Matt Wellham
After years of photographing and filming the London music scene, Matt’s now based in Sydney, Australia. A lover of the post-punk and alternative movement, he can usually be found in the grassroots venues, camera in one hand and a beer in the other.
Opus Kink are back, with a new single, and title track from their upcoming album ‘The Sweet Goodbye’.
Hot off the heels of April’s ‘The Head Tree’ and lead single ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong’, Opus Kink are delivering their slickest Spaghetti Western single yet.
The cowboy guitars build a steady tension as the expansive French horns sing overhead. Underneath the soviet waltz leads the slow walk out to the saloon shoot-out, with frontman Angus Rogers’ vocals painfully grasping at the final sweet goodbye. It’s an atmospheric listen with that cool, creeping dread always one step away. I can perfectly picture the band taking their last drag, as they gear up for the inevitable shoot-out.
Detailing the origins of the single, Rogers states: “A man sings a lullaby to his love, his heart’s instrument, his medium of choice on the eve of their parting. Tomorrow they will bid one another goodbye, but not before delivering a last message to the world that made them. The big man once said parting is such sweet sorrow…lift the pen, turn the peg, climb the clocktower, take aim, give everything.”
Opus Kink will be rolling into towns across the UK/EU this summer, as they’re primed to hit the festival circuit extensively, before following up with a full UK and European headline tour in the autumn (including their biggest ever headline show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town) as they celebrate the arrival of ‘The Sweet Goodbye’.
Live Dates
22 MAY-Foul Weather Festival, Le Havre (FRA)
23 MAY-Bearded Theory, Derbyshire (UK)
4 JUL-Rochester Castle (w/ The Libertines) (UK)
14 AUG-Les Perséides Festival (FRA)
28 AUG-Olympia, Liverpool (w/ Viagra Boys) (UK)
26 SEP-Float Along Festival, Sheffield (UK)
17 NOV-Bootleg Social, Blackpool (UK)
19 NOV-King Tuts, Glasgow (UK)
20 NOV-Wardrobe, Leeds (UK)
21 NOV-Band On The Wall, Manchester (UK)
22 NOV-Cobalt Studios, Newcastle (UK)
25 NOV-Thekla, Bristol (UK)
26 NOV-O2 Forum Kentish Town, London (UK)
28 NOV-Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (UK)
5 DEC-Point FMR, Paris (FR)
6 DEC-Le Grand Mix, Lille (FR)
8 DEC-Rotown, Rotterdam (NL)
9 DEC-Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
10 DEC-VOLT, Sittard (NL)
11 DEC-Helios 37, Cologne (DE)
13 DEC-Badehaus, Berlin (DE)
14 DEC-Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg (DE)
16 DEC-Botanique, Brussels (BE)
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