BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:522@lewesconclub.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T230000 DTSTAMP:20250312T163737Z URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/the-wave-pictures-2/ SUMMARY:The Wave Pictures DESCRIPTION:Love Thy Neighbour Presents: The Wave Pictures + The Moats\n\nT ickets: www.seetickets.com/event/the-wave-pictures/lewes-con-club/3282218\ n\nBar from 5:00pm. Doors Open: 19:30. Starts: 20:00. Standing.\n\nThe Wav e Pictures\n\nWhen The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings is the new double album from The Wave Pictures. The title means ‘spring’ - that day when all the butterflies burst into life. A new beginning. As songwriter\, sin ger and guitarist David Tattersall explains: “There is always a strong s ense of time and place in The Wave Pictures’ songs. It soon became natur al to group the songs that I was writing by season. The album has 4 sides: one for each season. The songs ‘take place’ lyrically within that sea son. The album begins in Summer and ends in Spring\, to represent the cycl e of life.”\n\nWhile some tracks were recorded before the pandemic\, oth ers were written by David during the enforced lockdown - working prolifica lly as ever\, writing a song a day when no one could go out\, and The Wave Pictures couldn’t play music together. On fire with inspiration\, with the spirit and fearlessness of William Blake in mind\, the result is a col lection of songs that celebrate poetry and the album-as-album form itself. David says “The seasonal/annual track-listing relates specifically to t he year we lost from our lives due to COVID. As is often the case in The W ave Pictures’ songs\, a small moment in time gets drawn out over three m inutes. This is because in memory a fleeting moment\, a millisecond\, can sometimes be stronger and more important than a whole year.”\n\nWhether written pre or post lockdown\, the songs on the album are an effort to mak e pop music\, Wave Pictures style. When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Win gs packs in a record number of songs under three minutes on a Wave Picture s release than ever before - and that’s no accident! But just because th e songs are the length of classic smash hit singles\, you still get a whol e lot of Wave Pictures – Dave’s legendary guitar solos\, acoustic pick ing and solid gold song-writing\, plus country harp\, mandolin\, blues har monica and more. All of the band\, David\, Franic Rozycki (bass) and Jonny ‘Huddersfield’ Helm’ (drums) love rock and roll\, classic country\, 70’s rock\, soul and folk\, and this album celebrates a little bit of a ll their musical loves\, some rediscovered during extra lockdown listening time.\n\nIndie legends Guided By Voices snippet pop song mania\, in parti cular\, showed how The Wave Pictures could take their classic influences a nd allow them to harness the power of pop more than ever before. The band entertained themselves playing Dave’s poetically inspired songs while th inking about all kinds of records they were listening to: Sun Rockabilly\, African guitars\, Neil Young country\, and plenty of the sounds of the 60 ’s golden age of British music: the crazy fun of The Who and the creepin ess of The Yardbirds. This is the perfect album for those people who still wonder who is better\, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. The answer is r eally secret option C: The Wave Pictures!\n\nAfter recording 2018’s two albums Brushes With Happiness and Look Inside Your Heart on reel to reel t ape in the tiny Booze Cube in Stoke Newington\, and in the case of Brushes \, not rehearsing and then improvising the songs while recording them\, th e band returned to Rochester to record the new album at Ranscombe Studios. Both their 2016 album Bamboo Diner In The Rain and 2015’s collaborative effort Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon with Wild Billy Childish were reco rded there\, as well as David and Franic’s surf-garage-rock-super-group The Surfing Magazines\, featuring Charles Watson of Slow Club\, whose seco nd album Badgers Of Wymeswold was released in 2021 and was recorded betwee n sessions for The Wave Pictures own album. In contrast to The Wave Pictur es’ aforementioned albums recorded quickly at The Booze Cube\, When The Purple Emperor Spreads his Wings was recorded and mixed in ten days\, alth ough started in 2020 and not finished until after the final lockdown was l ifted\, it was actually recorded over an even longer period of about ten m onths.\n\nReleased in stages\, the first full season to be made available from the album will be Autumn\, available on December 10th. The season sta rts with ‘Samson’ a Yardbirds style psychedelic garage rocker\, named after the Samson rolling tobacco\, the strongest around and with a picture of a lion on the package. Inspired by Robert Bresson’s film Pickpocket\ , this song tells the story of a lonely man having a midlife crisis when h e learns by telephone that his father has died.\n\n‘This Heart Of Mine ’ was the first single from the album\, an autumnal country song about t ime travel\, space travel\, and memory\, musically inspired by Neil Young. \n\nLead singer David Tattersall associates Autumn with the horrors of goi ng back-to-school after the joyous nothingness of summer holiday. In ‘Do uglas’\, all the horrible playground routines play out - we are always j ust one move away from Lord of the Flies. Musically\, this song was inspir ed by The Who.\n\nAutumn is also a time for romance\, as exemplified by ‘Jennifer’\, musically reminiscent of Zimbabwean groups such as The Fo ur Brothers and The Bhundu Boys\, and sung by The Wave Pictures’ dreamy and romantic drummer\, Jonny ‘’Huddersfield’’ Helm. The “dream a little dream” coda brings to mind Walt Disney’s Cinderella\, when all the little cartoon birds flutter around her: that’s how romantic Jonny Helm is.\n\nAnd finally the end of Autumn is upon us. With its double trac ked vocals\, squealing\, ripping\, lead guitar\, ‘Smell The Ocean’ is set by the sea as winter approaches and the days are getting short. Played as if by Lou Reed backed by Crazy Horse.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lewesconclub.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2025/01/WavePictures2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR