TIM BURGESS (UK) / HATCHAM SOCIAL)

Influenced by Arthur Russell, Bill Callahan and Bob Dylan as much as Lambchop and the local greats, Tim Burgess latest album ”Oh No I Love You” also features electronic input from Gabe Gurnsey, drummer with London avant-techno group Factory Floor. It’s still very Tim Burgess, the sum total, like that autobiography, of his life and musical loves. As he puts it, “I wasn’t trying to make a country record, though I knew there would be elements of that, and I wasn’t trying to make an electronic record either. I wanted to make a record that was me, with all the information that I had at my age on my shoulders and in my head. It’s is very much a Manchester and Nashville,” Burgess says. “It’s a Venn diagram, the two cells with a little in the middle where we met. I tried to speak Nashville in a Manchester accent. If it were a film it’d be a North-Western.”
So the Tim Burgess of now, peering back to the 1980s and the Tim Burgess who was about to become an international popstar with the Charlatans, what would you think about what has come between? “I still think I’m a punk.”

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London-based alternative quartet HATCHAM SOCIAL are brothers Toby Kidd and Finn Kidd, respectively on vocals and drums, plus recent additions David Claxton on guitar and Riley Difford on bass. After a string of unfeasably catchy sold out seven inches on ubercool labels like Loog and WAKS, the band released their debut album ‘You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil’ in 2009 on independent legends Fierce Panda in Europe and on new label TBD, also home to Radiohead, in the US. Produced by Tim Burgess, ‘You Dig The Tunnel..’ was critically acclaimed and received 10/10 in Vice Magazine, 8/10 in NME and Album Of The Month in Artrocker. It was included in many top 20 albums of the year lists and the single Crocodile was the Single Of The Year 2009 in Artrocker Magazine. The second album ‘About Girls’ has just been released in 2012 and is receiving an equally good reception; produced by Jim Anderson (Cold Specks,Blood Red Shoes) (with one track by Laurie Latham-Squeeze, Echo And The Bunnymen), ‘About Girls’ shows a poppier,more playful side of the band, with its breezy Pulp-meets Buddy Holly choruses and occasional nod to Roy Orbison.  Catch Hatcham off guard and they might even say it’s their “party record”.

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