The Clause’s debut album Victim of a Casual Thing is due out this week.
With the release of their debut album this week, an indie band that is widely considered Birmingham’s best band is on track to grow even bigger.
The Clause are made up of Pearce Macca (frontman), Niall Fennell (drummer) Jonny Fyffe (bassist) and Liam Deakin (guitarist) and are a bit of a throwback to the guitar bands of the Nineties.
New LP ‘Victim of a Casual Thing’ is released on Friday and a headline tour follows, but dates playing to thousands in Manchester and Sheffield are already sold out off the back of years winning over fans with live shows. And their homecoming show in Birmingham to 3,000 in December is down to the last few tickets.
Pearce said: “Doing academy 2 in Manchester and the Foundry in Sheffield, selling out a thousand tickets in cities away from our home two months before the tour started is a bit of a weird one.
The first performance we had back from COVID was to 30 people, and we were devastated because we thought it wasn’t where we needed to be. Putting that in perspective, there will be a thousand people in the room to celebrate our debut album a few years later.
The band has been compared to Bloc Party or The Foals for the upcoming generation, but Spotify lists them alongside XFM classics like The Reytons, The Ks, and The Lathums.
The outro riff on the most recent single, Tell Me What You Want, adds Pearce, “The outro riff is a little out there and it ends half-time.” I was like, “Are we permitted to do that?” Is it a little excessive? Then we simply figured, “F**k it, it’s going to go live!” Kasabian and Foals are two of our biggest influences as a band, and we’ve taken the song that route.
On release day, they will continue their in-store tour of record stores in Birmingham, starting with a headline show that month.
HEADLINE TOUR
NOVEMBER
Patterns from the 13th to the 13th, Brighton
Coventry, HMV Empire, and 14th-century Coventry (special guests of The Enemy)
15th Live at Leeds Festival
Southampton, Papillion (LOW TICKETS) 22ND –
The Social, located at 27th Street in Hull (SOLD OUT)
Newcastle, Digital, on September 28,
DECEMBER
Cambridge, 4th grade,
Rescue Rooms in Nottingham (5TH) (SOLD OUT)
Swansea, Sin City, 6th grade
The Garage in 10th-Lightning (LOW TICKETS)
Bristol, Thekla (LOW TICKETS) 11th – Bristol
The Foundry, Sheffield (12th – Sheffield) (LOW TICKETS)
Glasgow, St. Luke’s, 13th (LOW TICKETS)
Academy 2 in Manchester, 18th grade (SOLD OUT)
O2 Academy, 19th-century Birmingham
Tracklist for the ALBUM “Victim of a Casual Thing”:
1. ‘ ‘Prologue ‘
2. ‘ Nothing appears to be at it.
3. ‘ Tell Me What You Want, please.
4. ‘ In “My Element”
5. ‘ White Lifelines
6. ‘ Elisha
7. ‘ Exception “
8. ‘ Weekend Millionaire
9. ‘ I Care Not What I Do.
10. ‘ Dream of a lifetime
11. ‘ ‘Pink Moon’
12. ‘ Don’t Blink
Source: Mirror
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