We join the ranks of weeping bands and screaming fans—or visa versa—to wave goodbye to Dan’s erstwhile label Faux Discx at The Brewhouse, London. Amidst the arches of a brewery, it can only be a classic case of tears ‘n’ beers as we climb the steps (or crates) to the stage and bid farewell whilst inaugurating 2018 by playing some NEW SONGS from our forthcoming release, extending the legacy of one D Reeves musical venture as we send off another.
We make our Swiss debut tomorrow as part of Festival de la Cité Lausanne. We taketh to the stage at 10pm at La Face Nord.
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THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
We are pleased to announced we are playing the following this summer:
6 JULY • LAUSANNE, CH • FESTIVAL DE LA CITÉ
19 AUGUST • SAINT-MALO, FR • LA ROUTE DU ROCK
25 AUGUST • LE MANS, FR • FESTIVAL TERIAKI
The full listings are kept here
21/01/17
BOLOGNA, IT • INVERNO FEST
26/01/17
COPENHAGEN, DK • LOPPEN
w/ Yung
27/01/17
AARHUS, DK • TAPE
w/ Yung
28/01/17
AALBORG, DK • NORTHERN WINTER BEAT FESTIVAL
17/02/17
BRIGHTON, UK • THE GREEN DOOR STORE
w/ Omni
18/02/17
LONDON, UK • THE SHACKLEWELL ARMS
w/ Omni
*fingers-crossed
Available here. We’ve even gone as far to play some shows to celebrate it…
19/08/16
BRIGHTON, UK • THE HOPE & RUIN
w/ Van Stonholdt, Timeron, Bad Belly
INFO
20/08/16
NOTTINGHAM, UK • THE LOFTHOUSE
w/ Sweet Williams, Society
INFO
27/08/16
GIGORS-ET-LOZERON, FR
FREAKSHOW FESTIVAL
INFO
02/09/16
LONDON, UK • MOTH CLUB
w/ Es, Dairy Classics
The Hanging Valley Launch **FREE ENTRY!**
INFO
19/10/16
ROUBAIX, FR • LA CAVE AUX POÈTES
INFO | TICKETS
20/10/16
PARIS, FR • LA MÉCANIQUE ONDULATOIRE
INFO | TICKETS
21/10/16
MULHOUSE, FR • LE NOUMATROUFF
INFO | TICKETS
22/10/16
BESANÇON, FR • LES PASSAGERS DU ZINC
INFO
23/10/16
GRENOBLE, FR • TENDRESSE BESTIALE
INFO | TICKETS
24/10/16
LYON, FR • LE SONIC
INFO
25/10/16
DIJON, FR • ATHENEUM, UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE
NOVOSONIC FESTIVAL
INFO | TICKETS
26/10/16
CLERMONT-FERRAND, FR
LE RAYMOND BAR
INFO
27/10/16
TOULOUSE, FR • LE RAVELIN
INFO
28/10/16
BORDEAUX, FR • I.BOAT
INFO | TICKETS
29/10/16
NANTES, FR • LE LIEU UNIQUE
SOY FESTIVAL
INFO | TICKETS
07/11/16
LONDON, UK • OVAL SPACE
w/ Preoccupations
INFO | TICKETS
08/11/16
BRISTOL, UK • EXCHANGE
w/ Preoccupations
INFO | TICKETS
09/11/16
BRIGHTON, UK • THE HAUNT
w/ Preoccupations
INFO | TICKETS
We are exalted to announce that we, Cold Pumas will publish our sophomore effort The Hanging Valley to self-congratulatory applause on 19 August 2016. The long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s best-in-show Persistent Malaise offers at least 33.3% of its buffet to shimmering, inward, mulch-heavy ballads—A Change of Course, The Shaping of the Dream, Murmur of the Heart—showing a sensitivity that inevitably does nothing for the craft beer revolution. If truth be told, the remaining 66.6% threatens to look equally indifferent when served on a wooden board or beside a miniature stainless steel plant pot of hand-cut triple-cooked fries, but such is life.
These songs are mostly about discouragement and the black dog, the tepid whines of self-inflicted unemployment, the repetition of life’s repetitions, the creative dormancies of romantic contentment. Disappointingly there lies no outward mention of pop-up launches, sides of ‘slaw, chakra schools, the urban woodsman or an allusion to an artisan approach. Across its 38 minutes, The Hanging Valley instead cover such peripheral subjects as the imperceptible bow bow towards the thirtysomething honours list, the vacuous, rising diphthong of the inner-city commute and the suppressed rush of blood towards vainglorious internet smear.
‘Now a quartet of fraternal pedants’ whimper the band’s dusty social media accounts in reference to the twilight addition of Lindsay Corstorphine on the bass guitar, ‘cascading down the woodwork, slapping the pegs’ as he goes, dear reader. In truth the The Hanging Valley owes as much to Corstorphine’s ample stringmanship as his encouragement toward toward loosening the conservative shackles of olde. Certainly a weakening of the old guard has taken place somewhere, the gamut of emotion ridden more obliquely and less shamefully now. Ballads stare teary-eyed out of windows towards rain-swept rivieras, vocals and guitars have pulled themselves gamely out of the reverb-soaked hollow and those ‘for the rockers’—Slippery Slopes, Severed Estates, Fugue States et al—no longer grasp for the safety of the halfway house but aim for the stars. ‘More sherberta tambourine’ they cried in the studio, and more sherberta there was.
PREORDER HERE
A NEW NUMBER HERE
We are elated to present the video for A CHANGE OF COURSE, the first ‘videographic sensation’ from our impending sophomore release THE HANGING VALLEY, released SUMMER 2016 on Faux Discx | Gringo Records.
More information to be dispatched VERY SOON
INCREDIBLY we’re playing another show! Please find proof of us under the footlights during an equally intense and equally relaxing trip to De Kreun, Kortrijk for Sonic City Festival. De Kreun snappers were there to capture our sensual reunion with Viet Cong. #sippycup and so on
Following such a controversial move of playing in the live music arena, we now find ourselves wrapped up warmly within the @witchingwaves and Rattle Chrimble-time tour when we join them at DIY Space for London on Saturday 12 December
YULETIDE THOUGHTS,
CPs
SCHNARF! IT’S MILK JAGGER!
INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOONLIGHTING HERE, NEXT WEEK.
AS FOR THE OLE CP, WE OPEN THE SOLD OUT VIET CONG CURATED SONIC CITY FESTIVAL A MONTH TODAY IN KORTRIJK, BELGIUM.
INCREDIBLE SCENES, AND EARLY ONES AT THAT. FIND US BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE AT 1:30 (IN THE AFTERNOON).
ALL THE BEST.
WE RETURN TO THE LIMELIGHT AT SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY, SALFORD ON THE 3RD MAY w/ THE ABOVE THRONG OF ABSOLUTE ROTTERS — ALL THE VERY BEST