SUEP Share New Single “Just A Job”
+ UK Tour for Independent Venue Week’s 10th Anniversary in January-February
Debut Mini Album ‘SHOP’ Released 27 January, Memorials of Distinction
Fresh for being BBC 6 Music playlisted and announcing a UK tour for Independent Venue Week’s 10th anniversary, the London (via Brighton) indie supergroup SUEP drop fresh single ‘Just A Job’, the final track taken from their debut mini album ‘Shop’ following on 27 January, Memorials of Distinction.
‘Just A Job’ is a firm fan favourite at their live shows, and the closest SUEP have come to writing an anthem. Simultaneously evoking plodding despair and stoic acceptance, it’s described by the band as “A lament and an ode to outsiders, late-risers and lost souls and a protest song against having to do the arduous tasks that tend to pile up in life” to a backdrop of 80’s Yamaha synth and drumbeat and fronted by a playfully dour Josh Harvey with backing vocals from Georgie Stott.
SUEP is led by Georgie Stott (Porridge Radio, Garden Centre) and Josh Harvey alongside George Nicholls (The GN Band, Joanna Gruesome, The Tubs), William Deacon (PC World, Garden Centre), and Ollie Chapman. Together they make oddball car-boot-sale pop songs with a sprinkling of theatrical storytelling inspired by a mutual love for Paul McCartney, Jona Lewie, the B-52s, Devo and other performative freaks enjoying themselves.
‘Just A Job’ is the third single taken from SUEP’s debut album ‘Shop’ following the now BBC 6 Music playlisted ‘In Good Health’ and last years’ ‘Misery’ and ‘Domesticated Dream’, both championed heavily by Steve Lamacq and Marc Riley with the latter inviting them in to record a BBC 6 Music session on 26 January, with press coverage in Independent, Fred Perry Subculture and Clash (among many others).
SUEP have created this intoxicating, insightful anthem. Built on few but essential dazzling attributes the structure takes on this marching momentum leading to the cathartic finale. Whilst the instrumentation entwines and emphasizes the lyrical enthrallment of the release, the dual harmonies lift each other’s immersive melodies to produce this compelling ensemble filled with attitude. SUEP captures life’s mundane routine amongst their vision, whilst this expressive lyrical path takes the audience on a familiar journey, it’s the character of SUEP that lifts the atmosphere and creates this plentiful connection from artist to audience.
SUEP have built up a strong live following playing countless gigs over the last couple of years, with their first ever headline show at London’s Stag Head selling out immediately. They’ve toured with contemporaries such as Garden Centre and Ex-Void as well as performed at 2022’s The Great Escape. SUEP are now embarking on a UK-wide headline tour as part of Independent Venue Week’s 10th anniversary celebrations.
UK TOUR:
30 Jan – Paper Dress Vintage – London
31 Jan – Prince Albert – Brighton
1 Feb – Whereelse? – Margate
2 Feb – Henrykk (Unit 3, Dickinson Street, M3 7LW) – Manchester
3 Feb – Flying Duck – Glasgow
4 Feb – Delicious Clam – Sheffield
5 Feb – Crofter’s Rights – Bristol
’Just A Job’ was arranged and recorded in the ex-youth centre Red Lion Boys Club, where Georgie and Josh both lived, with the old sports hall transformed into a makeshift studio with equipment collected by Josh in his travels as a boot sale and market trader, and led by producer Matthew Green (Sniffany & The Nits, The Tubs, etc.)
PRE-SAVE ‘SHOP’ ALBUM HERE OUT 27 JANUARY 2023.
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