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“The most exciting live band in London right now.” – The Line Of Best Fit
“This young British art-punk six-piece revel in taut chaos and wry lyrics.” – The Guardian
“Every song has its own unpredictable flavour but they all seem to flow from the same collective consciousness.” – Stereogum – Band To Watch
“I won’t lie, I fucking love this band.” – Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music
Man/Woman/Chainsaw today share another ambitious single, “Get Up and Dance”. It’s the first to feature Emmie-Mae Avery on lead vocals and the fourth song now to land from their much-anticipated debut album “Cannonball”, coming August 7th on Fiction Records, home to The Cure, St. Vincent, The Horrors and Billie Marten amongst others.
The album will be available on eco-mix black vinyl, a limited edition berry coloured LP with signed insert and a Rough Trade exclusive blue & clear splatter edition LP paired with a bonus 7″ available nowhere else.
Pre-order HERE | Rough Trade
In support of the album, the band have also announced a series of live instore dates across the country (buy tickets HERE). These and further dates below.
“Get Up and Dance” brings the orchestral dynamics of the band into full flow, as synth and string lines dive and circle in unison. On the themes of the song, according to Emmie-Mae: “In my mind it’s set in a club, where you spot someone who’s been trying their luck with different people all night and decide to turn the game back on them. It starts playful but then takes a forceful approach, as you push them to prove their interest and test how far they’ll go, aiming to have them make a fool of themselves.”
Another undoubted highlight on a record that is absolutely full of them, “Get Up and Dance”, along with the rest of “Cannonball”, was recorded at RAK Studios with Geordie Greep producer Seth Evans & Margo Broom, who also worked with the band on the pre-album single, and BBC 6 Music playlisted, “Adam & Steve”. More recent singles, “Only Girl” and “Nosedive”, have both followed suit and been added to that same playlist.
Last week the band performed a live session for Steve Lamacq at the station and alongside video excerpts on BBC 6 Music’s Instagram, you can listen to the session in full on iPlayer HERE.
Watch visualiser for “Get Up and Dance” HERE
Watch visualiser for “Goddamn! Lizard Man!” HERE
Watch video to previous single “Nosedive” HERE
Single artwork
Formed at only 16 years old and crafting their songs in a converted vicarage, the bold new single and album follows European dates over the last month and a breakthrough 2025 where the band sold out both London’s Scala and an entire UK tour in October, their second sold out tour of the year. They played live sessions for both KEXP and Steve Lamacq at BBC 6 Music and completed a triumphant first trip to Austin for SXSW in the Spring, where Man/Woman/Chainsaw found themselves standing at the very forefront of a new wave of British bands “most likely to”.
The 11 songs of “Cannonball” burst forth with pure feeling: grand and exuberant, rich with unconventional structures and world-beating choruses, the long-awaited record making good on the band’s years of hard touring while unearthing new dimensions and unlikely facets in their songwriting. It is a sharp, smart first record, one which presents Man/Woman/Chainsaw exactly as they are right now: one of London’s most promising young bands, coming into their own as fearless experimentalists and vital songwriters. “We were talking about having a whole record of bangers – having everything be really in your face like a Rage Against the Machine record. We soon realised we weren’t Rage Against the Machine and leant into the softer moments of the album which I think has really become a big part of our sound.” says drummer Lola Cherry.
Working with Seth Evans (Geordie Greep, Black Midi) and Margo Broom (Fat White Family, Big Joanie), Man/Woman/Chainsaw landed on a clean, grandiose sound for Cannonball, one befitting their emotional intentions. Its deft, organic blending of theatricality and raw honesty belies its intense level of craft; these songs are razor sharp and evoke the mess and stress of being in one’s teens and early-20s better than almost any other band working today.
“Cannonball” lives up to its name, crash-landing in the centre of London’s experimental scene and surely confirming Man/Woman/Chainsaw as its brightest stars.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw
Cannonball
Out August 7th on Fiction Records
Tracklisting:
Only Girl – 3:36
Canyons – 2:57
Goddamn, Lizard Man! – 4:24
Lighter – 4:24
Nosedive – 5:43
Get Up and Dance – 4:21
Snakebite – 1:59
Flick of the Wrist – 2:20
The Thing – 3:50
Still Angry – 3:26
Something Else to Give – 4:46
Man/Woman/Chainsaw will be playing a selection of UK and international festivals across the summer and will be touring the UK and Ireland later in the year in support of the record.
Tickets for all shows are on sale now.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw live:
July
Fri 3 – Belfort, FR – Eurockéennes Festival
Sat 4 – Werchter, BE – Rock Werchter Festival
Fri 24 – Thirsk, UK – Deer Shed Festival
Sat 25 – Southwold, UK – Latitude Festival
August
Fri 7 – London, UK – Rough Trade East
Sat 8 – Brighton, UK – Resident
Sun 9 – Kingston, UK – The Fighting Cocks
Mon 10 – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade Bristol
Tue 11 – Nottingham, UK – Rough Trade Nottingham
Wed 12 – Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade Liverpool
Thu 13 – Bury, UK – Wax & Beans
Thu 27 – Torremolinos, ES – Canela Party
Sat 29 – Paris, FR – Rock En Seine
September
Sat 12 – Asten-Heusden, NL – Misty Fields Festival
Sun 13 – Middlekerke, BE – Leffingeleuren Festival
Sat 19 – Belfast, UK – Ulster Sports Club
Sun 20 – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
Tue 22 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Wed 23 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Thu 24 – Newcastle, UK – The Grove
Fri 25 – Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s
Sat 26 – Sheffield, UK – Float Along Festival
Tue 29 – Guildford, UK – The Boileroom
Wed 30 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
October
Thu 1 – Portsmouth, UK – The Wedgewood Rooms
Fri 2 – Bristol, UK – Thekla
Sat 3 – Cardiff, UK – The Globe
Mon 5 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
Tue 6 – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
Wed 7 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom
Man/Woman/Chainsaw are:
Billy Ward (vocals, guitars)
Emmie-Mae Avery (vocals, keys/synths)
Vera Leppänen (vocals, bass)
Clio Starwood (violin)
Lola Cherry (drums)
Billy Doyle (guitars)
