Thanks to a keen eye and ear for the good and a network of musical spies that put MI5 to shame Fierce Panda has been releasing quality music now since well before the dawn of BritPop. For every Coldplay and Placebo there’s been a CAY and Fantasmagroover, but Panda Bands have always had a certain something – usually a shearing, piercing guitar noise that sounds pretty excellent after 2 pints of Guinness in a North London Boozer.
No exception is Panda Protegee’s Desperate Journalist. Their new video ‘Resolutions’ is taken from the bands forthcoming second album ‘Grow Up’ . I love it and think you should too.
When talking about the new album singer Jo Bevan had this to say…. “Musically we also wanted this to be a progression from our first record, which hopefully comes across. There’s a lot more atmosphere on this album. We were thinking about arrangements and structures in a more (ugh) mature way this time round having figured a lot of stuff out via writing and recording the songs from our debut and then the EP. We’re so proud of it and it’s resulted in something we really feel is both more powerful and more refined. We’re now a well oiled cathartic tunes machine. Or something.”
For more info visit www.fiercepanda.co.uk or find them on Facebook www.facebook.com/desperatejournalist
Live in 2017
Feb
Sat 11th – Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
Sat 25th – Manchester, The Live Room
March
Wed 29th – Bristol, Louisiana
Thu 30th – Sheffield, Leadmill
Fri 31st – Glasgow, Nice N Sleazys
April
Sat 1st – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
Thu 6th – London, Scala
Sat 8th – Darmstadt, Bedroomdisco
Sun 9th – Freiburg, Slow Club
Tue 11th – Stuttgart, Goldmarks
Wed 12th – Cologne, Blue Shell
Thu 13th – Hamburg, Gruner Jager
Fri 14th – Leipzig, Ilses Erika
Sat 15th – Bremen, Lagerhaus