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VIDEO: Tom Williams & The Boat – Little Bit In Me

• 14th Sep 2012

Following the release of their new album ‘Teenage Blood’ earlier this year, Tom Williams and the Boat have revealed their new video. Fans of Nick Cave and Tom Waits are going to instantly fall for this sludgy and dark offering from a supremely talented new voice on the UK music scene.

‘Little Bit In Me’ is the new single, out September 17th through their own Pledgemusic funded Wire Boat Records, and is perhaps the most instantly accessible track of the collection; a classic melody draped in Tom’s intuitive storytelling. Evidence of an imagination run wild, Tom’s lyrics meander and stagger through a landscape of scarred and pitted characters, all ever present in a nightmarish gene pool he seems to yearn to escape from.

Now it has been brought to life by Ceri Amphlett, creator of The Go! Team’s memorable artwork for ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’ and comes accompanied by a beautiful yet suitably eerie pagan-esque woodland video.

“The masks seemed especially relevant seeing that the song is about monsters in some respects. Ceri also had a cinefilm camera which gave it that elephant man feel” explains Tom. “For the first time ever we went into the video shoot, without any idea of what we were meant to be doing and we just did whatever Ceri asked us to do. It was really fun to make and all over in a couple of hours!”

‘Teenage Blood’ is made up of ten tracks that Tom says reflect a new sense of focus for the band. After becoming obsessed with the idols of pop-rock’s history, such as Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, The Band and Loaded-era Velvet Underground, Tom decided to write songs that take the traditional song structures of that genre – repeated choruses, catchy hooks – and fill them with a subversive lyricism.

Tom Williams & The Boat completed a UK tour in June and have followed this up with Festival appearances through the summer culminating in a show at Bestival on Sep 9th

See Tom Williams & the Boat live:

Sept 6-9th Bestival
Sept 15th Southsea Fest
Oct 9th London Kings College Students’ Union (supporting Smoke Fairies)
Oct 23rd London The Social (Huw Stephens presents. Free entry!)
Nov 8th London Electric Ballroom (supporting Ben Kweller)