The Hip Priests release a music video for new single »Just To Get By«; new album »Roden House Blues« due May 5th via The Sign Records
UK garage punk rockers The Hip Priests have released a music video for the new single »Just To Get By« taken from their upcoming album »Roden House Blues«, due out May 5th via The Sign Records.
Directed by Alex Withers. Filmed at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Nottingham.
Listen to »Just To Get By« on all streaming platforms!
Tracklist:
01. Trojan Horseshit
02. Inaction Rocks
03. Shakin’ Ain’t Fakin’
04. Pissed On Power
05. Can’t Abide With Me
06. Chasing Death
07. Sell My Soul
08. Just To Get By
09. Persistence Is Futile
10. Tiger In My Tank
11. The Best Revenge
Courtesy of The Sign Records:
The Hip Priests release new single »Just To Get By« ahead of new album »Roden House Blues«, due May 5th via The Sign Records. Irish Tour with The Dangerfields starts this month!
Stream the single // Watch the music video
The Hip Priests. Zero fucks n’ less success since 2006. The most prolific band you haven’t heard of. High energy sweaty sermons of misanthropy, disillusion (self) loathing and despair. Get ready to have your ears torn clean off.
After 16 years some bands would be taking it easy but in spite of a global pandemic, there was no let-up in The Hip Priests determination and activity. Their fifth, and by far their best full-length album – »Roden House Blues« – was written, rehearsed, and recorded during this period and will be released May 5th, 2023, via The Sign Records.
Rehearsed, recorded and mixed between the numerous U.K lockdowns in Roden House, one of Nottingham’s former lace factories where the Priests have their own space, and which spawned the album title. This is no Mississippi Blues but perhaps it makes more sense than you think: Howling laments, loss, self-reflection and revelation – alongside some recurring Priests lyrical themes: negativity, nihilism, rage and revolution. After 2019’s ‘Stand for Nothing’ the band were unsure whether they’d do another album – However, global lockdown inadvertently led to a renewed passion and realisation that, like Jagger said, “what can a poor boy do’ – especially when feeling more lost in a world that increasingly resembles a dumpster fire. A few dozen demos were scrutinised of which, through a stricter than ever group consensus, 14 were recorded but then honed down, razor sharp, into the tightest collection of 11 low-fat, lean and mean banging tunes that could fit into 30 minutes.
This week we get to feel another white-hot blast straight from the album’s furnace in new single »Just To Get By«, which finds the band in rare reflective form.
“Every day can be a struggle and happiness really is an inside job. None of us are perfect. Every day we’re pitted against each other and ourselves by a world that increasingly looks like a dumpster fire that wants to incinerate us. What can we do to just get by? Perhaps just trying to improve, rise above and be a better person is an act of revenge nowadays. A number one single in an alternate universe with a guitar riff of such hook and beauty it was surely dropped from the Rock heavens. We don’t JUST do Nihilism, Negativity, Rage and Revolution you know…”
This month also sees The Hip Priests team up with Northern Ireland’s The Dangerfields for an Irish tour. Having known each other for years and toured together back in 2010, when the bands paths crossed again last year, the idea of finally sorting that long talked about Irish tour was set in stone. And so The Hip Priests first time in Ireland kicks off in Derry on Weds 22nd March followed by four other shows all across the country.
Come along for an evening (or in Dublin’s case, afternoon) of face-ripping, ball-crushing, ass-immolating rock ‘n’ roll played by a bunch of doozies far too old to know any better! There will be loud guitars and rock poses, bad words and everything!
»Roden House Blues« is released May 5th via The Sign Records and available to pre-order here:
thehippriests.com/merch
thehippriests1.bandcamp.com
freighttrain.se
The Hip Priests are:
Nathan Von Cruz – Lead Vocals
Austin Rocket – Guitar/Vocals
Lee Love – Bass/Vocals
Gentle Ben – Guitar/Vocals
D.P. Bomber – Drums
Catch The Hip Priests live at the following dates:
Ireland (with The Dangerfields)
Mar Wednesday 22nd – Bennigans, Derry
Mar Thursday 23rd – Cellar Bar, Galway
Mar Friday 24th – Fred Zeppelin’s, Cork
Mar Saturday 25th – Hop House, Bangor
Mar Sunday 26th – Wild Duck, Dublin
Germany (with Lucifer Star Machine)
April Thursday 27th – Sonic Ballroom, Cologne
April Friday 28th – Freakshow, Essen
April Saturday 29th – Zollkantine, Bremen
April Sunday 30th – Indra Musikclub, Hamburg
UK (with Bitch Queens)
May Thursday 25th – The Pipeline, Brighton
May Friday 26th – Hope And Anchor, London
May Saturday 27th – Nice And Sleazy, Morecambe
May Sunday 28th – Old Angel, Notts
UK (with Zeke)
June Tuesday 20th – Exchange, Bristol
June Wednesday 21st – Parish, Huddersfield
June Thursday 22nd – New Cross Inn, London
UK
September Thursday 28th – Trillians, Newcastle
September Friday 29th – Bannermans, Edinburgh
September Saturday 30th – Waterloo, Blackpool
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well