Darlings of the Leeds’ DIY music scene Hope and Social come to the Brindley Theatre, Runcorn to promote the band’s acclaimed new studio album Feel.
The band hits Halton Borough Council’s multi award-winning venue on Wednesday 18 October.
Hope and Social is prolific. Feel is its fifth studio album (the 10th if you include acoustic versions, collaborations, live recordings and soundtracks), and while eclecticism abounds on all the records, Feel is a sonic-smorgasboard of an album,
Along with trademark melodious wizardry, the guitars, pianos, organs, brass, bass, drums and those voices we’ve come to adore, there are handclaps and finger-snaps all over this album.
And backing vocals. And coffee mugs. And ukuleles. Numerous home keyboards. A concert xylophone they found in a garden. And an elephant. And a flying helicopter.
From the plastic Spector wall of sound of Tommy Gun, through South Facing, a Yorkshire Casio/ Portasound Ensemble, the schizoid chamber pop of London, the Talking Heads northern carnival that is Come What May, to the sugary sunshine pop of lead-single, Sunrise Laughing.
Feel takes Hope & Social’s trademark, all-embracing songwriting finery, wraps it in an 80’s sensibility, makes it bigger, smaller, wilder, fresher, and doffs it’s flat cap to salute to David Bowie.
As Q Magazine said is “A big sound from this impressive outfit. Inspired, anthemic, great.”
For more information see www.hopeandsocial.co.uk
Tickets are £14 from www.thebrindley.org.uk and the box office on 0151 907 8360