Forward of their large homecoming gig at London’s All Factors East subsequent month, The Maccabees have launched ‘YALA! TV’ – a weekly video collection that includes stay music, interviews and extra.
Final October, The Maccabees confirmed they might be reuniting to headline All Factors East Pageant at London’s Victoria Park this August.
The curated line-up can even function Bombay Bicycle Membership, The Cribs, Dry Cleansing, Nilüfer Yanya, The Homicide Capital, Divorce, Prima Queen CMAT, Black Nation, New Street, The whole lot The whole lot, Sorry, Katy J Pearson and Youth Lagoon, whereas the YALA! Stage will host performances from Warmduscher, Man/Lady/Chainsaw, The Futureheads and Willie J. Healey. It’s, within the phrases of The Maccabees’ Felix White, a lineup of “absurdly high-quality guitar music”.
Now the band have introduced particulars of ‘YALA! TV’, a weekly video collection hosted by White that’ll give viewers an opportunity to get to know a number of the acts the band shall be sharing the stage with at All Factors East on August 24.
The primary episode is out now and options White chatting to former NME The Cowl stars Divorce alongside a stay efficiency of their recently-released single ‘O Calamity’. Try the primary episode under:
‘O Calamity’ is the primary new materials from the alt-country band since they shared their debut album ‘Drive To Goldenhammer’ in March, but it surely was truly written again in 2018.
“Felix [Mackenzie-Barrow, co-vocalist] and I have been performing beneath a special alias then,” mentioned the band’s Tiger Cohen-Towell in an announcement. “We all the time thought it was a ravishing tune and saved it in our pile of fabric, however didn’t embody it on the album merely due to how way back it had been written.”
“This seems like a very good time to cease hanging onto it, so right here it’s: a snapshot of our previous written by the 2 of us, scarcely greater than youngsters on the level of creation,” they continued. “It seems like an absolute world away, however good songs by no means get previous.”
Future episodes of ‘YALA! TV’ will function unique performances from The Homicide Capital, Man/Lady/Chainsaw and Warmduscher alongside conversations with Dry Cleansing, Black Nation, New Street, and The Maccabees. As soon as the season has ended, the YALA Information YouTube channel will host a curated choice of backstage footage and unique interview content material from All Factors East.
The Maccabees will headline All Factors East 2025 alongside Cleo Sol (August 15), Chase & Standing (16), Barry Can’t Swim (22) and RAYE (23). Tickets can be found right here.
Talking about their first present again collectively earlier this yr, White instructed NME: “There was lots of feeling in that room. It shocked me, truly, as a result of I used to be discovering that on stage, in a break up second, I used to be euphoric after which I used to be truly crying at Tufnell Park Dome after which feeling different issues. “You felt all this sense inside your physique that the motion of enjoying the music brings out in us, and it was all occurring in there and simply felt superb.”