Brett spoke to The Jewish Hour on Salford City Radio about ‘After Charlie‘, the new single from The Sighs of Monsters commemorating the attacks in Paris a year ago, and explains the background to the song.
The short interview is on our Facebook page.
This song was written in January 2015 shortly after the news of the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office, and a Kosher supermarket. During the course of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the murderers targeted only one woman: the Jewish writer, Elsa Cayat ” In November, Paris faced a shocking reprise of terror. These acts of slaughter, as bookends to 2015, presage an era of horror, and a shift within our culture, that impacts us all.
The proceeds from the sale of this single will be donated to The Campaign Against Antisemitism (antisemitism.uk)
We were very excited to work with punk icon Michael Flek of the late 70’s band Wild Youth. Michael was putting together an anthology of his work from Wild Youth to the present and had two new songs he wanted to include. He asked us to co-produce these and to contribute extra parts to augment his voice and guitar on one track, and voice, guitar and drums on another. We had an absolute ball working with his material and the resultant songs – When Time Stood Still and Desperate Lives – were indeed included on the anthology – to favourable reviews – available on CD and vinyl.
We had a great time playing at the Catford Constitutional Club for Oxjam Lewisham. The crowd was bloody marvelous and we enjoyed every minute of it. We donated some CDs to the vent and we’re very happy to say they all sold with proceeds going to the charity. We debuted a new song, I Hear Drums, which we’re in the process of recording for our album coming out next year.
Thank you Dannique and the Oxjam Lewisham team for the hard work putting this festival together.
It was a really nice to play at the launch party for Oxjam at the New Cross Inn last night. Thanks to Alex and Emily for organising everything. It’s always a pleasure to support Oxjam events.
We had a great time last night supporting the Dad Horse Experience at the Bird’s Nest in Deptford. “Dad Horse” is an eccentric one-man-band who plays a sort of Germanic-infused, Americana-inspired apocalyptic gospel music which is both infectious and bizarre all at once! Well worth checking his music out. It was lovely meeting him after his set.
Jack is featured on Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing Mixtape, after calling it “a work of howling genius”!
Tom played the track again on his The Tom Robinson Show.
We were thrilled and honoured that Tom Robinson went to bat for us and personally picked up on our new single, Jack, from our album Ground!
To call it “a work of howling genius” was very generous indeed.
Here’s Jack!
The Sighs of Monsters performed live and acoustically on Croydon Radio’s ‘Eclectic Avenue‘ show presented by Steve Lawlor. This is just the acoustic set, but you can listen to the whole show on Croydon Radio where the band chats to Steve about music and he plays some of our favourite artists, as well as a few tracks off our album, ‘Ground‘. Listen to the whole show here.
You can listen to our acoustic set on our Facebook page.
The music video for Sea Stories is done! We filmed it around the coast of Kent and in the woods around London.
