Shame premiere video for new single Nigel Hitter

Shame have got Drunk Tank Pink ready for January 15th.

Just over a week out from release, Shame have posted another piece of their second album, one of its ‘vital organs’ according to Charlie Steen.

“A necessary pulse,” he says of Nigel Hitter. “Focused on daily routine, repetition, and how extraordinary any ordinary task seemed to me after coming home from touring. A world of percussion and joy lies within.”

There’s been a generous amount to pore over since Shame finally rubber-stamped their follow-up to 2018’s Songs Of Praise in November, arguably peaking last time out when Snow Day was released in December.

“The common theme when I was catching up with my mates was this identity crisis everyone was having,” Steen has said of the record. “No one knows what is going on.”

“It didn’t matter that we’d just come back off tour thinking, ‘How do we deal with reality!?,’” Sean Coyle-Smith adds. “I had mates that were working in a pub and they were also like, ‘How do I deal with reality!?’ Everyone was going through it.”