TOODLES & THE HECTIC PITY Reveal Hopeful New Single ‘Sitting Down In The Shower’ Out Now Via Specialist Subject Records
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“Toodles & The Hectic Pity are an utter delight” - Shout Louder
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“Deeply personal and imaginative songwriting and unrelenting folk punk spirit” - Noizze
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TOODLES & THE HECTIC PITY Reveal Hopeful New Single ‘Sitting Down In The Shower’ Out Now
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Bristol Folk-Punk/Emo Trio’s Debut Album Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands
Released 23rd June via Specialist Subject Records
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+ Festival Appearances Including 2000 Trees
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Bristol, UK folk-punk/emo trio Toodles & The Hectic Pity are pleased to share their new single ‘Sitting Down In The Shower’ which is out now via Bristol independent champions Specialist Subject Records.
The track is the latest to be taken from their debut album Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands which will be released on 23rd June 2023 and is available to preorder now—the band have also revealed the tracklist and album artwork, see below for details.
Commenting on the new single, front man Callum McAllister says: “This song started from some pretty abstract horrifying dreams about people giving birth to insects, and then running with some of those horrible images. This is a song that we didn’t want to be merely depressing, and so it’s sort of split into two parts. The beginning, which is kind of bleak and horrible, and the second half which starts with the chords running up the guitar neck rather than down, and the lyrical content being about the idea that sometimes you reach rock bottom emotionally, but at least then you know where the bottom is, and you know it’s only up from there. I guess it tries to encourage you to look forward to a time when what you’re going through will be over.”
Forthcoming debut album Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands was recorded and produced by Phil Booth jr. at JT Soar, Nottingham in October 2022, with cello, percussion and backing vocals recorded at Woodbox, Bristol by Dom Mosley. The album was mixed by Robin Newman at Snug Recording Co., Nottingham and mastered by Ian Farmer and his cat, Onion, at The Metal Shop in Philadelphia, PA.
Previous singles ‘Emotionally Unclean’ and ‘The Enemies of Happiness Are Not Napping!’ were released earlier this year to praise from underground tastemakers at Noizze, Alt Corner, Shout Louder, Indie For Bunnies, Scene Point Blank, Breathing The Core and more, with continued radio support from Steve Lamacq at BBC 6music, Amazing Radio, Phoenix FM, WTSQ, WSUM, MMH Radio and more.
Fresh from a run of dates with Cardiff indie-poppers Live, Do Nothing the band will be appearing at 2000 Trees in Cheltenham ahead of their own UK album tour dates in July 2023, which include an album release show on 27th July at The Mount Without, Bristol with support from Exeter indie/shoegaze newcomers Soot Sprite and fellow Bristolian garage punks Cosmit (see below for full listings).
Further details and new music will be revealed over the coming months.
Debut album Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands released 23rd June via Specialist Subject Records
Live Dates:
06TH JUL 2000 TREES Festival
09TH JUL Just Dropped In, COVENTRY
12TH JUL Firebug, LEICESTER
13TH JUL The Butler, READING
14TH JUL Dulwich Football Club, LONDON
15TH JUL The Pipeline, BRIGHTON
16TH JUL The Hobbit, SOUTHAMPTON
27TH JUL The Mount Without, BRISTOL (album launch)
01ST SEP Punx Picnic, PLYMOUTH
Hold Onto Happiness With Both Hands tracklist:
01. Wake Up Cold
02. Solitary, Or So It Seems
03. Sitting Down In The Shower
04. Religious Experience on the Bristol-Bath Railway Path
05. Pedestrian Baby Part 1
06. The Enemies of Happiness Are Not Napping!
07. An Incurable Soul (Chicken Neck Boogie)
08. Emotionally Unclean
09. Re Surfacing
10. Pedestrian Baby Part 2
Toodles & the Hectic Pity are:
Callum McAllister - Vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Max Cole - Bass guitar, synth, organ,
Dom Mosley - Drums, percussion, synth, baritone guitar
With extra help from…
Danny Lester - Trumpet
Ellis Morgan - Cello
Erica Freas - Vocals
All artwork by Eloise McAllister
Toodles online:
https://toodlesandthehecticpity.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/toodlesband/
https://www.facebook.com/toodlesband/
https://twitter.com/ToodlesBand
More info:
Affectionately known to their fans simply as Toodles, band members Callum, Max and Dom all met at secondary school in Gloucestershire and formed Toodles & the Hectic Pity in the political quagmire of the mid 2010s for one covers set at the original iteration of what would later become Inglefest, a small festival in the Cotswolds. The band subsequently released 3 EPs including The First EP (2016), Call In Sick (2017), and Ghosts, Guilt & Grandparents (2020), which was their first release through Specialist Subject.
The band have played extensively in Bristol and around the country including the infamous Deadpunk Special, Till the Fest, Do it Together Fest, and shared stages with the likes of AJJ, Jeffrey Lewis, Microwave, Spanish Love Songs, Mikey Erg, Crywank, Fresh, Muncie Girls, Martha, and many more.
