{"id":11604,"date":"2020-04-10T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11604"},"modified":"2020-04-09T21:59:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T21:59:40","slug":"wendy-james-reveals-new-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11604","title":{"rendered":"Wendy James reveals new track"},"content":{"rendered":"

WENDY JAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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REVEALS NEW TRACK \u2018LITTLE MELVIN\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM \u2018QUEEN HIGH STRAIGHT\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

OUT 1ST MAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0LISTEN\u00a0<\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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WENDY JAMES showcases her love of Motown on new track \u2018Little Melvin\u2019, taken from her forthcoming 5th solo album QUEEN HIGH STRAIGHT, which is released on 1st May 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An English singer-songwriter born in London, Wendy exploded onto the British music scene in 1988 as the fearless front woman of chart-topping alt-rockers Transvision Vamp. When the band disbanded Wendy went on to collaborate with Elvis Costello, James Williamson (Iggy & the Stooges), Lenny Kaye (The Patti Smith Group) and James Sclavunos (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), who joins her on drums and percussions for QUEEN HIGH STRAIGHT. Also joining her on this album are James Sedwards (lead guitar), Harry Bohay (bass), Alex J. Ward & Terry Edwards (horn section) and Louis Vause (accordion).<\/p>\n

Wendy began writing QUEEN HIGH STRAIGHT after a long stretch of writing\/recording\/delivering\/touring her previous album \u2018The Price Of The Ticket\u2019, which charted in the UK at No.14. Wendy says of the title track, \u201cI gravitated toward some jazzy type of chords which lent a gentle lilt to the song, it sounded smooth and it reminded me of when I was a young child listening to Sergio Mendes \u2018Brazil \u201966\u2019! Some of those lovely chord progressions, some of that lovely harmonizing the singers did and of course Bacharach and David.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, my taste and style have not changed with time,\u201d Wendy says. \u201cThe music that excites me now, ultimately, is the same as when I was starting out songwriting and back through my days in Transvision Vamp. I continue to marvel at Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, I continue to be blown away by The Stooges, I continue to be everlastingly enthralled by Bob Dylan, but of course, the older one gets the more one discovers and I am now informed more cohesively and fully by all the music, new and old, which settles into my consciousness.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy track listings are never altered from the order in which I write the songs, maybe it\u2019s because it\u2019s too tangential for me to try to shuffle songs around but really I think, in some kind of holistic way, the order in which the songs are written must surely be the very most natural order for them to be listed in. Around about song 14 \u2018Bliss Hotel\u2019 I hit a wall. I did not know where the inspiration was going to come from! But then somehow, miraculously, it comes again and one pushes on through, as it turned out, to some of my favourite songs on the entire album. My perfect moment? song 18 \u2018Cancel It… I\u2019ll See Him On Monday\u2019; it was a \u2018Eureka\u2019 moment. I ran out into the garden and started dancing, \u201cI\u2019ve got it! I\u2019ve got it!!!\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the album, Wendy embraces Motown with \u2018Here Comes The Beautiful One\u2019 and \u2018Little Melvin\u2019, she returns, once again, to her favourite guitar guttural filth and sex for \u2018Perilous Beauty\u2019 and an unlikely sounding love<\/p>\n

song in \u2018Chicken Street\u2019, 90\u2019s pop groove in \u2018Ratfucking\u2019, melancholia in \u2018Testimonial\u2019, Django Reinhardt whimsy in \u2018I\u2019ll Be Here When The Morning Comes\u2019. On \u2018The Impression Of Normalcy\u2019, Wendy says, \u201cThanks to James Sclavunos, who told me to \u201cspeed the fucking song up\u201d, I have a proper speed punk song.\u201d Finally, track 20 \u2018Kill Some Time Blues\u2019 is the ultimate 60\u2019s girl group number.<\/p>\n

Wendy recently toured the UK with her permanent band THE WENDY JAMES BAND opening for The Psychedelic Furs, which was a huge success. She has just rescheduled what should have been a May tour, saying, \u201cBy doing simple math, it was easy for me to see that when I\u2019d be due to begin rehearsals in April in LDN, it was just not going to happen, nor an all-clear of COVID19 by 5th May when my tour was scheduled to begin. So making a calculation as best as possible, I\u2019ve postponed all the dates until September 2020. All the ticket links are still valid and working! All the VIP are still valid and welcome!\u201d On the upside she said, \u201cQUEEN HIGH STRAIGHT will have been with you all through the summer months and I expect you to all be able to sing every lyric along with me in September! A successful record could make these gigs very electric!\u201d Details of her rescheduled 19-date tour are below…<\/p>\n

Wendy currently divides her time between New York City, Paris, South France and London.<\/p>\n

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TOUR DATES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

3RD SEPT – BRISTOL FLEECE<\/p>\n

4TH SEPT – SWANSEA CINEMA & CO<\/p>\n

5TH SEPT – CARDIFF CLWB IFOR BACH<\/p>\n

8TH SEPT – BRIGHTON CONCORDE 2<\/p>\n

9TH SEPT – CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION<\/p>\n

10TH SEPT – BIRMINGHAM INSTITUTE 3<\/p>\n

11TH SEPT – STOKE SUGARMILL<\/p>\n

12TH SEPT – PORTSMOUTH WEDGEWOOD ROOMS 15TH SEPT – NOTTINGHAM BODEGA<\/p>\n

16TH SEPT – MANCHESTER DEAF INSTITUTE<\/p>\n

17TH SEPT – LEEDS BRUDENELL<\/p>\n

18TH SEPT – BLACKPOOL WATERLOO MUSIC BAR 19TH SEPT – NEWCASTLE CLUNY<\/p>\n

21ST SEPT – GUILDFORD BOILEROOM<\/p>\n

22ND SEPT – TUNBRIDGE WELLS FORUM<\/p>\n

23RD SEPT – LONDON ISLINGTON 02<\/p>\n

26TH SEPT – GLASGOW KING TUTS<\/p>\n

27TH SEPT – EDINBURGH BANNERMANS<\/p>\n

29TH SEPT – NORWICH ARTS CENTRE<\/p>\n

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Tickets available\u00a0Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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