Liverpuddlian Pop Punk’s WSTR Unveil New Video
Watch ‘Fair Weather’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYV-1DR4dHc
With their debut EP fast approaching, Liverpool pop-punks WSTR have unveiled a new video for ‘Fair Weather’. The track is taken from the band’s SKRWD EP, due for release via No Sleep Records on September 4th: Pre-order the SKRWD EP here.
The clip sees the five-piece indulge their dearest MTV memories, parodying numerous music videos of yesteryear whilst also ducking into the costume wardrobe for some daft changes. highlighting the band’s keen sense of humour as first exhibited in their earlier video for debut single ‘Graveyard Shift’. The band’s outfits age them a good few decades in reference to the lyrical odes to how “it must suck to be old and grey” – though the fun the WSTR boys are having here, tweed and pipes and all, seems to suggest otherwise.
Upcoming live dates:
14/08 – Hevy Festival, Kent
15/08 – Make A Scene Festival
21/08 – The Underworld, Camden, London (w/ A Wilhelm Scream)
05/09 – The Picket, Liverpool (w/ Trash Boat & Ben Barlow of Neck Deep)
08/09 – Chester, Live Rooms (w/ Best Years)
09/09 – Birmingham, Rainbow Room (w/ Best Years)
10/09 – London, Boston Music Rooms (w/ Best Years)
11/09 – Bristol, The Exchange (w/ Best Years)
12/09 – Glasgow, The Garage Attic (w/ Best Years)
13/09 – Sheffield, The Hop (w/ Best Years)
14/09 – Stoke, The Underground (w/ Best Years)
27/09 – Camden Barfly, London (w/ Knuckle Puck)
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MORE ON WSTR:
Huntington Beach’s No Sleep Records have signed rising UK based pop punk band WSTR. The label will release the band’s debut EP, SKRWD, on September 4th and have launched a pre-order for the record at nslp.co/skrwd.
Made up by guitarists Danny Swift and Kieren Alder, singer Sammy Clifford, drummer Kieran McVeigh and bassist Alex Tobijanski, WSTR grew up on the mainstream pop punk bands like Blink, New Found Glory and Sum 41. Those influences along with their own unique musical stylings have helped shape the quintet’s high-energy sound that they’re becoming known for.
WSTR’s debut EP, SKRWD, was produced and recorded by Seb Barlow at Celestial Recordings (Neck Deep, Homebound, ROAM), and is a full force introduction to the band’s keen ear for instantly familiar hooks and head bobbing grooves, showcasing more savvy and swagger than many bands with ten times their experience. And while their music might be serious, the members are far from, as their tongue-in-cheek music video for lead single ‘Graveyard Shift’ might suggest.
“We wanted to show our personalities straight from the start and that we don’t take ourselves too seriously,” says vocalist Sammy Clifford. “We took the classic phrase “working the graveyard shift” and put a dark/humorous twist on it. So we shot the video in an old graveyard in the woods, somewhere by my house, and have some fun with it. We put corpse paint on as we wanted to portray misfits of society, working and hating our everyday jobs.”
Watch debut single ‘Graveyard Shift’ here.
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