Dinosaur Pile-Up are streaming ‘Red and Purple’ from their forthcoming album ‘Eleven Eleven’ which is released on October 16th.
“‘Red and Purple’ originally started out as just the intro and a few verse chords,” explains Matt Bigland. “It was called Black Coffee for a long time because I guess I must’ve been drinking that when I wrote it.”
“Which means there’s a high chance that I was sat in my pants at my desk on the wrong side of some earth-shattering come down, or it was a Sunday. After it was called Black Coffee it was called Ups And Downs for a long time.”
“We’d screw around with it in rehearsal until one time, just before tour, I busted out the riff in the middle and instantly knew it had to be on the next record. It’s about feeling weird and on the outside of everything.”
Dinosaur Pile-Up tour the UK throughout November, beginning on the 2nd in Birmingham.