Aberdeen gets a November date as the band’s fourth album lands
The Snuts are heading out on a 16-date UK headline tour this autumn, calling at Aberdeen’s Beach Ballroom on 20th November. The dates follow news of the band’s fourth studio album, Joy in Short Moments, out 23 October. Lead single Defibrillator is out now.
Written after coming off the road
The first three Snuts albums were written while the band was constantly on tour. This one was different: frontman Jack Cochrane moved back home, became a father, and started sitting with questions that constant touring had let him put off.
“After three records of constant motion, I felt pulled back towards real life,” he explained. “Success, failure, parenthood and loss all found their way into these songs. Joy in Short Moments is the sound of reconnecting with what matters and learning to find meaning in the small things whilst navigating the questions: who am I? Where should I be? Where am I going? What makes it all worthwhile?”
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A celebration of life
Defibrillator takes its title from the idea of a living wake: throwing a celebration of your life while you’re still around to enjoy it. Cochrane describes it as a song “that celebrates the collective and trivialises the sludgy worries of being alive.” Cochrane produced it with Scotty Anderson.
The band’s 2021 debut W.L. went straight to Number 1. Second album Burn the Empire reached the Top 3 in 2022, and their self-produced third record, Millennials, hit Number 2, making them the first act since One Direction to land three Top 3 albums in three consecutive years.
The Beach Ballroom has been standing on the seafront since 1929, and it’s still one of the most colourful rooms to catch a gig. It’s a room built for a few hundred people, not the tens of thousands at the OVO Hydro, which makes November’s date worth catching for that contrast alone. That sprung dancefloor is going to be great for an excited Aberdeen crowd.
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