RADIATOR presents
Cheatahs
plus guests
The Workman’s Club
Wednesday, 26 November
Cheatahs play their first headline show at The Workman’s Club on Wednesday, 26 November.
Tickets are €11.75 & are on sale NOW at Tickets for concerts, theatre, football, family days out. Official Ticketmaster Site
‘catchy-as-f*ck’ Stereogum
‘effortlessly merges shoegaze and grunge…coming on as hazy but hook-strong as early Teenage Fanclub.’ NME
‘you can’t help but be taken in by them’ Drowned In Sound
‘hugely impressive’ Crack Magazine
‘the band hits its sweet spot squarely and burrows into it.’ AV Club (US)
This hotly tipped London based band came together when Nathan Hewitt (vox, guitar), originally from Edmonton, Canada, and James Wignall (guitar, vox), originally from Leicester, met 7 years ago while both working in a pub in Camden and bonded over a shared love of Seinfeld and hardcore punk. Despite both friends playing in various bands over the next few years, it was only in 2010 that the two decided to finally make music together. After writing a handful of songs, they asked friends Marc Raue, originally from Dresden, Germany, and Dean Reid, from San Diego, USA to join them on drums and bass respectively.
They released their eponymous debut album in February of this year on Wichita Recordings. This long-awaited debut album is first and foremost an exploration of the possibilities of modern guitar music. A blend of ecstatic noise, ambient drone and visceral, ear-splitting alt-rock, combined with lyrics that touch on the complexities of relationships, nature, the city, memory, dislocation and self-identity, the self-titled record displays a giant creative leap from the lo-fi fuzz of the band’s first two EPs.
To make the record, Cheatahs, headed first to the country, spending a week in an old stone-floored cottage in Cornwall, where recording was punctuated by walks in nearby forests and evenings whiled away at an isolated pub. The second location, Dropout Studios in Camberwell, home of friends Part Chimp, was perhaps the polar opposite, but no less conducive to the creative process. All tracks were recorded and mixed by bassist Dean and produced by the band.
The first taste of the finished record was the recent double-A-sided single, “Cut The Grass” / “Kenworth”, which AV Club described as having ”crunchy textures with dreamy melodies and wispy vocal harmonies.... an uptempo wall of sound”, whilst Stereogum said that the single “goes deeper into the more insular and seasick sound of Loveless”. For an album influenced by everything from Link Wray to Cy Twombly - influences as scattered as the band members' geography - the result is a cohesive behemoth, 12 tracks of raucous guitars, breathy vocals, and honey-dripped, soaring melodies.
Cheatahs play their first headline show at The Workman’s Club on Wednesday, 26 November.
Tickets are €11.75 & are on sale NOW at Tickets for concerts, theatre, football, family days out. Official Ticketmaster Site
Cheatahs
plus guests
The Workman’s Club
Wednesday, 26 November
Cheatahs play their first headline show at The Workman’s Club on Wednesday, 26 November.
Tickets are €11.75 & are on sale NOW at Tickets for concerts, theatre, football, family days out. Official Ticketmaster Site
‘catchy-as-f*ck’ Stereogum
‘effortlessly merges shoegaze and grunge…coming on as hazy but hook-strong as early Teenage Fanclub.’ NME
‘you can’t help but be taken in by them’ Drowned In Sound
‘hugely impressive’ Crack Magazine
‘the band hits its sweet spot squarely and burrows into it.’ AV Club (US)
This hotly tipped London based band came together when Nathan Hewitt (vox, guitar), originally from Edmonton, Canada, and James Wignall (guitar, vox), originally from Leicester, met 7 years ago while both working in a pub in Camden and bonded over a shared love of Seinfeld and hardcore punk. Despite both friends playing in various bands over the next few years, it was only in 2010 that the two decided to finally make music together. After writing a handful of songs, they asked friends Marc Raue, originally from Dresden, Germany, and Dean Reid, from San Diego, USA to join them on drums and bass respectively.
They released their eponymous debut album in February of this year on Wichita Recordings. This long-awaited debut album is first and foremost an exploration of the possibilities of modern guitar music. A blend of ecstatic noise, ambient drone and visceral, ear-splitting alt-rock, combined with lyrics that touch on the complexities of relationships, nature, the city, memory, dislocation and self-identity, the self-titled record displays a giant creative leap from the lo-fi fuzz of the band’s first two EPs.
To make the record, Cheatahs, headed first to the country, spending a week in an old stone-floored cottage in Cornwall, where recording was punctuated by walks in nearby forests and evenings whiled away at an isolated pub. The second location, Dropout Studios in Camberwell, home of friends Part Chimp, was perhaps the polar opposite, but no less conducive to the creative process. All tracks were recorded and mixed by bassist Dean and produced by the band.
The first taste of the finished record was the recent double-A-sided single, “Cut The Grass” / “Kenworth”, which AV Club described as having ”crunchy textures with dreamy melodies and wispy vocal harmonies.... an uptempo wall of sound”, whilst Stereogum said that the single “goes deeper into the more insular and seasick sound of Loveless”. For an album influenced by everything from Link Wray to Cy Twombly - influences as scattered as the band members' geography - the result is a cohesive behemoth, 12 tracks of raucous guitars, breathy vocals, and honey-dripped, soaring melodies.
Cheatahs play their first headline show at The Workman’s Club on Wednesday, 26 November.
Tickets are €11.75 & are on sale NOW at Tickets for concerts, theatre, football, family days out. Official Ticketmaster Site
