Hooton Tennis Club share trippy Hanna-Barbera homage "P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L P.I.E.R.R.E." video from debut LP
by Bill Pearis
Liverpool’s Hooton Tennis Club‘s debut album, Highest Point In Cliff Town will be out next week (8/28) in North America and is a fun mix of shambolic influences: part Pavement, part Pastels. Check out a couple tracks from it below.
The album’s standout cut is “P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L P.I.E.R.R.E.” and easily the most fun song by a British band to involve a spelled chorus since Pulp’s “F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A.L.L.E.D. L.O.V.E.” The band have just released a video for it, made by animator Alden Volney, that is an homage to the cheapo ’60s Saturday morning cartoons à la Hanna-Barbera or Filmation. Starring Leopold the Fox and his nemesis Furious Jacques, it starts off in familiar territory, but when their slapstick chase across repeating backgrounds hits a cathedral, thing get deeply, deeply psychedelic. (This never happened to Top Cat.) Watch it till the end, below.
We hear Hooton Tennis Club will be here for CMJ. While no announcement on that has been made yet, they will be touring the UK this fall as well and those dates are listed below.
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Hooton Tennis Club – 2015 UK Tour Dates
Aug 22 – Glanusk, UK – Green man Festival
Aug 31 – Liverpool, UK – LIMF
Sep 5 – Larmer Tree Gardens, UK – End of the Road Festival
Sep 6 – Portmeirion, UK – Festival No.6
Sep 12 – London, UK – On Blackheath Festival
Oct 19 – Bristol, UK – Louisiana
Oct 20 – Guildford, UK – Boiler Room
Oct 21 – Bedford, UK – Esquires
Oct 22 – Stoke, UK – Sugarmill
Oct 23 – Newcastle, UK – Think Tank
Oct 24 – Nottingham, UK – Chameleon
Oct 25 – Tunbridge Wells, UK – Forum
Oct 26 – Southampton, UK – Joiners
Oct 27 – Brighton, UK – Green Door
Oct 28 – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
Oct 29 – London, UK – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
Oct 30 – Manchester, UK – Soup Kitchen
Oct 31 – Glasgow, UK – The Glad Cafe
Nov 1 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Games Room
Nov 2 – York, UK – Duchess
Nov 3 – Hull, UK – Adelphi
Nov 4 – Sheffield, UK – Harley
Nov 7 – Cardiff, UK – SWN
