Desperate Measures Ltd Edition 10″ RINSED

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DESPERATE MEASURES

RINSED

EARS157            5060446073186             10″Vinyl        6^th August 2021

1. Scars & Memories
2. The Rich-Tual
3. Flowers at Your Door
4. Lost Angels
5. No Lip
6. Lost Angels (Orig 1988 demo)

Video for ‘The Rich-Tual’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bls8pwPVHrE&feature=youtu.be

Written and recorded in-between lockdowns in 2020, New Zealand born but London based punks Desperate Measures managed to escape the COVID-19 madness for some cathartic writing and recording sessions and the first taste of those gatherings arrives today with ‘The Rich-Tual’, a bullet of classic punk reloaded for the pandemic generation that rips from the speakers screaming ‘fuck the system, before the system fucks you!’ Recorded at The Brook Studios in South London by Andy Brook, ‘The Rich-Tual’ is taken from a forthcoming mini-album that will be released this summer by British rock n’ roll label Easy Action (home to and in good company with Iggy and the Stooges, The Damned’s Brian James, Marc Bolan and T-Rex and Lords Of The New Church). The video, assembled by Craig Temple, perfectly captures the intensity of ‘The Rich-Tual’

Live Performances :

Futurama- Liverpool

HRH PUNK festival-Sheffield Academy

https://www.citizenticket.co.uk/events/banfest-banstead-cricket-club/banfest-2021/

JULY 30TH LONDON HOPE AND ANCHOR (Album launch with Vibrators’ Knox and Backstreet Abortions)

Desperate Measures with The Professionals dates as follows:

October 2021                                            

Wed 13th Oct    Tunbridge Wells              Forum

Thur 14th Oct    Oxford  o2 Academy

Fri 15th Oct       Swansea             Sin City

Mon 18th Oct    Glasgow             King Tuts

Tue 19th Oct     Newcastle          The Cluny

Wed 20th Oct    Nottingham       Bodega

Thur 21st Oct    Birmingham       Castle Falcon

Fri 22nd Oct       Liverpool            EBGB’s

Sun        24th      Oct        London The Garage

Mon      25th      Oct        Bristol   The Exchange

Tue        26th      Oct        Leeds    Brudenell Social

Wed      27th      Oct        Milton Keynes   Craufurd Arms

Thur      28th      Oct        Chester Live Rooms

ABOUT DESPERATE MEASURES:

• New Zealand Punk Rock since 1981
• New mini-album ‘Rinsed’ due for release August 2021 via Easy Action on 10” vinyl, CD and download.
• Album launch gig confirmed at legendary London venue the Hope and Anchor on July 30th
• Support to The Professionals confirmed for their 13-date October 2021 tour

DESPERATE MEASURES, the London/New Zealand punk and rock four piece will release their brand-new mini album ‘Rinsed’ on Easy Action records in August 2021. Containing six tracks of hard-hitting punk with a big helping of rock n’ roll and available on 10” vinyl, CD and download, these recordings feature the new line-up of founder Eugene Butcher, former Glitterati and current Rich Ragany and The Digressions/Hollywood Brats guitarist Gaff, Ricky McGuire (U.K SUBS, The Men They Couldn’t Hang), and former K-Line/Done Lying Down drummer James Sherry.

Written over lockdown and with influences including the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols and Guns N’ Roses, song titles include ‘Scars and Memories’, ‘Flowers at Your Door’ and first single ‘The Rich-Tual’  as well as a cover of the Dave Berry/Sex Pistols ‘No Lip’.

With DM’s last gig before the pandemic way back in Feb 2020, the band are excited to announce a 13-date tour with The Professionals and a headlining album launch show at London’s legendary Hope and Anchor on July 30th.

“”To go on tour with the Professionals is a dream come true! We were totally into their album ‘I Didn’t See It Coming’ back in the day,” states frontman Eugene Butcher. “This is going to be an explosive double bill!”

Desperate Measures formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1981. It was a violent city, and a violent time, but the city had a thriving music scene and DM’s quickly found a following with their punk and post punk sound influenced by the likes of the Stooges and Killing Joke. Highlights for the band in their brief existence down under were playing the after-show party for the Clash where Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon met the band, and playing New Zealand’s most famous punk festival, ‘Golden Showers’ in Wellington.

Desperate Measures released one sought after 7inch, the ‘1984’ E.P that now sells for upwards of $100 and a live album before splitting in 1983, when singer Eugene Butcher moved to the U.K. After a couple of well received reformation shows back home in New Zealand supporting the U.K Subs and Peter and the Test Tube Babies in 2009 and 2010, fast forward, and 40 years after they formed, a new line-up featuring sole original member, Eugene Butcher, have been fully active on the UK music scene, sharing stages with the likes of U.K. Subs, The Pack, Cockney Rejects, Subhumans, Nashville Pussy, alongside appearances at festivals such as Rebellion, Camden Rocks and HRH Punk.

Find Desperate Measures online at facebook.com/desperatemeasuresnz

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