The Cruel Summer EP by Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat (hello) has three tracks: a cover of Bananarama’s Cruel Summer; a new, slightly sad yet life-affirming love song named Box It Up; and a seasonal, Hallowe’en-themed, 8-minute erotic short story called Man Of The Cloth. It will be available digitally from the usual outlets, but the CD version also has an extra track called Lonely Weekend, which features me pottering about the flat, bored out of my mind on my own, listing all the things that make me feel lonely. And a horn section. We would have loved to make a vinyl version but we soon realised that carting hundreds of 12” singles round Europe in a tour van was sheer folly, and they would most likely be destroyed in transit. It’s much easier this way, and they also fit snugly into your pocket on the way home from the gig. It makes sense when you think about it, and nobody’s making CD singles anymore, so what better reason to do one now? It is, of course, also be available in your local, cherished record shop, or you can order it from Chemikal Underground by clicking right here.
And there’s a new video for Cruel Summer by Paul Fegan, the man who made The Copper Top film for us earlier this year. Here you go: