Brighton four-piece The New Eves comprising Nina Winder-Lind (cello, guitar, vocals), Ella Oona Russell (drums, flute, vocals), Kate Mager (bass, vocals), and Violet Farrer (violin, guitar, vocals, dance), today release a brand new single/video, “Highway Man”, and announce their signing with Transgressive Records. Co-produced by the band with Joe Jones and Jack Ogborne (Bingo Fury), “Highway Man” is a darkly-energised, female-first retelling of Alfred Noyes’ classic 1906 romantic poem. Urgent and intuitive, it’s a blistering slice of controlled musical chaos that flips the lens. “In the original version it’s this dude, who’s being the dude, and the girl doesn’t do anything and then dies,” says Nina. “So I was like, ‘We can’t have that…’” Speaking of the video, director ALFRED said: “Highway Man felt like such an offering from The New Eves. The trust and willingness for us to experiment and explore such a variety of visual languages allowed us to springboard to such an interesting place. We wanted to let the track tell its story, and our film to exist somewhere between the real and surreal – flowing from one moment to another with each frame being its own moment that breathes so much life. It was such a collaborative process from top to bottom – everyone knew the goal and contributed to making every moment hit its mark.” Nodding to the fervent, captivating delivery of Patti Smith, with incantational backing vocals and a collective sense of driving, cantering rhythm, the newest track from the boundaryless quartet puts their rock’n’roll side to the fore. There’s a wild purge of a guitar solo courtesy of Violet (“It was when I first started to find my guitar style, which is basically just weird noises and bashing,” she says), and notes of krautrock, freak-folk and more. But, as with all things The New Eves do, the energy of “Highway Man” comes truly from the unique alchemy of the four musicians playing together: receptive and reactive to whatever manifests in the room. Having entranced audiences with their captivating live show at Green Man, Wide Awake, and more recently at London’s The Blue Basement and ICA, The New Eves today announce a new run of live festival dates including appearances at Manchester’s Sounds From The Other City, Brighton’s The Great Escape, and Dot to Dot Festival shows in Bristol and Nottingham. See the full list of live dates below: Live dates:
April 12th – Homegrown Festival, Brighton
April 25th – Salutations Festival, Sheffield
May 4th – Sounds From The Other City, Manchester
May 15th – The Great Escape, Brighton
May 16th – The Great Escape, Brighton
May 24th – Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol
May 25th – Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham
July 31st – Aug 3rd – Wilderness Festival
August 28th – 31st – End of The Road Festival Listen to “Highway Man” here and watch the video below. More news to come from The New Eves soon. | 
