Codeine Velvet Club

Crafting elegant lounge pop that harks back again to ‘60s-era James Relationship movie themes and dark Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra duets, Codeine Velvet Golf club features Scottish singer Lou Hickey and singer/multi-instrumentalist Jon Lawler, better referred to as the founder from the Fratellis. The duo created when Lawler announced he would go on a single project following the Fratellis completed touring to get their second recording Right here We Stand. Hickey, a vocalist at among Britain’s largest burlesque night clubs, received a give from your Scottish Arts Council to create an recording; Lawler’s wife, a dancer in the golf club, recommended Hickey collaborate with him. The set e-mailed one another ideas for tunes and eventually fulfilled in person in ’09 2009, documenting a three-song demonstration at Lawler’s studio room that led to Codeine Velvet Golf club scoring a cope with Isle Records. While documenting the record, the duo recruited an orchestra, a gospel choir, Belle & Sebastian’s Mick Cooke to create the orchestral agreements and trumpeter Derek Watkins, who performed on every Connection theme song in the ‘60s towards the 2000s. A string of fall schedules led up to the U.K. discharge of Codeine Velvet Membership’s self-titled record in past due 2009; the record premiered in the U.S. the next April.