{"id":7586,"date":"2022-04-21T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:48:04","slug":"the-blue-carpet-band-are-back-with-a-new-line-up-and-a-very-limited-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=7586","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Carpet Band are back with a new line-up and a very limited new single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

London garage rockers The Blue Carpet Band<\/strong> have released their first new music in a couple of years in the shape of an excellent new 7in single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Slow Death Of Camden\/B-Movie Boogie<\/em> is out now on Bomber Music, digitally and in a very limited edition of just 300 vinyl copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The songs are the first taste of The Blue Carpet Band’s long-awaited (by me anyway!) second album, which they hope to release later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cover of The Blue Carpet Band’s new 7in, The Slow Death Of Camden.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

They are the first released by the new line-up of the five-piece, who were voted Best New Band by Vive Le Rock <\/em>magazine at its 2019 awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formed in London in 2015, they released their first album, Rock ‘n\u2019 Roll Carpet<\/em>, on Flicknife Records in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They spent the next couple of years playing live up and down the country, and Bomber Music released their first 7in, Back In The Trash\/Ain\u2019t Got No Damn Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll<\/em>, in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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B-Movie Boogie is on the other side of The Blue Carpet Band’s new single.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The band were just starting to build a following withb their electrifying rock ‘n’ roll when Covid-19 intervened, and the new single is their first offering since the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as vocalist Djamel Abina, Napalm Beth on bass and Brendan Stitch on guitar, the band now features ex-Demented Are Go pair Stan Standen on guitar and Ant Thomas on drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Slow Death Of Camden<\/em> deals with the gentrification and changes happening on the streets of what was once London’s alternative music hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Blue Carpet Band’s previous single, Ain’t Got No Damn Rock ‘N’ Roll b\/w Back In The Trash.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Working and socialising in Camden Town, The Blue Carpet Band’s frontman Djamel watched it gradually become a sterile, pretend version of itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas trees up in October, major brands taking over from indepent stores and the loss of iconic venues and bars erased much of its edginess and excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Death of Camden<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Djamel said: \u201cLyrically the song is a lament – where have the rock ‘n’ roll bandits all gone? What has Camden Town become? The death of Camden reflects the death of London as the alternative capital of the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Napalm Beth and Djamel Abina of The Blue Carpet Band at the Black Bull in Gateshead in 2019. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The other side of the single is B-Movie Boogie<\/em>, which was released on digital platforms in October 2021 as a Halloween nod to the vampire, wolfman and Frankenstein films loved by kids of a certain generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Djamel added: “We are completely ecstatic to finally be releasing new music again, it feels like it\u2019s been a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow that we have Stan and Ant as latest additions to the rock ‘n’ roll madness that is The Blue Carpet Band, things are really starting to click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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