Newcastle’s Pit Pony share their new single ‘Vacancy’ released via Clue Records and EMI North, taken from their forthcoming second album Dead Stars set for release on 7 February via Clue Records and EMI North. The track navigates our complicated relationship with social media, the influx of life hacks and trends that come with it, and ultimately how empty it can make you feel. It follows previous singles ‘Well Well’ and ‘Cut Open’ which are also included on Dead Stars. Pit Pony will tour the UK in April with full listings below.
Vocalist Jackie Purver comments further on ‘Vacancy‘:
“It’s about being dumbfounded by the modern world and social media. My news feed is full of suggested videos of people telling me my life will be better if I buy some leggings or get the ‘off menu’ Starbucks drink. I love an iced coffee as much as the next person but there’s a whole culture of people driving in nice cars drinking coffee and sitting making videos in carparks that I can’t get my head around. I feel like it’s opening a black hole somewhere that we’re all going to be swallowed into – a vacancy – like a Dorian Gray painting on a mass scale. I want to derail it, to take things in a different direction, to make it messy – no more manicures photographed over a BMW steering wheel. I am all for people finding joy where they can but I feel weird at the thought of that being life’s aim and that it’s targeted at young people especially. The song itself is about the repetitive nature of aspiring to things you see in an online video and thinking that’s the pinnacle and buying endless things that an influencer has been paid to sell you. The song spirals as it builds and ends in a cry of frustration at the world”.
Pit Pony UK Live Dates
April
4 – POP RECS – Sunderland
5 – This Is Middlesbrough – Middlesbrough
12 – Sneaky Pete’s – Edinburgh
16 – Le Pub – Newport
17 – The Grayston Unity – Halifax
24 – The Shacklewell Arms – London
25 – The Jacaranda – Liverpool
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