The New Dead 60s Video

• 18th Jul 2007

New Single, ‘Stand Up’, this September with the album top follow in Janaury 2008.

When The Dead 60s burst onto the scene in 2005, with a debut album of spooky ska sounds that they made their own, they were somewhat of an anomaly. They had nothing to do with the current fad for all things new wave, rejecting angular guitars in favour of super heavy reggae grooves, booming dub echoes and wired up punk energy.

They were a band from Liverpool who sounded nothing like anything else Liverpool had produced before, who eschewed the tradition of their geographical contemporaries in favour of The Clash, King Tubby and The Specials. A band whose very name was a deliberate poke in the eye to anyone still slavishly following the trail laid out by the Beatles half a century ago. Signed to Scouser indie label Deltasonic (The Coral, The Zutons), and managed by US heavyweight Q prime (Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Metallica), The Dead 60s were a band more about “rhythm and shouting” than about melody. A band who could hard-wire the paranoid skank of A Certain Ratio, “follow the tick-tick-tick/ At the heart of the nation”, and deliver a pin-sharp commentary on the world around them in terms that lend themselves to being sprayed on the walls of any English city centre.

“After a year of touring the first album we wanted to capture the energy and directness of the live performance. We just wanted to get back and write direct and honest songs about the things we’ve been through” Stand Up is the first example of this.

Watch the new video!!!! link

The Dead 60s will be touring the UK, starting this month. Dates as follows:

Monday 23rd Academy Birmingham
Tuesday 24th July Marquee Hertford
Wednesday 25th July Soul Tree Cambridge
Thursday 26th July Charlotte Leicester
Sunday 29th July Faversham Leeds
Tuesday 31st July Leadmill Sheffield
Thursday 2nd August Empire Middlesbrough
Friday 3rd August Tunnels Aberdeen
Saturday 4th August King Tuts Glasgow
Sunday 5th August Cluny Newcastle
Wednesday 8th August Roadhouse Manchester
Thursday 9th August Dingwalls London
Saturday 11th August Thekla Bristol
Sunday 12th August Fez Reading
Wednesday 15th August Academy 2 Liverpool
Friday 17th August Club Nirvana Wigan
Saturday 18th August York Fibbers York
Sunday 19th August Pressure Point Brighton
Wednesday 22nd August Joiners Southampton
Friday 24th August Soundhaus Northampton
Saturday 25th August Reading Festival Main Stage
Sunday 26th August Leeds Festival Main Stage

official website: link