shame have unveiled the video for the brand new track ‘Six-Pack’, the latest single to be taken from their anticipated upcoming third record Food for Worms, out 24th Feb 2023, via Dead Oceans. The band have also announced an abundance of tour dates, starting in late February in Europe and the UK and this summer in North America.
Fast-becoming a fan favourite of the band’s recent live sets, ‘Six-Pack’ is shame at their punchiest and most pulsating, and it arrives alongside a video directed by Gilbert Bannerman and animated by Cyrus Hayley.
On the video, featuring a warped reinvention of Napoleon befitting of New Year’s resolution season, Bannerman explained:
“The idea was to make a parody of a middle aged bloke thinking he’s a king for going to the gym once. I read a lot about Napoleon and thought it would be a laugh to make it about him. The style comes from trying to make my youth spent playing PS1 not entirely wasted”.
On ‘Six-Pack’, Charlie Steen, who fronts shame, adds:
“Six pack is essentially the opposite of a Room 101; instead it’s a room where all your wildest desires can come true and will be showered upon you. Be it commodities, self-obsession, foods and B-lister celebrities, it’ll all be there if you want it to. You’ve done time behind bars and now you’re making time in-front of them. It’s time to make up for anything you’ve lost or wasted, it’s time to get it all.”
Watch the video for ‘Six pack’ – BELOW:
‘Six-Pack’ follows the recently released ‘Fingers of Steel’, and sees shame enter a new, surreal landscape, as reflected in the cover art designed by acclaimed artist Marcel Dzama. It’s suggestive of what is left unsaid, what lies beneath the surface, the farcical and fantastical every day that we are living in, in a society where both everything and nothing is possible.
On the one hand, the new album Food for Worms calls to mind a certain morbidity, but on the other, it’s a celebration of life; the way that, in the end, we need each other. The album is an ode to friendship and a documentation of the dynamic that only five people who have grown up together – and grown so close, against all odds – can share.
It’s through this, and defiance, that the band have continually moved forward together; finding light in uncomfortable contractions and playing their vulnerabilities as strengths: The near-breakdowns, identity crises, frontman Charlie Steen routinely ripping his top off on stage as a way of tackling his body weight insecurities. Everything is thrown into their live show and the best shows of their lives are happening now.
Now they arrive, finally, at a place of hard-won maturity. Enter: Food for Worms, which Steen declares to be “the Lamborghini of shame records.”
Tour Dates:
UK/EU
FEB
28 | IE | Dublin – Button Factory
MARCH
01 | IE | Dublin – Button Factory
03 | UK | Glasgow – SWG3
04 | UK | Newcastle – Boiler Shop
05 | UK | Leeds – Stylus
07 | UK | Sheffield – Leadmill
08 | UK | Liverpool – Invisible Wind Factory
09 | UK | Bristol – SWX
11 | UK | Manchester – New Century
12 | UK | Cardiff – Tramshed
14 | FR | Nantes – Stereolux
15 | FR | Paris – Cabaret Sauvage
16 | FR | Bordeaux – Rock School Barbey
18 | PT | Lisbon – LAV
19 | ES | Madrid – Nazca
20 | ES | Barcelona – La 2 de Apolo
22 | FR | Nimes – Paloma
23 | IT | Milan – Magnolia
24 | CH | Zurich – Plaza
26 | DE | Munich, Technikum
27 | DE | Berlin – Festsaal Kreuzberg
28 | DE | Hamburg – Markthalle
30 | NO | Oslo – Vulkan
31 | SE | Stockholm – Debaser
APRIL
01 | DK | Copenhagen – VEGA
04 | DE | Cologne – Gloria
05 | BE | Brussels – AB
06 | NL | Amsterdam – Melkweg
28 | UK | London – O2 Academy Brixton London
US TOUR
MAY
10 | Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
12 | Baltimore,MD Ottobar
13 | Philadelphia,PA Union Transfer
14 | Brooklyn,NY Warsaw
16 | Boston,MA The Sinclair
18 | Montréal,QC Foufounes Électriques
19 | Ottawa,ON Club SAW
20 | Toronto,ON Lee’s Palace
22 | Kalamazoo, MI Bell’s Eccentric Cafe
24 | Chicago,IL Thalia Hall
26 | St Louis,MO Off Broadway
27 | Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck
28 | Fayetteville,AR George’s Majestic Lounge
30 | Dallas,TX Granada Theater
JUNE
02 | Austin,TX The Scoot Inn
03 | Houston,TX White Oak Music Hall
04 | New Orleans,LA Toulouse Theatre
TICKETS: https://shame.world
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