The Glorious North Go Back To When The Twin Towers Were Still Standing

The Glorious North was formed in 2014, "when Tele Dee [guitar] and PJ Devery [vocals] decided the drunken tales they were telling each other at the bar deserved a wider audience. Darren Vlah [drums] and Dave Sayer [bass] were lonely enough to buy into that dream", explains Devery.

Their record Welcome To The Glorious North was laid down at the Channel Studios in Southbank with Dave Rogers producing — a man who "has exceptional ears and an ability to never take the last beer", Devery jokes. They didn't write to an overarching theme as much as "just threw it together", but "a listener (she knows who she is) recently described [the album] thus: 'toe-tappin' tales of sodomites, murderers, adulterers, liars, carnal knowledgerers — is there a word for that? Oh, and trams'". It has been a while in the making, to the point that "the last song on the album, Last Drink, was written when the Twin Towers were still standing and Mark Zuckerberg was some anonymous geek".

"The live performances are where [the songs] were born; there's a little bit of arrangement missing in a live show but no skimping on the murderers, adulterers, liars and carnal knowledgerers."