Up and coming multicultural blues rockers BLUES PILLS have posted a brand new video trailer in which singer Elin Larsson and guitarist Dorian Sorriaux talk about their cover of the CHUBBY CHECKER classic 'Gypsy' that appears on the band's magical self-titled debut album! Produced by renowned Don Alsterberg (GRAVEYARD, HORISONT), »Blues Pills« is out now!
Check out the trailer here:
While their stay in London this past Monday, Larsson & Sorriaux also performed the song 'No Hope Left For Me' on the streets of the UK capital.
Check it out here:
http://ow.ly/zJLWy
Furthermore the band also released the official music video for the first single off the album, 'High Class Woman' - surf to http://smarturl.it/BLUES-PILLS-Woman
Recently the band announced their upcoming European headlining tour. The quartet will be widely supported by icelandic label mates THE VINTAGE CARAVAN.
The album is already being praised by pretty much every rock magazine out there and described as "the debut album of the year" (Boris Kaiser/ROCK HARD) and hit the cover of various high class magazines:
TOURDATES
BLUES PILLS
THE VINTAGE CARAVAN
presented by METAL HAMMER, ECLIPSED, ROCKS, VISIONS, METALNEWS.DE, BLAST!, NOIZELETTER, MUSIX & ROCK IT!
02.10.2014 DE – Leipzig, Moritzbastei
03.10.2014 CH – Pratteln, Up In Smoke Festival
04.10.2014 DE – Nürnberg, Rockfabrik
06.10.2014 AT – Vienna, Arena
07.10.2014 AT – Innsbruck, Weekender
08.10.2014 DE – Ludwigsburg, Rockfabrik
10.10.2014 BE – Antwerp, Desertfest
11.10.2014 DE – Kaiserslautern, Kammgarn International Blues Festival
13.10.2014 NL – Nijmegen, Doornroosje
14.10.2014 DE – Essen, Turock
15.10.2014 DE – Hamburg, Headcrash
17.10.2014 DE – München, Keep it Low Festival
18.10.2014 DE – Berlin, Bi Nuu
19.10.2014 DE – Frankfurt, das Bett
FRANCE TOUR
BLUES PILLS
presented by MyRock
06.11.2014 F – Strasbourg, La Laiterie
07.11.2014 F – La Roche sur Yon, Le Fuzz Yon
08.11.2014 F – Paris, Le Point FMR
In an exclusive track by track video which also features short excerpts of every song, singer Elin Larsson talks about the tracks of the album. Check it out here:
The band also released a workshop video feat. their gifted guitarist, Dorian Sorriaux, showing how to play parts of the first single, 'High Class Woman', off the band's upcoming self-titled debut album. Surf to http://smarturl.it/BPGuitarLesson
The song itself can be streamed at http://smarturl.it/HighClassWoman
The first limited edition of »Blues Pills« also includes a special bonus DVD which features the band's entire gig at 2013's installment of renowned German "Hammer Of Doom" festival as well as a video interview with Streetclip.TV - see tracklist below. A teaser video for the
DVD can be viewed at this location:
DVD (Live @ Hammer Of Doom 2013):
01. Bliss
02. Dig In
03. Devil Man
04. Little Sun
05. Mind Exit
06. Astralplane
07. Black Smoke
+ Video interview with Streetclip.TV
The ten tracks of »Blues Pills« will also feature a cover version of the CHUBBY CHECKER classic 'Gypsy'.
“It's a song everyone in the band liked and we used to play it on our soundcheck. Slowly it worked itself into our set list, and now it's going to be on our debut album as well. Back in the days lots of bands covered each other to honor the other artist, and they did it with their own touch on it. Some examples are, JIMI HENDRIX 'All Along the Watchtower', JANIS JOPLIN 'Tell Mama', 'Summertime' and 'Ball and Chain',
