Liverpool four-piece Crawlers have shared their new single I Don’t Want It ahead of a run of dates including Manchester’s Club Academy.
The Manchester gig is one of 10 UK dates they will headline later this year, including a home-town gig at Liverpool’s O2 Academy.
New track I Don’t Want It features Crawlers in snarling alt-rock mood as they take on relationships, body image and the uncertainty of life in your early twenties. Speaking about hte track, singer Holly Minto said, “‘I Don’t Want It’ encompasses what it is like to be growing up in the current state of society and how it has affected the mental health of the modern generation from a 1st and 3rd perspective. I have a lot of unhealthy habits that I am very self-aware of, however they don’t seem to change and seem to manifest into worse problems which I try to ignore, this isn’t really my own issue either, so many of us are aware of our own self-destructive behaviours but we ignore them for the sake of it being easier than recovery. I think the song actually took fruition when my therapist said “you’re very self-aware, aren’t you?”. It’s very much a curse that we all, especially gen Z share. Maybe because self-deprecation has become such a normalised thing, which I hate but I can’t help but feed into. Writing it was a good way of me getting out a lot of behaviours I want to change about myself as well as critiquing other behaviours that society tends to normalise while growing up in your teens and early 20s. As soon as Amy sent me the riff I instantly knew I wanted to get these particular feelings out and create a song with the guys that sounds like the music I am listening to, especially when I am engaging in the behaviours mentioned in the lyrics, which has always been indie with a killer riff and a fat hook – kinda full circle in a way.”
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When do Crawlers headline at Manchester’s Club Academy?
Crawlers headline at Manchester’s Club Academy on 4 November 2022. They headline at Liverpool’s O2 Academy on 10 November 2022. The Manchester and Liverpool gigs are two of 10 UK dates they will headline:
31 October – Bristol, Thekla
1 November – Brighton, Patterns
2 November – London, Scala
4 November – Manchester, Club Academy
5 November – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
6 November – Glasgow, Saint Lukes
7 November – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
9 November – Sheffield, O2 Academy 2
10 November – Liverpool, O2 Academy
11 November – Newcastle, Northumbria University Reds Bar
Crawlers – image courtesy Jess Mead
