Hotel Lux + bloody/bath + Latent Dream

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31ST

HOTEL LUX

An Independent Venue Week show

Once contenders for the mantle of Britain’s most self-conscious band — guilty, by their own admission, of pandering to audiences’ tastes following their move from Pompey to London — Hotel Lux have crafted an identity that is truly their own on their bold 2023 debut album ‘Hands Across The Creek’. The band’s classic influences — Dr Feelgood, The Stranglers, Ian Dury — meshed with the sounds of artists like Neil Young, Brian Eno and The Waterboys, and, in the end, Hotel Lux found themselves “doing the whole ‘haha, that’s what the fourth album will sound like’ thing” on their first, says Cam. They decamped to The Wirral, with Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral, Arctic Monkeys) as multi-faceted influences, £20 Casio keyboards and marauding song structures fell into place. Lead single ‘Common Sense’ was inspired by the RMT strikes, trade union leader Mick Lynch, and the media’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn. It’s a rhythmic anthem full of funk bass, machine gun snares and clattering guitars reminiscent of Television or Glasgow icons Orange Juice. It's the band’s most euphoric and danceable single to date. With ‘Hands Across The Creek’ Hotel Lux look to become something their early critics might have not foreseen: a band full of confidence, with the ability to transcend their peers and carve out their own corner of British music tapestry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9Lv9Byx_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0_y_vsxOmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIEwArf3jdw

https://www.instagram.com/hotelluxband

https://www.facebook.com/hotelluxband

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6tdX8iW13i9uRwGzyfRFMR?si=toHyyuP4RKSShmZffm9O7Q

Support from

bloody/bath

and

Latent Dream

@ The Black Prince

15 Abington Square, Northampton NN1 4AE

Doors 7.30pm