Following a formidable festival season (including performances at Isle of Wight Festival, Rock for People, Camden Rocks, Truck Festival, Standon Calling, Y Not, Handmade, Great Escape and many more), Saint Agnes return with their new single ‘Brother’, the first new material since their goliath debut album ‘Welcome To Silvertown’ which smashed 4 million streams on Spotify within three months of release.
Written backstage and road-tested immediately, the band honed ‘Brother’ into three minutes of heavy beats and spitting punk vocals, igniting mosh pits across Europe all summer. Built around an insistent, groove-heavy guitar riff, the song deals with the complex relationship of sibling love and rivalry. Kitty’s notoriously unhinged live presence is captured in a ferocious vocal, where her repeated refrains demand attention with insistent ferocity. ‘Brother’ is mean, dangerous, and utterly irresistible.
Kitty A. Austen (vocals/guitar), explains: “Saint Agnes and our wider family are a fucked up tribe of weirdos, outsiders and freaks, and we are a home for anyone who’s never felt like they quite fitted. Our new EP is a celebration of the strange.”
She continues “We wanted to create something that was bold in its simplicity and disarming in its honesty. The songs have a child-like narrative – a direct voice that cuts straight to the heart of things in a way that only a kid can. The songs are about powerlessness and empowerment, bullying and being a bully, loving and hating the same person. The imagery is twisted and disturbing with shadows and monsters – just how a kid imagines things.”
Consisting of Kitty A. Austen (vocals/guitar), Jon James Tufnell (vocals/guitar), Ben Chernitsky (bass) and Andrew Head (drums) – Saint Agnes’ debut record ‘Welcome To Silvertown’ received acclaim from the likes of Kerrang!, The Independent, Classic Rock and more, following radio support from Tom Robinson (BBC 6 Music) and John Kennedy (Radio X).
The band set off on a UK headline tour this October, including their biggest London show to date at Dingwalls on October 24th. Full dates are listed below. Purchase tickets to see Saint Agnes live HERE.
OCTOBER HEADLINE TOUR DATES
Wed 16 Oct – Manchester, England – Jimmy’s
Thu 17 Oct – Glasgow, Scotland – Broadcast
Fri 18 Oct – Edinburgh, Scotland – Sneaky Pete’s
Sat 19 Oct – Liverpool, England – Arts Club
Thu 24 Oct – London, England – Dingwalls
Sat 26 Oct – Sheffield, England – Record Junkee