Weird Sex have shared their new track ‘Trevor’ – a sub-two-minute slice of punk (about a teddy bear, no less) that builds to all-out mayhem.
The band – which features members of Suicide Party, Deathline and The Sly Persuaders – release the single on 13th October via Roadkill Records; it follows on from their debut EP that landed earlier this year.
“‘Trevor’ is one of four songs written in the first session me and Kaoru [Sato, guitar] had together,” says frontman Joey Ackland. “We were using a friend’s studio in Southampton, it was a former meat locker and it was quite a surreal place.
“‘Trevor’ and the other three songs were written via telepathy, it was phenomenal really, just us two with an MS10, a Korg Volca and this really fucking cool pocket drum machine, no need to talk or plan, we just smashed out these three-chord tracks and it banged.
“Lyrically, ‘Trevor’ is written in two or three parts, the first part of the song portrays childhood as a state of protected innocence, the world around the child and Trevor (the child’s teddy bear) is erupting but the uncorrupted mind of a child remains protected within its imagination.
“‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ was my first book of William Blake poems, it had a profound effect on me at the time and I guess my subconscious mind dug that out that night. I originally sang it in this quaint English accent, trying to be Syd Barrett; Trevor was my ‘Bike’, Trevor the bear was my Gerald the mouse.
“The second part of the song is about my personal journey through young adulthood. There’s that battle between wanting to party with your trousers down and then there’s the pressure from others telling you, that you have to “grow up”.
“The song ends by recalling that constant reassurance I have received from a million phone calls I have had with my Mum, she’s a good’n.”
Listen to ‘Trevor’ below.
Weird Sex have a free-entry launch party planned at The Lock Tavern with Dancehall, Purs and Pulaski on 13th October.
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