We’re a month past Christmas, but that hasn’t stopped 2000 Trees from dropping a band-based advent of announcements as they dropped a new name a day all last week.
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An industrial estate in the Southampton docks isn’t normally the place you’d find people milling around on a cold January night. The temperature is low enough to freeze the heritage off the hound but even so, a decent number of people have gathered at the Engine Rooms for a few hours of good time party metal. The atmosphere is relaxed and easy going and by the time the final notes ring out just before eleven, there are beaming faces everywhere. Evil Scarecrow might not be the coolest band in the world but for one chilly winter evening, they brought the songs and the laughs in equal measure.
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It has to be admitted, we are huge – no, make that HUGE – fans of Hands Off Gretel here at ÜRHQ. So, when we heard they were dropping a new single, complete with an accompanying visual treatment, then it was virtually a no brainer that it was going straight to the top of our list of contenders for our latest ‘Video Of The Week’. And, to be honest, in terms of pure, in your face straight ahead r’n’f’n’r, they led the field by a country mile.
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The stars appeared to magically align over January 2019 favoring a band of merry elfin musicians from the tiny town of Frankenmuth, Michigan. They appeared on Saturday Night Live on the 19th of the month and were featured in Rolling Stone the morning of the same day. Some would herald it as an arrival. Online research afterward revealed to our Canadian correspondent that it is just one step on a rapid, steady ascendance towards prominence out of nowhere for a band that are splitting fans right down the middle…
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Steelhouse Festival has announced the full bill for its opening night, on Friday 26 July.
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