New Music Sunday -- Chapel Club
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New Music Sunday is a new feature bringing you new bands that have yet to break in the United States. The first band to be featured is a London based band named Chapel Club. The Sunday Times has tipped them to be the next big thing.
First a little history: on June 4, 1976, the Sex Pistols played the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall and in the audience were a unknown local band named Warsaw (school friends Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook) that was looking for a lead singer, an unemployed music fan named Steven Morrissey, producer Martin Hannett, local television personality Tony Wilson and a host of others who may or may not have actually been there. The promoters said that only 100 people attended the show, but if you comb through the biographies of most punk bands of the late '70's and early '80's you find nearly 1,000 people claiming to have been at the show. The show spawned a second on July 20, 1976 when Ian Curtis, a friend of Bernard Sumner, and Johnny Marr saw what their friends had seen almost two months earlier: raw, unbridled rock music that no one had heard before. The shows were the catalyst for the for the Manchester and the greater punk music scene that is still thriving today. Why is this history lesson important? Had Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook run into Steven Morrissey that night rather than wait for Ian Curtis to be available, the history of music would have been dramatically different and the outcome would have been Chapel Club.
Their first single, "O Maybe I," has the patented Peter Hook bass line that instantly recalls Joy Division and a jangly guitar that evokes Johnny Marr and The Smiths. The lyrics are dark and have the proper amount of despair between the choices of settling down into a quiet existence or putting everything to chance for "a perfect night." If you are a fan of Joy Division and The Smiths, then check out Chapel Club. I look forward to hearing more from them during the coming year.
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