{"id":3567,"date":"2019-01-25T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2019-01-23T21:58:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:58:53","slug":"hands-off-gretel-release-new-video-album-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":"Hands Off Gretel Release New Video &#038; Album Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hands Off Gretel announce new album \u2018I Want The World\u2019 to be released March 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0via Puke Pop Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Watch the band take over a skatepark with the new video for the title track released today!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o71wASUMdWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA riotous tangle of bubblegum riffs and rebel girl swagger\u201d\u00a0<strong>Planet Rock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formed in 2015 in South Yorkshire when frontwoman\u00a0<strong>Lauren Tate<\/strong>\u00a0stuck two-fingers up to the repressive school environment that trapped her and dropped out, the 16-year-old self-confessed misfit wasted no time in finding an outlet to channel every bit of the alienation and despair experienced within those concrete walls into something cathartic and creative. And\u00a0<strong>Hands Off Gretel<\/strong>\u00a0was born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inspired by the volatile and liberating melody fueled noise of bands such as Hole, The Distillers, Nirvana and PJ Harvey,\u00a0<strong>Hands Off Gretel<\/strong>\u00a0quickly set about creating the perfect soundtrack of sugar-coated grunge-punk for Lauren to\u00a0vent and rail against the issues of body image, mental health, celebrity, childhood and loneliness she felt enraged by, all of which were addressed from a fiercely female, unapologetic, feminist perspective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recorded at Monnow Valley studio in Wales, new album\u00a0<strong>\u2018I Want The World<\/strong>\u2019 is set for release this coming March 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0via the bands own label\u00a0Puke Pop Records and features twelve-tracks hugely addictive, and sometimes vindictive, melodic rock that is unafraid to blend the heavy screeching distortion of grunge rock with the catchy hooks of bubblegum pop, whilst keeping true to their original roots in punk rock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<strong>I Want The World<\/strong>\u00a0is a song about how I\u2019ve always felt since I was young,\u201d explains Lauren. \u201cIt\u2019s me pouting like a child and saying \u2018no! I want more than what this world is going to give me.\u2019 I channel Veruca Salt from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory when I sing it. I am being obstreperous and impossible like a child, kicking and screaming until I get what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt feels like I wrote this album 6 years ago in a school toilet whilst skipping class and hiding from the world,\u201d continues Lauren. \u201cThe way I felt so ostracized and alone like I didn\u2019t fit in anywhere. It became my mission to sing for the outcasts, the weird kids, the ones that feel misrepresented in society and left behind like I do. I made it my obligation at 15 to make as much noise as possible as a young woman, to challenge everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;\u2018<strong>I Want The World\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0is about how I\u2019ve felt since I was a little girl,\u201d she adds. \u201cI\u2019ve always felt shushed and muted. Everyone\u2019s always told me to stop showing off or stop being unrealistic and so I\u2019m constantly thinking of ways to give everyone who doubted I could do this or ridiculed me the middle finger. The album is about feeling rejected and acting out, wanting acceptance from a society you don\u2019t even want to be part of. I\u2019m channelling my childhood throughout it all, always being alone and fighting my own battles. The only track that doesn\u2019t fit this theme is Kiss Me Girl, that\u2019s just my lesbian anthem because I felt the world lacked them and I wanted to piss off homophobes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fiercely independent,\u00a0<strong>Hands Off Gretel<\/strong>\u00a0produce and control every aspect of the sound and image. Their loyal and passionate international fan base has grown organically from years of work, interacting daily with fans on social media, creating artwork, videos and merchandise, building not just a band, but a brand with a very clear identity. Their hugely successful Pledge Music campaign to fund the album hit 100% of their goal in less than 24 hours and currently stands at over 200%, combined with PRS Foundation Emerging Artist Funding, which has helped\u00a0<strong>Hands Off Gretel<\/strong>\u00a0bring the sounds in their heads to life on their own label.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith the new album we wanted to incorporate more of a pop production to our sound, capturing the wildness and brashness of the fuzz guitars and heavy drums mixed with a flirtatious pop fruitiness,\u201d describes Lauren. \u201cThe songs have a pop arrangement at the core\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI worked hard at crafting catchy melodies and layering my harmonies throughout the whole album,\u201d she continues. \u201cAll the while keeping the grit and angst people love in our live shows. It was the most natural progression for us being able to express ourselves in different ways without losing what we have at our core.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past 3 years, the band have played over100 UK headline dates, toured Germany and played major festivals, including, Rebellion Festival, The Great British Alternative Festival, Isle of Wight, Amplified Festivals Download and Camden Rocks festival.\u00a0 They have built themselves a solid reputation for their live shows, which are as visually compelling as they are musically, with Tate like an ever-evolving chameleon, you\u2019re never quite sure what you are going to get.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With tastemakers \u2018This Feeling\u2019 picking the band up for their \u201cBig in 2019\u2019 predictions and support from Pirate Studios, the industry is starting to take notice of a band that are making a lot of noise under their own steam. As Northern Exposure put it \u201cHands Off Gretel are a time bomb waiting to go off\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>Catch the band live at the following dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Sat 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Jan \u2013 \u2018Big In 2019\u2019 This Feeling \u2013 Nambucca London<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Thurs 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March \u2013 London Album Launch \u2013 Nambucca London<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Fri 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March \u2013 Home Town album Launch \u2013 Old School House Venue Barnsley, South Yorkshire<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>April tour \u2013 \u2018This Feeling\u2019 Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Sat 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April \u2013 Brighton \u2013 Hope &amp; Ruin<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Sat 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April \u2013 Sheffield Caf\u00e9 Totem<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April \u2013 Glasgow \u2013 Broadcast<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">27<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April \u2013 Edinburgh \u2013 Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>Confirmed festival dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Camden Rocks Festival \u2013 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0June 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Amplified Festival \u2013 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0July 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Rebellion Festival \u2013 Aug 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handsoffgretel.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/handsoffgretel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HandsOffGretel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">Keep checking back at RPM as next week we&#8217;ve got a long interview going online with Lauren Tate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands Off Gretel announce new album \u2018I Want The World\u2019 to be released March 29th\u00a0via Puke Pop Records \u00a0 Watch the band take over a skatepark with the new video for the title track released today! \u00a0 \u201cA riotous tangle of bubblegum riffs and rebel girl swagger\u201d\u00a0Planet Rock Formed in 2015 in South Yorkshire when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hands-off-gretel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","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=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}