Drenge (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
Drenge have brought a long wait for new music to an end.
Since 2015’s brilliant Undertow album was wrapped up, fresh material has been restricted to the road-testing stage during sporadic live outings, but now a single entitled This Dance is out and streaming online. “We sat in a tiny bedroom with a fizzing guitar line, programming some beats into a computer,” Eoin Loveless says.
“It was different to how we usually worked. We went to a wedding, and like all weddings, we ended up on the dance floor, belting out 80s chart hits like we were on the barrier at a Slayer concert. Our arms and legs collided with each others, with our friends and with complete strangers. Dance like nobody’s watching and then hope they don’t call the police.”
“I watched The Thing and thought about what would happen if Kurt Russell’s MacReady spent the movie fighting off the extraterrestrial organisms with tunes instead of guns. I thought about all the nightclubs I’d never be allowed to go in or would be too scared to enter. I let it manifest into the lyrics of the song, like the monsters in The Thing.”
The Loveless brothers will complete a UK tour at the Newcastle Riverside tonight.