The Milk have announced plans for a new single from their acclaimed UK Top 20 charting debut album Tales From The Thames Delta.
The band will release "(All I Wanted Was) Danger" on November 12, 2012 through Sign Of The Times / Sony.
This coincides with their biggest UK tour to date, which will include a headline show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on November 29.
The news follows an extensive period of activity across the summer, including a sell-out performance at London’s Scala and a host of UK festivals (Isle of Wight, Ibiza Rocks, V Festival, Lounge on The Farm).
The Milk are lead vocalist Rick Nunn, brothers Mitch and Luke Ayling, and Dan Le Gresley. Together, their sound is heavily soul-influenced, but it’s a modern, muscular take on the classics, which has assimilated the passion of rock ‘n’ roll and the fluidity of hip hop. Having gigged since school, The Milk were raised and presently still live in Wickford: an anonymous small town in Essex, where whole days and nights can be spent on the Southend sea-front, and the neighbouring, wealthier areas still house the cast of TOWIE.
The band formed simply because, as Mitch puts it, “there was just nothing else to do in our town.” Rather than the sound they have since honed, the boys spent two years at school as a somewhat reckless Punk outfit - but as the prospect of university and day-jobs entered the horizon, so The Milk split up, and went to work. The turning point came when their mutual mate (and now manager) opened a soul night in Southend’s Pink Toothbrush. Wigan Casino this was not, but knowing that The Milk members all had record collections bursting with Stax, Chess and Motown, the boys were recruited to DJ. Here, The Milk hit an artistic breakthrough: they had to get the band back together.
"(All I Wanted Was) Danger" was conceived during this period, and proved to be the turning point in The Milk’s musical and professional lives. Days were spent working a series of stop-gap jobs (builder, teacher in a special needs school, pharmaceutical salesman). Nights, however, were dedicated to channelling this frustration into new songs and sounds: all of which were - and often still are - written and recorded in their garden shed.
The first fruit of this overhaul was "(All I Wanted Was) Danger", which became as much a motto to live by as a killer tune (with two choruses). A thrilling burst of soulful pop, ‘Danger’ feels influenced by a love of The Style Council, the restless energy of ‘Born To Run’, and the call-and-response choruses of The Vandellas or The Ronettes. It is an immediate and immersive mix: classic, contemporary and expertly-crafted. While they’ve found the danger they were after, you sense The Milk are only just getting started.
The Milk - (All I Wanted Was) Danger video:
“Exceptional...A vision of life on the margins delivered with white knuckle intensity” - Q Magazine ****
“One of the great debut albums of the century” - Daily Mirror
"The Milk are capable of producing music unlike any other new band in the country...a refreshing, inventive introductory document" - Clash
“Moving hearts is what this lot do...the hollering energy [is] hard to resist” - Uncut
The Milk November 2012 UK tour dates:
(Dates and information subject to change.)
November 15 Brighton Coalition
November 16 Bristol Thekla
November 17 Sheffield Leadmill
November 18 Liverpool O2 Academy2
November 19 Manchester Club Academy
November 21 Glasgow Oran Mor
November 22 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
November 23 Leeds Cockpit
November 25 Birmingham O2 Academy2
November 26 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
November 28 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
November 29 London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
November 30 Oxford Academy 2
For the latest tour dates, information, music and more please go to:
The Milk Official Website