.
With the pandemic having provided McEwan the chance to “get my life together and get healthy,” not to mention move 200 meters from his favorite pub, he and his bandmates will soon be onto their next musical adventure. But exploring the undiscovered territory of Night Gnomes has already made a major impact on its creators.
“I have no idea what I’m doing half the time,” McEwan says. “It’s like, plug in, record. Why does this sound like shit but this other thing works? I needed five albums to get to this point of revealing some golden nuggets of information about dynamics, production and exploring new sounds. Everyone finds fault in their own work, but that’s probably what makes us want to keep creating.