Southern new single Where The Wild Are

outhern new single Where The Wild Are - Out on Monday and London launch party

Free download released

Monday 21^st May

‘Southern make me feel as though they’re singing just to me, providing the soundtrack to my day as if they wrote these songs just for me to hear. It shouldn’t be long before the world is feeling just like this. Bringing ethereal pop soulful pop to the mainstream”

BBC Radio 1 Introducing

‘Southern are the single most promising songwriters in Ireland today’

Gerry Anderson, BBC Radio Ulster

Southern are brother and sister Thom Southern and Lucy Southern, hailing from Belfast, they release their new single ‘Where the Wild Are’ on Monday 21^st May.

Recorded at Liverpool’s infamous Parr Street Studios over three days in February, ‘Where the Wild Are’, is the culmination of tours and stints playing in bars and cafes in their native Belfast, to The Bluebird Café in Nashville, Chez Justine in Paris and demoing material at Berkley Street Studios, Santa Monica, LA. Honing their craft from years spent writing, recording and engineering their own material in both their bedroom back in Belfast and on the road.

Having supported bands as diverse as Peter Doherty, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Francois and the Atlas Mountain and Willy Mason, Southern sold out the 500 capacity Mandela Hall for their 2010 EP launch. Now returning with a fresh batch of recordings, Southern will be touring extensively throughout the summer of 2012 and releasing further material.

‘Where The Wild Are’ has already received airplay at Q Radio, NME Radio, Amazing Radio and selected BBC Introducing shows nationwide.

Southern will play an intimate single launch show for the single release at The Slaughtered Lamb, London, Monday May 21^st. Tickets for the show are available in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/166277

Live:

Monday 21^st May – The Slaughtered Lamb, London (single launch)

Saturday 2^nd June – The Spice of Life, London

Wednesday 6^th June – The Strongroom, London

Thursday 21^st June – The Old Queens Head, London 

Article posted by Musicmafia