Red Eye is centred on the music and lyrics of Trevor Perfect and features guest vocalists. Trevor plays all the instruments, slowly building up tracks and adding each instrument, layer by layer, until the song is complete. Red Eye aim to address the lack of protest songs that exists today, compared with the rich tapestry of protest songs and singers of the past. inspired by Heaven 17’s ‘(We Don’t Need No) Fascist Groove Thing’, the challenge was on to make a far more up beat track compared with the previous Red Eye songs/melancholic ballads. The result was ‘Get Up And Fight’.

“Having written the song, finding vocalists who could perform the chants and inject some real passion and enthusiasm into the song, was never going to be easy. Then I saw the Happy Freuds playing a gig in Spain and was totally impressed. A young guys multinational rock band from Javea, Spain, they produce analogue and authentic style rock. These are "one take" recordings, whether live in the studio or from gigs. Music is intentionally produced with a minimum of overdubs or fixes.

The final words are from the poem, The Masque of Anarchy, which is a political poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelly in 1819 following the Peterloo massacre of that year. It is perhaps the first call for freedom and perhaps the first modern statement/poem of the principle of nonviolent resistance: “Rise like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew, which in sleep had fallen on you: ye are many – they are few”.

Louise Distras has returned, announcing the forthcoming release of her Street Revolution EP and sharing the video for the brand-new rabble rousing title track, which is out now. Louise describes the track as, “A rallying anthem for the new underground movement of working class kids, rising together through music to fight for their future”. Street Revolution stands on the shoulders of giants with a new field of vision, combining powerful and direct messages with addictive righteous hooks demonstrating why Louise Distras is at the forefront of the UK’s new rising punk scene.

The EP follows her 2015 debut Dreams From The Factory Floor, which gained praise from Kerrang! who said “Louise Distras is the most exciting voice in UK punk right now!" The word quickly spread to America and led the firebrand singer to Oakland, CA, where she recently recorded her second album produced by Steve Whale of The Business and Ross Petersen (Bruce Springsteen, Goo Goo Dolls). Having already performed at Glastonbury and supporting the likes of Billy Bragg, Buzzcocks, The Damned and Stiff Little Fingers, Louise embarks on a UK tour in January 2019 with US tour dates also on the horizon.

The Street Revolution tour goes hand in hand with Musicians Against Homelessness to raise funds for the charity, Crisis. With the issue of teen homelessness very much in the public eye at the moment, particularly with the screening this week of the documentary Stacey Dooley: The Young And Homeless for Children In Need on BBC 1, Louise is committed to making a difference.

Having herself been homeless in her teenage years, living with strangers in dangerous situations and being taken advantage of as a vulnerable young person, her first hand experience of the transformative power of music in helping her rebuild her life informs her work, and inspires her passion to work with Musicians Against Homelessness. Louise says, “Having run away from home as a teenager, MAH is cause close to my heart. We all walk our own warzone path which is only one step away from a situation we can't control. Music saves lives and supporting Crisis is my way of giving something back."

STREET REVOLUTION UK TOUR DATES

17th Jan – Cambridge, Portland Arms

18th Jan – Nottingham, The Bodega

23rd Jan – Leeds, Key Club

24th Jan – Newcastle, Cluny 2

25th Jan – Guildford, The Boileroom

26th Jan – Norwich, Waterfront Studio

27th Jan – Portsmouth, Edge of The Wedge

29th Jan – Leicester, Firebug

31st Jan - Bishops Stortford, The Half Moon

2nd Feb – Wolverhampton, Slade Rooms