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<\/a> Watch The Video For ‘Kathleen Sat On The Arm Of Her Favourite Chair’ Here<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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“Make scrappy guitar pop that recalls the off-the-cuff charm of The Pastels, Teenage Fanclub or The Yummy Fur.” \u2013Brooklyn Vegan<\/p>\n
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“There’s elements of Teenage Fanclub’s poppy melodic charm, but it’s been given a bit of a sheen that keeps it looking forward, rather than glancing into the rear mirror of power pop’s past” \u2013NOISEY<\/p>\n
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“Gloriously slack-sounding lo-fi” \u2013NME<\/p>\n
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“What sound like a lyrical eulogu to a late friend set to lovely, languid, vaguely Teenage Fanclubbish music” \u2013Alexis Petridis, The Guardian<\/p>\n
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Hooton Tennis Club have announced details of the release of their debut album. Highest Point In Cliff Town will be released on Friday 28th August 2015 on Heavenly Recordings. The album was recorded and produced at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool by Bill Ryder Jones.<\/p>\n
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From Chester and Ellesmere Port, their name inspired by a sign for the tennis club in Little Sutton, Hooton Tennis Club grew up together and played in a number of bands with improbable names. While studying at various colleges they speedily recorded some songs to upload with no intention of ever being an actual “band” but early demos soon caught the ears of Heavenly Recordings and by September 2014 the band had signed to the label.<\/p>\n
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Following a UK tour with label-mate H. Hawkline the band entered the studio to start recording their debut album in the early spring of 2015. Inspired by the plug-in-and-play quasi-improvisational approach of Deerhunter and Ariel Pink, the album is the sound of the summer of adolescence slipping into the autumn of adulthood.<\/p>\n
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Here the wit of Kurt Vonnegut and twisted storytelling of Wes Anderson collide to tell tales of banal jobs, relationships, memorable parties and passing characters. Musically melodic, fragile, wonky, witty, poetic and pop (definitely, defiantly pop) the skewed melodies and oddball narratives combine in perfect symbiotic musical harmony, each song a small burst of sunshine to warm the coldest of hearts. Think Teenage Fanclub, Guided By Voices, Randy Newman, Big Star, Silver Jews \u2013 but birthed in northern English towns in the 21st century.<\/p>\n
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The band have also revealed the video to their forthcoming single, Kathleen Sat On The Arm Of Her Favourite Chair. The video, shot and directed by the band, features live footage taken at their appearance at the Heavenly 25th weekend at Hebden Bridge in January of this year intercut with them larking about on tour.<\/p>\n
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Track Listing<\/p>\n
1. Up In The Air<\/p>\n
2. I’m Not Going Roses Again<\/p>\n
3. P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L. P.I.E.R.R.E.<\/p>\n
4. Something Much Quicker Than Anyone But Jennifer Could Ever Imagine<\/p>\n
5. Jasper<\/p>\n
6. Always Coming Back 2 You<\/p>\n
7. Barlow Terrace<\/p>\n
8. Spokes<\/p>\n
9. Kathleen Sat On The Arm Of her Favourite Chair<\/p>\n
10. Standing Knees<\/p>\n
11. And Then Camilla Drew Fourteen Dots On Her Knees<\/p>\n
12. Fall In Luv<\/p>\n
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The band have announced a run of U.K dates in the summer with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and are confirmed to play a number of UK festivals over the summer.<\/p>\n
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UK TOUR<\/p>\n
June 6 \u2013 London \u2013 Field Day<\/p>\n
June 26 \u2013 Pilton \u2013 Glastonbury Festival<\/p>\n
July 5 \u2013 Liverpool \u2013 Kazimer (Heavenly 25th Birthday)<\/p>\n
July 6 \u2013 Nottingham \u2013 Rescue Rooms *<\/p>\n
July 7 \u2013 Leeds \u2013 Belgrave *<\/p>\n
July 8 \u2013 Manchester \u2013 Sound Control *<\/p>\n
July 9 \u2013 London \u2013 Scala*<\/p>\n
July 31 \u2013 St. Germans \u2013Port Eliot Festival<\/p>\n
Aug 22 \u2013 Glanusk \u2013 Green Man Festival<\/p>\n
Aug 31 \u2013 Liverpool \u2013 LIMF<\/p>\n
Sep 5 \u2013 Larmer Tree Gardens \u2013 End Of The Road Festival<\/p>\n
Sep 6 \u2013 Portmerion \u2013 Festival No. 6<\/p>\n
Sep 12 \u2013 London \u2013 On Blackheath Festival<\/p>\n
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* w\/ King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard.<\/p>\n
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