Having already packed out the summer with festival appearances and an incredible support slot with Metallica, Irish rock band Fangclub head out on their headline UK and EU tour. Fangclub’s second album, Vulture Culture, released to critical acclaim in July on Vertigo Records, was recorded during an isolated, month-long stint at Giant Wafer Studios in Wales with producer duo Alex Loring & Tom Andrews, who tested and toyed with the band. “We always work best in isolation,” says drummer Dara Coleman. “I jokingly went into it saying ‘I’m willing to lose my mind for this album’. Around day twenty, things started getting weird - I started getting paranoid that everyone in the house hated me.”

“There was a real atmosphere of obsession from everybody,” adds Vocalist/Guitarist Steven King. “It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever done. The theme of the album became violent, there’s a lot of violence in the tone of it, towards yourself and other things.”

Steven forced himself to write his lyrics at the last minute, to ensure they were as raw and honest as possible. “It comes off as a heavier record because I didn’t have time to hide the real stories. It really captured something. The pressure added to it, like ‘that line’s pretty revealing but I have to put it down, I don’t have anything else’. We could’ve gone in and made another debut, this punk thing with loads of hooks, or I could back myself into a corner. It’s a strangely revealing and personal album but I don’t feel afraid to share it because it’s almost as if I’ve expelled the things.”

Be sure to catch Fangclub live at one of the following shows:

October

2nd   Liverpool, Zanzibar

3rd    Leeds, Hyde Park Book Club

5th    Glasgow, The Attic Bar

6th    Newcastle, Riverside 2

7th    Edinburgh, The Mash House

9th    Hull, Adelphi

10th   Manchester, Night People

11th   Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge

12th   Guilford, Boileroom

13th   Bristol, Crofters Rights

14th   Exeter, Cavern Club

16th   London, Camden Assembly

17th   St. Albans, The Horn

19th   Brighton, The Green Door Store

December

13th   Dublin, Button Factory

On December 20, 2012 at 20:12, friends Arttu and Jere waited for the end of the world at their mutual friend’s place. The evening changed to night, and then to the next day. At least the end of the world didn't come, so the two decided to set up a band. Initially, they would play cover songs from hip-hop to schlager, from pop to rock, and perform some gigs to study the art of playing together.

Suddenly it became clear that they would like to make their own music. The band's name was changed, bass players rotated, and the band's sound began to form. The current line-up stabilized at the beginning of 2019, with 10 written pieces in the pile. Segmentia relaesed their first song ‘Silver Lining’ in April followed quickly by ‘No Resistance’.

“The band is like a family. We share joys and sorrows together. These things are also meant to be shared with other people through music. We enjoy playing music, but also the friendship that we have formed. We believe that we will be able to convey our energy and our closeness through our music. Therefore, with our music, we want to give listeners a unique experience not only in terms of voice, but also visually. We hope that they can feel themselves to be part of our music.

We all stand 100.7% behind our band in composition, arrangement, production, and of course, performance. We've given it all, and we've noticed that all of us learn and share our experiences with our environments. Suitably, we are selfish and we live in a so-called “bubble” where this is the most important thing in our lives right now. We can best use our time to develop in each of our instruments and thus, develop as a band. That is why we have no limits on what kind of music we can do. Based on the tracks, the music could be described as a combination of seven musical styles/segments (pop, rock, punk, metal, soul, disco, hip-hop), but in short, it may be some symphonic, alternative pop rock flavored with electronic sounds. Everyone can call this pop metal. We sound differently from other bands so that we have our own, self-created sound that we call the “7egment” sound. It is present in our every song in larger or smaller ways so that the sound is like salt and pepper in food. And as food is a prerequisite for life, we cannot live without music.”

01. Ivory Tower

02. No Resistance

03. Silver Lining

04. Shanghai

05. Remedy

06. Dance