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Cerebral Ballzy Announce Debut Single

• 16th Nov 2010

New York hardcore band Cerebral Ballzy are set to release their debut single and tour the UK next week supporting Trash Talk. ‘Insufficient Fare’ is released November 29th on Moshi Moshi, full details of the tour are below.

‘Insufficient Fare’ will be exclusively available two weeks earlier at the band’s shows. The single comes in a sleeve designed by Raymond Pettibon who famously came up with the iconic Black Flag logo.

Cerebral Ballzy made their debut visit to the UK in August, it didn’t take long for them to become the band the everyone wanted to meet. They planned to stay for a week and end up here a month having been made a last minute addition to and subsequently making one of the most talked about appearances at Reading Festival. Having heeded singer Honor’s call to “drink like you’re 15 forever” the large crowd that had gathered at the Lock Up Stage soon became an even larger circle pit, a scene that had Radio 1’s Mike Davies predict that the band would be playing the main stage come 2011.

“You haven’t heard of the New York hardcore scene because we it’” says front man Honor. He along with Abe, Mel, Mason and Jason met skating around the same parks in East New York and bonded over a shared love of 1 dollar pizza slices, the Beastie Boys and Beavis And Butthead re-runs. Theirs was a band that formed out of necessity more than desire, all of them equally alienated by the current preppy Brooklyn scene and its infatuation with whichever hybrid of dance music and world music is popular on hype machine this week. Inspired by Bad Brains and Suicidal Tendencies, Cerebral Ballzy started to make music that was louder, funner, dumber and way less aspirational .

Word has travelled fast about the band and their fearless approach to live music. Having spent 3 days on the road with Ballzy NME called them “Brooklyn’s wildest band” , their demos have been played on radio by DJs as varied as Huw Stephens, Daniel Carter and Nick Grimshaw. and they set tongues wagging at Sonisphere, Boardmasters, Hevy and Reading/Leeds this summer. Now the band are a few dates into their first European tour and the release of their debut single. Not to be missed.

November tour supporting Trash Talk
18th Birmingham HMV Institute
19th Glasgow Captains Rest
20th Manchester Moho Live
21st Exeter The Cavern
22nd London Underworld
23rd Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach (headline show)
24th Brighton Prince Albert (headline show)