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Bingo Fury

city: Bristol
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Alternative, No Wave, Post-Punk, Jazz

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out on August 10, 2022

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‘Bingo Fury: the beat generation meets Throbbing Gristle’ - Loud & Quiet

Today (10 August), Bingo Fury is announcing his debut EP ‘Mercy’s Cut’ alongside a new single ‘Underfall Yard’, his fourth single to date. Drawing from his already established sophisticated yet raw sound, ‘Mercy’s Cut’ scatterguns between stark, romantic noir ballads, frantic no-wave, and polished jazz. Filled with the cinematic, the EP is both beautiful and unsettling, and underlines Bingo Fury’s complete abundance of compositional ideas.

Accompanying the announcement of ‘Mercy’s Cut’, is the release of ‘Underfall Yard’ a single swelling with fervour. Bingo Fury’s world-weary vocals sit atop off-kilter jazz rhythms and twitchy cornet solos. Playing with structure, the track jumps between disorienting frenzy and wistful, self-reflective romance. A whole new genre unto itself, ‘Underfall Yard’ leaves you wanting more.

Bingo Fury on the single: “Musically, Underfall Yard feels like the first time myself and the band really hit the spot with the light and shade thing. Atonality bringing clarity to melody, and melody emphasising the discomfort of atonality. I wanted the music to shadow the unhinged atmosphere of the lyrics.”

On the recording of the EP, Bingo offers: Ben Woods & I produced, engineered and mixed this EP together, with all the songs performed by the Bingo Fury band. Working with Ben felt special. I’m a big fan of his work as The Golden Dregs, particularly his record ‘Hope is for the Hopeless’, which made a big impression on me during the development of the project. Having him in the room felt like a full circle thing. We recorded this EP between the stage of an old cinema/theatre/venue in Bristol called The Cube and the basement of The Louisiana (a legendary pub & music venue). The basement of The Louisiana used to be the hangman’s quarters before the prison opposite was demolished. It’s still believed to be haunted.

Whilst Bingo’s first single ‘Big Rain’ was an inky tale of alienation with a closing-time cabaret charm, the follow-up ‘Happy Snake’ was the sound of a mind unravelling at the seams. His most recent release ‘Birchall & King’s’ was a chaotic whirlwind clocking in at one minute and thirty seconds. The tracks have won support from the likes of BBC 6 Music, Loud and Quiet, DIY, NME and more.

Although very much a solo songwriter, Bingo’s compositional process relies on contributions from his entire band - bassist Megan Jenkins, and drummer Henry Terrett have been playing together since their teens. In one of their various incarnations, they recruited local avant-jazz legend, cornet player Harry ‘Iceman’ Furniss, with guitarist and percussionist Rafi Cohen later completing the line-up.

Bingo Fury’s name is pulled straight from one of his lyric sheets - a perfect representation of the on-the-nose mystique surrounding the project: what you see is what you get, but ‘what it means’ is far less certain. Following sold-out headline dates earlier this year, he supported Penelope Isles on their April tour, and performed a special one-off Cinematic improv show at The Ivy House on July 28th.

Joined by the full band, later this summer Bingo Fury will be playing Green Man and End Of The Road Festival, followed by a co-headline tour with Robbie & Mona in October.