Stornoway are streaming a new single, 'Get Low', taken from their upcoming third album 'Bonxie', out on April 13.
The track, which was first played live on tour last November in Oxford, is the follow-up to 'The Road You Didn't Take', which also appears on the album.
‘Bonxie’, named after a breed of large seabird, was inspired by David Attenborough’s footage of imprinted Greylag geese, flying low along side the broadcaster and naturalist. The upcoming video for ‘Get Low’ features the same geese, this time flying along side the band. There is something truly wonderful about the focus of the birds and the improbability of this interaction with humans. That sentiment is exactly what the song ‘Get Low’ is about and in an evocative lyric about fighting the odds (from his time as a conservationist on Chesil beach in Dorset), Briggs and Stornoway sing “You line up all the shoes you find washed up along the shingle/They never pair together only seem to end up single/Keep dreaming/Dream high/ Some other time you’re going to Get Low”.
Live dates
March
27. Hall for Cornwall, Truro
April
11 Laugharne Weekend, Laugharne (Brian Briggs solo show)
21 Engine Rooms, Southampton
22 Sub 89, Reading
23 Islington Assembly Hall, London
24 Islington Assembly Hall, London
25 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
28 Junction, Cambridge
29 Waterfront, Norwich
30 Art School, Glasgow
May
01 Riverside, Newcastle
02 Live at Leeds
04 The Stables, Milton Keynes
06 Globe, Cardiff
07 Gorilla, Manchester
08 Leadmill, Sheffield
09 Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
16 Museums At Night, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
22 How The Light Gets In Festival, Hay on Wye
September
06 Festival No. 6, Portmeirion
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