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Keith TOTP announces second album and free download!
"Daddy! Get me a Keith!" - Artrocker Magazine
Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
are back with a new album that's even more amazing than the last one! TOTP2 is a tongue-in-cheek journey about love, arrogance, petty jealousy, and being in an amazing band. It will be released digitally on 20th May and physically on 24th June via Corporate Records.
TOTP2 was recorded in the same live "one take only” scenario with it being rather hard getting all 27 musicians that feature on the album to make it into the studio at the same time being in different bands, touring or living in completely different countries altogether. Amongst the players on this second album are Charley Stone (The Famous Cocks, Joanne Joanne), Sarah Nixey (Black Box Recorder), Jimbob (Carter USM) Charlotte Hatherley (Ash), Johnny Fade (The Fades) and Eddie Argos (Art Brut), Luke Haines (The Auteurs), Simon and Julia Indelicate (The Indelicates).
The album track #ProperMusic is available to stream and download from the ABoF soundcloud page. Every quote spoken by Sarah Nixey, Jo Bevan (Desperate Journalist, Joanne Joanne) and Julia Indelicate in the song is an actual tweet from the Twitter hashtag #propermusic, which are both tragic and hilarious at the same time.
TOTP 2 opens with “Morrissey Will Never Forgive Me” - a song about being a young Morrissey fan and how Morrissey would be disappointed in the meat eating, beer drinking, non-virgin almost all Morrissey fans become when they grow older and start doing the opposite of a lot of the characters in Morrissey songs. Keith tells us: “The title is a play on the Morrissey song "I Have Forgiven Jesus" which either implies that I've done much worse things than he hated Jesus for in that song, or that I'm better than Jesus. Either is good.”
“Better Than Your Boyfriend” and “I’m Alone. You’re Alone. Let’s Be Alone Together” seem a little more personal but, as ever, tinged with Keith’s signature humour and catchy indie melodies.
Keith’s debut album Fuck You! I’m Keith Top Of The Pops received support from Artrocker Magazine, gaining a brilliant 5/5 plus many blogs and websites online. Keith plans to take TOTP2 on the road in May to support the album. Dates are below!
May 3rd - Cologne, Luxor with Art Brut
May 4th - Hamburg, Molotow with Art Brut<
May 6th - Berlin, Lido with Art Brut
May 7th Stuttgart, Schoken with Art Brut
May 8th - Munich, Atomic Cafe with Art Brut
May 16th - Brixton Windmill, London, with We Are The Physics
May 29th - Scala, London with Art Brut