Shame – ‘Quiet Life’

Photo Credit: Jamie Wdziekonski

Shame have shared new single ‘Quiet Life’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Cutthroat’ – an album ‘about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let’s face it, there’s a lot of them around right now’ – on 5 September via Dead Oceans.

‘Quiet Life’ is a rockabilly punk song about someone who’s in a toxic relationship that they just can’t break free from: ‘I never thought I’d want a quiet life until you came my way’; ‘I’m a coward, don’t you know it?’. Think of a more freewheelin’ Bright Eyes mixed with The Cramps and you’re halfway there. The song also has a biting wit that sums up the person’s conundrum: ‘Before you came around, I had a lot more laughs and a lot more pounds’

SHAME TOUR DATES

Sun. Sept. 28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale

Mon. Sept. 29 – Antwerp, BE @ TRIX

Tue. Sept. 30 – Cologne, DE Gebäude 9

Thu. Oct. 2 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg

Fri. Oct. 3 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje 

Sat. Oct. 4 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow

Mon. Oct. 6 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumphuset

Tue. Oct. 7- Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret AS

Wed. Oct. 8 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan

Fri. Oct. 10 – Helsinki, FI @ Korjaamo

Sat. Oct. 11 – Tallinn, EE @ Paavli Kultuurivabrik

Sun. Oct. 12 – Riga, LV @ Palladium

Tue. Oct. 14 – Vilnius, LT @ Kultūra

Wed. Oct. 15 – Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO

Thu. Oct. 16 – Berlin, DE @ SO36

Sat. Oct. 18 – Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory

Sun. Oct. 19 – Bratislava Nov. a, SK @ CverNov. ka

Mon. Oct. 20 – Vienna, AU @ Chelsea

Wed. Oct. 22 – Zagreb, HR @ Club Mochvara

Thu. Oct. 23 – Belgrade, RS @ Zappa Baza

Fri. Oct. 24 – Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5

Sun. Oct. 26 – Istanbul, TK @ Blind

Tue. Oct. 28 – Bucharest, RO Control

Wed. Oct. 29 – Cluj, RO @ Atelier

Thu. Oct. 30 – Budapest, HU A38 

Fri. Oct. 31 – Munich, DE @ Strom

Sun. Nov. 2 – Zurich, CH @ Plaza

Mon. Nov. 3 – Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali 

Wed. Nov. 5 – Lyon, FR @ L’Epicerie Moderne

Thu. Nov. 6 – Reims, FR @ La Cartonnerie

Fri. Nov. 7 – Lille, FR @ L’Aeronef

Sun. Nov. 9 – Southampton, UK @ 1865

Mon. Nov. 10 – Leeds, UK @ Project House

Wed. Nov. 12 – Dublin, IE @ National Stadium

Thu. Nov. 13 – Cork, IE @ Cypress Avenue

Sat. Nov. 15 – Manchester, UK @ New Century

Sun. Nov. 16 – Glasgow, UK @ The Garage

Mon. Nov. 17 – Bristol, UK @ SWX 

Wed. Nov. 19 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk

Thu. Nov. 20 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

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Thu. Jan. 15 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar

Fri. Jan. 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church

Sat. Jan. 17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw

Mon. Jan. 19 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

Tue-Jan. 20 – Portsmouth, NH @ The Press Room

Wed. Jan. 21 – Montreal, QC @ Club Soda

Fri. Jan. 23 – Toronto, ON @Phoenix Concert Theatre

Sat. Jan. 24 – Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch

Sun. Jan. 25 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

Tue. Jan. 27 – St. Paul, MN @Turf Club

Thu. Jan. 29 – Oklahoma City, OK @Beer City Music Hall

Fri. Jan. 30 – Dallas, TX @Sons of Hermann Hall

Sat. Jan. 31 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk

Tue. Feb. 3 – Tucson, AZ @ La Rosa

Thu. Feb. 5 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah

Fri. Feb. 6 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room

Sat. Feb. 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco Theatre

Tue. Feb. 10 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

Thu. Feb. 12 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

Fri. Feb. 13 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos

Sat. Feb. 14 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl

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