Mike Marlin Reveals Details Of New Single 'Steve McQueen'
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
Mike Marlin ripped through 2011 being chosen as HMV ‘Next Big Thing’, releasing his debut album 'Nearly Man', touring the UK twice, singing disco with dwarves, smashing an office to pieces and vanishing for 3 months only to emerge triumphant with another 11 songs recorded in an undisclosed basement and mastered in Abbey Road.
Working with a new producer Catherine Marks (The Vaccines, Interpol, Foals and PJ Harvey) new single 'Steve McQueen' was written during a session in Dublin with Eleanor McEvoy. Renowned for her virtuoso violin playing the plan was to lay strings over the new songs but Eleanor’s whirlwind of musical ideas and inappropriate stories led to this melancholy ode to the king of cool being committed to tape.
Drawing early comparisons to Badly Drawn Boy and The National, 'Steve McQueen' is the third single to be taken from Marlin’s second studio album ‘Man On The Ground’. The single released with video directed by Eyes On The Wall is the winning entry of AMP Productions short film competition ran before Christmas as announced on 15th February 2012 at Marlin Underground, an evening of Music, Films and Pizza.
Mar 1st – Leeds O2 Academy
Mar 5th – Liverpool O2 Academy
Mar 6th – Nottingham Rock City
Mar 8th – Cambridge Corn Exchange
Mar 9th - London Roundhouse
Mar 10th – Birmingham O2 Academy
Mar 12th – Oxford O2 Academy
Mar 13th - Portsmouth Pyramids
Mar 15th – Lincoln Engine Shed
Mar 16th – Brighton Dome
Mar 17th – Bristol O2 Academy
Mar 19th – Leamington Spa The Assembly
Mar 20th – Guilford G-Live
Mar 22nd – Newcastle O2 Academy
Mar 23rd – Sheffield O2 Academy
Mar 24th – Manchester Academy
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