Credit: Rory Barnes
Words: Linn Branson
If ever there was a guarantee that a song was a bit special, it is one that makes you tingle with excitement and give you goosebumps on first hearing and watching. And there was no way that this particular one here was going to be anything other than Track Of The Week.
Everything is, for me, personally, so perfectly encapsulated in this little nugget of 5:33 minutes by Glasgow band VLURE of standalone track 'Desire', that if I were managing this band, I would feel both immensely proud of them and extremely excited by. Something that no one can actually take credit for, surprisingly, as the five-piece are currently self-managed and self-promoted.
Little Indie first happened upon VLURE earlier this year at The Great Escape - unintentionally. Sending our writer along to catch Alligator as part of the Showcasing Scotland line-up, he instead of and in place of, found VLURE. Unsure of whether this was a newly named Alligator (he recognised two 'alligators' amongst the members), a side project or a completely new outfit, he stayed to find out what they were about, and ended up blown away almost into the Brighton sea!
Credit: Steve Willcox
One of my favourite images from that set is the one above: vocalist Hamish Hutcheson off stage and confronting an unsuspecting punter who looks as if he's thinking "if I just stay still and hold me pint, perhaps he'll go away!" It definitely summed up that this band was sure to be one facing things head on, not shying around ineffectual ditties - and that they want their audience to be a part of their theatre of experience as opposed to mere onlookers.
The newly released film for ‘Desire’, below, has been artistically shot in monochrome by Justyna Kochanska at the Axiom Art building in Glasgow, and she has managed to capture both the live presence, intensity and excitement of the band, along with the feel of the impassioned, powerful lyrics.
“This is one of two tracks filmed and recorded live in the building where this band was started," say the band. "It was one of the first songs we all came together on. Releasing it as a live recording felt like a fitting way to introduce ourselves to you all. Desire is your crux, an impassioned campaign against designless lust and addiction.”
VLURE head out of 2019 destined to be a band on tastemakers' lips in 2020. And with their first proper single out before the New Year is too old, plus a second song from the Axiom session, things are looking very desirable indeed.
Live dates
JANUARY 2020
18 Beat Generator Live!, Dundee
25 PJ Molloys, Dunfermline
FEBRUARY
28 The Hug and Pint, Glasgow
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