{"id":37124,"date":"2019-02-14T15:28:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T04:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=37124"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T04:28:40","slug":"stereophonics-unveil-brand-new-song-chaos-from-the-top-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2019\/02\/stereophonics-unveil-brand-new-song-chaos-from-the-top-down\/","title":{"rendered":"STEREOPHONICS Unveil Brand New Song ‘Chaos From The Top Down’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Stereophonics<\/strong>\u00a0bring a surprise release with their brand-new song,\u00a0Chaos from the Top Down<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0today. The official video for the single is also available now. Listen\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of the song, Kelly says –\u00a0\u201cChaos from the Top Down\u2019 is a song sung from the imagined perspective of a fifteen-year-old boy laying in the road after being shot. \u00a0He\u2019s reflecting in his time of dying about his life and the choices he made through the lack of options and opportunities he felt he had in today\u2019s Britain. \u00a0It also touches on the tags and labels that have been stuck on him. \u00a0The stereotypes\u00a0and clich\u00e9s that were\u00a0placed on\u00a0him. \u00a0It\u2019s based on a true story that happened just outside my street. \u00a0It\u2019s happening everywhere. \u00a0I\u2019ve always written\u00a0about\u00a0what\u2019s going on around me or within me since \u2018Local Boy In The Photograph in 1996. It doesn\u2019t fit into the style of the album I\u2019m writing and the current political climate inspired me to release it now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The track was produced by\u00a0Kelly Jones<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0George Drakoulias<\/strong>\u00a0at The Distillery studios and mixed by\u00a0Al Clay\u00a0<\/strong>at Metropolis studios.<\/p>\n

Discussing the track further Kelly says –\u00a0\u201cI remember being that age\u00a0– vividly. \u00a0Making choices in a working-class mining town, some right some very wrong. \u00a0I found inspiration in a boxing gym, mixing with older guys\u00a0while listening\u00a0and learning discipline. Now,\u00a0I have kids becoming teens\u00a0and walking them past a murder scene to get to school makes an impact. I don\u2019t want this to be dark and\u00a0all\u00a0doom n’\u00a0gloom, as music is meant to\u00a0be a\u00a0release, but at times also to inform or provoke\u00a0us. \u00a0I\u2019m sure like I had, these kids who are victims of knife or gun or any attacks,\u00a0had other hopes and dreams. \u00a0The streets are changing in London just like they are changing in Wales and everywhere else. \u00a0Police stations are being closed down all over the place, just like the youth centers being closed down from lack of funding it goes on and on. This band began in a youth club. People need ambition and something to inspire them. \u00a0We all need a purpose to our days. \u00a0Without it, the devil makes work for idle hands to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Stereophonics have announced they will perform multiple live dates across the UK and Ireland this year, culminating with their sold-out show to 35,000 fans at Singleton Park, Swansea on July 13th<\/sup>. The band have had multiple top 40 albums in Australia and toured Australia most recently in April\/May 2018 which included a sold-out show at the Opera House in Sydney and the Tivoli in Brisbane.<\/p>\n