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Gigs & Festivals Releases
The Scaramanga Six announce gigs
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 18 April 2011
Amazing Leeds rock band The Scaramanga Six release their sixth album, ‘Cursed’, on 26 Apr. And that title isn’t without loaded meaning behind it.
The band began recording the album five years ago with Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith, while still completing 2007 album ‘The Dance Of Death’. However, the following year, Smith fell seriously ill, bringing the entire project to a halt. While waiting for him to recover, they started work on another album, 2009’s ‘Songs Of Prey’. Fearing the songs they’d worked on with Tim Smith might never see the light of day, the band decided to record it all again from scratch with Arctic Monkeys and Pulp producer Alan Smyth. Finally, ‘Cursed’ was seeming less so.
If you’re not familiar with the band’s bombastic ‘evil-pop’ sound, then you should quickly bring yourself up to speed with their recent compilation, ‘An Introduction To The Scaramanga Six’, which is available for free from their Bandcamp site.
You can also catch the band performing at the following gigs:
22 Apr: Leeds, The Well
23 Apr: London, Wilmington Arms
27 Apr: Huddersfield, The Parish
28 Apr: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
2 Jul: Bladefest
24 Jul: DV8 Festival
