‘Only One’ is the latest offering from Everyone Says Hi. The upcoming album is released on the 31st January. There’s some dates below too.
Nick says of the new song
“This was the first new song that came out of me for the album. Whenever I’ve written albums, they start with one song and when it happens I know that whether I like it or not, an album is happening.
“Only One is another love song essentially, but when I write a love song they’re not very romantic but more matter of fact. In this case I’m saying, I love it when you phone me up in the middle of the night, something that’s pretty inconvenient but because it’s a certain person, you love it.”
There’s a DeClunk Q & A with Nick here
Everyone Says Hi Live:
27th January – Kanteena, Lancaster (Independent Venue Week)
28th January – Adelphi, Hull (Independent Venue Week)
31st January – Rough Trade Denmark Street, London
1st February – Pie & Vinyl, Portsmouth
2nd February – Sound Knowledge, Marlborough
3rd February – Rough Trade, Bristol
4th February – Banquet Records, Kingston
5th February – Rough Trade, Nottingham
6th February – Crash, Leeds
7th February – Jacaranda, Liverpool
Everyone Says Hi sees Nick adopt the role of lead singer/guitarist/frontman, and brings together musicians Pete Denton on bass, Glenn Moule on drums, keyboard player Ben Gordon (ex-members of The Kooks, The Howling Bells, and Liverpool’s The Dead 60s respectively), alongside Leeds based guitarist Tom Dawson. The band’s name is lifted from a David Bowie song of the same title. What you hear across its 10 tracks is high-calibre, beautifully sculpted songcraft performed by high-calibre, experienced players. Not so much showing ‘promise’ here, but instantly delivering bonafide ‘big songs’ that belie the band’s status as relative newcomers. The record was produced by Nick at London’s Snap Studios and at his home studio.
“Everyone Says Hi” is the fruits of a multi-platinum musician deciding to draw a line and start afresh. Back to the same bedroom floor where the first tentative notes were played, holding the same guitar that was played way back when, back to forming a band with trusted friends, and back to booking the sticky basement stages where teeth were first cut. But whilst you can metaphorically wipe the slate clean on most things, you cannot unlearn what you already know. If emotionally-driven, arena-ready songs come almost second-nature, you’d be foolish to ignore the gift you’ve been given.
DeClunk 