SLACKRR RELEASE NEW ALBUM
SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
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Southampton band Slackrr today release their third full length album, Set The Night On Fire available now via Lost Music Collective, here.
Recorded at The Clubhouse in Bournemouth, the album was mixed and mastered by experienced producer Pash Stratton and written by the band, Scotty Perry, Cait Bowyer and Joe Sammons. Speaking of the album, Slacker said “We are so excited about our album being released into the world. The album was written in late 2022 to early 2023 just after we got back from a relentless touring schedule of club dates and festivals and our first tour in America. This album has turned out to be our most personal and reflective album to date. We’ve had a lot of personal losses within the band while trying to write and record, and this changed the direction of a lot of the songs and the lyrics. In the end, it brought us closer together as a band and we hope that this album gives out a message of hope to our fans, and that you have more people out there who care about you than you realise and that by pulling together as a community you can get through anything with positivity and remembering how to have fun through the love of music.”
The album, which features the already released singles Holding On and Lie To Me, also includes latest single This Time, which premiered on Radio 1’s Future Alternative show with Nels Hylton, dubbing the band as “unreal, bonafide pop punk.”
After beginning production in December 2022, the three-piece faced many challenges to complete the album, including a complete rebuild of the studio and the devastating and sudden loss of two grandparents in a short period of time for singer and guitarist, Scotty. Despite the difficulties faced, Slackrr continued on to write the album that covers themes of grief, relationships and perhaps the most resonating and important, hope.
Set The Night On Fire’s release aligns with the band’s performance at Rebellion Festival, the UK’s largest independent punk festival, on Saturday 5th August at Blackpools historic Empress Ballroom. The pop-punk trio, who have played over 550 shows in just a few years, continue their devotion to live performance and have thrown out the rule book when it comes to traditional tour schedules. They have nearly 50 shows left in 2023, including dates in both mainland Europe and USA. The band are also featured in Sony Playstation 5’s VR2 game, VR SKATER, with their previous release The Current.
Forming in 2018, Scotty had originally started writing songs as an outlet following his mother’s battle with a rare form of blood cancer. When he got the news that her treatment had been successful, he became even more inspired to continue writing and joined forces with bassist Cait and drummer Joe. Their debut EP, I Know, was released in 2019, limited to just 200 copies and sold out in just 48 hours. The EP was followed by their 2021 debut album Time, It Waits For No One and 2022’s A Place That Feels Like Home. In 2022 the band signed with Lost Music Collective, run by Fueled By Ramen founder and former Less Than Jake drummer, Vinnie Fiorello.
See Slackrr live:
August 4th – Rebellion Festival, Blackpool 4th – Get In A Field Festival, Doncaster 5th – Bank Top Cavern, Oldham 11th – New Rock City at The Black Heart, London 12th – Get Rad Festival, Plymouth 17th – The Brit, Weston-Super-Mare 18th – Fully Fest at The Fulford Arms, York 19th – Ye Olde John O Gaunt, Lancaster 24th – Whiskers Bar, Newquay 25th – Elephant & Castle, Ramsgate 26th – The Winchester Gate, Salisbury | November 2023 2nd – 5th – Hard Rock Hell Festival, Great Yarmouth 8th – Bannerman’s Bar, Edinburgh 9th – Bloc+, Glasgow 10th – The Spinning Top, Stockport 11th – The Frog & Fiddle, Cheltenham (Supporting Fell Out Boy) 17th – The Rock House, Andover 18th – The Shed, Leicester 23rd – The Prince Albert, Brighton 24th – Nightrain, Bradford 25th – Quaintway’s at Rosie’s, Chester |
September 2023 1st – Punk ‘n’ Roll Rendezvous Festival, London 2nd – The Acoustic Couch, Bracknell 7th – Hall of Fame, Tilburg (NL) 8th – Astrant, Ede (NL) 9th – Clouso, Meppel (NL) 10th – Les 3 Auvergnats, Beaumont (BE) 15th – The Salty Dog, Northwich | December 2023 1st – The Railway Inn, Winchester 2nd – The Hairy Dog, Derby 8th – The Black Lion Music Hall, Bridlington 9th – The Exchange, Bristol 10th – The Underworld, London 15th – Paradiddles, Worcester 16th – Gloucester Guildhall, Gloucester |
October 2023 1st – Piertown, Hastings 6th- The Cobblestones, Bridgwater 7th – The Frog & Fiddle, Cheltenham 8th – The Hope & Anchor, London 13th – Percy’s Cafe Bar, Whitchurch 14th – Ye Olde John O Gaunt, Lancaster 20th – The Rigger, Newcastle-Under-Lyme 21st – XS, Wrexham |
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