Chateau by The Brute Chorus - Bumpman Records [BPM45001]

Chateau

The Brute Chorus

A 2 track single () — released December 3rd 2007 on Bumpman Records

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What do you do if you the pub you run (The Hawley / Wilmington Arms) is staffed and frequented by some of Londons best new bands and you've always wanted to put a few records out? Start a Label. Therefore Alan 'D Day' Days Bumpman45's first release is a double whammy of psyched out garage folk music from Hawley residents ' The Brute Chorus´. A-side Chateau is the song of a taciturn lover literally besieged by love taking the forms of an unwanted visitor and then a wolf at the door. Like a nightmare Red Riding Hood turned inside out "you look just like a wolf my dear, though you´re wearing clever clothes" - frontman James Steel claims he dreamt the tune one night and wrote the song within minutes of waking up. AA side is a blistering duet with band friend and former Fiction signing Tigs. The two singers take it in turns to tell a tale of infidelity, theft, revenge and murder over a pounding skiffle rhythm adorned with synthesizers, kazoos and a banjo played by another friend Mat Martin; all served up Fairytale of New Yorkstyle. The Brute Chorus, comprise of West Country-vicar´s son James Steel (Guitars, Vocals), Cumbrians Nick Foots (multi-instrumentalist & vocals) and Matthew Day (drums & percussion son of a Quaker morris man) who both grew up in the shadow of Sellafield - and Andy Holt (bass) from County Durham who came to London from the four corners of the land to pursue their interests at music college in Greenwich. They´ve been combining garage, blues and folk music with a scatology of Biblical stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales since March. They´ve been taking it to the people with sets at The Secret Garden Party, Danny McNamara´s The Aftershow in Manchester, a monthly residency at Camden´s infamous Hawley Arms pub and became Myspace front page featured artists along the way. They live together in a flat in Whitechapel formerly inhabited by Bow Wow Wow, so they claim. UK Press - The Independent, NME, Music Week, Daily Mirror Radio - Steve Lamacq - New Favourite Band, Zane Lowe - Radio 1, Gary Crowley - Radio London..

This sounds like Bananarama's 'It ain't what you do (It's the way that you do it) Re-recorded by Psychpathic boozy poets. Grizzly - NME

East London's The Brute Chorus make the kind of music that's a bit mardy but ostentatiously bombast in places. Songs about innocent boys and whiley[sic] women seem to be the Brute's schtick and very catchy they are too. Fans of Rumble Strips, The Zutons and Hot Hot Heat could do worse than give this lot a go. - Stool Pigeon

Referencing biblical mythology and dark fairytales, their lyrics happily shun the trend for singing about going to the shops. It’s worth getting drawn into their raucous, dirty musical party. - Music Week

Smarter people than I decreed, many years ago, that there's nothing new to see, do taste, feel or hear. Cunts, all of them. You just ram jam Ray Davies, Amazulu, Steve Harley and a jellyfish-whip guitar into the same bundle and you have the very new and very wonderful jerk-pop strut, stutter 'n howl of The Brute Chorus. - Unpeeled

'The songs are simply stunning and deserve to be included in the poetry genre along with the likes of The Arctic Monkeys and Morrissey.' - Shock Radio

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