New single 'Jailbird' out via download NOVEMBER 2, 2009 with 3 extra tracks: 'Eugene', 'A Bad Feeling About Anna Karenina [by Phoebe Kreutz]', 'Harry the Morgue [Church version]'
Debut album BLUEBEARD'S ROOMS OUT NOW from HMV/Amazon/play/itunes/etc! Second album "HYPNAGOGUES" out NOVEMBER 9! London launch gigs 9th and 13th!
First two singles are still available on 7" vinyl
See the videos for David Cronenberg's Wife's 2 singles - to the side via youtube- or click 'Videos', underneath main pic top left, or main window.
‘**** 1/2: For sheer scope and lyrical intensity, David Cronenberg’s Wife have made one of the best albums of the year.’ (The Fly)
'Exactly what the music world needs… An actual modern masterpiece’ (Room Thirteen)
'**** If Nick Cave just isn’t unpleasant enough for you these days, this will be a record to treasure.' (Time Out London, Aug 20, 2008)
'Bleak outsider anthems.... Chances are [Mrs Cronenberg] calls herself a fan'
(the london paper, Aug 11, 2008)
'Where genius meets idiocy' (Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2)
‘Not many albums this strong being made in this decade so if you trust me, you may well be rewarded!’ (Norman Records)
'Oh me, oh my, Tom Mayne has really excelled himself with the new album... noir ambience all the way through, very consistent’ (Tom Robinson, BBC 6Music)
'they may well be an independent band from the mid 80s teleported forward to the 21st century' (Loud & Quiet Magazine)
'87%.. There’s an amazing nostalgic feel to this album, a throwback to 50s rock and roll, 60s psychedelic and the swagger and cockiness of the 70s... creepy, weird, and brilliant' (Line of Best Fit)
'The album is wonderful...' (Marc Riley)
'Sarcastic, sardonic and articulate… I can guarantee once you’ve heard this, it will stay in your head all day.' (Music Week)
'Even on first listen i'm totally digging this 7" by David Cronenberg's Wife. It's a cyclic, twangy piece of wax called 'My Best Friend's Going Out With A Girl I Like' which recalls The Flaming Stars, Bailter Space & maybe old London bands like Breed. There's a bit of a Velvets/Spacemen 3 feel to the atmospherics, the lyrics are a monotonous, geeky, drawled & wistful moan and utterly delightful in their excecution. The music just drills into your head like the best Quickspace tunes used to do, with that relentless repetitive drive, cool & loose, hypnotic & sinister....but going back to those lyrics....they're bleakly hilarious. I can't figure whether the protaganist is a total psychopath or just a lovelorn sweetie but Daniel Clowes could write a short comic strip for this addictive offering on Blang. A hearty treat of motorik surf-psych genius!' (Norman Records)
'What’s immediately impressive about David Cronenberg’s Wife is their honesty. Lyrics like those above float all the way through this magnificently-titled single, which musically sounds like Lou Reed hupping darkly over The Buzzcocks’ most famous song while Dan Treacy sits alarmed in the corner, wondering why on earth he didn’t write songs as good as this for the last two TV Personalities records.' (Drowned in Sound)
'['My Best Friend' is] mesmerising with its repetition and simplicity…' (subba-culture)
'a particularly skilled troupe of high wire artistes walking the proverbially thin line between irony & self-loathing. Investigate at will. You won’t be anything less than intrigued!' (trakmarx review of 'I Couldn't Get Off')
David Cronenberg's Wife sound like a mid-Eighties independent band -- sarcastic, sardonic and articulate, with dark gothic undertones, a little bit of shambling, some David Lynch surf guitar... the focus is on the songwriting' (Everett True, Plan B, September 07)
'I Do Know You Love Me' [is] thrilling for its freshness, its full-on musical self-confidence and some brilliantly witty lyrics - in which the wit came from expressing dangerously honest thoughts rather than from any desire to be amusing...' (Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia)
'Dark and twisted as the name suggests' (London Metro. May 5, 2006)
'Tom Mayne is a stunning lyricist who peels back the skin of humanity to reveal its pustulating bleeding sores while leaving piss stains on your trousers with his sardonic wit. The observational skills of a novelist. The lo-fi 2 chord soul of rock nroll.' (Sgt Buzfuz)
'These guys are great. They're not ripping anyone off.' (Sky Saxon of The Seeds)
'Bands with rubbish names and our utterly unfounded guess at what they sound like: David Cronenberg's Wife- this Norwich band are newcomers on the East Anglian goth scene? Perhaps.' (NME)
'The world's best seven-fingered songwriter'. (Bobbo, DCW fan)
Shot By Both Sides keep Halloween alive in one far-flung corner of Brixton! Expect a spektakular soireé at the Brixton Windmill on Friday 13th November. Degeneracy, bloodlust and Bacchanalian debauchery in abundance...
Fanzine handout, cakes, poetry, stories, humanoid beasts, a gritty psych/freakout jazz/fucked-pop/post-punk soundtrack, and some disturbingly delightful live sets from DAVID CRONENBERG’S WIFE (Album Launch for ‘Hypnagogues’), GYRATORY SYSTEM, DEATHRAY TREBUCHAY and JAMIE N COMMONS.
Side 1 Crocodiles - Hollow Hollow Eyes [previously unreleased in the UK] Mazes - Summer Hitz (Main Dykes) Golden Grrrls - Duane Denison [exclusive track] Cheatahs - Lycanthropy
Side 2 Cold Pumas - Day Monk Night Monk [exclusive track] La La Vasquez - Don't Rush Me The Hipshakes - Not Like I've Had Before Egyptian Hip Hop - Rad Pitt
hellow!! we are on stage at 8.45pm at Wilmington Arms tonite if you are interested! namely Lo-feef on electronic bleeps, Matthew Ratcliffe cello-ing and me on words...:)
22 Oct: Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy (supporting Johnny Flynn) 23 Oct: Birmingham, Glee Club (supporting Johnny Flynn) 24 Oct: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (supporting Johnny Flynn) 25 Oct: Manchester, Deaf Institute (supporting Johnny Flynn) 27 Oct: London, Water Rats 31 Oct: London, 93 Feet East 11 Nov: London, Bath House (supporting The Brute Chorus)
Hey! We've added a new demo here on our page. Its of a track we've been playing called Little Lost Lamb. Do please feel the noise and give it a show! x Thanks x
hey Tom! Hope you are well! This is a long shot but you don't still happen to have that recording of me at the 12 bar? My comp died and i have lost it! Wanted to put it on my myspace page. Good luck with the album launch and hopefully I will get down to the 12 bar soon x
Hi Tom, just listening to some of your stuff: very impressive :-) I especially like My Best Friend.... Right up my street mate! I must try and catch you guys live one of these days x
Promote your music on www.topoftheox.co.uk this week. A great chance to get noticed, promote your gigs and win the upgraded weekly prize by topping the chart.
oh no! just last night i was telling people they should come along. that's a shame. i shall keep an eye out for any future trips to southend you might make.
