Chungking "Stay Up Forever" single set for release July 30th

"Stay Up Forever" is the brand new single from Chungking, and it perfectly captures the primetime pop sass and Saturday night swagger of their forthcoming album of the same name. Imagine Blondie and The Banshees meeting the Twisted Scissor Sisters down the discotheque and you are half way there.

You may know Chungking - Brighton based, born and bred - from their rather splendid and critically well-received album 'The Hungry Years' a couple of years back. This isn't very helpful, and you might have to forget everything you thought you already knew, because for their second album Chungking - Sean Hennessey and Jessie Banks - have delivered an almighty beast of a modern pop album.

If 'The Hungry Years' was Chungking flicking through the papers while eating a croissant on Sunday morning, then "Stay Up Forever" is the sound of the band kicking off their shoes and dancing right through Saturday night and beyond, and nowhere is this more apparent than on the album's title track. As an ode to the joys of the never-ending weekend, this glistening pop nugget has few peers, and it has quite rightly been a favourite of the bands' recent stunning live performances.

Recorded almost entirely in a room above 'Mad' Frankie Fraser's pub in Brighton, "Stay Up Forever" takes Chungking in an exciting new direction. But that's not all to have changed since the band's early days, because while they were once 'an item' their partnership is now strictly business, and what remains is a solid affiliation concentrating on shared instincts and an intimate ability to second-guess ideas, melodies and production touches. Inevitably this is, at times, an incredibly intimate album, but one which somehow also manages to just suck you in. "Essentially," Jessie explains, "what we love is song. That's as close as we can come to defining our favourite music. With this album specifically we've tried to make a good pop album." Mission accomplished we reckon.

What the press had to say about Chungking's previous single "Love Is Here To Stay":

"Jessie Banks returns, electro-glammed up to the nines" Sunday Times - Hot Downloads

"a rocket fulled hit of attitudinal glam pop" Mixmag - Tune Of The Month

"a sexy glam romp showered in glitter" DMC Update

The single "Stay Up Forever" is released on 30 July 2007 on Institute Recordings.

The album 'Stay Up Forever' will be released on August 13th.

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