Pure of Pop and Pure of Heart
“Love Me Like You Wanna Be Loved”
From the new album, How To Steal The World, Fri 22 October 2021 on Modern Sky
Pre-orders and further information: HERE
L-O-V-E gets the starring role in the latest single from festival field-conquering six-piece, Red Rum Club, as they stop summer’s Waltzer ride of joyous summer gigs to release Love Me Like You Wanna Be Loved. Having left screams and smiles behind at major festivals including TRNSMT and Neighbourhood Weekender, the deep-thinking, hard-dancing disco kings – and one of the UK’s most exciting live bands – cool down long enough to release the third single from upcoming, third album, How To Steal The World.
Never better than seeing the whites of their fans’ smiles, Red Rum Club caused near pandemonium on their recent support tour with Circa Waves and now look ahead, not only to headlining the Saturday night of Sound City, but also a SOLD-OUT homecoming at the 2,300 capacity Mountford Hall, Liverpool in October. Love Me Like You Wanna Be Loved arrives as another heartfelt, up-tempo dream of a singalong just in time for the outswing of a 2021 that has put Red Rum Club right back where they belong
Within the folds of every handclap, lighting-strike of brass and peal of fuzzy guitars lies a melancholic yearning as love takes a firm hold of an innocent heart, finding Red Rum Club walking a tightrope of emotion. Yet Love Me Like You Wanna Be Loved is ultimately the sound of love’s enduring upsides, dancing on the shimmering surface of the unashamed, rainbow sky and glitter fountain of pop music.
The band’s singer, Fran Doran says: “This single is brazenly upbeat, allowing the echoes of pop, disco and funk’s past to shine brightly through into the form of a modern pop anthem. Our ambition was to create a nostalgia-tinged wall-of-sound with a passionate message of hope. What came out was an all-out sing along anthem, so – mission accomplished!”
There are twelve tracks waiting for fans on How To Steal The World, released on Fri 22 October 2021 on Modern Sky, an album that was first introduced with the smoky cool of Nightcalling in June. Carried on a late-night mist of conga beats, scratchy guitar lines and trademark trumpet adrenaline shots, the single signalled no fading confidence or passion from a band hurt by a year away from the stage. Influenced as much by Arctic Monkeys as any vintage funkateers, the page-turning Vibrate came next, telling a straight-up tale of love in the modern age, where beeps and buzzes can be the difference between heartbreak or a happy ever after.
Gradually moving new tracks in alongside those of their first two albums, Matador and The Hollow Of Humdrum, the response from audiences – their own and borrowed (permanently) from the bands they share stages with – has been effusive. With loads more to give, the continuing run of Red Rum Club live dates for 2021 are as follows
Tue 28 Sep Newcastle Riverside
Wed 29 Sep Glasgow King Tuts – SOLD OUT
Thu 30 Sep Hull Adelphi
Fri 1 Oct Blackpool Bootleg Social
Sat 2 Oct Sound City Liverpool
Sun 3 Oct Leeds Brudenell
Mon 4 Oct York Crescent
Tue 5 Oct London Lafayette
Wed 6 Oct Milton Keynes Crauford Arms
Fri 8 Oct Bedford Esquires
Sat 9 Oct Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
Sun 10 Oct Brighton Patterns
Mon 11 Oct Bournemouth Anvil – SOLD OUT
Wed 13 Oct Bristol Thelka
Thu 14 Oct Truro Old Bakery
Fri 15 Oct Exeter Cavern
Sat 16 Oct Oxford O2 Academy
Mon 18 Oct Birmingham O2 Institute 3 – SOLD OUT
Tue 19 Oct Sheffield O2 Academy 2 – SOLD OUT
Wed 20 Oct Huddersfield Parish
Thu 21 Oct Manchester Club Academy – SOLD OUT
Sat 23 Oct Liverpool Mountford Hall – SOLD OUT
FOLLOW RED RUM CLUB
My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago and married my childhood sweetheart and life is good.
