Cabbage have released their new four-track EP ‘Uber Capitalist Death Trade’ on James Skelly’s Skeleton Key Records, the original home of Blossoms and home of She Drew the Gun. The EP is the first of three upcoming EP releases by the hotly-tipped Manchester five-piece, with the second EP due next month. ‘Uber Capitalist Death Trade EP’ follows the recent single ‘Dinner Lady’, released as a 7 inch on Tim Burgess’s Ogenesis Recordings.
Cabbage are Lee Broadbent (lead vocals), Joe Martin (vocals, guitar), Eoghan Clifford (guitar), Stephen Evans (bass) and Asa Morley (drums). With “the black humour of Buzzcocks, the surrealism of Happy Mondays, the haircuts of various Stone Roses” (i-D), Cabbage are a semi-controlled riot of tunes, energy and opinions. NME described their debut EP ‘Le Chou’ as “five twisted post-punk slinkers stuffed with explicit lyrics and Jack White levels of rage” while The Guardian suggested that “they’re hell-bent on filling the current vacancy for rock’n’roll commentator on Brexit Britain.”
Write Cabbage of the new EP:
“Exhibit A. Uber Capitalist Death Trade is the first of its set. It pays homage to the tragedy of British soldiers being brainwashed and utilised, then either killed or spat out by the same vicious machine it salutes. It pays tribute to human nature being unforgiving and the pain of the vacuous socially cleansed cities verses the ghostly fallen towns of Britain. It prays to the gargantuan presence that is the United States Of Freedom and it begs to be punished by the sweet sweet pseudo tales of Manchester. Read a book, Steal from a billionaire, listen to Cabbage. Exhibit A.”
Cabbage – who last night played The Forum in support of Blossoms and who have previously supported YAK and The Fall – will embark on an extensive UK tour throughout October and November, including a sold-out hometown show at Manchester’s Ruby Lounge on 28th October.
Cabbage – Headline UK Tour
October
14th Leicester The Cookie
15th Oxford The Bullingdon
20th Hull New Adelphi Club
21st Doncaster Social Bar
22nd Preston The Ferret
27th Bournemouth 60 Million Postcards
28th Manchester Ruby Lounge
29th Coventry Kasbah
November
3rd Derby The Venue
4th Liverpool Magnet
5th Bolton Blind Tiger
10th Reading Purple Turtle
11th Brighton Green Store Door
12th Plymouth Underground
17th Glasgow Stereo
18th Stockton on Tees Ku
19th Stoke Sugarmill
Fantastic EP. Dead Kennedys for the 21st century.