Long Distance Runner
- bizzarre
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Introducing London post-rock instrumentalists Long Distance Runner, they share voyaging debut single ‘Zero’ & announce UK support tour with Swervedriver this Autumn.
Plotting the steepling architectures of post-rock and film score against the melancholic sensitivities of Midwest Emo, for the pulsing-sprawling-questing life of a Long Distance Runner track, there literally are no words. Emotionally rich with the dramas of musical storytelling, their extended compositions are as urgent as they are tantalisingly undefined.
Formed in West London, and featuring members of Dead Dad’s Club and Mandrake Handshake, the band have become regulars on the capital’s grassroots live-circuit across the past 18 months off the back of their enchanting and immersive live
spectacles.
Selling out a headline at The George Tavern for their 6th ever gig, they’ve hosted a month-long residency at Shoreditch’s Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, performed showcases for Rough Trade and So Young Magazine, also sharing stages with ladylike,
Spanish Horses and Roscoe Roscoe.
Long Distance Runner will tour the UK for the first time, opening for Oxford alt-rock heroes Swervedriver this autumn.
Recorded with Tom Kellett (Moreish Idols, Pearl2), debut single (and live favourite)
‘Zero’ is the band’s mission statement. A tumbling 6-minute improvisation that surges forward in a relentless haze of chaos and euphoria, it’s a track that takes on a different shape each time it’s performed, capturing the exploratory, shape-shifting essence at the heart of Long Distance Runner.
Speaking more about the track, guitarist Ned Prevezer says:
“‘Zero’ emerged very accidentally. We were playing our first ever show, and needed to fill up the set time, so we decided to improvise over a riff James had been playing with in rehearsal.
We ended up playing it at every show and it’s become a sort of fan favourite. It’s heavy and chaotic, but also euphoric, and it’s new every time we play it because there’s still no set ‘structure’.
In that way, it’s probably the best distillation of us as a band.’”
Live dates
23 OCT // London, Village Underground*
24 OCT // London, Village Underground*
27 OCT // Bristol, The Fleece*
29 OCT // Oxford, O2 Academy2*
30 OCT // Leeds, Brudenell Social Club*
2 Nov // Glasgow, Òran Mór*i
* Supporting Swervedriver
