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The Victorian English Gentlemens Club – Bored In Belgium

• 7th Mar 2010

“Belgium has one of the highest suicide rates in Europe – while we were there we passed 'Happy Street', so named to tackle the issue. It was complete with signs asking people to smile at each one another as they passed in cars. European tours do inevitably involve the 168 mile drive across the flatness – we do get mildly bored by that”

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club will release the third single from critically acclaimed second album, 'Love On An Oil Rig' on 25th January 2010. 'Bored In Belgium' was inspired by a Belgian man's suicide note, where he claimed it was merely 'boredom' that drove him to it.

The single will be released on 7″ vinyl and download, and comes backed with B-sides 'The Woodsmen' and 'Bored To Death In Belgium'.

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are Louise Mason (bass), Adam Taylor (guitar/vocals), Daniel Lazenby (drums) and Steph Jones (guitar). The band was born when Adam and Louise met at art college in Cardiff. Using their combined interest in art and experimental guitar music, they began writing songs solely influenced by The Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth.

The quartet have recently released a track in conjunction with the National Museum of Wales, which included a live performance in the Museum itself – the only band ever known to play in the galleries. Earlier this year they launched their album in a Norwegian sailors' church, toured across mainland Europe, played in a kitchen, a theatre and up a Welsh mountain. They've also performed in forests, boats and with a circus. They still live in Cardiff. They still collectively enjoy taxidermy seagulls, effects pedals, Sonic Youth, bells, yellow mackintoshes, distortion, bonsai, gaffer tape, Joesph Beuys, Bauhaus, bone and ivory dominoes, Morandi, and Wire. They are all pleased to meet you.