Indie four-piece The Lathums have just released an absorbingly surreal, widescreen music video for their EP-track, ‘Foolish Parley’.
Cut to a distinctly conceptual, arthouse feel in deep black and white and interspersed with live footage from beneath the baroque splendour of Blackpool Tower, the Wigan band reveal their theatrical poise with brooding, poker-faced performances in full, rain-smudged make-up.
Revealed as the first ICM Ones To Watch 2020 artist in the 31-day series, The Lathums are already on their way to making this year their best yet.
The growling, rumbling ‘Foolish Parley’ featured on the band’s Ghost EP in October and now is followed up with a video directed by James Slater.
It finds the barely twenty-somethings nudged into noir and embracing the surreal, losing all sense of time and reality along the rugged, sea-lashed, British shoreline.
Inspired by traditional customs out at sea, in which warring factions would set down arms to negotiate, Foolish Parley’s lyrics open a door once more into the old soul of bookish front man and lyricist, Alex Moore.
Of the track, he says: “Being honest, this just came to me out of nowhere, I can’t pinpoint from exactly where or why.
“Like a lot of songs, it was something that flowed freely, working first time and, sometimes, it takes no more thinking about than that.”
The Lathums look forward to a brighter 2021 filled with already sold out, landmark shows including dates at Manchester’s O2 Ritz and London’s Electric Ballroom, celebratory festival appearances, including Sound City and Neighbourhood Weekender, and their first, ever European dates.
All currently confirmed UK and Ireland dates for The Lathums are:
- Thu 22 Apr Hull, Social – SOLD OUT
- Fri 23 Apr Manchester, O2 Ritz – SOLD OUT
- Sat 24 Apr Stoke, Sugarmill – SOLD OUT
- Thu 29 Apr Glasgow, Garage – SOLD OUT
- Fri 30 April Sheffield, University Foundry – SOLD OUT
- Sat 1 May Newcastle, Riverside – SOLD OUT
- Sun 2 May Liverpool, Sound City
- Tue 4 May Nottingham, Rescue Rooms – SOLD OUT
- Wed 5 May Birmingham, O2 Institute 2 – SOLD OUT
- Fri 7 May Leicester, O2 Academy 2 – SOLD OUT
- Sat 8 May Leeds, Beckett Students Union – SOLD OUT
- Sun 9 May Cardiff, Globe – SOLD OUT
- Tue 11 May Oxford, O2 Academy 2 – SOLD OUT
- Wed 12 May London, Electric Ballroom – SOLD OUT
- Sun 30 May Warrington, Neighbourhood Weekender
- Tue 1 June Edinburgh, Liquid Room – SOLD OUT
- Thu 3 June Dunfermline, PJ Molly’s – SOLD OUT
- Fri 4 June Dundee, Fat Sam’s
- Sat 5 June Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree
- Tue 8 June Belfast, Limelight 2
- Thu 10 June Dublin, The Academy
- Fri 11 June Galway, The Róisín Dubh
- Sat 12 June Limerick, Dolan’s Warehouse
For ticket information, keep an eye on their social media channels @thelathums.
