Words: Charlie Emmett
With still over three months left of 2020, The Vanities are a band looking like strong contenders to blow up 2021 - if repeated waves of Covid-19 don't do for us all beforehand.
‘Reality TV’ is the fierce new banger from the Glaswegian garage punks, out now on 7 West Music, and follows the promising start they made with ‘OTC’ earlier this summer.
Produced by Chris Marshall and Jonathan Madden, the band shovel their stringent style of punk in uncompromising fashion as they lyrically take a swipe at the overload of reality TV and instant fame seeking.
“It’s about the mundanity of car crash reality television and feeling disillusioned with the modern celebrity, and the lengths people will go to for their 15 minutes of fame," states frontman Alan Hannah, he with the vocal snarl as snappy as his biting lyrics.
"I wrote whilst finding myself in and out of unemployment and being on benefits, you are stuck alone with nothing but your thoughts and bottom of the barrel TV during the day. We truly do have ambivalence to the important, and an obsession to the pointless.”
Get a load of 'Reality TV' via Rory Cowieson's visual film, in which the band star in their own devilish X Factor-ish audition.
“Rory’s style was absolutely the vibe we wanted to go for, guy made it the drugged up love child of Trainspotting and a 90’s Beastie Boys video, suits the tune perfectly, we got a bunch of our pals to come be the judges and the talent show acts, and went hectic,” adds Hannah.
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