The Horrors have announced details of an intimate London show and have teased there will be “new music very soon”.
The band have not played live for two years, but in a social media post today (August 9), they have confirmed they will play The Shacklewell Arms on August 29.
“It’s 19 years since we played our first show as the Horrors, almost to the day,” wrote frontman Faris Badwan. “It was August 8th 2005 when we performed at the Spread Eagle in Old Street, at a night Tom and I put on called “Cramped”. We played for barely 15 minutes to about 30 of our friends.”
“Now it’s 2024 and the Horrors are somehow still going. We return to the Shacklewell – the studio we built was next door and we had it all through Skying/Luminous so we’ve spent a lot of time there.”
“New music very soon, can’t wait to share it with you,” he added, tantalisingly.
The Horrors’ last show was at Wide Awake Festival in London’s Brockwell Park in May 2022. You have to go back to 2018 for their last extended run of concerts, which were in support of their most recent studio album ‘V’, released the previous year.
The last word on them as a live band was that they had transitioned to a four-piece, as announced in late 2021. At that point, keyboardist Tom Furse was confirmed to be taking a break from playing live for the foreseeable future.
They will, however, be playing at the Stewart Lee-curated first edition of Brighton Psych Fest on August 30, the day after the Shacklewell Arms show, and then the Manchester Psych Fest one night later. Find tickets for the shows here.
The band have not released any new music since the three-track EP ‘Against The Blade’ in November 2021, which in turn followed on from the ‘Lout’ EP earlier that year. Listen to the last EP’s title track above.
In a four-star review of their last album ‘V’, NME wrote: “The real revelation, though, is the glittering seven-minute closer ‘Something To Remember Me By’, built around a pulsing synth line that nods unexpectedly to New Order. “In true Horrors self-destructive fashion,” they revealed upon its rapturous reception, “we nearly left this off the record entirely.” Thank god they didn’t: it’s a barrier-smashing victory march, opening up an entirely new avenue for the band to explore.”
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