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Casual asides, silly moments, regrettable comments — they all tumble around in a songwriter’s mind and if they’re lucky those incidents are transformed into lyrics that last forever. Paul McCartney has had more than a couple of those, including a very formative one he discussed on the latest episode of his songwriter podcast, “A Life in Lyrics.”
The episode focused on the Beatles‘ “Yesterday,” specifically on the line, “I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday” on the tune’s bridge. The frequently covered, wistful ballad first released on the band’s 1965 Help! album is essentially a McCartney solo track, on which he plays acoustic guitar and sings along with a string quartet.
Macca said he thought it was inspired by a regretful conversation he’d had with his mother years before. “Sometimes it’s only in retrospect you can appreciate it,” he said, clearly remembering one day “feeling very embarrassed because I’d embarrassed my mom.”
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The singer said one day he and his mom — who he described as having a very “posh” accent — were in the backyard. “She was of Irish origin and she was a nurse, so she was above street level. So she had something sort of going for her, and she would talk what we thought was a little bit posh,” he said.
“I know that she said something like ‘Paul, will you ask him if he’s going … ’,” he remembered. “I went ‘Arsk! Arsk! It’s ask mum.’ And she got a little bit embarrassed. I remember later thinking ‘God, I wish I’d never said that’. And it stuck with me. After she died I thought ‘Oh f–k, I really wish … ’” McCartney’s mother, Mary, died in Oct. 1956 at 47 due to an embolism following breast cancer surgery when the singer was just 14-years-old.
McCartney said he’s got a “couple” of those little moments which he knows the people involved would forgive him for, but he wishes he had an eraser that he could rub that “Yesterday” moment away with. “That would be better,” he said, before breaking into the bridge of the song that has been covered more than 2,000 times and wondering if sometimes he “unconsciously” flips scenarios into “girl” lyrics when he’s really thinking about his dead mother.
Click here to listen to McCartney talk about the origin of “Yesterday” (discussion of bridge begins around 25:15 mark)
As he brings out his latest solo album, 10,000 Volts, out Friday (Feb. 23), Ace Frehley is also ready to wave the Kiss flag now that his former band has retired from the road.
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“I’m the only game in town because Kiss is supposedly retired — which I don’t believe is gonna happen,” Frehley tells Billboard. “But be that as it may…I actually added two more Kiss songs to my set. We added ‘Shout It Out Loud’ and ‘Rock and Roll All Nite’ because talking to people, they go…you gotta do those songs live — and I did and it went over fantastic. We ended the night with three Kiss songs: ‘Shout It Out Loud,’ ‘Deuce’ and ‘Rock and Roll All Nite,’ and everybody was singing along and it was great.
“As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t even matter who wrote the song. I played the guitar solos on those records, and that’s good enough for me.”
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And, as Frehley indicated, he’s not sure how long he will be the only game in town.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if they reformed,” says Frehley, who was part of Kiss from its formation in 1973 through 1982, then rejoined from 1996 through 2002. “There were times when I had enough and I had to leave and do my own thing,” he adds, though band leaders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have indicated that Frehley was dismissed. They did not include Frehley (or drummer Peter Criss) on any of the dates of their farewell End of the Road World Tour.
“I really don’t want to trash those guys,” Stanley said last year, “because we wouldn’t be here today if not for them, if they hadn’t been in the band, and we wouldn’t be here today if they still were. They’re part of the foundation, but at some point, the foundation turned out to be faulty and you have to make repairs…and did.”
For his part, Frehley feels that “Paul and Gene are driven by different things than me. I’m driven by the quality of the music and in some cases they’re driven by money and that doesn’t sit well with me. But they’ve admitted it, so it’s no big deal.” In fact, Frehley says his relationships with his former bandmates are not as rancorous as is often reported.
“We’re still friends,” he says. “I know a lot of people think we hate each other, but that’s not true. We’re just like a family, but sometimes brothers and sisters have arguments and so on. But when the sh-t hits the fan, we’re there for each other. I just wish them the best.” He is not, however, particularly optimistic about the avatar performance concept that Kiss announced during its final show on Dec. 2 in New York, which is expected to roll out in 2025.
“Deep in my heart I have a feeling it may not be as successful as they think it’s gonna be,” Frehley predicts. “That’s not just me talking; a lot of people I’ve talked to feel that way but let them prove us wrong. I want them to be happy and doing their thing, But as far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing like a live band on stage with real amps and singing into the microphone. That’s just my opinion.”
Frehley will be doing plenty of that in support of 10,000 Volts, his first album since the covers set Origins Vol. 2 in 2020 and his first of original material since Spaceman in 2018. Save for “Life of a Stranger,” originally sung by French actress Nadia for the 2002 action film The Transporter, Frehley wrote and produced 10,000 Volts‘ 10 other tracks with Steve Brown of Trixter; the two played most of the instruments on the album, joined by a handful of drummers and other musicians.
“Steve and I clicked so magically that I really can’t put it into words,” notes Frehley, whose fiancée introduced him to Brown. “He lives, like 40 minutes from me. He has a studio in his basement; I have a studio in my basement. We bounce back and forth. He’s a great engineer, a strong writer, singer, guitar player. Every song just came together really easily. If I couldn’t come up with a great solo he’d plays something that was real similar to the way I would’ve played, and sometimes I’d double it or duplicate it. I think I left one or two of his solos on the record because they were so good.”
10,000 Volts ends with the album’s lone instrumental, “Stratosphere,” although Frehley says he had more of those pieces around that the two were working on.
“I had three or four instruments that are probably just as good,” Frehley says, “but the record company was getting nervous. The record was really behind It was due months ago. So I just said to Steve, ‘What’s the instrumental you want to do?’ He said, ‘Let’s do ‘Stratosphere’ and I’ll try to do some interesting guitar work under the guitar that you wrote,’ and boom, we had our song.”
Frehley predicts the other instrumentals “will probably be used on a future record,” although he next has his sights on a third Origins volume, covering songs by artists who influenced him. He’s already signed Brown on to work on that and hopes to put it out during 2025. This year, meanwhile, will be all about 10,000 Volts and an anticipated worldwide touring to support it.
“Y’know, here I am at age 72 and I’m putting out one of the best records I’ve ever recorded. The playing is great and the singing is some of the best vocals I’ve ever done. It really doesn’t make any sense, but I’m the kind of guy that’s always broken rules, y’know?”
A seven-year-old record on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart has finally been tied: blink-182’s “One More Time” spends its 20th week at No. 1 as of the March 2-dated survey, tying the mark for the longest reign in the tally’s 36-year history.
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It equals Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still,” which ruled for 20 nonconsecutive weeks between July and December 2017.
“One More Time” has remained at No. 1 on Alternative Airplay every week since its initial rule (Oct. 21, 2023) – the longest streak in the chart’s history, having exceeded the 18 straight frames (of 19 total) for Muse’s “Madness” in October 2012-February 2013 and Foo Fighters’ “The Pretender” (encompassing its reign) in September-December 2007.
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Most Weeks at No. 1, Alternative Airplay20, “One More Time,” blink-182 (2023-24)20, “Feel It Still,” Portugal. The Man (2017)19, “Madness,” Muse (2012-13)18, “Monsters,” All Time Low feat. Blackbear (2020-21)18, “The Pretender,” Foo Fighters (2007)17, “Uprising,” Muse (2009-10)16, “High Hopes,” Panic! at the Disco (2018-19)16, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” Green Day (2004-05)16, “It’s Been Awhile,” Staind (2001)16, “Scar Tissue,” Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999)
Blink-182 ties for the longest Alternative Airplay command over a quarter-century after the band first hit the chart with “Dammit (Growing Up)” in October 1997. “What’s My Age Again?” reached No. 2 in July 1999, becoming the group’s first of 16 top 10s, while follow-up “All the Small Things” became the first of the band’s five No. 1s in December 1999.
“One More Time” has led Alternative Airplay since its fourth week on the chart; it debuted at No. 29 on the Sept. 30, 2023, list, followed by a rise to No. 3 and then No. 2 before beginning its reign. In that time, two songs have hit No. 2 highs: Green Day’s “The American Dream Is Killing Me” for 11 weeks and, most recently, Cannons “Loving You” for the last five frames.
Concurrently, “One More Time” falls from its nine-week run atop Rock & Alternative Airplay to No. 4 with 5.2 million audience impressions Feb. 16-22, according to Luminate. The song peaked at No. 2 on Mainstream Rock Airplay in November 2023 and No. 36 on Adult Alternative Airplay in December.
The song has crossed over to pop radio formats, as well. It peaked at No. 13 on Adult Pop Airplay, the band’s highest rank in its career, surpassing the No. 24 best of “I Miss You” in July 2004. It’s also the trio’s first-ever Adult Contemporary entry, having reached No. 27.
“One More Time” is the second single and title cut from blink-182’s 2023 ninth studio album, following “Edging,” which ruled both Alternative Airplay and Rock & Alternative Airplay beginning in 2022. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated Nov. 4, 2023, and has earned 247,000 equivalent album units to date.
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Twenty One Pilots fans woke up to some thrilling news on Thursday morning (Feb. 22), when the band dropped a four-minute Easter egg-packed video teasing the next, and perhaps final, chapter in the story that began with their breakthrough 2015 album Blurryface.
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“Next week, a new chapter begins,” read the caption to the “I Am Clancy” visual that served as a recap for the entire Blurry saga.
“I am trapped,” singer Tyler Joseph says in voiceover over footage from videos that have helped tell the twisted, futureshock tale of the allegorical walled city Dema, the Banditos and the nine iron-fisted bishops that won’t allow the residents to escape. “Stuck in a cycle I’ve never been able to break. I want to believe this is the last time, I don’t know for sure. I’ll start with what I do know.”
Joseph then goes on to relate the story of an escapee from the “circular cement city” of Dema, who has seen some of the expansive surrounding wild, green continent Trench, but who keeps getting caught by the red-robed wraith known as Nico, aka Blurryface. The rest of the twisted tale touches on the nine bishops’ “miraculous power and hijacked religion” as the source of their authority, based on theory of self-destruction as the only path to paradise.
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The lore then gets even knottier, touching on the bishops’ use of a power called “seizing,” which allows them to take control of dead bodies for short periods. It is a power only they have… well, except for the narrator, the escapee, who is an exception to the rule and also has the power. After tricking Nico into taking him outside the walls and escaping once again, he was caught and returned, but not before getting a glimpse of the mythical Banditos outlaws, characters introduced in videos for “Jumpsuit” and “Nico and the Niners” from Trench.
The recitation then turns to 2021’s Scaled and Icy album, whose more mainstream, pop-oriented material is described as the Bishops’ attempt to make the hero more palatable and entertaining, as seen in videos for the singles “Shy Away,” “Choker” and “Saturday.” Long story short, Nico was betrayed, the narrator escaped again and wound up in a new place, the island Voldsoy, where he was given the gift of the same powers the Bishops wield. “I am returning to Trench… I am Clancy,” he says at the end.
It’s a lot, as evidence by one comment on the video, which read, “I’ve been trying to understand this lore for 6 years and you guys really just explained it all in 4 minutes.”
In a 2019 interview with NME, Joseph hinted that the follow-up to 2018’s Trench album — the pop-leaning Scaled and Icy, which had not yet been announced at the time — would continue the sci-fi-like rebel saga. “There’s definitely an end-game. There’s a story. I think I was very specific that there’s a reason why the record ends with [the song] ‘Leave The City’ and the song itself is a kind of cliff-hanger,” he said at the time. “I mean, the whole thing was it’s setting up for what’s next and it’d be silly to not at least resolve what we’ve already started.”
It wouldn’t be 21P without some additional, puzzling clues, which reportedly include the unexplained addition of red strips of tape to the covers of the band’s albums on streaming services, as well as letters sent out to fans from the “Sacred Municipality of Dema” featuring maps, urls and pages labeled “EVIDENCE” and puzzling billboards around the world with the band’s logo.
At press time no additional information was available on the band’s next move.
Check out the “I Am Clancy” video below.
More Australians will get the chance to see Pearl Jam’s swing Down Under later this year, their first in these parts for a decade.
Just 10 days after the rock legends announced a major global tour in support of their forthcoming studio album Dark Matter, Pearl Jam adds two stadium dates to their Australia lap.
As it stands, Eddie Vedder and Co. will play five dates across three Australian cities this November, starting Nov. 13 at Heritage Bank Stadium on the Gold Coast.
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Additional shows are locked in for Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium and Sydney’s Giants Stadium, following an “overwhelming response to last week’s announcement of the Dark Matter World Tour 2024,” reads a statement from Live Nation, which is producing the domestic run.
Those dates will mark Pearl Jam’s first in Australia for 10 years, and form part of an international jaunt that kicks off May 4 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, B.C. for a round of north America shows.
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Vedder, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCreedy and Matt Cameron will then head over to Europe for June and July, return to the States in late August, and bring matters to a halt in November with two shows in New Zealand and the five Australia concerts.
Pixies will serve as support for the dates in ANZ.
All of it is in support of Dark Matter, the Rock Hall-inducted group’s 12th studio LP, due out April 19. It’s the followup to 2020’s Gigaton, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, and No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart and was described by some devotees as their most experimental album yet.
Produced by Andrew Watt, Dark Matter was “born in just three weeks,” according to a statement from reps, as the band mates wrote and recorded in a “burst of inspiration.” The “musicians faced one another in the same space and communicated sonically at the highest level,” the message continues.
The title track dropped earlier this month and is the musical equivalent of a boulder – heavy rock, no nonsense.
Dark Matter World Tour (Australia)Nov.13 — Heritage Bank Stadium, Gold CoastNove.16 — Marvel Stadium, MelbourneNov.18 — Marvel Stadium, MelbourneNov. 21 — Giants Stadium, SydneyNov. 23 — Giants Stadium, Sydney
Linkin Park have revealed the details of their first career-spanning greatest hits album: Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023), a 20-song overview of the best-selling band’s two-decade-plus run, will be released on Apr. 12 through Warner Records, the group announced on Friday (Feb. 23).
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In addition, Linkin Park has released “Friendly Fire,” a never-before-heard track that was recorded during the sessions of the band’s final studio album, 2017’s One More Light. Like “Lost,” the previously unreleased track unveiled last year as part of the band’s Meteora 20th anniversary collection, “Friendly Fire” features a powerhouse vocal take from Chester Bennington, who passed away in 2017.
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Guitarist Brad Delson says of “Friendly Fire,” “When we started looking for an unreleased track to include on our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the vocal, the sonic landscape and I actually thought that it was closer than maybe we had realized at the time.”
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Papercuts features a wide swath of Linkin Park hits, from “In the End” to “Burn It Down” to the Jay-Z mash-up “Numb/Encore,” as well as “Lost,” which became the band’s latest top 40 Hot 100 hit upon its 2023 release and helped Meteora return to the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart. For completist fans, Papercuts will also include an official version of “QWERTY,” a sought-after rarity for more than a decade.
“In the making of each Linkin Park album, I want to love and believe in each individual song completely,” says Mike Shinoda. “I hope that if any one track is heard on its own in the world, it is something I can feel proud of, and something that takes root inside the listener and becomes part of the energy that connects us. “Curating the tracks for Papercuts was a joy,” Shinoda continues. “Each song in this collection is both a singular moment on our timeline and an evolving story that is as much ours as it is yours. From our first release ‘One Step Closer’ to the brand-new ‘Friendly Fire,’ this tracklist spans all our chapters so far. Thank you for being a part of our journey. We hope you enjoy Papercuts.”
Check out the Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) track list below:
1. Crawling2. Faint3. Numb/Encore4. Papercut5. Breaking The Habit6. In The End7. Bleed It Out8. Somewhere I Belong9. Waiting For The End10. Castle Of Glass11. One More Light12. Burn It Down13. What I’ve Done14. QWERTY15. One Step Closer16. New Divide17. Leave Out All The Rest18. Lost19. Numb20. Friendly Fire
Eddie Vedder and Post Malone joined forces — both onstage and off — for a good cause.
The two stars sang a duet of Pearl Jam‘s “Better Man” last week for the second annual Reportin’ for Duty benefit honoring late actor Leslie Jordan, which this year took place at Humble Baron at Nearest Green Distillery in Shelbyville, Tenn., and raised more than $1 million for the EB Research Partnership. And on Thursday (Feb. 22), Posty shared a video of their performance on YouTube, giving fans who didn’t attend a chance to see him take the stage with Vedder.
The clip finds both Vedder and Malone wielding acoustic guitars as they take turns singing lines from the 1994 track, a No. 2 Alternative Airplay hit for Pearl Jam. The event also featured performances from The War and Treaty, Jelly Roll, Ruby Amanfu, Jake Wesley Rogers and Dan Spencer.
“I can’t find words to say how powerful and inspiring it was to be gathered with such incredible musicians under one small roof for a cause that’s so impactful on young people’s lives,” Vedder said in a statement. “I had chills. Had tears. And all the while with a grin of positivity and action.”
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“I love when music connects me to great people like Eddie, and good causes like EB Research Partnership,” added Post. “Eddie is someone I look up to as a dad, a musician, and a person. I’m honored that he’s brought me into the EB community.”
Eddie and Jill Vedder founded EBRP in 2010 alongside a group of parents of children with Epidermolysis Bullosa, a life-threatening genetic skin disorder. According to Mayo Clinic, the condition “causes fragile, blistering skin” in response to “minor injury, even from heat, rubbing or scratching.”
As of now, there is no cure for EB — something the Vedders’ foundation aims to change within the next decade. Eddie continued in his statement, “The generosity of all who were involved is tremendously appreciated and will help us continue to fund research aimed at curing EB by 2030.”
Watch Eddie Vedder and Post Malone perform “Better Man” together below.
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HARDY notches a second No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart thanks to the appropriately named “Rockstar,” which bows atop the Feb. 24-dated survey. “Rockstar” accumulated 2.5 million official U.S. streams, 209,000 radio audience impressions and 2,000 sold from its Feb. 9 release through Feb. 15, according to Luminate. The download count launches […]
Kings of Leon stormed back after several years of silence on Thursday (Feb. 22) with the raucous single “Mustang.” The song is the first taste of the sibling group’s upcoming ninth studio album, Can We Please Have Fun (May 10), their first effort on new label Capitol Records and first full-length album since 2021’s When You See Yourself.
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According to a statement announcing the 12-song album, Can We Please Have Fun is “a document of one of this era’s great rock & roll bands cutting loose, trying new things, and, yes, having some fun.” The collection was recorded at Nashville’s Dark Horse studio and produced by Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Florence + the Machine). It’s described as a return to the group’s “gritty origins while simultaneously finding new gears. It’s the sound of a band unified in vision and purpose, freed from any expectations, and the album the band says they’ve always wanted to make.”
The driving “Mustang” is a classic KOL burner, with singer Caleb Followill promising that love is all around over an insistent, thrumming bass line as he howls, “There’s a mustang in the city/ And it’s calling me out/ Are you a mustang or a kitty?/ What are you all about?” while the song slowly builds to one of the band’s signature radio-ready, shout-along choruses.
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The Brook Linder-directed video for “Mustang” finds the band jamming out on rooftops and bridges amid a series of random images of a Roomba pulling a bunch of deflated balloons, an urban LARPing battle, EMTs attending to a patient on a city street and men wearing animal masks running through a park with mysterious satchels.
Caleb Followill said in a statement that the sessions for CWPHF were “the most enjoyable record I’ve ever been a part of,” with drummer Nathan Followill adding, “It’s like we allowed ourselves to be musically vulnerable. I love it when a rock band is not embarrassed to admit that every song doesn’t have to be on 11.”
KOL also announced the dates for their upcoming summer/fall Live Nation-produced 26-date North American tour, which will kick off on August 14 at the Moody Center in Austin, TX and keep them on the road through an Oct. 5 gig at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, CT.
The band cancelled the remaining four dates of their U.S. tour in support of When You See Yourself in Sept. 2021 following the death of their mother, Betty Ann; KOL is comprised of brothers Caleb, Nathan and bassist Jared Followill and cousin guitarist Matthew Followill.
Check out the track list for CWPHF, the “Mustang” video and the band’s 2024 tour dates below.
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CWPHF:
“Ballerina Radio”
“Rainbow Ball”
“Nowhere To Run”
“Mustang”
“Actual Daydream”
“Split Screen”
“Don’t Stop The Bleeding”
“Nothing To Do”
“Television”
“Hesitation Generation”
“Ease Me On”
“Seen”
2024 North American tour dates:
August 14 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
August 16 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
August 17 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
August 20 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
August 22 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
August 23 — Palm Springs, CA @ Acrisure Arena
August 25 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre*
August 26 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl*
August 28 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
August 29 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
August 31 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
Sept. 2 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
Sept. 3 — Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
Sept. 5 — Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre
Sept. 13 — Huntsville, AL @ Orion Amphitheater
Sept. 14 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
Sept. 16 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Sept. 18 — New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
Sept. 20 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
Sept. 23 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann
Sept. 25 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
Sept. 26 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
Sept. 28 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Oct. 1 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
Oct. 2 — Laval, QC @ Place Bell
Oct. 5 — Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
*Not a Live Nation Date
The 1975 will be taking a break at the end of its Still at Their Very Best Tour, but fans needn’t worry – the band won’t be gone for long. While performing at Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England, Wednesday (Feb. 21), Matty Healy said that new music was just around the corner – and to prove it, he played a snippet of an unreleased song for the crowd.
Speaking about the approaching end of his and his bandmates’ European tour, Healy said, “The truth is, everyone’s kind of afraid that we’re going to go away for ages.”
“We’re working on a new record now,” he continued, sitting behind a piano onstage. “I just need to stop for, like, a minute.”
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The “Somebody Else” singer went on to spontaneously pull out his phone and hold its speaker up to his microphone, then played a few seconds of a vibrant, up-tempo track that began with a countdown. He went on to seemingly share a lyric that related back to his need to take a break after tour, telling fans, “It’s a line actually, what is it … ‘I take a minute when I think I won’t die from stopping.’”
“And that’s really how I’ve felt for a long time,” Healy added. “We really appreciate you guys and thank you so much. We’re going to go away and hopefully make you a good new album. I just don’t know what to do in the meantime, really.”
Billboard has reached out to the band’s reps for more information.
The Manchester band’s stop in Birmingham marked its last show in the U.K. this tour. Healy, guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald and drummer George Daniel will continue performing through Europe for the next month – with dates planned in Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and more – before closing out the Still at Their Very Best trek March 24 with a concert in Amsterdam.
The 1975 has been touring since late 2022 in support of its fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, which debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. The group started with a nine-month run dubbed the At Their Very Best Tour, which lasted through mid-August 2023, before immediately embarking on another sweep of North America and Europe for the Still at Their Very Best Tour.
Watch Healy discuss new music and play part of an unreleased song below.