COACH PARTY
Coach Party have spent the past year honing their explosive live show, playing over 120 shows in total. Particular live highlights included the 100k capacity Stade de France supporting Indochine, a headline tour which included London's Oslo, supporting The Mysterines in the spring, and Wet Leg on their sold out winter tour across the UK and Europe.
Coach Party shared their brand new single ‘Micro Aggression’ (“[a] fiery anti-banter anthem” - The Observer) on Chess Club Records earlier this month. The band also revealed ‘Micro Aggression’s powerful accompanying music video co-directed by previous collaborators Daniel Broadley (who directed previous Coach Party videos for ‘FLAG’ and ‘Weird Me Out’) and Martyna Bannister. ‘Micro Aggression’ received its very first airplay from Steve Lamacq on his BBC Radio 6 Music teatime show and has gone on to receive spins from Amy Lamé at the station as well as Clara Amfo, Jack Saunders and Gemma Bradley at BBC Radio 1, John Kennedy at Radio X, and Danielle Perry at Absolute.
Coach Party grew up on the Isle of Wight and eventually crossed paths as avid music fans - working in venues, playing together and meeting at the same gigs. The band eventually formed after Jess and guitarist Steph Norris decided to start playing music together; quickly realizing that there was something special about the pair’s songwriting and bond, guitarist Joe Perry and drummer Guy Page soon joined the ranks. Musically, Coach Party are inspired by a broad palate of artists, but always find themselves drawn back to Nirvana, Sonic Youth and The Strokes, and contemporary artists like Wolf Alice, The Big Moon and Tame Impala. Ultimately though, Coach Party’s primary drive to write and perform music comes from “the often entertaining struggle of real life.”