Welly have shared new single ‘The Roundabout Racehorse’, taken from their forthcoming debut album ‘Big in the Suburbs’.
The track, which arrives alongside a video featuring the band in jockey silks accompanied by a pantomime horse, explores the experience of returning home and encountering familiar faces from the past.
“‘The Roundabout Racehorse’ is about going back home and bumping into characters from your past that make you feel either good about yourself, or that you’ve done nothing in life,” Welly explain. “‘Going home’ is a checkpoint – YOU feel the same, but everyone comments on how different you are from last time they saw you. You can get tethered to this idea of your past self, unable to escape that first girlfriend or that terrible haircut from Year 8. You wish you could feel like a Roman gladiator making his ‘Nostos’, but in fact, you end up coming home with a hangover and the cat’s claw marks on your jeans. You can be cocky, yeah – but to what end? The fattest fish in the smallest pond? What good is being Big, if you’re Big in the Suburbs?”
Speaking about the video, they add: “We worked with our school friend and tolerant confident Harvey Payne, as we have for all of our videos, filming Joe’s Honda Jazz round our hometown, trying to rip off The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’ video. Give it a watch, we go to McDonald’s in Jockey silks and a Pantomime Horse costume.”
The band are currently out on Dork’s Hype List tour – catch them live at the following:
FEBRUARY
6 Oporto, Leeds, UK
7 Grove, Newcastle, UK
8 The Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
9 McChullis, Glasgow, UK
12 Colours Hoxton, London, UK
13 Heartbreakers, Southampton, UK
15 Bodega, Nottingham, UK
MARCH
21 Resident Records, Brighton, UK
23 Rough Trade East, London, UK
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