{"id":10316,"date":"2020-01-16T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2020-01-16T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:29:43","slug":"the-chats-announce-debut-album-and-video-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10316","title":{"rendered":"The Chats Announce Debut Album and Video release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>&#8216;HIGH RISK BEHAVIOUR&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>OUT MARCH 27 VIA BARGAIN BIN RECORDS\/COOKING VINYL AUSTRALIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/The-Chats-Pic-Credit-Luke-Henery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10318 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/The-Chats-Pic-Credit-Luke-Henery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1988\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/The-Chats-Pic-Credit-Luke-Henery.jpg 1988w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/The-Chats-Pic-Credit-Luke-Henery-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/The-Chats-Pic-Credit-Luke-Henery-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/The-Chats-Pic-Credit-Luke-Henery-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/The-Chats-Pic-Credit-Luke-Henery-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1988px) 100vw, 1988px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To mark this momentous occasion the band have\u00a0released an\u00a0eye-watering new video for their new single &#8216;<strong><em>The Clap&#8217;,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>take it in below on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n<p>This is the closest you\u2019ll ever hear The Chats get to write a love song (that is unless you are talking about their love of beer). A\u00a0cautionary tale about a root gone wrong (direct quote), and an\u00a0STI that just wouldn\u2019t leave. The Clap features guitarist Pricey on vocal duties and is taken from the forthcoming album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/POM_98oi0oo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Chats have the cops to thank for the title of their debut album, &#8216;<em>High Risk Behaviour&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If they didn\u2019t keep hassling drummer Matt Boggis about skating in places he shouldn\u2019t \u2013 and giving him tickets listing that as the offence \u2013\u00a0who knows what idiotic title the self-proclaimed \u201cdropkick drongos from the Sunshine Coast of Australia\u201d would have come up with.<\/p>\n<p>And yet it\u2019s the perfect name for an album that does not fuck around. An album that sounds like Aussie greats the Cosmic Psychos downing beers with The Saints before doing shots with the Buzzcocks and then spewing it all up behind the kebab van. An album that\u2019s over in 28 blistering, funny, sweaty, unforgettable minutes, with half of its 14 songs failing to reach the two-minute mark. Some might call the Queensland trio lazy. Singer-bassist Eamon Sandwith sees it differently.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t want to make the songs boring, so I just keep them short and sweet,\u201d shrugs the man whose mullet became an international talking point following the success of 2017 viral hit \u201cSmoko\u201d. \u201cWe try not to think about it or complicate it too much. You don\u2019t want to force it or the song\u2019s going to turn out crap.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since forming in their mate\u2019s bong shed in 2016 while still at high school, that attitude has taken The Chats \u2013 completed by guitarist Josh Price, who once wrote a song called\u00a0<em>How Many Do You Do?\u00a0<\/em>in which he boasted of doing 52 \u201cdingers\u201d in a night \u2013\u00a0from the sleepy coastal village of Coolum (located roughly two hours north of Brisbane) to venues around the world. Their fanbase includes Dave Grohl, who loved the video for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us11.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dj58V2vC9EPc&amp;h=f9f836489f2461e7cc44296af9357950bc32f8d94abf521b59fa36fa2778b333&amp;v=1&amp;xid=6698cfb54d&amp;uid=44067197&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\"><strong><em>Smoko<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0so much he showed it to Josh Homme, who then asked the trio to support Queens of the Stone Age on their 2018 Australian tour. Iggy Pop is also a card-carrying member of The Chats\u2019 fan club, requesting that they support him in Australia in early 2019 and peppering them with questions like, \u201cWhat\u2019s a smoko?\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s a dart?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of 2019 was spent taking the world by storm armed with nothing more than guitars, drums, shorts, shirts and thongs (or, if it was a formal occasion, sandals and socks). Shows across Australia and the UK were sold out, and they performed their first gigs in America (the LA show was attended by Homme, Grohl and Arctic Monkeys\u2019 frontman Alex Turner). The band capped off the year with a return visit to Britain, selling out venues such as London\u2019s 2,300-capacity 02 Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, life has changed a fair bit for The Chats over the past two years.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n\u201cWell, I don\u2019t have to work at the supermarket anymore,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>says Sandwith.<\/p>\n<p>That he does not. In fact, Sandwith and his mates have been too busy touring, writing songs and, when their gigs took them to Victoria, dropping into engineer Billy Gardner\u2019s studio in the coastal city of Geelong for a day of recording. That they chose this piecemeal approach explains why the album took 18 months to finish \u2013 a luxury considering 2017 EP\u00a0<em>Get This In Ya<\/em>\u00a0took four hours to record one hungover afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf we\u2019d just done a week and slogged it out we could have had an album before now but we just kept going in there and making newer and better songs so it\u2019s hard to put a stop on it,\u201d says Sandwith.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sessions were fast.\u00a0<em>\u201cSome of the songs were first-take and we were like, \u2018That\u2019s good, whatever\u2019,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>says Sandwith.\u00a0<em>\u201cWe\u2019re really not perfectionists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, they still found time to experiment with exotic instruments such as&#8230; a tambourine.<\/p>\n<p>The end product is an album that buzzes like an out-of-control chainsaw, propelled by Sandwith\u2019s spoken-spit-sung vocals, their three-chords-is-one-too-many approach, and an exacting combination of youth, vigour and drunkenness. But don\u2019t mistake simple for stupid \u2013\u00a0if it was easy to make songs this short, this catchy and this downright brilliant, everyone would be doing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think they\u2019re good songs,\u201d says Sandwith. \u201cAnd at the end of the day, if I like it then fuck it, who cares if other people do?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite being the subject of a record label bidding war, The Chats are releasing\u00a0<em>High Risk Behaviour<\/em>\u00a0on their own label, Bargain Bin Records. It\u2019s indicative of a band that have embraced DIY culture since day one, to the point where Sandwith used to spend his days at the post office sending out merch orders.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe thought, if we just do it ourselves we don\u2019t have to worry about getting swindled,\u201d says Sandwith. \u201cWe\u2019ve always done it our way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Their determination to do things \u201cour way\u201d extends to their music, which is why &#8216;<em>High Risk Behaviour&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0delivers everything you\u2019ve come to love from The Chats \u2013 only more of it \u2013 and confirms their status as Queensland\u2019s greatest ever export (apart from Bundy Rum).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI just want people to have a good time,\u201d says Sandwith of the album. \u201cI want them to dance around and have a beer and enjoy it. We don\u2019t make songs for people to look at in a fucking emotional or intellectual way. We just make songs for people to jump around and have fun too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow The Chats:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us11.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fthechatsband%2F&amp;h=6e63e835c20ccaa636cba33510d84c07ef61c073514985cea58f6072c49a0c68&amp;v=1&amp;xid=6698cfb54d&amp;uid=44067197&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\">FACEBOOK<\/a><strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us11.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fthechatsband&amp;h=d68e6c09cb0ed2a01ad18fc64f6862f350027fc63686bc9e9c5c23c7d29fc17f&amp;v=1&amp;xid=6698cfb54d&amp;uid=44067197&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\">TWITTER<\/a><strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us11.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fthechatslovebeer%2F%3Fhl%3Den&amp;h=64b294bb63d19e047ccae378aa3d295f99ffe97d9dd6f67d7764261fc97b2019&amp;v=1&amp;xid=6698cfb54d&amp;uid=44067197&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us11.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thechatslovebeer.com%2F&amp;h=e42f93a3650241163f8fa845048f568209b9f71308d9c526392baba6c6db40eb&amp;v=1&amp;xid=6698cfb54d&amp;uid=44067197&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\">WEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Bargain Bin Records:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us11.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fbargainbinrecords%2F&amp;h=556149f6d144b4fce1524968f8875fad587246adcf4037160a223ff0b63d75cb&amp;v=1&amp;xid=6698cfb54d&amp;uid=44067197&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us11.mailchimp.com\/mctx\/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbargainbinrecords.bandcamp.com%2F&amp;h=39ceea4eeb8e4566060803623fcfa43cf645f07a6e9685c0a3b2fc48cdcb8b01&amp;v=1&amp;xid=6698cfb54d&amp;uid=44067197&amp;pool=&amp;subject=\">WEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Pre-order High Risk Behaviour <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/highriskbehaviour\"><strong><em>HERE<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10317 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CHATS_HRB_FNL_4200px-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0C<\/strong><strong>atch The Chats at the following dates in October:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 16\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Southampton, 1865<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sat 17<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nottingham, Rock City<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun 18<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bristol, 02 Academy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 19<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ireland, Dublin, Olympia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tue 20<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Belfast, Limelight<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thu 22<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glasgow, Galvanizers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 23<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leeds, Stylus<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sat 24<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Newcastle, Boiler Shop<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun 25<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Manchester, 02 Academy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 26<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brighton, Dome<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 28<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 London, Electric Brixton<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thu 29<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 London, Electric Brixton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets available <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechatslovebeer.com\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><strong> (on sale <\/strong><strong>24th January 10am)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;HIGH RISK BEHAVIOUR&#8217; OUT MARCH 27 VIA BARGAIN BIN RECORDS\/COOKING VINYL AUSTRALIA To mark this momentous occasion the band have\u00a0released an\u00a0eye-watering new video for their new single &#8216;The Clap&#8217;,\u00a0take it in below on an empty stomach. This is the closest you\u2019ll ever hear The Chats get to write a love song (that is unless you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3121,4304,4303,4305,4306,1550],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-division-pr","tag-eamon-sandwith-bass-vocals","tag-high-risk-behaviour","tag-josh-price-guitar-vocals","tag-matt-boggis-on-drums","tag-the-chats","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}