Following the release of their self-titled debut album in August, 86TVs head to Manchester’s Gorilla.
The album marked the follow up to debut EP You Don’t Have To Be Yourself Right Now which scooped huge praise.
The first taste of the album landed in the form of the single Tambourine, one of the first tracks the band completed. It took shape as 86TVs (Maccabees’ Hugo and Felix White along with their brother Will White and drummer Jamie Morrison of Noisettes and Stereophonics) set about establishing something new. “Tambourine was the first song we started working on as a band” explained Will. “It was written one summer when lots of people I knew were entering their thirties – a friend described their Dad as a ‘human tambourine’ and it all found its way into that song. It’s two minutes long, the most succinct and direct thing we’ve put out yet.”
The album dips into nostalgia, questions purpose and addresses loss. It comes of shared experiences of grief at the White brothers losing their mother to MS when they were children, but also brings resilience, catharsis and a shared determination to overcome sadness. “The feeling of missing someone comes up a lot in many different ways on the album” adds Felix. “There’s a complexity to grief. There are moments where it feels like it happened yesterday and others where you can’t event remember it. Maybe it feels that there are certain things that are easier to communicate in a song. After our first gig someone came up to me and said it sound like The Strokes if they’d had therapy.”
The album also features the garage-rock embracing Someone Else’s Dream, complete with four-way vocals and raw energy. The song was recorded with producer Stephen Street who also produced the rest of the album.
When do 86TVs headline at Manchester’s Gorilla?
86TVs headline a Manchester gig at Gorilla on 26 November 2024.
image of 86TVs courtesy Louisa Mason
