Laborious Life have dropped their moody new track ‘Ogre’ and introduced a 2025 UK tour.
The band previously generally known as Straightforward Life just lately returned with the track ‘Othello’ final month – and now, they’ve launch ‘Ogre’, which can kind a part of their upcoming album ‘Onion’.
The album was impressed by frontman Murray Matravers’ spontaneous journey to Japan. On the time, he was experiencing a breakup on a number of ranges – romantic, cultural, and naturally, musical – when he met a stranger named Taka and began making music in Shirokane’s native studio.
Talking concerning the track, Matravers mentioned: “OGRE’ is a few scenario the place no one’s executed something mistaken, however that nearly makes issues worse. Generally relationships are extra sophisticated as a result of they lack an antagonist, and somebody to hate: I’ll be your ‘OGRE’, if that provides us a clear break.
“This was one of many first songs I wrote for the album with Taka, and this picture of onions – partly impressed by ‘Shrek’ – turned central to the file. Onions are so universally recognisable, and I preferred the concept of one thing easy but advanced.”
Along with releasing ‘Ogre’, Laborious Life have introduced a 2025 UK tour. They’ll kick off in October at Leeds, travelling by means of London, Glasgow, Manchester and extra, earlier than rounding off the tour at Nottingham’s Rock Metropolis. Buy your tickets right here and see all dates under:
Laborious Life’s 2025 UK tour is:
OCTOBER
28 – Leeds – O2 Academy
29 – Bristol – O2 Academy
30 – London – O2 Academy Brixton
NOVEMBER
3 – Newcastle upon Tyne – The Boiler Store
4 – Glasgow – SWG3 Galvanizers
6 – Manchester – Manchester Academy
10 – Nottingham – Rock Metropolis
We spoke to Matravers final June, the place he opened up concerning the identify change having conceded defeat in a authorized battle over the moniker in opposition to easyGroup (the model proprietor of easyJet airways).
easyGroup had labelled the band as “model thieves”, and Straightforward Life performed their last present underneath that identify, as they didn’t have “the funds to entry a good trial within the Excessive Court docket”.
Talking concerning the new identify, Matravers advised us: “I actually don’t need individuals to learn an excessive amount of into the identify. I used to be nervous, as a result of as a white, middle-class man, I haven’t precisely had a tough life. It must be appreciated in context.”
In line with Matravers, the brand new identify was a unanimous choice: “We have been laughing about it and I don’t assume any of us have been taking it that significantly, however as time progressed we went by means of 1,000,000 of different choices and we all the time got here again to Laborious Life as a result of we thought it was humorous. Everybody appeared to resonate with that, and it was essentially the most stereotypical Straightforward Life factor to do.”
In different information, Laborious Life shall be showing on the likes of Y Not, Truck, and Reside At Leeds.
