While currently headlining the DORK Hype List tour, WELLY have also shared the latest single from their debut album Big In The Suburbs, to be released on 21 March. The single, The Roundabout Racehorse, comes with another characteristically humorous video featuring Welly in Jockey Silks accompanied by a Pantomime Horse.
Writing while in the damp, smelly basement of Welly’s university digs, The Roundabout Racehorse was born in just 15 minutes. It encapsulates the strangeness of returning home, being surrounded by people who never left and consequently not quite being able to properly escape who you are or how people perceive you.
Welly explains: “The Roundabout Racehorse is about going back home and bumping into characters from your past that make you feel either good about yourself or, conversely, that you’ve done nothing in life. Going home is a checkpoint – YOU feel the same, but everyone comments on how different you are from last time they saw you. You can get tethered to this idea of your past self, unable to escape that first girlfriend or that terrible haircut from Year 8. You wish you could feel like a Roman gladiator making his ‘Nostos’ but, in fact, you end up coming home with a hangover and the cat’s claw marks on your jeans. You can be cocky, yeah – but to what end? The fattest fish in the smallest pond? What good is being Big, if you’re Big in the Suburbs?”
Speaking about the video, he says: “We worked with our school friend and tolerant confidant Harvey Payne, as we have for all our videos, filming Joe’s Honda Jazz around our hometown, trying to rip off The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’ video. Give it a watch. We go into McDonald’s in Jockey Silks and a Pantomime Horse costume.”
BIG IN THE SUBURBS | TRACK LIST
• Big In The Suburbs
• Home For The Weekend
• Knock And Run
• Deere John
• Soak Up The Culture
• Shopping
• Cul-De-Sac
• Pampas Grass
• The Roundabout Racehorse
• Under Milk Wood
• Family Photos
• Country Cousins
• It’s Not Like This In France
• Life Is A Motorway
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