The Young Knives - Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) Video

The Young Knives
Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer)
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The Young Knives continue their upward conquest for unlikely pop stardom with their new, 'Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer)'.

Opening with the most English of vignettes; "Hot summer / What a bummer", Weekends and Bleak Days is an ode to that most important of English summer pastimes - skiving off work. Overflowing with classic Young Knives lyrics ("Saccharine jollies and other such terrible ways") and the catchiest chorus this side of 'Alright', it ticks all the boxes of being a bona fide summer hit.

On paper, the Knives should certainly not be defined as being fashionable. Sporting NHS spectacles, ill-fitting charity shop suits and haircuts more fitting of retired World War Two pilots, The Young Knives quite frankly look odd… they live in the countryside, like gardening and stand out from their contemporaries by a country mile. So why on earth are Leicestershire's finest, increasingly deemed so fashionable? The Young Knives are outsiders, they are the new anti-heroes: but most importantly, they deliver incredible, classic British pop songs.

On the cusp of mainstream success, The Young Knives are a triumph for the little man, a victory of substance over style.

The single will hit the shops just two weeks before the much-anticipated debut album 'Voices of Animals and Men', due August 28th.

Catch The Young Knives Live:
21 Jul Hoggas Music Festival
22 Jul Fjellparkfestivalen
23 Jul Truck Festival
29 Jul Leeds City Centre Festival
6 Aug Electric Festival
6 Aug Electric Festival
11 Aug Belladrum Festival
12 Aug Summer Sundae Festival
17 Aug Marley Park Supporting Faithless
19 Aug V Festival
20 Aug V Festival
26 Aug Get Loaded Festival Coopers Field
27 Aug Get Loaded Festival - Clapham Common
10 Sep Bestival

Other Information:
Label: Transgressive Records
Single Release: August 14th 2006
Album Release: August 28th 2006