Forthcoming EP Supports YoungMinds Charity
On Monday 16 November 2009, Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds will release a six-track download-only EP entitled Curse of the Mirror Wicked. Most of the songs on this EP are very new, written recently and recorded live at Ranscombe Studios last week specifically for this project. Here’s the track list:
- Sunshine Devils
- Devil’s Son
- Boy That Won’t Be Told
- Love Underground
- Of Lovers And Lost Children
- Dead Girls & Daggers
The EP is released in support of YoungMinds, the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional well-being and mental health of children and young people. YoungMinds also provides much-needed support to parents, guardians and professionals involved in the care of children with mental health issues.
This is a subject about which the band feels strongly, based on personal experience. Lupen Crook was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in his late teens and this condition has informed much of his creative output over the past decade. He’ll be discussing this subject in a forthcoming interview on this website.
The songs on Curse of the Mirror Wicked relate directly to Mr Crook’s mental health experiences over the years and to a recent relapse in particular. They’re honest, unflinchingly direct and fiendishly catchy. They support the band’s growing desire to help promote greater awareness of this often awkward subject.
As with the band’s previous release, the EP will be free to download and will contain artwork allowing you to make your own CD copy if required. In return for the music, you’ll be encouraged to donate whatever you can to YoungMinds. All donations go directly to the charity and you’ll be able to see a real-time online total.
Creating and releasing music is a magical process. Each release feels “special”, but this one we’re particularly proud of. The speed at which it has moved from idea to execution, coupled with the sense of purpose behind supporting YoungMinds, has been invigorating. We’re looking forward to sharing it with you soon.
Looking forward to it.
A great idea for a worthy cause. Looking forward to the release, and indeed, the interview. Maybe, if the band believe in such things as fate or destiny, it could be Mr Crooks own kryptonite to his lyrical dynamite! Or even a release from an over-creative mind, like a kettle boiling.
I’m already excited and rubbing my bum!
dAn. x
cant wait for this. nice to see the front room songs make it onto a release. is this electric or acoustic?
i’ll make sure to donate.
hg – i’m gonna have to miss the the beacon/style and winch double header due to being finically fucked this month but i’ll make sure to see you guys soon
Daisy – great, I’m sure you’ll like it.
dAn – that excited? Fuck, I wonder what’ll happen when you actually get to hear it?
Joe – electric or acoustic? Good question… kind of both, and neither
A hybrid, maybe.
Looking forward to it chaps, a worthy cause to boot.
On a seperate, albeit shameless plug note; we are playing a brief set at Poco on Saturday for Dawns Halloween birthday if any of you can make it x
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that cover would make a fucking good poster.
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big it up for the charity and cause (i’ll defo donate ;P) and that teaser from the up&coming e.p, “devil’s son” is made even more glorious in the band version
you never fail to amaze.
hope you are all well n all that jazz
peace n strums dxxx
i feel very weird saying so , but i always felt like some of your tunes were written in aid of protecting me from my own mental illnesses . i mean this truthfully , that they were very helpful to me in some terrible times .
this makes me happy .