L.A Salami live @ SXSW 2017 (Photo: Live4ever Media)
L.A Salami has uploaded a video for England Is Unwell, the first part of a double A-side single with You’re Better Off Alone taken from his second album The City Of Bootmakers.
“In L.A.’s song, you find this ruthless tale of 21st-Century migrants escaping their war-torn homes only to find broken British dreams,” the video’s director Elliott Arndt observes.
“But it’s all dressed up in a jolly orchestral folk arrangement and it’s totally intrepid yet extremely frail. And that’s what got me thinking about this idea and this aesthetic. It was a very ambitious one from the start cause we didn’t have the money to do any of it but somehow we still did it. When LA introduced me to (Art Director) Flaminia everything started seeming a bit more possible. She stayed awake for three consecutive days leading up to the shoot, just cutting, sticking, painting, and freezing her toes off. We owe it all to her.”
Tour dates:
October
18 – Broadcast, Glasgow, UK (solo)
19 – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
November
1 – Lanificio, Rome, IT
2 – Home Rock Bar, Treviso, IT
3 – Garage Sound, Bari, IT
9 – Chapel, Leeds, UK (Solo)
10 – Night and Day Cafe, Manchester, UK
11 – The Cookie, Leicester, UK (solo)
14 – 100 Club, London, UK
22 – Portobello Rock Club, Caen, FR
23 – Le Pop Up Du Label, Paris, FR
24 – Explore The North, Leeuwarden, NL
26 – Pension Schmidt, Munster, DE
27 – Kulturladen, Konstanz, DE
28 – Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg, DE
December
2 – Mousonturm, Frankfurt, DE
3 – Musikbunker, Aachen, DE