“Running a family farm is more rock than playing rock’n’roll music ”
The Inspector Cluzo highly anticipated new album Horizon is out today via F.thebassplayer Records. To coincide with album launch, the Guascon duo is thrilled to launch the fourth single taken from the record, Rockophobia feat. Iggy Pop. In addition to the album release, The Inspector Cluzo will also be releasing the documentary Running AFamily Farm, which follows from the Rockfarmers launched 8 years ago.
Rockophobia is the 4th single taken from the record and also the focus track. It is a funny song in which the band wonders “what does rock mean today?”. Laughing at Iggy Pop, who enjoyed it and sent them back an answer that the band slid in at the end of the song.
Horizon is the band’s 9th studio album. It is an electric one, a rock one. Three years in the making, three years of process and once again produced in Nashville by the band’s friend and mentor Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, the Raconteurs, Jack White). This is certainly “the most personal album of the Cluzos” according to Vance Powell. Why?
The band comments: “Because everything is in it, each song is related to an event inour life, something that wepersonally experienced, especially as professional farmers. Our fight against the big factory farms to protect ourgeese and our‘Lou Casse’ farm;our fight to protect an agro-ecologic agriculture system against both the big farming corporations and the green-washing propaganda.Songs like:‘Running a family farm is more rock than playing rock‘n’roll music’ or ‘Saving the geese’ talk about the massive bird flu pandemic we had to face too.Songs about environmental aspect, like ‘Swallows’ diseappearing bit by bit, because of chemical farming products.The title track‘Horizon’ is certainly our most personal, linked to ourownlife philosophy. This track was written 15 years ago, and recorded for the firstLP, but we never achieved the result we had in mind until now”.
Running A Family Farm Is More Rock Than Playing Rock ‘n’ Roll
Shenaningans
The Outsider
Swallows – Where are The Swallows Gonna Build Their Nest
Horizon
Rockophobia – feat. Iggy Pop
The Armchair Activist
9 Billion Solutions
Saving The Geese
Swallows Back – When Will The Swallows Return
The Inspector Cluzo are thrilled to keep their reputation as one the most prolific touring bands in the world announcing a full European and UK tour, including dates as special guest to EELS in March 2023 in UK, Benelux and Germany.
The Guascon duo has played over 1200 shows in 67 countries to date, completed sold out USA support tours with Clutch and Eels in 2019, alongside a host of festival appearances across the globe (including Lollapalooza Chile and Brazil) and a maiden US headline tour. In the summer of 2022 The Inspector Cluzo played extensively on prestigious stages across Europe, including the widely renowned Hellfest Festival, where they gathered a crowd of 50,000 fans. Now they are gearing up to hit Europe by storm!
EUROPEAN & UK TOUR DATES– RUNNING A FAMILY FARM TOUR 2023
2023-03-03 FR – LA ROCHELLE “La Sirène”
2023-03-04 FR – SAINT MALO “Nouvelle Vague”
2023-03-08 FR – LYON “Ninkasi Kao”
2023-03-09 FR – NANCY “L’Autre Canal”
2023-03-10 FR – CLERMONT-FERRAND “La Coopérative de Mai”
2023-03-11 FR – MONTPELLIER “Le Rockstore”
2023-03-16 FR – ALENCON “La Luciole”
2023-03-17 FR – TOULOUSE “Le Bikini”
2023-03-18 FR – BORDEAUX “Le Krakatoa”
2023-03-19 FR – BIARRITZ “L’Atabal”
2023-03-22 FR – LORIENT “L’Hydrophone”
2023-03-23 FR – ROUEN “le 106”
2023-03-24 FR – SAINT-LO “Le Normandy” 2023-03-26 UK – NOTTINGHAM “Rock City” (+EELS) 2023-03-27 UK – LONDON “Roundhouse” (+EELS) 2023-03-28 UK – BATH “Bath Forum” (+EELS) 2023-03-30 UK – BELFAST “Telegraph Building” (+EELS) 2023-03-31 IR – DUBLIN “Olympia Theatre” (+EELS) 2023-04-02 UK – GLASGOW “Barrowland” (+EELS) 2023-04-03 UK – MANCHESTER ” Royal Albert Hall” (+EELS) 2023-04-04 UK – SOUTHAMPTON “Guildhall” (+EELS) 2023-04-05 UK- NORWICH”Epic Studios”(+EELS)
2023-04-07 NL – AMSTERDAM “Afas Arena” (+EELS)
2023-04-08 BE – BRUSSELS “Forest National” (+EELS)
2023-04-11 LU – LUXEMBURG”Den Atelier”(+EELS)
2023-04-12 FR- STRASBOURG”La Laiterie”(+EELS)
2023-04-14 AT – VIENNA “Arena” (+ EELS)
2023-04-15 HU – BUDAPEST “Akvarium Klub” (+ EELS)
About The Inspector Cluzo
The Inspector Cluzo is a Gascony based Rock-Blues duo, created in 2008 by Laurent (Guitar, Lead Vocal) and Mathieu (Drums). The two met at their 1st year of Physics studies in Mont de Marsan. Since 2008, the band have released 8 albums via their self-run record label “F.TheBassPlayer Rercords”, they are totally 100% self-financed, family-based organized, and 100% DIY.
They have played more than 1200 gigs in 67 countries all around the world. They played festivals such as Fuji Rock festival (Japan), Pentaport Festival (South Korea), Lollapalooza (Brazil &Chile), Download (UK), Paléo Festival (Switzerland), Oppikopi (South Africa), Blues Fest (Australia), Shaky Knees Fest (USA), Hell Fest (France).
However, the band’s main activity remains farming. They are organic professional farmers, they run a 15Ha family farm called “LOU CASSE” (“the oak” in Gascon language) in Gascony, producing organic wheat and organic corn with their own free seeds. No GMO, no hybrids seeds, no chemicals nor pesticides are used. They belong to a new generation of farmers that are into an Agro-Ecologic system challenging and fighting climate change for the new generations.