Hotel Lux by Alex Wylie
Hotel Lux have also announced a UK tour.
Hotel Lux took the ‘entirely necessary’ step of self-producing as they worked on the follow-up to 2023’s debut album Hands Across The Creek at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate.
The results, second studio record The Bitter Cup, has now been set for release on October 31st, lead off by first single Costermonger.
“Costermonger is a musical translation of a BBC documentary detailing the rise and the fall of Deptford Market, High Street and the surrounding housing,” the band said.
The title itself refers to a Cockney word for a market trader. Sadly, the subject matter of the lyrics are as relevant now as they would’ve been back in ‘67 when Lewisham council first started pulling down the council housing.
Their UK tour, meanwhile, has been booked to launch in Sheffield on November 13th.
Hotel Lux The Bitter Cup tracklist:
Encore
The Bitter Cup
Nod (To the Retrospect)
Hand of Mine
Joy
Song for John Healy
Evelyn
Costermonger
The Fear
Another One Gone
Hotel Lux tour:
November
13 Sidney & Matilda Sheffield
14 The Grayston Unity Halifax
15 Zerox Newcastle
16 Sneakey Pete’s Edinburgh
18 Sunbird Records Darwen
19 The Jacaranda Liverpool
20 Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff
21 Fiery Bird Woking
22 Craufurd Arms Milton Keynes
23 The Waterfront Norwich
27 Bear Cave Bournemouth
28 The Hope & Ruin Brighton
December
18 Oslo London
19 Kola Portsmouth
