WOLF CLUB LUNAR SOCIETY

Wolf Club Lunar Society are:
Antony J Flynn – guitar, vocals, bass, organ
Sam Johnson – Drums

release show:
November 3rd, 2023 Beehive in Bow, London, UK

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London based alt-rock duo Wolf Club Lunar Society are gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated brand new single ‘Sing It Again’.
The track is a frantically filthy concoction of dirty raw garage rock.
Exacting vivid imagery against technicoloured monochrome riffs.
Talking about the track the band says its,
“a frightfully illuminating tale of London life told in four trashy minutes against the backdrop of dirty riffs, pounding drums and frantic vocals that echo the soiled insanity of city living. It will have your lugholes standing to attention the instant the screaming murderous feedback slams out of your speakers.”
“We got in a small room together with Southampton based producer Ollie Thomas (Switches/Flash Fiktion/Future Sound Cartel/O.C Thomas & States of Exotica) and turned the lights off. ‘Sing it Again’ was the product of that session, recorded at The Nest in Forest Hill, south east London.”
‘Sing is Again’ is slated for release on 27th October 2023.
South-east London’s Wolf Club Lunar Society features Antony J Flynn (guitar/vocals/bass/organ) and Sam Johnson (drums).
Flynn had previously been frontman with post-punk outfit The Neon Graveyard.
“I left the Graveyard as I had a bunch of songs written that the other guys in the band would have hated, so decided a different approach was probably needed. I originally recruited my good mate Stevie Nash on drums who was ridiculously talented but spectacularly unreliable.”
True to form, Nash disappeared shortly after the pair had recorded the band’s first demo ‘Five Minutes Late’.
“His whereabouts are still unknown”,
according to Flynn,
“Although I bumped into a mutual friend a few weeks after he went missing who told me Steve had gone to live by the seaside to work on an oyster farm as he’d had enough of Brockley.”
Flynn, undeterred, put up an ad on the local rehearsal studios notice board which Johnson duly answered.
“It’s your classic drummer-meets-singer story”,
adds Johnson.
In the weeks that followed the duo crafted a riotously exciting sound infusing garage, psych and blues, coated in the spirit of punk.
Flynn’s raw, primitive guitar and vocal style accompanied by Johnson’s raucous, unapologetic drums tips its hat to the chaos of the Stooges, Sonics and Gun Club, but remained very much entrenched in the present.
Before their first live show at New Cross’s Amersham Arms in April 2013, the boys were invited to guest and perform on Nikki Brooks’ (Sid Sings/The Jujubes) ‘House Rent Boogie’ show.
It was at this time the pair asked Pete Sim (The Theme/The Jujubes) to join them on the show with harmonica and slide guitar.
Sim later became a more permanent collaborative fixture for both the band’s live shows and recordings.
The band also brought in the violin skills of Johnson’s childhood friend, Amy Louise.
Nikki Introduced the band to producer Ollie Thomas (Switches/Flash Fiktion/Future Sound Cartel/O.C Thomas & States of Exotica), who the band teamed up with to record at Big Box Studios in Elephant & Castle.
The results were WCLS’ first releases ‘One More Line’ and ‘Baby Boy’.
Followed up by ‘9 O’Clock’ and ‘You Lose Your Fight’, the tracks were met with numerous positive reviews and radio airplay…
Over the next few months and beyond, Wolf Club Lunar Society gained reputation on London’s gig circuit for their high octane, energetic live performances playing to packed out rowdy crowds at Camden’s Dublin Castle, Kilburn’s The Good Ship, and Denmark Street’s The 12 Bar, notably supporting the likes of The Rain Band and sharing the stage with The Pearl Hearts and The First at The John Peel Centre in Stowmarket.
In late 2019, the band began new plans, starting with an impromptu show at The Dublin Castle.
Flynn and Johnson have since been working on new material and ventured back into the studio, once again teaming up with Ollie Thomas to record four brand new songs due to be released.